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Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database Overview - Beyond Pesticides Gateway on Pesticide Hazards and Safe Pest Management Sierra Club Canada Foundation asks Ethics Commissioner to examine ruling under Conflict of Interest Act allowing Ted Menzies to move from being a Federal Minister to President of Pesticide and Biotech Industry Lobby group CropLife Canada. John Bennett, National Program Director - Sierra Club Canada Foundation, June 18, 2014 The Signs of Toxic Exposure That Every Indoor Cat Owner Needs to Know Toxic pesticides come indoors on the shoes of humans and onto the paws of our pets Dr. Karen Becker - Mercola.com, June 11, 2014 Scientist Warns of Ecological Effects Associated with Lawn Care Pesticide Runoff Beyond Pesticides, June 9, 2014 U.S. Government Ties El Salvador USD 277 M Aid Package to Monsanto's GMO Seeds U.S. pressures El Salvadoran Government to sign the second Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC)... insisting El Salvador purchase GM seeds and associated pesticides from Monsanto or the U.S. would not provide El Salvador with $277 million in aid money. Sustainable Pulse, June 8, 2014 EPA's Response on Pesticide Drift and Children's Health Challenged Beyond Pesticides, June 5, 2014 Ontario County, Canada, Takes Stand Against Pesticides Linked to Bee Decline Beyond Pesticides, June 4, 2014 Happy(?) Anniversary, Monsanto! (Not!) 20 years of Monsanto RoundUp Ready Genetically-Engineered seeds has left us with a lot of broken promises. Pesticide Action Network / Ground Truth - by Linda Wells, June 3, 2014 Agricultural Pesticides Linked to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Dr. Joseph Mercola, June 3, 2014 EPA Rule on Treated Seeds Challenged, Activists Tell Lowe's to Stop Selling Neonics Beyond Pesticides - June 3, 2014 Moms Meet with EPA, Demand Answers Over Monsanto's Roundup Chemical in Breast Milk ALTHealth Works - by Nick Meyer, May 29, 2014 Angry Mothers Meet U.S. EPA Over Concerns with Roundup Herbicide Reuters - by Carey Gillam, May 27, 2014 Quebec farmers oppose release of genetically modified alfalfa (Roundup Ready Alfalfa) Sale of controversial seed delayed after protests across Canada Montreal Gazette - by Alex Gillis, May 16, 2014 Pittsburgh Sportscaster Suing Chemical Companies over Dad's Death Rich Walsh says pesticides used on golf courses killed his father Pittsburgh's Action News - by Paul Van Osdol, May 15, 2014 New Harvard Study Proves Why The Bees Are All Disappearing Collective Evolution - by Arjun Walia, May 15, 2014 USDA Advances Biological Controls for Citrus Greening Disease Beekeepers are worried over the increasing use of harmful neonicotinoid pesticides Beyond Pesticides - May 15, 2014 Extreme Levels of Roundup Detected in Food A new study finds worrisome levels of Roundup inside of people food Rodale News - by Leah Zerbe, April 25, 2014 Syngenta's next target: Jackson County, Oregon Pesticide Action Network (North America) - by Paul Towers, April 15, 2014 FULL STORY - Pesticide Peril ? (VIDEO) UC Berkeley biologist, Tyrone Hayes (atrazine/frogs) vs Syngenta - Global News, April 5, 2014 Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, South Africa Move Against Monsanto Cornucopia Institute, April 4, 2014 EPA Issues Stop Sale Order For Food Containers Laced with Nanosilver Pesticide - a pesticide and active ingredient under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Beyond Pesticides, April 3, 2014 Organic Lawn Care goes mainstream as evidence of the health risks of pesticides to human and non-human animals piles up - by Nicole Rivard, Spring 2014 How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm by Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra - published in the Independent Science News, March 31, 2014 Politics of Pesticides: 'The Pesticide Industry vs. Consumers: Not a Fair Fight' published in "The Nation" - March 31, 2014 edition Sub-lethal Exposure to Neonicotinoids Impaired Honey Bees Winterization Before Proceeding to Colony Collapse Disorder Bulletin of Insectology 67 (1): 125-130, 2014 - ISSN 1721-8861 Chensheng (Alex) LU, Kenneth M. WARCHOL, Richard A. CALLAHAN - March 27, 2014 Glyphosate and Cancer - Carcinogenic potential of Glyphosate known since