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06-08-2014, 10:53 PM
Full article at https://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30153.cfm
Makes me seriously consider eating only organic food!
Moms to EPA: Recall Monsanto’s Roundup
By Alexis Baden-Mayer
Organic Consumers Association, May 29, 2014
Hell hath no fury . . . like a mother whose child has been sickened by a toxin that’s almost
impossible to avoid.
Two activist groups, Moms Across America and Thinking Moms Revolution, want the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recall Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used
herbicide/pesticide in the world.
Now is the time to do it, they say, because the EPA is conducting a registration review of
glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup.
Representatives of the two groups contacted the EPA to request a meeting. When the EPA
ignored them, they rallied supporters. Over a period of three days, about 10,000 moms from
all over the country rang the phones off the hook at the EPA.
A week later, five Moms Across America leaders were sitting around a boardroom table with
nine EPA employees who have the power to recall Roundup. The moms brought lawyers,
scientists and advocates from Organic Consumers Association, Natural Resources Defense
Council, Consumers Union, Beyond Pesticides and the Truth-In-Labeling Coalition as back-up.
What was supposed to be a one-hour meeting turned into two. The EPA’s Dana Vogel, director
of the Health Effects Division in the Office of Pesticide Programs, and other EPA staff stayed glued
to their seats as one mother after another shared heart-wrenching stories of their experiences
parenting children with life-threatening allergies, severe gastrointestinal problems, mysterious
autism-spectrum disorders, and major nutritional deficiencies.
The common thread in those stories? Exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s
Roundup...
To continue reading (https://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30153.cfm)
CSummer
Makes me seriously consider eating only organic food!
Moms to EPA: Recall Monsanto’s Roundup
By Alexis Baden-Mayer
Organic Consumers Association, May 29, 2014
Hell hath no fury . . . like a mother whose child has been sickened by a toxin that’s almost
impossible to avoid.
Two activist groups, Moms Across America and Thinking Moms Revolution, want the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recall Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used
herbicide/pesticide in the world.
Now is the time to do it, they say, because the EPA is conducting a registration review of
glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup.
Representatives of the two groups contacted the EPA to request a meeting. When the EPA
ignored them, they rallied supporters. Over a period of three days, about 10,000 moms from
all over the country rang the phones off the hook at the EPA.
A week later, five Moms Across America leaders were sitting around a boardroom table with
nine EPA employees who have the power to recall Roundup. The moms brought lawyers,
scientists and advocates from Organic Consumers Association, Natural Resources Defense
Council, Consumers Union, Beyond Pesticides and the Truth-In-Labeling Coalition as back-up.
What was supposed to be a one-hour meeting turned into two. The EPA’s Dana Vogel, director
of the Health Effects Division in the Office of Pesticide Programs, and other EPA staff stayed glued
to their seats as one mother after another shared heart-wrenching stories of their experiences
parenting children with life-threatening allergies, severe gastrointestinal problems, mysterious
autism-spectrum disorders, and major nutritional deficiencies.
The common thread in those stories? Exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s
Roundup...
To continue reading (https://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30153.cfm)
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