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padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Roundup herbicide</a>.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, glyphosate, Roundup's active ingredient, was determined to be a "probable carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO).</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA, rather than taking immediate steps to protect Americans from this probable cancer-causing agent, decided to reassess its position on the chemical and, after doing so, released a paper in October 2015 stating that glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn1" name="ednref1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">1</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2016, the EPA posted the report online, briefly, before pulling it and claiming it was not yet final, and had been posted by mistake.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The paper was signed by Jess Rowland (among other EPA officials), who at the time was the EPA's deputy division director of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and chair of the Cancer Assessment Review Committee (CARC).</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is notable because Monsanto is currently embroiled in a number of lawsuits, including litigation from more than 50 people who claim exposure to Roundup caused them to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto has used the EPA's supposedly-not-final report in court hearings to suggest glyphosate is safe, and now the plaintiffs' attorneys are asking for documents detailing Monsanto's interactions with Rowland to be released.</font></p><h2 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 32px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA, Monsanto Refuse to Lift Seal on Controversial Documents</font></h2><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a review published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, a team of scientists thoroughly reviewed the research behind the IARC's <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/07/05/glyphosate-cancer.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">glyphosate/cancer</a> ruling, noting an association between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was found based on available human evidence.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn2" name="ednref2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Associations between the chemical and rare kidney tumors, genotoxicity and oxidative stress and even DNA damage in the blood of exposed humans were also revealed.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But industry is working hard to ensure that any science and other evidence not on their side is overlooked, including allegations that Monsanto has long known glyphosate causes cancer and spent decades covering it up.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toward that end, the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the NHL lawsuit asked to depose Rowland and unseal documents detailing Monsanto's relationship with the former EPA official (curiously, he left the EPA shortly after the CARC paper was taken down from the EPA's website).</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Monsanto released 6 million pages of documents, 85 percent of them were marked as "confidential," which means important data is blacked out during court filings and not viewable to the public. According to The Huffington Post:<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn3" name="ednref3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">3</a></span></font></p><blockquote style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 38px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); quotes: none;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">"T</em><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">he lawyers say that the documents obtained through discovery show that 'Monsanto has been confident all along that EPA would continue to support glyphosate, whatever happened and no matter who held otherwise.'</em></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 38px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); quotes: none;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;"> According to the court filings by plaintiffs' attorneys, the documents show 'it is clear that Monsanto enjoyed considerable influence within the EPA's OPP </em>[Office of Pesticide Programs]<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">, and was close with Mr. Rowland ...</em></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 38px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); quotes: none;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documentary evidence strongly suggests that Mr. Rowland's primary goal was to serve the interests of Monsanto.'</font></em></p></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 38px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); quotes: none;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> … [A]long with Monsanto's objection to releasing the documents that relate to its conversations with Rowland, the EPA has specifically refused the deposition request, saying it would 'not clearly be in the interests of EPA' to allow attorneys to question Rowland about the cancer review and interactions with Monsanto."</font></em></p></blockquote><h2 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 32px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto Sues the State of California</font></h2><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the EPA seems to be treading water (and even backpedaling) rather than moving forward to stop the unchecked use of glyphosate-based products in the U.S., California's Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced in 2015 that they intended to list glyphosate as a chemical known to cause cancer under Proposition 65, which requires consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredients to bear warning labels.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than label their products sold in California as likely carcinogenic, most companies reformulate their product ingredients so as to avoid warning labels altogether, and most did this on a national scale, not just in California.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto, however, is trying a different strategy. They filed formal comments with OEHHA saying the plan to list glyphosate as a carcinogen should be withdrawn. Their reasoning was that California's actions could be considered illegal because, Monsanto claimed, they were not considering valid scientific evidence.