U.S. farm groups call Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ report unscientific, fear-based

U.S. farm groups call Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ report unscientific, fear-based

The health report takes aim at crop protection products like glyphosate and ‘ultra-processed’ foods

Several U.S. agriculture groups say the federal Make America Healthy Again report, released Thursday, is fear-based and anti-science. The report takes aim at what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy has called a crisis of increasing rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental health disorders and other health issues.





The Bayer AG logo at the headquarters in France.  Photo: Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File

Glyphosate class action moves forward in Canada

Bayer defends safety of the herbicide, but legal costs may force withdrawal from U.S. market

Multiple law firms across the country – in Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere – are now recruiting Canadians to join a class action lawsuit related to Roundup and cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.



Researchers look for alternatives to glyphosate

Researchers look for alternatives to glyphosate

The goal is to evaluate different tank mixtures that could do the same job as glyphosate and delay herbicide resistance

Reading Time: 2 minutes Research tags tank mixtures that could do the same job as glyphosate and delay herbicide resistance.

Manitoba Law Courts building.  Photo: Don Norman

Former Manitoba man sues Bayer for causing his cancer

A Calgary man who lived on a farm in Carman, Man., as a child has filed a lawsuit saying chemicals he was exposed to resulted in a cancer diagnosis. The plaintiffs in the case are Kevin Giesbrecht and his common-law spouse, Jennifer McAlpine, who now live in Calgary. According to court documents, Giesbrecht lived on […] Read more