In 2018, Nestlé promised to make all packaging recyclable or reusable and reduce virgin plastic by a third by 2025. After struggling to progress towards these goals, Nestlé has taken…
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Eating organic food for just six days can reduce the amount of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) in the human body by 70%. Glyphosate use has grown exponentially, despite…
The Sustainability Standard, a third-party certification for field, greenhouse and facility operations, is set to launch! Sustainability Standard audits will enable companies to acknowledge current sustainability practices while also defining…
According to a recent article from The Hill, democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban toxic pesticides such as organophosphates, neonicotinoids and paraquat. Organophosphates attack the nervous system…
Three quarters of the world’s food crops depend on pollinators. Wild pollinators are considered more effective than managed pollinators, such as honeybees, and are responsible for large portions of crop…
Richardson International, a major Canadian grain processor will no longer accept glyphosate-desiccated oat crops starting next year. Another Canadian processor, Grain Millers, stopped accepting glyphosate treated crops in 2015. Glyphosate…
Cases of renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer, have been steadily increasing in the United states for several decades. According to a study recently published in Environmental Health…
As of April, pharmaceutical company Bayer has been sued by 52,500 U.S. plaintiffs who blame glyphosate-based weedkillers like Roundup for their cancer. Bayer will be paying around $9.6 billion to…
Early this month, Thailand passed a ban on two pesticides, paraquat and chlorpyrifos. This triggered another regulation banning foodstuffs with trace amounts of either chemical. The United States and Brazil…
Unilever has taken a lead on sustainable sourcing with a set of ambitious goals including a deforestation free supply chain, zero net emissions and introducing a regenerative agriculture code for…