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn4" name="ednref4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">4</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The comment was slipped in on the final day the state accepted public comments, perhaps because Monsanto was trying not to attract too much fanfare to their attempts to keep people in the dark about their carcinogenic product.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2016, Monsanto took it a step further and filed a lawsuit against OEHHA to stop the glyphosate/cancer classification, calling it unconstitutional because OEHHA "delegated law-making authority 'to an unelected and non-transparent foreign body [IARC] that is not under the oversight or control of any federal or state government entity,'" EcoWatch reported.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn5" name="ednref5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">5</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OEHHA has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, EcoWatch continued, stating "IARC's scientific determinations are 'the gold standard in carcinogen identification,' and are trusted and relied upon by state governments, the federal government and foreign governments alike."<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn6" name="ednref6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">6</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether the case is dismissed or allowed to proceed could have major implications not only for Monsanto but also for the classification of cancer-causing chemicals moving forward.</font></p><h2 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 32px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington State Sues Monsanto Over PCB Pollution</font></h2><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December, 2016, Washington became the first U.S. state to sue Monsanto over <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/03/15/monsanto-polychlorinated-biphenyls.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) pollution</a>. The state is seeking damages on several grounds, including Monsanto's failure to warn about PCBs, negligence and trespass for harming the state's natural resources.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson said they expect to win hundreds of millions or billions of dollars from Monsanto, noting that despite millions of dollars spent by the state for cleanup, the chemicals are still causing harm to protected salmon and orcas.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suit alleges that Monsanto knew PCBs were toxic for a decade before they were eventually banned in 1979. Ferguson's office compared the state's approach in pursuing legal action against Monsanto to the approach taken against tobacco companies in the 1990s.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The settlement reached with Big Tobacco was more than $200 billion (nationally), which was split among the states in yearly payments intended to help offset health care costs related to smoking.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn7" name="ednref7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">7</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, an increasing number of U.S. cities in Washington and California, including Seattle, Spokane, San Diego, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto for causing disastrous environmental pollution.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2016, the company filed a motion to dismiss Spokane's lawsuit, which alleges PCBs have contaminated the city's storm water, but a judge ruled it could proceed.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn8" name="ednref8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">8</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berkeley, San Jose and Oakland, meanwhile, had to refile their complaints after a judge threw theirs out because they did not have ownership of storm water.</font></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amended complaints now point out that city governments can capture and reuse storm runoff, which gives them a property interest in the water and therefore grounds for filing suit against Monsanto's PCB pollution.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/01/31/epa-monsanto-collaboration.aspx#edn9" name="ednref9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">9</a></span></font></p><h2 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 32px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA Puts Off Taking Action Against Bee-Toxic Pesticides</font></h2><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-hyphenate-character: "‐"; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA's song-and-dance routine surrounding glyphosate is disturbingly similar to the one going on for neonicotinoid pesticides (aka neonics), which are implicated in killing bees. In January 2017, the EPA published preliminary risk assessments for the <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/06/14/bees-pesticide-exposure.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;">neonicotinoid insecticides</a> clothianidin, thiamethoxam and dinotefuran.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-cancer-lawsuits-epa-2290270946.html">http://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-cancer-lawsuits-epa-2290270946.html</a></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jess Rowland may have to testify over claims that he covered up evidence that <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/glyphosate" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">glyphosate</a>, the main ingredient in <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Monsanto</a>'s top-selling herbicide Roundup, could cause cancer.
