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Irish Examiner: Majority Want Ban on Use of Controversial Glyphosate Weedkillers
Most Irish adults who are familiar with glyphosate are worried about the health effects of the widely used weedkiller and want it banned from use on crops. Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ An opinion poll found that 64% of adults who know about the controversial...
Bloomberg: Monsanto Roundup Attacks Healthy Gut Bacteria, Lawsuit Says
Monsanto Co. has been sued by thousands of farmers and others who blame their cancers on its massively popular Roundup weedkiller. Now Germany’s Bayer AG, which bought the agriculture giant last year, faces a claim that it deceived home gardeners about Roundup’s...
Kellogg Latest to be Targeted in Glyphosate Residue Lawsuit, but Courts Not Proving Very Receptive, Say Attorneys
Kellogg’s has become the latest high-profile food brand to face legal action over the alleged presence of trace levels of the herbicide glyphosate in its products, which the plaintiff argues that reasonable consumers would not expect to see in their foods in any...
Erin Brockovich: The Weedkiller in Our Food is Killing Us
On a recent Saturday afternoon, in an estuary near Tampa Bay, Florida, I watched airboats move up and down the river banks, spraying massive plumes of weedkiller on to the vegetation. The state of Florida was trying to control and kill off scores of plant species....
New Study Finds Harmful Pesticides Lurking in New York Homes
Despite the existence of chemical-free methods to eradicate pests, Americans use more than a billion pounds of pesticides per year. These chemicals are mostly out of sight and out of mind to unsuspecting homeowners, who are typically unaware of how to prevent...
A New Attack on Glyphosate
Already by October 1, 2018, over 200 products sold under 17 different brand names were displaying the Glyphosate Residue Free symbol on their packaging. And another 50 brands representing hundreds more products are in the process of securing Glyphosate Residue Free...