BREAKING: We just beat Monsanto!
Just yesterday, the Court released its decision holding unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) reapproval of the toxic pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, for all uses.
And it went so far as to rebuke the EPA for ignoring real-world evidence of cancer risks from using glyphosate, and for failing to even consider impacts to endangered species!
This will force EPA to redo its human health and ecological risk assessments, the main underpinnings of its safety decision.
And this time, it cannot get away with ignoring the criticisms of its own experts and its own guidelines in determining the risks, especially to those exposed to glyphosate through their work, like farmworkers.
EPA has until October 1, 2022 to finish these and its endangered species consultation. If EPA decides to keep glyphosate products on the market, it will have to ensure that users have sufficient protections and that it will not cause further harm to wildlife, especially endangered species.
This victory couldn’t have come at a more important time. Glyphosate is everywhere. It not only causes cancer, but contaminates our water and soil, and has forced Monarch butterflies to the brink of extinction.
And a new study just confirmed something we’ve long feared – that glyphosate damages wild bee colonies, making it harder for them to reproduce.
Together we just took a vital step in protecting public health and saving our pollinators, but it didn’t come easy. Monsanto threw everything they had at us in court, and they won’t give up on their toxic empire easily. But we’re not going to stop now.
We’re ready to keep fighting and are hard at work on seven more lawsuits to get more deadly pesticides off our shelves.
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George
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It’s another embarrassment for science when corrupted data is used to take away from the consumer another very valuable chemical. It will join the list of very useful chemicals banned by miscreants posing as scientists: cyclamtes, DDT, PCBs, and CFCs.
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Moffin
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I thought Glyphosate is a herbicide not a pesticide.
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CodexCoder
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Does anybody understand why Monsanto created Round Up in the first place? My late father, an agricultural engineer and inventor of the grain loss monitor, explained to me why Round Up was so important. On the Canadian prairies, there is a weed called the wild oat. It can lay dormant for up to 7 years. In order to grow, the tail end of the wild oat seed behaves like a bimetal strip. When it is wet, it winds one way, and when it dries, it unwinds the other way. So the tail of a wild oat is able to walk itself across the ground until it finds a crack to insert the business end of the oat into. The wild oat is very difficult to eradicate, and if allowed to grow, is financially disastrous for the value of a crop and cannot be separated from the crop mechanically. Glyphosate is only chemical herbicide that solves the problem by destroying the wild oat down into its roots. It becomes chemically inert as soon as it touches soil – don’t ask me the mechanism – this is what I was told and my father had 40 years of experience as a world expert in weed spraying and control.
So I agree with George. This is a stupid action that will cause untold damage, like Rachel Carson and her criticism of DDT in “The Silent Spring” which has killed untold millions of people by preventing the control of the Anopheles mosquito and malaria.
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nohomehere
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Hello codex coder. I spent a decade or so in Hawaii gardening . I looked at hydroponics because the soil had been depleted from years of cane crops. A hydroponics expert came to teach me. He explainedthat glyfosate does neutralize, ” turns to salts”
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Phil
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Yes, wild oats can bring down the grade of a wheat or barley harvest, but it is relatively easy to control with summer-fallow and tillage. I know as I farmed with my father for many years. Are you not aware that wild oats is an excellent nerve adaptagen? It has been my understanding that Monsanto developed their poisons as part of Agent Orange process.
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Howdy
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“It not only causes cancer, but contaminates our water and soil, and has forced Monarch butterflies to the brink of extinction.”
It has not brought Monarch butterflies to the brink of extinction at all! Uninformed users of the product are the problem. What about the milkweed that was mowed down. Weed-wacked? Now there’s another case or two. They even labelled the product type incorrectly. It is not pesticide. How did they win if they don’t know what they are on about?
Perhaps these people should try a bit of education of others and show they actually care, instead of being ridiculous and childish about their ‘win’, which may indeed be premature, and all the other cases they are salivating about. I expect nature will play second fiddle there too.
The Monarchs need more milkweed, an educational planting fest would do far more good than all this nonsense. How about planting a few of them, or get the nation involved by giving seeds away to schoolchildren etc?
Honestly, I’m disgusted.
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richard
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I come from a farming background so I’m not sure this is a good call. Regarding cancer- I know a lot of farmers been using it for a long time and still very healthy.
Isn’t coffee on the list of carcinogenics.
How amazing they were ably to pinpoint glyphosate among the list of carcinogenics- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/28/116-things-that-can-give-you-cancer-list
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Phil
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Most of my older farmer relatives and their friends and associates are having long term health issues, including early deaths because of cancers and internal organ failures because the effects are cumulative and almost impossible to flush out of our systems.
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richard
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I know lot of farmer using lethal pesticides from back in the 60s with no sealed cabs , no use of protective equipment and all fit as a fiddle.
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richard
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“Monsanto’s Roundup (glyphosate) no carcinogen, concludes EPA”
https://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/revised_glyphosate_issue_paper_evaluation_of_carcinogenic_potential.pdf
“Our review found no consistent pattern of positive associations indicating a causal relationship between total cancer (in adults or children) or any site-specific cancer and exposure to glyphosate”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22683395/
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Herb Rose
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The use of Roundup does not cause health issues. It is the consumption of Roundup because it was used nonfood crops instead of weeds that causes problems.
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Wisenox
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Glysopahtes phosphorylate AChE in the brain, which is irreversible. The result of this is synaptic loading and depletion of cholinesterase, which is required to form the protective sheaths on neurons.
Additionally, glysophates inhibit ESPS, which is found in plants and the microbiome in our guts. Our microbiome contributes immensely to our health by detoxifying harmful substances and producing necessary enzymes.
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Jacque Millard
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Yea!!! Now get fluoride out of our water
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Tom
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Good news for now. However, what’s to stop the EPA from dragging out the reassessment over the next 5 years or longer?
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