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A federal judge said at a hearing in San Francisco on Monday that he is likely to grant the deposition of Rowland, a key figure named in <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/epa-monsanto-cancer-lawsuits-2261203098.html" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">multi-district cancer lawsuits</a> alleging that Monsanto failed to warn about the cancer risks associated with exposure to glyphosate.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"My reaction is when you consider the relevance of the EPA's reports, and you consider their relevance to this litigation, it seems appropriate to take Jess Rowland's deposition," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said at the hearing.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plaintiffs' lawyers argue that Rowland had a "highly suspicious" relationship with Monsanto, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-27/monsanto-cancer-suits-turn-to-alleged-whitewash-by-epa-official" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Bloomberg</a> reported.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rowland, a former deputy division director at the EPA, chaired the agency's Cancer Assessment Review Committee (CARC). The CARC determined that glyphosate was "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans," which differs from the International Agency for Research on Cancer <a href="http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">conclusion</a> that glyphosate was a probable human carcinogen. Rowland left the agency just days after a copy of <a href="http://src.bna.com/eAi" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">the CARC report</a> was leaked to the press in May 2016.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This new development in the case—<em>Roundup Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2741, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco)—</em>is yet another <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-pcb-lawsuits-2268543132.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">litigious nightmare</a> for the St. Louis-based agrochemical giant, which is pending acquisition from Bayer AG. Incidentally, the German pharmaceutical company <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-22/bayer-fourth-quarter-profit-beats-estimates-helped-by-drugs" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">recently signaled</a> that its <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/genetically-engineered-grass-2199240489.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">$66 billion mega-merger</a> with Monsanto may face delays amid regulatory concerns.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><div id="idm139874577803760" class="post-partial articlebody" style="margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: visible !important;"><div class="article-body sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 selectionShareable"><div class="article-description" style="margin-bottom: 40px;"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Feb. 10 court <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pJR4cGo9ckUU1OQjJjcVQ4aUU/view" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">filing</a> includes <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pJR4cGo9ckUDBnU2gydHlVYzg/view" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">correspondence</a> dated March 4, 2013, from a 30-year career EPA scientist Marion Copley accusing Rowland of playing "political conniving games with the science" to favor pesticide companies such as Monsanto.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Citing evidence from animal studies, Copley wrote, "It is essentially certain that glyphosate causes cancer." Copley went on to say that Rowland and another official "intimidated staff" into changing reports related to the glyphosate findings.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Bloomberg, Raven M. Norris, a lawyer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco representing the EPA, said it was "premature" to take Rowland's testimony.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA has until March 28 to file written arguments opposing Rowland's deposition.</font></p></div></div></div><div id="idm139874577831664" class="post-partial articlearound-the-web" style="margin-bottom: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: visible !important;"><div class="mb-2 " id="idm139874577800544" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="module-headline" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="module-headlinetext" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES</font></div></div><div class="posts-custom posts-custom-section section-holder clearfix" data-source="related" data-format="posts-custom" data-section-id="" data-source-type="page" data-attr-data-rm-styles="true" data-attr-source_unique="true" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_color="#4e9342" data-attr-posts_id="idm139874577800544" data-attr-layout_headline="top" data-attr-section_url="" data-attr-layout_columns="1" data-attr-source="related" data-attr-layout_vertical_separation="5" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_font-weight="400" data-attr-headline_text="Related Articles" data-attr-format="posts-custom" data-attr-layout_all_image_crop="3x2" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_color="#1f1f1f" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_font-family="Hind,sans-serif" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_font-weight="700" data-attr-source_url="related" data-attr-node_id="/root/blocks[9]/block/abtests/abtest[1]/row/column[1]/posts-" data-attr-style_post-media-wrapper_all_default_display="none" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_font-size="24px" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_text-transform="uppercase" data-attr-style_headline-wrapper_all_default_margin-bottom="10px" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_default_font-size="20px" data-attr-style_post-headline-link_all_default_font-weight="400" data-attr-style_headline-text_all_default_line-height="1" data-attr-style_post-headline_all_hover_text-decoration="underline" data-attr-limit="3" data-attr-style_post-wrapper_all_default_margin-bottom="20px" data-attr-layout_quality="5" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="posts-wrapper clearfix" style="margin-left: -10px; 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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Within minutes after the new <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology" target="blank">retracted</a> and <a href="http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/anti-gm-corn-study-reconsidered-seralini-finally-responds-to-torrent-of-criticism/" target="blank">debunked</a> GMO cancer rat study by <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2013/11/29/notorious-seralini-gmo-cancer-rat-study-retracted-ugly-legal-battle-looms/" target="_blank">Gilles-Eric Séralini</a> was