the 1980s Dr Mae Wan Ho, The Permaculture Research Institute - March 26, 2014 Banned Pesticide Increases Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Psychiatric News (from the American Psychiatric Association) - March 20, 2014 Dutch Parliament votes to ban all neonicotinoid pesticide uses in the Netherlands - March 19, 2014 Sri Lanka becomes the first country to ban the sale of Monsanto's Roundup in light of recent study linking Roundup (glyphosate) to Kidney Disease - March 15, 2014 Groups Sue EPA for Disclosure of Pesticide Inert Ingredients on Product Labels (Center for Environmental Health, Beyond Pesticides, Physicians for Social Responsibility: represented by Earthjustice) Beyond Pesticides - March 6, 2014 Beekeepers Call on State to Suspend Corn Seed Pesticides Said to Kill Bees Elizabeth Dunbar, MPR News - March 5, 2014 City of Eugene, Oregon, is first community in the nation to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, scientifically linked to the decline of honey bee colonies - March 5, 2014 Elevated Serum Pesticide Levels and Risk for Alzheimer Disease JAMA Neurology -formerly Archives of Neurology- (American Medical Association) - March 2014, Vol 71, No. 3 "Diarrhea, Skin Rashes, Depression, Thyroid Disease, Kidney Failure, Cancer": Monsanto Roundup Linked to Global Boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance Global Research News and Sustainable Pulse - February 22, 2014 75 Percent of Rain and Air Samples Contain Roundup Pesticide Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007 National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and GreenMedInfo - February 19, 2014 GMOs and Roundup: A Marriage Made In Hell Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Wise Traditions Workshop, London, England – Feb. 8, 2014 EPA Approves Another Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees (Cyantraniliprole) Beyond Pesticides / EcoWatch - February 7, 2014 Jeffrey Smith interviews Dr. Stephanie Seneff about Glyphosate(Roundup) (full hour-long VIDEO) Adventures In Food, Farm and Film blog by Kristin Canty - posted January 14, 2014 150 Years of Science - The Chemicals Regulation Directorate, the European Food Safety Authority and the European Commission are in the hands of the Pesticides Industry Compiled by Rosemary Mason MB ChB FRCA on behalf of a global network of independent scientists, beekeepers and environmentalists - 2014 Glyphosate: The Elephant in the Room Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Wise Traditions Workshop, London, England – November 8, 2013 No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) - October 21, 2013 New Evidence on the Health Impacts of Glyphosate Biosafety Information Center - August 22, 2013 Cosmetic Lawn Pesticide Use Outlawed In Takoma Park, MD First Local Ban Of Its Type in U.S. Beyond Pesticides - July 25, 2013 Crop Pollination Exposes Honey Bees to Pesticides Which Alters Their Susceptibility to the Gut Pathogen Nosema ceranae PLOS ONE Journal - July 24, 2013 Center for Food Safety Comments to EPA on Cyantraniliprole (Bee-Killing Insecticide) Center for Food Safety Letter to EPA - July 13, 2013 Beekeeping Industry Sues EPA for Approval of Bee-Killing Pesticide EarthJustice and National Pollinator Defense Fund - July 8, 2013 Pesticide opposition group calls for government to ban bee-killing pesticides Natural News - July 2, 2013 Superweeds: How Biotech Crops Bolster the Pesticide Industry Food & Water Watch - July 1, 2013 My PEI Cancer "Story of the Day" Maureen Kerr, Pesticides on PEI : June 6, 2013 Pesticides on PEI are a political, poisonous, hot potato Maureen Kerr, Pesticides on PEI : June 3, 2013 Health Effects of 30 Commonly Used Lawn Pesticides Beyond Pesticides : June 2013 Former Monsanto employee put in charge of GMO papers at Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) journal New article exposes industry attempts to control scientific publishing Independent Science News and Earth Open Source - May 20, 2013 Autism and Glyphosate Dr. Stephanie Seneff presentation to MIT Faculty at CSAIL Offsite Meeting - May 17, 2013 Jeffrey Smith and Dr. Stephanie Seneff discuss the dangers of Glyphosate (Roundup) - May 10, 2013 Jeffrey Smith is the award winning filmmaker of Genetic Roulette. Dr. Stephanie Seneff is an MIT