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*Forget the greenwash. Newsweek just gave green rankings to the 500 largest US firms. Monsanto came 485th! http://bit.ly/15dsNN     

*Really damaging bit: Monsanto's environmental impact. Out of possible 100 points, with other firms averaging 50+, Monsanto got 3.5! http://bit.ly/15dsNN
      
*St Louis Biz Journal thought Monsanto might get a 'respectable ranking'. Found it bottom with other St Louis bad boys http://bit.ly/2WI5HO

*Compiling list of best videos re GM, Monsanto etc. Let us know your favs + where to find them!
    
*Best Canadian site on GM flax scandal. GM wheat too. http://parsleysnotebook.blogspot.com/

*Bayer sued 4 misleading multivitamin claims http://bit.ly/D70ot
      
*More on Bayer's truly appalling record http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms
      
*"No corn, no country" - Mexican farmers march against GMOs, biofuels. Photos of the Week http://bit.ly/18li0h
      
*The Future of Food - Article: Just how are we going to "feed the world?" http://ow.ly/snZO
      
*28 countries outside N America now known to have illegal GM-contaminated flax - see rapid alert no.19 (2009.1267) on this list http://bit.ly/JNHpw

*New countries: korea, norway, singapore, sri lanka, thailand, croatia, czech republic, denmark, estonia, finland, france, greece, iceland
      
*Potato Park declaration: conserving agro-biodiversity in indigenous areas - http://bit.ly/14inCB Great Andean ag pics and vids too!
      
*Rap: Do the honey bee! http://bit.ly/1FNBa8 Sign petitions on Bayer's pesticides http://bit.ly/2CyMGO http://bit.ly/ENoRY
    
*So why have our bees buzzed off? http://bit.ly/i0SmC Julian Little, Bayer apologist over bee deaths, is GM industry's PR chief in UK

*Lobbyist got headlines with claims he grew GM corn in GM-free zone. Authorities found no evidence he did! http://bit.ly/19kurV
      
*Profile of lobbyist whose suspect claims have been exposed http://bit.ly/XYqwp
      
*Action at GM canola field in Australia http://bit.ly/OeMI5 Video on GM canola http://bit.ly/FdKmu

*Tell American Crystal, US's largest sugar beet processor, say NO to Monsanto's GMO beets http://bit.ly/Lj8Em

*RT @BASFAgro: RT @cropprotection By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis http://bit.ly/2LkuhI

*See how the industry's exploiting the climate crisis? It's pure Naomi Klein http://bit.ly/KdjIK
      
*EuropaBio brings in African farmers to lobby EU http://is.gd/3Q7XC Not 1st time - see GROOMED BY MONSANTO http://bit.ly/C54zV
      
*Press piece on Indian farmers' rally http://bit.ly/HyMZi + another great picture http://twitpic.com/jttbe

*Uproar over GM contamination of commercial beehive (The Age) http://bit.ly/P1xKQ Owner says he'll report campaigners to police for testing!
      
*Farmers in big anti-GM protest in India http://bit.ly/bobMM Great comments from farmers' leaders

* http://twitpic.com/jtsf6 - "Funeral rally" as part of farmers' big anti-GM rally in Madhya Pradesh, India.
      
*RT @hyperlocavore RT @shadowfax_rulz Rick Berman is rent-a-lie! http://tinyurl.com/yc3699o (He's also had $200,000 out of Monsanto)
      
*Flax bids fall in Canada as GM concerns continue http://bit.ly/6QXJU
      
*Peru will ban GM seeds until 2014 http://bit.ly/4vLPu

*Monsanto's pig-breeding tech still making waves http://bit.ly/32kxA9
      
*Commercial beehives contaminated with GM canola pollen just found near Geelong, Australia http://bit.ly/18PyA7
      
*Genetic enthusiasms: Outcry as town names park after noted eugenicist http://bit.ly/22C4A The scientific fashion's moved on...
      
*Monsanto lawyer being considered for Brazil's Attorney General!! http://bit.ly/cy1iX (Portuguese)

*Leading bank calls for change in global ag http://bit.ly/FXASx sustainable, small scale, food justice (not keen on GMOs)

*Spanish corn seeks ag asylum from GM contamination in French embassy! http://bit.ly/K6ieG

*Why Spanish corn's a GM asylum seeker: field study shows organic ag devastated http://bit.ly/ntyYI

*Why GM's a one way choice: http://bit.ly/2D6SfP

*Photos of Spanish non-GM maize seeking asylum in French Embassy http://bit.ly/2OaNlI and press release http://bit.ly/yRxuh
      
*RT @PlanBee1: Reminder - our petition for research into the effects of Bayer's pesticides on bees http://bit.ly/2CyMGO

*RT @PlanBee1: Independent article - New film blames Bayer for plight of honey bees - http://bit.ly/37wP5W
      
*Korean Catholic Farmers’ Movement campaigns for organic and against GMOs http://bit.ly/3PMTo4
      
*Agriculture needs better innovation, not technology http://bit.ly/BkoER
      
*Interview with Oz farmers about discovery of stray roadside GM canola growing http://bit.ly/Qb9Og
      
*Another attempt to bully African bishops over GM http://bit.ly/2AvDbW

*This is the Pope's working document for the Synod on Africa that's highly critical of GM firms. Full text: http://bit.ly/qrbwf
        
*Monsanto files application to test GM corn in Mexico http://bit.ly/XN1FK
      
*Food and Genetics: Diversity Equals Security (interesting interview) http://bit.ly/ruX7i
      
*Nnimmo Bassey's one of TIME's heroes of the environment http://bit.ly/2kNS8S Here's Nnimmo on the plague of GMOs http://bit.ly/QeKwg
      
*GMO beets: Vilsack - "important to educate the judge.. of impact his decision will have on an entire industry" http://bit.ly/20o2qB
      
*Beyond biosafety: opening up the GM debate http://bit.ly/UqqOj (links to some good papers at end)
      
*Beachy at NIFA - http://bit.ly/Y9DMT - brings hope: RT @geneticmaize Here's hoping there'll be many jobs for us in the new agency!
      
*Why U.S. to blame for India's farmer suicides http://bit.ly/jqE0I

*Monsanto facing new lawsuits: "They always come to an area where people are poor and have no voice" http://bit.ly/3UMMpD

*Illegal GM flax creating havoc in Canada - "Like a movie monster that refuses to die" http://bit.ly/yzw8m

*Another Monsanto miracle product goes way of the dead ball: http://bit.ly/bGWKI