released to the media by the French professor on the morning of

September 2012, cyberspace was aflame with stories promoting its scary

takeaway conclusion: genetically engineered food could cause cancer.

Séralini, who timed the release of his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tous-cobayes-pesticides-produits-chimiques/dp/2081300923/ref=la_B001K7OMLK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397436459&sr=1-1" target="_blank">anti-GMO book</a> to

the date his paper was published, initially had almost free reign in

the press, making damaging statements about the ‘mystery cancers’ that

his GMO-eating rats had developed.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To punctuate that message, the <a href="http://academicsreview.org/reviewed-content/dr-oz-show-introduction/dr-oz-show-on-the-seralini-rat-study-claims/" target="_blank">stories that filled cyberspace</a>,

particularly on anti-GMO NGO and activist news sites, were invariably

punctuated by pictures of rats twisted into grotesque shapes (a

cancer-riddled rat also graced the cover of his book), allegedly the

result of their exposure to Monsanto’s genetically engineered corn or to

the herbicide glyphosate with which the studied variety is used in

tandem.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With the first vote on GMO labeling, in California, on the horizon,

the tsunami of frightening stories branding crop biotechnology as

dangerous neared a tipping point, which could have turned public opinion

decisively against genetic engineering for years to come. However, the <a href="http://academicsreview.org/2012/09/scientists-smell-a-rat-in-fraudulent-study/" target="blank">mainstream science establishment</a> rallied, with <a href="http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-gm-maize-causing-tumours-in-rats/" target="blank">geneticists</a> and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/09/30/does-the-seralini-corn-study-fiasco-mark-a-turning-point-in-the-debate-over-gm-food/" target="_blank">science journalists</a> dissecting

the study and finding it sloppy, misleading and ideological. That

dampened the flames. A year later, after dozens of the world’s top

independent science groups had thoroughly scrutinized the study, the

flawed paper was retracted by the embarrassed journal.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The mainstream science community still draws a collective deep breath

when reflecting on those first few hours and days of intense coverage

after the study’s release when mainstream media outlets were being

successfully manipulated by what was clearly a joint effort by anti-GM

groups to hammer home the “GMOs cause cancer” storyline. But few know

the backstory: how did dozens of groups scattered around the world with a

shared animus toward biotechnology manage to coordinate a fusillade of

almost identical anti-GMO stories?</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Meet Henry<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Rowlands</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,</span> the almost unknown cyber grand master behind

Séralini’s propaganda efforts. He is an upper class Welsh-born activist

who shuffles between Bulgaria and European activist hotspots. Rowlands

says he attended the Universidad de Granada in Spain and has served as a

translator and editor for various groups, but is primarily a

self-employed entrepreneur. Believed to be around 30 years old, he was

an activist in local Labour politics in the United Kingdom before moving

to Bulgaria in 1995 to set up an ex-pat newspaper and an <b>organic

marketing company.</b></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowlands started writing pro-organic and anti-GMO stories during the

late 2000s, first in Bulgarian English language publications. In 2010,

for example, he wrote an article for the <a href="http://www.novinite.com/articles/112689/Boyko%27s+Bees%3A+Bulgaria+GMO+Act+Puts+Mankind+at+Risk" target="_blank">Sofia News Agency</a> that

tried to link crop biotechnology to bee health, writing “domestic bee

populations are in steep decline in areas where GM maize is grown”—which

is false; there is no evidence of any link between GM and bee health.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowlands got a career boast when he aligned with Patrick Holden, the chairman of the <a href="http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable Food Trust</a>,

which is an organic-linked NGO that contends, “Our current food system

is destroying biodiversity and our environment.” Holden is one of the

pioneers of the modern sustainable food movement in the UK. From

1995-2010, he was Director of the Soil Association, a virulently

anti-GMO group and has been linked to the Iowa-based Maharishi cult,

whose <a href="http://energyenhancement.org/environment-globalisation-organic-resource/organic%20diversity.htm" target="_blank">supporters</a> have often featured his comments on organic foods.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While <a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/04/01/most-dangerous-anti-science-gmo-critic-meet-mike-adams-conspiracy-junkie-runs-alternative-health-empire-more-influential-than-us-government-websites/#.U0s7Y_ldWSo" target="_blank">Mike Adams</a> of

NatureNews.com might most accurately be thought of as an anti-science

carnival barker who spreads conspiracy theories and anti-GMO talking

points to a fringe (although huge) loyal readership, Rowlands’ efforts

focus on activists who consider themselves more serious-minded.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowland launched and now runs an interconnected web of anti-GMO websites, including <a href="http://www.gmoseralini.org/en/">GMO Séralini</a>, <a href="http://gmojudycarman.org/" target="_blank">GMO Judy Carman</a> (committed

anti-GMO Australian scientist who has published studies in marginal

journals purportedly linking GMOs to potential health hazards in pigs

that <a href="http://www.marklynas.org/2013/06/gmo-pigs-study-more-junk-science/" target="blank">mainstream scientists have ripped</a>): GMO Delete that targeted Coca-Cola to go GM free, but is now a dormant site; and <a href="http://www.gmoevidence.com/" target="blank">GMO Evidence</a>, a campaign launched last fall collaboration with an allied site <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/" target="_blank">GM Watch </a> and other small advocacy groups which are trying to raise funds online to promote “evidence” claims that GMOs cause harm.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2012, Rowlands launched the pro-organic/anti-GMO news site <a href="http://sustainablepulse.com/" target="_blank">Sustainable Pulse</a>.

