Author: Erin Elizabeth

  The pressures that farmers feel are intense. So, when they were promised that the new dicamba herbicide system would “break the cycle and guarantee weed control in soybeans and cotton,” and be less “risky and volatile” than earlier versions, 1 they were elated. Especially given the fact that their income from soybeans had been in decline for 14 straight quarters. However, dicamba has caused a crisis and now farmers are angry and worried about their livelihoods. RELATED ARTICLE: Monsanto Celebrates Approval of New Dicamba Herbicide and Fights Dirty to Silence Cancer Scientists One big issue is that dicamba is...

What could go wrong? Oh, wait… The public in Washington state’s Bellingham Bay is being encouraged to catch as much Atlantic salmon as they can. Why? Because of a salmon spill. A damaged net pen that was holding fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island, broke, spilling some 3 million pounds of farmed fish into the Atlantic. 2 RELATED ARTICLE: U.S. Environmentalists Sue To Overturn Approval Of GMO Salmon So far, the Department of Fish and Wildlife hasn’t set a limit on the size or number of fish people can catch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRx_3UdKw4I It’s estimated that 4,000 to...