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First, let’s say a big, collective “Thank you.”Thank you to the 12 jurors who listened attentively and critically, during long days of testimony, then deliberated with …
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‘Day of Reckoning:’ Jury Deliberations Begin in Monsanto Trial Following Dramatic Closing Arguments
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Jurors will begin deliberations today in the case of Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Co. following a heated showdown of closing arguments from attorneys on both sides. The deliberations are expected…
Read moreMonsanto’s Herbicide Expert Has Bad Day in Court
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Following the close of our case, Monsanto’s lawyers, on July 30, made an obligatory motion to nonsuit the case—a Hail Mary motion asking the judge to dismiss our claims on grounds that Plaintiff’s counsel…
Read moreWho Cares? Why We Sued Ben & Jerry’s
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Splashed across the Ben & Jerry’s website are cartoon-like pictures of happy cows romping in green pastures. There’s a reason those cows are depicted by drawings, not …
Read moreOrganic Consumers Association Sues Unilever-Owned Ben & Jerry’s Over Deceptive Advertising and Marketing
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today filed suit against Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., for deceptive labeling, marketing and sale of Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream products. The suit was filed in D.C. Superior Court un…
Read moreVía Orgánica Leads the Way in Regenerative Farming in Mexico
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How do you grow sunflower sprouts? Start your own seedlings without plastic pots? Should you save seeds? These are just a few of the questions people interested in homesteading ask themselve…
Read moreCan Food-Focused Medicine Cure Food-Related Disease?
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So-called “modern” food, produced through industrialized, chemical-intensive farming practices, is causing a host of chronic, hard-to-diagnose and hard-to-treat heal…
Read moreMonsanto Papers’ Journalists Win Huge Prize
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Congratulations to Stéphane Foucart and Stéphane Horel for winning the 2018 European Press Prize for their exceptional research in the The Monsanto Papers.
Foucart and Horel won the investigati…
Food & Farm Act: Our Best Hope for Healthy Food, Farms and Soil
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You’ve heard it said before: No Farms, No Food.
But let’s not forget: No Soil, No Farms.
A few years ago, the United Nations warned that on average, the world ha…
Organic Consumers Association and Handsome Brook Farm Announce Settlement of Legal Actions Concerning Pasture-Raised Eggs
Handsome Brook Farm and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced that they have resolved a consumer-protection action OCA filed against Handsome Brook in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on August 29, 2016, concerning Hands…
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