He claims it is UK-based, but is registered in Bulgaria. “Green Energy,

Sustainable Food Systems and Genetically Modified Crops are all on the

agenda as Sustainable Pulse aims to force real change over the next 10

years,” he writes.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As in the case of his other sites, which cherry-pick anti-GMO

studies, almost exclusively from ‘pay to play’ journals, Sustainable

Pulse, has its own “research library,” which he writes “will allow

people to make up their own minds based on the facts – all scientists,

even those shunned by some quarters, will be given an equal and fair

platform to showcase their findings. “All organizations that support

sustainability in any form will be welcome to share their campaigns and

views on the Sustainable Pulse platform.”</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowland honors that pledge. He publishes almost anything that comes

down the anti-GMO media and NGO conveyor belt, regardless of the

credibility of its source. Sustainable Pulse and the other Rowlands

sites still vigorously promote the retracted Séralini GMO rat cancer

study despite the fact that’s it’s no longer in academic databases and

is considered “unpublished.” Sustainable Pulse in particular served as a

breaking news hub for anti-GMO NGOs, which served the movement well

when the Séralini study was released.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowlands’ newest project is his most ambitious, signaling an ever

more aggressive turn in the anti-GMO movement. On May 3, he and other

organic and anti-GMO campaigners say they will be launching theGlobal

GMO Free Coalition (GFGC), whose website is already active. Organic

Consumers Association “member” Diana Reeves, who is also credited with

helping organize the Mom’s Against Monsanto and related Millions Against

Monsanto campaigns, created the site in 2012.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">GGFC says it will be as a resource for “independent proof “of the

dangers of GMOs and conventional agriculture, and will lobby governments

and the public to stop GMOs. The coalition plans to serve as a “rapid

response” arm of the anti-GMO movement to promote its own “peer

reviewed” science from global experts who oppose GMOs and pesticides in

coordination with other anti-GMO groups, including the European Network

of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (<a href="http://www.ensser.org/" target="_blank">ENSSER</a>—the anti-GMO site head by one of Seralini’s research partners that promotes fringe studies on agricultural biotechnology.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">GFGC is soliciting “tax-free” donations. According to the site,

“Currently many articles that mislead the public by supporting the

narrow arguments of the biotech industry are published by the

‘mainstream media’. These articles often go unanswered. The GGFC will

make sure that a coordinated rapid response is provided. … GGFC Rapid

Media Response Team will be a matchmaking service to connect GMO experts

with lawmakers and the media. The GGFC will be committed to providing

rapid, high-quality information to media and government officials.”</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.jonentine.com/" target="blank"><b><i>Jon Entine</i></b></a><b><i>, executive director of the </i></b><a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/" target="blank"><b><i>Genetic Literacy Project</i></b></a><b><i>, is a senior fellow at the </i></b><a href="http://chrc.gmu.edu/scholars.html" target="blank"><b><i>Center for Health & Risk Communication</i></b></a><b><i> and </i></b><a href="http://www.stats.org/" target="blank"><b><i>STATS</i></b></a><b><i> (Statistical Assessment Service) at George Mason University.</i></b></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Henry_Rowlands#Posts_by_Henry_Rowlands_on_Sustainable_Pulse"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Posts by Henry Rowlands on Sustainable Pulse</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Henry_Rowlands#Article_identifying_Rowlands_as_the_Global_GMO_Free_Coalition_Coordinator.282014.29"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Article identifying Rowlands as the Global GMO Free Coalition Coordinator (2014)</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Henry_Rowlands#Tales_of_the_Unexpected:The_secret_life_of_breasts.282014.29.28Documentary.29"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Tales of the Unexpected: The secret life of breasts (2014) (Documentary)</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Henry_Rowlands#Weekly_Women.27s_GMO_Free_News_Interview_with_Henry_Rowlands.282013.29.28YouTube_video.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Weekly Women's GMO Free News Interview with Henry Rowlands (2013) (YouTube video)</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Henry_Rowlands#Boyko.27s_Bees.282010.29.28opinion_article.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Boyko's Bees (2010) (opinion article)</span></a></font></li></ul>

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<h4><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Posts_by_Henry_Rowlands_on_Sustainable_Pulse"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sustainablepulse.com/author/transbalkan/">Posts by Henry Rowlands on Sustainable Pulse</a></span></font></h4>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Critical Reviews</b>

