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Cuban internet users have taken to social media to commend a bus driver on the P13 route who deviated from his path to help a child experiencing a sei...

Even as Bayer's sales of Roundup slide as global fears about the health risks of glyphosate rise, most governments continue to baulk at the idea of banning the product completely.

Back in 2014 when my online food store, Healthy Traditions, started testing all of our USDA certified organic grains for the presence of the herbicide glyphosate, which is used in RoundUp and is the world's most-used herbicide, we were shocked to find out that even our USDA certified organic grains were almost all contaminated with glyphosate, even though they were "certified organic." We found out that the NOP (National Organics Program) allowed for small amounts of pesticides and herbicides in certified organic products, and so we stopped buying grains based on organic status,...

Corn, known locally as maiz,  has a long history in Mexico. Its roots can be traced to Aztec and Mayan creation stories that exalted the arrival of a crop that was key to their survival. In modern times maiz is still very important to the economy and is now the subject of a massive trade dispute with the USA.

Corn, or "maiz" as it's known in Spanish, holds a hallowed position in the annals of Mexican history.