People can round up corporations!

the news: Monsanto Can't Round Up Chemical Docs From Advocacy Org

our views: I am trying to compute how many man/woman hours have been devoted by Monsanto to conceptualize and implement all these legal actions...wouldn't it wiser use of their time to develop novel chemicals that are more friendly to Earth and the food chain?
Well done Avaaz!

more on this story: Should we be concerned about glyphosate and GM foods?


Ioannis Zabetakis

Should we be concerned about glyphosate and GM foods?

my latest article on RTE Brainstorm on GMOs, Monsanto and glyphosate... But also cancer, politics and our gardens...

Should we be concerned about glyphosate and GM foods?

You can read more on Roundup at this fascinating book
  

Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science 1st Edition

Next week in UL, it is week 1 and I am going to have with my Food Science and Health students  an extended literature search and debate over the next 12 weeks on the politics and the science behind Roundup. Their essays and presentations are going to be posted here.

Stay tuned :)

Ioannis Zabetakis

Glyphosate and Cancer (part II)

the news is rather alarming: glyphosate has been found in wide range of breakfast foods aimed at children (it was found in 45 products including granola, snack bars and Cheerios!).

The rest of the discussion about the "safe" levels of glyphosate in foods is purely academic - with the negative meaning of the word academic...

We can NOT have safe levels of a contaminant in foods/water that is linked to cancer.

Therefore, we need to pile up pressure to the food companies that produce these glyphosate-tainted foods and boycott them till they inform us that their products are glyphosate-free.

Any other discussion/delay puts the safety of everybody and especially of the young ones who have not fully developed their immune system at risk.

A risk that is avoidable!

Ioannis Zabetakis
 

Glyphosate and Cancer

The first time I wrote on glyphosate was some 5 years ago, here.

I am copying here from that 2013 posting...

What now?
The implications of the new study are paramount: we need to re-assess urgently the use of glyphosate in agriculture. In many GMO-free countries, glyphosate based weedkillers are in use and this leads to human’s exposure to residues of this compound through cross-contamination of the food chain.

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2018 update.

There is no doubt that Roundup, glycophosate is not safe to use. But in Science, when we talk about risk, health and money, the issue is not about Science but about politics...

Politicians and industrialists usually manipulate data or they rather use shortsighted data-glasses...so they can reach the decision they want to please their voters and shareholders, respectively.

This is the story so far...

In UL, in few weeks, at the autumn semester, I am going to ask my 3rd year Food Science and Health students to study the topic of glyphosate and the food chain. By Christmas 2018, they should have some strong texts in place that they will be posted here.

 Ioannis

P.S. For now...I would rather agree with Nicolas Hulot