Professor/Researcher who has done extensive research on Glyphosate (Round-up) Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff Entropy 2013, 15(4), 1416-1463; doi:10.3390/e15041416 : April 18, 2013 Rachel Carson Council Review of "Pesticides' Effects on Birds" Dr. Pierre Mineau - Sept 9, 2012 / March 2013 Roundup More Toxic Than Officially Declared - New Study GM Watch : February 21, 2013 Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers This report builds upon the work of a 2005 report of CFS, Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers, whose primary authors are Andrew Kimbrell, founder/executive director of CFS, Joseph Mendelson, then CFS legal director. Center for Food Safety / Save Our Seeds : February 13, 2013 Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in Landmark Case Ethan A. Huff, Natural News : October 8, 2012 The Big Six: A Profile of Corporate Power in Seeds, Agrochemicals & Biotech The Heritage Farm Companion-Seed Savers Exchange, by Hope Shand : Summer 2012 USDA To Give Monsanto's New GMO Crops Special Speed Approval  :  February 2012 2012 Systematic Review of Pesticide Health Effects Ontario College of Family Physicians - 2012 PART 2 - Monsanto's Roundup Ready Herbicide is More Toxic than DDT  :  Dr. Mercola - January 15, 2012 PART 1 - Monsanto's Roundup Ready Herbicide is More Toxic than DDT  :  Dr. Mercola - December 10, 2011 Wide Range of Diseases Linked to Pesticides : Database Supports Policy Shift from Risk to Alternatives Assessment : by Kagan Owens, Jay Feldman and John Kepner ; Pesticides and You, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2010 New Canadian Regulations Prohibit 85 Lawn and Garden Pesticides including 2,4-D (Later's Weed-Stop Lawn Weedkiller), Clopyralid, Glyphosate (Roundup Lawn & Weed Control Concentrate), imidacloprid, permethrin (Later's Multi-Purpose Yard & Garden Insect Control), pyrethrins (Raid Caterpillar & Gypsy Moth Killer), and triclopyr Beyond Pesticides, March 4, 2009 54 Pesticide Residues Found by the USDA Pesticide Data Program on a Typical Conventional Strawberry: 9 are known carcinogens and 19 of them are toxic to honey bees - Pesticide Action Network, 2008 Herbicide Alternatives Research Massachusetts Transportation Research Program / Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation U.S. Deptartment of Transportation Federal Highway Administration July 2008 Mixing It Up : Harmless Levels of Chemicals Prove Toxic Together David Biello, Scientific American - May 2006 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pesticide exposure: 25 years of research National Center for Biotechnology Information Acta Haematologica 2006;116(3):153-64., 2006 "Pesticide-Free Playing Fields" Initiative School Pesticide Reform Coalition - Washington, DC - 2006 Pesticides Literature Review Ontario College of Family Physicians - April 2004 School Pesticide Reform Protocol School Pesticide Reform Coalition - Washington, DC - 2004 Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma? Susan Osburn, M.T. (ASCP), M.A., Project Director, Pesticides Research Project Lymphoma Foundation of America - 2001 The Poisoning of Public Thoroughfares  :  Beyond Pesticides; Vol. 19, No. 1, 1999 EPA's own studies found "many consumers have a misleading impression of the term 'inert ingredient' believing it to indicate water or other harmless ingredients." Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice 97-6: Use of Term "Inert" in the Label Ingredients Statement U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - 1997 Home pesticide use and childhood cancer: a case-control study J K Leiss, and D A Savitz - American Journal of Public Health February 1995: Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 249-252 Children, Pesticides and Schools National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP) - 1995 Cancer health effects of pesticides - Systematic review :  Canadian Family Physician, The official journal of The College of Family Physicians of Canada In the 1971 May/June issue of Ranger Rick (children's magazine, published by the National Wildlife Federation), the hazards of pesticides were clearly explained in an article by John Frederic, with illustrations by Charles (Charley) Harper.

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