Editorials

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-articles/henry-rowlands-organic-movements-cyber-mastermind-behind-anti-gmo-websites/"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Genetic Literacy Project:</span> Henry Rowlands, organic movement’s cyber mastermind behind anti-GMO websites</a></font> </li></ul>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">GMO Skepti-Forum discusses Sustainable Pulse articles on Facebook <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/GMOSF/permalink/420874541385135/">here</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/GMOSF/permalink/394825887323334/">here</a></font></li></ul>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rowlands' associated nonprofit, GM Watch, has a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/contact">UK address</a>, but is not listed on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/">UK charity commission.</a> They request that <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/donations">checks be made out to another organization</a>, which is also unlisted.</font></li></ul>

<h4><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Article_identifying_Rowlands_as_the_Global_GMO_Free_Coalition_Coordinator_.282014.29"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmofreeglobal.org/en/news/post/global-gmo-free-coalition-fight-against-biotech-industry-propaganda">Article identifying Rowlands as the Global GMO Free Coalition Coordinator (2014)</a></span></font></h4>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://soygrowers.com/asa-continues-advocate-communicate-facts-new-anti-gmo-groups-form/">American Soybean Association: ASA Continues to Advocate, Communicate Facts While New Anti- GMO Groups Form</a></font></li></ul>

<h4><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tales_of_the_Unexpected:The_secret_life_of_breasts.282014.29_.28Documentary.29"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show?id=W_WtjJXZCw0&cdid=tvseason-peW5yYdvSjc&gdid=tvepisode-Ty31QHqPfkY">Tales of the Unexpected: The secret life of breasts (2014)</a> (Documentary)</span></font></h4>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://academicsreview.org/2014/04/debunking-pseudo-science-lab-testing-health-risk-claims-about-glyphosate-roundup/"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Academics Review:</span> Debunking pseudo science “lab testing” health risk claims about glyphosate (Roundup)</a></font></li></ul>

<h4><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Weekly_Women.27s_GMO_Free_News_Interview_with_Henry_Rowlands.282013.29.28YouTube_video.29"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJeurttMeA&list=PLOD89c4nt4hQKr-r4OkxPPkkMOKnCheA3&index=27">Weekly Women's GMO Free News Interview with Henry Rowlands (2013)</a> (YouTube video)</span></font></h4>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Gilles-Eric Seralini: <a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Gilles-Eric_Seralini_%28S%C3%A9ralini%29" title="Gilles-Eric Seralini (Séralini)">Gilles-Eric Seralini (Séralini)</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On a lack of studies: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biofortified.org/genera/studies-for-genera/independent-funding/">BioFortified: List of studies with independent funding</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Arpad Pusztai: <a href="http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Arpad_Pusztai" title="Arpad Pusztai">Arpad Pusztai</a></span></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On the costs of labeling: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://growinggeorgia.com/news/2014/05/cornell-study-cost-gmo-food-labeling-would-cost-families-800-annually/">Growing Georgia: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cornell study</span>- GMO Food Labeling Would Cost Families Up to $800 Annually</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On organization in the anti-GM movement: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/10/22/the-roots-of-the-anti-genetic-engineering-movement-follow-the-money/2/"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Forbes</span>: The roots of the anti-genetic engineering movement? Follow the money!</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On media coverage of the anti-GM movement: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/04/24/gmos-journalism-false-balance/#.U9cigWPpxD4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Discover Blogs</span>: GMOs, journalism, and false balance</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On the claim that Forbes is biased about GE foods: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2011/12/08/labeling-of-biotech-foods-is-unnecessary-and-unconstitutional/">An example of Forbes authors disagreeing about GE technology</a></font></li></ul>

<h4><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Boyko.27s_Bees.282010.29.28opinion_article.29"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.novinite.com/articles/112689/Boyko%27s+Bees%3A+Bulgaria+GMO+Act+Puts+Mankind+at+Risk">Boyko's Bees (2010)</a> (opinion article)</span></font></h4>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biofortified.org/2013/03/colony-collapse-disorder-an-introduction/"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BioFortified</span>: Colony Collapse disorder- an introduction</a></font></li></ul>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169303/">A Meta-Analysis of Effects of Bt Crops on Honey Bees (2008)</a></font></li></ul>

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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/280492318756692/permalink/306447116161212/">GMO Skepti-Forum discussion of bees on Facebook</a></font></li></ul>

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