Action alert from Iowa Public Interest Research Group:
Monsanto’s Roundup is turning up everywhere. And that’s a big problem, since the evidence linking its ingredients to serious health problems, including cancer, is piling up. The commonly-used herbicide’s main active ingredient, glyphosate, has been found in breakfast cereals, snack bars, ice cream — and now a new study has found it in beer and wine.1,2 Even worse — we’re still not sure how serious the long-term health effects are from exposure.3 Our goal is to raise $15,000 to help pass more local and state bans this year, and keep all of our other campaigns going strong, from standing up for consumers to protecting public health. It’s bad enough you can still find Monsanto’s Roundup on store shelves. But researchers keep finding traces of glyphosate — the key toxic ingredient in Roundup — everywhere it shouldn’t be. Our research partners at U.S. PIRG Education Fund tested 20 samples of beer and wine, including Budweiser, Coors, Samuel Adams and New Belgium, and discovered detectable levels of glyphosate in nearly all of them — even in organic varieties.4 Fifty-seven years after Rachel Carson warned us of a Silent Spring, and 49 years after millions of Americans called for action on the first Earth Day, we’re still spreading poisons throughout our natural environment. We’re stuck in a “spray first, ask questions later” mindset. I don’t want a silent spring for the next generation. I want to celebrate an Earth Day when the mindless overuse of toxic chemicals is a thing of the past. Will you help make this dream a reality? Your support will give our Ban Roundup campaign the resources we need to put our reliance on this toxic pesticide behind us and win local and statewide bans to protect public health. With your support, Iowa PIRG and our national network will:
It’s absurd that we’re allowing a weed killer with potential health risks to be used on our food and near homes and playgrounds. That’s why we’re working to ban Roundup unless and until it can be proven safe — but we can’t do it without your support. Donate by the Earth Day deadline to support this and other vital campaigns in the public interest. Sincerely, David Rossini 1. Kara Cook, “Glyphosate pesticide in beer and wine,” U.S. PIRG Education Fund, February 2019. |
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Oh dear. I cannot and do not agree with a total ban. Glyphosate is a very important tool in the important work of ecological restoration. There is not another herbicide that works so effectively with so little residual impact. And I guarantee that glyphosate is not being found in beer and wine because restorationists use it to carefully spot-spray scattered invasive exotic weeds in woodlands or paint the cut stumps of horribly-invasive Asian honeysuckle on prairies. There is a huge difference between using glyphosate in very limited targeted ways, like we use it, and broadcasting it over millions of acres of GMO crops.
Iowa has less of its original landscape left than any other state, and we are losing much of what is left to invasions by a variety of horrible exotics. We badly need glyphosate as one weapon in our limited arsenal. Punishing ecological restorationists (and natural areas) because of the way industrial agriculture uses glyphosate is another effective way to create a silent spring, this time because habitat that is degraded or destroyed by invasives can’t be used by wildlife that needs it. Invasive species are now recognized as the second-greatest cause of extinction around the world, second only to habitat loss.
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This is the effects intentional exposure to glyphosate unlawfully applied to my property by a neighbor/council member had to my health. The intent was to eliminate me from my private property. It worked, after severe suffering for over 5 years and no protection from harm in sight, I was forced to flee from my private property without just compensation. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10o7BgegCaQc5BVIqEabn4KD_9fBbjaf2Xb6TP6F7iX4/edit?usp=sharing
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I’m sorry about whatever happened to you. I can’t see anything but the title page, so I don’t know your story.
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https://poisonedbymyneighborfromhell.com this is my page of evidence and facts that prove my local government officials violated my State and Federal Constitutional rights in an unprecedented act of using chemical weapons to eliminate me from my private property without just compensation
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https://poisonedbymyneighborfromhell.com
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how about this for an example of what unlawful application of RoundUp on my private property did to me. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10o7BgegCaQc5BVIqEabn4KD_9fBbjaf2Xb6TP6F7iX4/edit?usp=sharing
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