Banza Petition - Moms Across America

Banza Petition

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Please sign this petition to Banza:

Dear Banza,

We at Moms Across America, our team and supporters as signed below, are concerned about the health of our families and community. We are writing to you to request that you switch to sourcing your chick peas only from organic or regenerative organic sources and join us in creating a safer food supply for all.

We agree that chickpeas can be a healthy source of protein and nutrients. We love chickpeas and the idea of chickpea pasta! However, we disagree that chickpeas with any (low or high) levels of glyphosate on them are ever healthy.

We also disagree that just because your products or any food company's products test below FDA allowable maximum residue levels for glyphosate or any pesticide, that your products are safe. Hundreds of studies show that glyphosate and other agrochemicals are not safe at very low levels of exposure. To ignore these studies is irresponsible and misleading to the American public. We know you have no intention of misleading the American public and ask you to do better than the FDA. You can find many of the studies here.

We are also concerned that your letter to the public on your website states that glyphosate cooked down to .1 ppm (100 ppb) when cooked, but you do not state for how long that pasta was cooked. A doctor who communicated with you by email reported that your team stated that the pasta was cooked for 15 minutes to achieve that result. We assert that no one cooks their pasta for 15 minutes unless they have forgotten about it; normal cooking time, according to your package, is 6-9 minutes.

In MAA's testing, cooking the pasta in distilled water for 6 minutes, as recommended, showed 161.5 ppb of glyphosate still present. Neither finding, 100 or 161 ppb is safe. Therefore, it is not accurate to state that your food is safe containing these levels of glyphosate.

In addition, if anyone uses your pasta product dry, as in a casserole recipe, the glyphosate (over 2000 ppb from the box we tested) will not be discarded in the water. It will remain in the casserole dish. Also, for any chickpea pizza crust product you sell, one might expect that all glyphosate residues will remain in the pizza crust if the chickpeas are not first boiled. We ask that you inspect these matters and take action to provide safe products.

We know it is not your intention to have glyphosate in your food products, but continuing to allow it is unconscionable. We ask you to join with us in petitioning the EPA to disallow glyphosate as a drying agent on food and feed crops. In the meantime, we also ask that you switch suppliers to organic and/or regenerative organic farmers and require that future suppliers do not spray glyphosate or any other harmful agrochemical on the ingredients you use in any food product. 

We hope you will agree to these two reasonable and healthy requests.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Moms Across America and supporters as signed below.

 

Who's signing

Dee Lillywhite
Nancy Strong
Liz Bayram
Paul Mitchell
Kirsten Blair
Adrienne Rinetti
Andrea Fetsko
Jaclyn Downs
Janaet FitzGerald
Tiffani Albrecht
Stephanie G
Jordan Curcio
liz sigel
Brian McBratney
Nicole Kelly
Melissa Griffin
Roseann Blacher
Danae De Blasi
Rachel Garmers
Nicole Duong
Liz Comer
Heller Katherine
Jenilee Voss
Nancy Perlman
Maria McCord
Laura Fisher Andersen
Shannon Cunningham
Lore Flavell
Stephanie D Reynolds
Brittany Stokel
578 signatures

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  • Dee Lillywhite
    signed 2024-08-10 17:52:38 -0400
  • Nancy Strong
    signed 2024-08-10 17:37:37 -0400
  • Liz Bayram
    signed 2024-08-10 17:34:40 -0400
  • Paul Mitchell
    signed 2024-08-10 17:15:27 -0400
  • Kirsten Blair
    signed 2024-08-10 16:57:41 -0400
  • Adrienne Rinetti
    signed 2024-08-10 16:49:01 -0400
  • Andrea Fetsko
    signed 2024-08-10 16:44:20 -0400
  • Jaclyn Downs
    signed 2024-08-10 16:43:34 -0400
  • Janaet FitzGerald
    signed 2024-08-10 16:42:23 -0400
    Why do neither of our political parties address federal agency corruption that is behind allowing big industries hurt us?
  • Tiffani Albrecht
    signed 2024-08-10 16:27:10 -0400
  • Stephanie G
    signed 2024-08-10 16:23:55 -0400
  • Jordan Curcio
    signed 2024-08-10 16:21:56 -0400
  • liz sigel
    signed 2024-08-10 16:09:27 -0400
  • Brian McBratney
    signed 2024-08-10 16:00:45 -0400
  • Nicole Kelly
    signed 2024-08-10 15:59:57 -0400
  • Melissa Griffin
    signed 2024-08-10 15:59:18 -0400
  • Roseann Blacher
    signed 2024-08-10 15:13:32 -0400
  • Danae De Blasi
    signed 2024-08-10 15:00:26 -0400
  • Rachel Garmers
    signed 2024-08-10 14:49:13 -0400
  • Nicole Duong
    signed 2024-08-10 14:45:14 -0400
  • Liz Comer
    signed 2024-08-10 14:44:49 -0400
  • Heller Katherine
    signed 2024-08-10 14:28:18 -0400
    Please go organic. Glysophate harms people, especially children.
  • Jenilee Voss
    signed 2024-08-10 14:07:03 -0400
  • Nancy Perlman
    signed 2024-08-10 14:03:58 -0400
  • Maria McCord
    signed 2024-08-10 13:41:59 -0400
  • Laura Fisher Andersen
    signed 2024-08-10 13:29:45 -0400
  • Shannon Cunningham
    signed 2024-08-10 13:26:20 -0400
  • Lore Flavell
    signed 2024-08-10 13:22:51 -0400
    We use gluten free products to promote better health, but the additional exposure to glyphosate completey undermines any benefit and instead exposes consumers to additional jarm. Please help us by going organic with your products.
  • Stephanie D Reynolds
    signed 2024-08-10 13:20:01 -0400
  • Brittany Stokel
    signed 2024-08-10 13:13:43 -0400

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