Tell the EPA To Listen to the American People, not Chemical Corporations!
After Moms Across America filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the EPA for all communications between Bayer/Monsanto: memos, calls, emails, and meetings to the EPA regarding glyphosate between 2020 to the current time, we received a call back saying that the request was too large. They had "a few hundred thousand communications, and it would take them until 2024 to review" (redact) and return those documents to me. Might we please reduce the request?
A few HUNDRED THOUSAND communications just regarding glyphosate (one chemical!), just from Bayer (one company!) over two years? What could they possibly say about a chemical that is clearly unsafe? Apparently, a lot. If we assume only 200,000 communications, that means Bayer communicated with our US EPA 275 times a day!
The overwhelming number of communications shows us, the American people, the gravity of the influence the chemical corporations have over our regulatory agencies.
My response after legal counsel?
I told her that the volume of communication was exactly my concern - I believed the American public deserved to know just how much communication was and what was said. However, in consideration of timing, I will agree to narrow the request to communications, just to emails to the Pesticide Re-Registration Review Board and the Head of the EPA. And, I said, how about I make it easier for you - just send us the documents without redaction, don’t bother with that!
She balked but stated that they "have to review and redact CBI"- (Confidential Business Information) to protect the sensitive business information of the company. Then they have to go to the company and make sure they agree. I got heated. Do you know what is sensitive? My son’s health, after being exposed to glyphosate in his food. Do you know what I did not agree to? My son having the levels of glyphosate in his urine of a farmer - even though he has never touched a bottle of Roundup! Do you know what he has to live with every day while the chemical companies make profits off of poison? His whole body now has Ehler’s Danlos syndrome and Electromagnetic Sensitivity. He will likely not be able to go to college here in the USA because his immune system has been impacted by toxins like glyphosate, and he is now sensitive to wireless radiation! His whole life has been altered and affected and you are telling me you need to protect the company? When are you going to protect the people?
She explained that she is only doing her job blah blah blah...but I impressed upon her that she is there - on the INSIDE and she has a responsibility to speak up. She can speak to the Pesticide Review Board, to the Head of the EPA - she can say WE CAN DO BETTER. She has that opportunity. We are on the outside.
We are not communicating with the EPA 275 times a day.
But we can do better too. Will you speak up today and tell the EPA they need to listen to the American people and DO THEIR JOB - protect us and revoke the license of glyphosate?
Please speak up with us today - for all the children, bees, wildlife, marine life, pets, and humans on the planet that deserve a safe environment.
Thank you
Dear Michael Regan and EPA Pesticide Re-Registration Review Board,
I am appalled to learn through a Moms Across America FOIA that the chemical company Bayer has communicated a few hundred thousand times to the EPA about glyphosate over the past two years. This overwhelming amount of communication is undue influence, potentially even harassment, and is in excess. This amount of influence from private industry is pressuring the EPA to take Bayer’s desires, their profits more heavily into consideration than the desires and safety of the American people.
I am writing to request that you listen to the American people.
We have been asking you for years to stop allowing the spraying of glyphosate before harvest for any reason, as a weed killer or drying agent, specifically on food and feed crops.
Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of individual Americans and supporters of Moms Across America, Organic Consumers Association, Beyond Pesticides, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Pesticide Action Network, Children’s Health Defense, and many more have asked you to revoke the license of glyphosate completely.
Glyphosate has been shown to be a carcinogen, and endocrine disruptor, causing liver and kidney disease at very low levels of exposure, to androgenize baby girls and damage the sperm of males.
Your failure to listen to us and protect the American people is killing us, our pets, soil quality, wildlife, and marine life.
You can right this wrong.
You can revoke the license of glyphosate.
Now.
Signed,
Your bosses,
The American Tax Payer
Carta abierta a los productores de alimentos: ¡Necesitamos que hagan un mejor trabajo que la FDA!
Estimados productores de alimentos,
Durante los impactos continuos de la pandemia, la incertidumbre económica y el acceso desigual a alimentos saludables, necesitamos más integridad y seguridad en nuestro suministro de alimentos, no menos. Siempre que hay pérdidas de empleo y falta de seguro, es menos probable que muchas familias llamen a una ambulancia u obtengan atención hospitalaria durante una reacción alérgica a los alimentos, lo que aumenta el riesgo de muerte.
El reciente decisión del USDA no regular los OGM, CRISPR, edición de genes o plantas de producción química industrial y farmacéutica (PMPI) son de terrible preocupación para nosotros.
además, el Anuncio de la FDA Permitir que las empresas alimentarias cambien los ingredientes alimentarios, incluso temporalmente durante la situación de COVID- 19, como el aceite de girasol y de canola, puede tener efectos alergénicos inmediatos que ponen en peligro la vida. Permitir ingredientes sin etiquetar, sin importar cuáles sean, destruye la integridad a largo plazo de nuestro suministro de alimentos, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional.
Nuestro gobierno no ha regulado el suministro de alimentos ni ha protegido la salud del pueblo estadounidense y de todo el mundo. Si los productores de alimentos no toman medidas, nuestra salud, la integridad de nuestro suministro de alimentos y las relaciones comerciales internacionales se verán amenazadas. Pedimos su colaboración para rectificar esta situación.
Este es el momento para que los productores de alimentos lo hagan mejor que la FDA, no solo porque la gente descubrirá quién hizo lo correcto, sino porque es lo correcto.
Pedimos a los productores de alimentos que hagan una declaración pública y respondan a Moms Across America junio 19 con respecto a las siguientes solicitudes y los compromisos de su empresa:
Lee masBayer, defectos de nacimiento y alimentos tóxicos para bebés
Hace unas pocas semanas, la última noticia fue que 95% de los alimentos para bebés probados, 168 muestras, de Healthy Babies Bright Future (HBBF), contenían metales pesados. 1 de 4 contenía todos 4 de los metales pesados: arsénico, cadmio, plomo y mercurio. Lo que no fue noticia fue POR QUÉ. Y CÓMO podemos detener esta intoxicación impensable de nuestros bebés. Luego noticias de los residentes de Maui demandando a Monsanto por exposición química y defectos de nacimiento se rompieron. Una vez más, nuestros bebés, el futuro de nuestro país, están siendo perjudicados por las compañías químicas, pero nuestro gobierno se niega a responsabilizar a Bayer / Monsanto por estas tragedias.
Lee masRevocar rodeo
¿Has oído hablar del glifosato / Rodeo en nuestra agua, orina, leche materna, miel, productos sanitarios, alimentos, cerveza y VINO?
¿Incluso vino orgánico?
¡Suficiente es suficiente!
La contaminación generalizada del glifosato DEBE PARAR.
¡Únase a nosotros con un fuerte mensaje a la EPA de que deben revocar la licencia de glifosato!
¡Firme la petición en Care2.org ahora!
¡Por favor comparte!
¡Gracias!
Equipo Zen y MAA