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Stop Glyphosate in Europe!
For those that are interested in stopping the poisoning of Europe with glyphosate, the DDT of our times. The European Union are at the last stretch of now renewing the licence to use glyphosate within the EU. See the summary of the process so far on this EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) page:
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/glyphosate#application-for-renewal
Just two weeks ago, 25 of August 2023, EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) released all the background documents said to be used in their assessment of glyphosate as a chemical with "no critical areas of concern" found regarding mammalian toxicology and ecotoxicology. See the 25/5-2023 EFSA summary paper called:
"Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance glyphosate"
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8164
Link to the 61.5 MB zip-file of the supporting documents mentioned earlier with at least a boat load of pages:
https://open.efsa.europa.eu/study-inventory/EFSA-Q-2020-00140
Pesticide Action Network Europe has been fighting against glyphosate for a long time and the present fight against glyphosate can be finacially supported here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-european-nature-citizens-from-glyphosate
Pesticide Action Network Europe has also been behind the 2021 campaign "Save Bees and Farmers" collecting 1.1 million EU signatures to propose a law change. From that page you can easily send emails to all the EU-representatives from your respective EU-country:
https://www.savebeesandfarmers.eu/eng/
For more information on alternatives to the excessive use of glyphosate especially look at the information from Pesticide Action Network Europe, and their 103 page document from 9/3-2023 called:
"WEED MANAGEMENT: ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE"
https://www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-europe.info/files/public/resources/reports/Weed%20management%20Alternatives%20to%20the%20use%20of%20glyphosate%20Report_09032023.pdf
The page at Pesticide Action Network Europe where I found the link to the document above:
https://www.pan-europe.info/resources/reports/2023/03/weed-management-alternatives-use-glyphosate
Bury Bayer!
Stop glyphosate!
PS. I didn't know Sri Lanka firstly banned glyphosate due to its possible role in certain areas of Sri Lanka having epidemic levels of kidney disease since the 1990s. I found it especially interesting since Grant Genereux almost died of kidney disease before going low vitamin A. Anyway here is the 2014 paper called:
"Glyphosate, hard water and nephrotoxic metals: are they the culprits behind the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka?"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3945589/
Link to the attached picture from a 2017 demonstration:
https://www.a4perspectives.com/lue-tente-trouver-compromis-glyphosate/
Did not Putin take Russia organic? EU cannot learn from that nor from lawsuits against Bayer/Monsanto?
I think glyphosate is a much bigger issue in this Vitamin A toxicity problem than Vitamin A itself.
An update post (20/9-2023) from Pesticide Action Network Europe regarding glyphosate titled:
"Glyphosate in the EU up to 2034? Danger to health and environment and violation of citizens will"
https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2023/09/glyphosate-eu-2034-danger-health-and-environment-and-violation-citizens-will
Excerpt:
"Top scientists explained serious flaws and shortcomings in the assessment in a hearing in the EU Parliament, for glyphosate, the formulation product MON 52276 and its ingredients. PAN Europe also identified that a series of EFSA findings make glyphosate re-approval opposed to EU law (2). The EU Member States will discuss the proposal this Friday and vote on October 12th."
Pesticide Action Network Europe just released this 2 hour long video with many experts warning about glyphosate at the European Union parliament and unfortuneately there are no postitive responses at the end from either EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) or a European Union commision representative. They are like, we ignore bad results and will do whatever we want and break all rules of conduct to do it. I share the video description from the video, which have time-stamp links to the talks which are against glyphosate. Personally I would begin watching the video in the order of:
- Dr. Angeliki Lysimachou - A civil society perspective 1:43:33
- Professor Johann G. Zaller - Ecotoxicity of glyphosate. 1:20:35
- Christopher J. Portier - Evaluating the carcinogenicity of glyphosate. 35:46
- Dr. Peter Clausing - Glyphosate and ECHA's "weight of evidence" on carginogenity, oxidative stress and damage to DNA. 43:49
- Professor Michael Antoniou - Multiple organ system toxicity of glyphosate and Roundup Bioflo (MON 52276) at regulatory relevant doses. 1:04:01
"Scientist experts highlighted the harmful effects of glyphosate in this meeting in the EU Parliament on September 18th 2023. The event was organised by PAN Europe in cooperation with MEPs Christophe Clergeau (S&D) and Jutta Paulus (The Greens/EFA).
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Seven experts document glyphosate damages and alternatives:
35:46 Evaluating the carcinogenicity of glyphosate by Christopher J. Portier, Former Director of the US National Center for Environmental Health
43:49 Glyphosate and ECHA's "weight of evidence" on carginogenity, oxidative stress and damage to DNA by Dr Peter Clausing, senior toxicologist, glyphosate expert for PAN Germany
54:25 The Global Glyphosate Study by Daniele Mandrioli M.D, Ramazzini Institute
1:04:01 Multiple organ system toxicity of glyphosate and Roundup Bioflo (MON 52276) at regulatory relevant doses by Professor Michael Antoniou, Head of the Gene Expression and Therapy Group at King's College London
1:20:35 Ecotoxicity of glyphosate by Professor Johann G. Zaller, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna - author of the ecotoxicological review of glyphosate
1:32:10 Alternatives to glyphosate by Xavier Reboud, INRAE, France
1:43:33 A civil society perspective by Dr. Angeliki Lysimachou, PAN Europe
From ECHA Mike Rasenberg, Director, Hazard Assessment and Paul Ryan, Head of Unit, Hazard I took part. EFSA was represented by Manuela Tiramani, Head of Pesticides Peer Review Unit. Klaus Berend, Head of Unit, Pesticides and Biocides from DG SANTE spoke on behalf of the European Commission."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Rm8sPQEuc
Now on Thursday (16/11-23) a small group of un-elected EU-people will decide if glyphosate will be renew for 10 years in the EU.
Glyphosate have failed the EU's own criterions for even being eligiable for a pesticide renewal process. Though I don't think that will stop a possible renewal decision, I think only wide spread popular support to ban glyphosate might do that.
Do what you can!
Here is a recent short and sweet 2.5 minute video from Pesticide Action Network -Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXXM6L2cEk
PS. Pesticide Action Network -Europe have also collaborated and sent this letter to the EU president so she can't claim she didn't know about it:
https://www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-europe.info/files/public/resources/Letters/14%20Nov%202023%20Open%20letter%20from%20106%20organisations%20-%20Stop%20the%20re-approval%20of%20glyphosate%20in%20light%20of%20new%20scientific%20evidence%20on%20cancer%20risk.pdf
One of the problems is mind-set. Until people really accept that you must make food purely, the never-ending stream of poisons will follow, one upon the other. Just look at history! The agricultural land I live on was sprayed with all different sorts of things, already going back 100 years. Oh, you don't like arsenic? How about DDT? You don't like DDT? How about ... etc etc