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Friday, June 19th, 2015

Monsanto Herbicide Faces Global Fallout After World Health Organization Labels It a Probable Carcinogen

Author:     Eva Sirinathsinghji
Source:     Alternet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     June 15, 2015
 Link: Monsanto Herbicide Faces Global Fallout After World Health Organization Labels It a Probable Carcinogen
Stephan:   This report has good news. Glyphosate is the modern DDT — whose lingering presence now decades later it should be noted is still killing people. Like DDT it has been hugely profitable, but grotesquely destructive, not only as intended, but in other ways as well. Now a gathering resistance driven from the bottom up challenges this corporate greed, and is succeeding. This report will update you as to where the trend is at the moment. My reason for seeing Monsanto as an evil corporation is that their business model is based on death, planned and unplanned, and they know this, but continue to do it anyway.    
glyphosate molecule

glyphosate molecule

The World Health Organization’s official recognition of the health damage caused by glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is having ramifications around the world. National governments are moving to restrict the chemical, campaigns to ban it are intensifying, and now ‘Roundup Ready’ GMO crops are coming under the regulatory spotlight.

Could it be that the World Health Organisation’s classification of glyphosate as a ‘probable carcinogen’ (see [1] Glyphosate ‘Probably Carcinogenic to Humans’ Latest WHO Assessment, SiS 66) will be the final nail in the coffin for the world’s most popular herbicide and Monsanto’s flagship product?

Recent weeks have seen the intensification of campaigns to ban or remove the product as well as lawsuits being filed against Monsanto; in the US for false safety claims of glyphosate, and in China, for hiding toxicity studies from the public.

El Salvador has already banned the chemical though yet to be signed into law [2], while the Netherlands last year banned private sales [3]. Sri Lanka had a partial ban in place in regions most afflicted by chronic kidney disease that has been […]

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