Posts Tagged ‘Human health risks’

Creating a Monster? Proposed Monsanto Merger with Swiss Chemical Giant Raises Troubling Questions

Farmers and scientists intimidated. Groundwater contamination. Human health risks. The decimation of one of America’s most iconic wildlife species. These are just some of the problems we’ve seen thanks to Monsanto, the world’s dominant producer of genetically modified crops, and Syngenta, a Swiss chemical company that manufactures controversial agricultural poisons. As an NPR story […]