Have you ever seen workers on the side of the road with a metal sprayer, dousing the landscaping with some unknown liquid? Or a truck with a tank of liquid driving slowly along the sidewalk spraying a jet stream of liquid all over the roadside or sidewalk? Or how about a farmer in a field on a tractor spraying the crops? Ever wonder what they are spraying?

It's not water. And it's not harmless. They are most likely spraying a glyphosate-based herbicide, such as Roundup or Rodeo.  You may even have a bottle of these herbicides in your garage to spray in your own backyard. Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most popular, and insidiously harmful, herbicides and desiccants (drying agents) in the world.  Over 9.4 million tons of these herbicides are recorded to have been sprayed globally.  80% of GMOs---genetically modified crops---are engineered to withstand glyphosate-based herbicides.

California is the only state that has a Department of Pesticide* Regulation that tracks the use of glyphosate and other pesticides/herbicides. That map was recently shared with me by a supporter for glyphosate-free grape growing. Haga clic aquí for one of the most disturbing maps you will ever see, especially if you live in California. The California wine regions are recorded to have between 79,000-189,000 pounds of glyphosate sprayed in their communities every year.

*The term pesticide is accepted by the industry to include pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and rodenticides.

Right now, the EPA is accepting comments from the public on the issue of whether or not to re-register glyphosate for another 15 years. This is one of the most hotly contested issues of our generation, and we need EVERYONE to comment.

Please click on this link, click Comment Now on the upper right, and write a short (or long) comment to the EPA.

Registration Review: Draft Human Health and/or Ecological Risk Assessments for Several Pesticides

We simply ask that you be professional, add links to studies to back up your assertions (see resources below), and share personal reasons why as well.

If you suspect harm to your family or loved ones from glyphosate herbicide Roundup, now is the time to tell them.

You may use parts of our comments below, but please do personalize your comment or else it will be deleted.

Feel free to comment more than once. The last time I checked the majority of the comments were in favor of glyphosate being renewed...no doubt the chemical companies are paying people to leave comments. Regardless, we need to bring clear independent science and honest pleas.

Please know that there are some inside the EPA that want to do the right thing, and have asked us to communicate with them. They need our support to make changes. Please leave a comment today.

¡Gracias por su colaboración en la creación de salud y libertad!

Equipo Zen y MAA

Comments to the EPA on the health impacts and safety of glyphosate

by Zen Honeycutt- Executive Director, Moms Across America with support from MAA Team

Los nuevos resultados de las pruebas muestran lo que las marcas populares de cerveza y vino tienen en común:

Resumen de Monsanto

marzo 15, 2018, Mission Viejo Ca- Han sido unos años difíciles para la industria del alcohol, pero el cambio se está gestando. En 2015, Los Ángeles CBS News dio a conocer el anuncio de una demanda contra 31 marcas de vinos para altos niveles de arsénico inorgánico. En 2016, 12 los vinos de California probados fueron todos resultó positivo para el herbicida glifosato.  En 2016, pruebas de cerveza en Alemania también reveló residuos de glifosato en cada una de las muestras analizadas, incluso en cervezas independientes. Vinters y cerveceros comenzaron a notar la creciente demanda de orgánicos. Solo esta semana Anheuser-Busch anunció que su marca Michelob ha lanzado una nueva cerveza Oro ultra puro elaborado con trigo orgánico. ¿Qué tienen todos estos eventos en común?

Resumen de Monsanto. 

How are they connected? If you remember, French scientist Seralini et al released shocking findings in January of 2018 that all the brands of the glyphosate-based Roundup they tested, over a dozen, had high levels of arsenic, over 5x the allowable limit. Roundup used in vineyards and sprayed on grains used in beer as a drying agent is appearing to be one of the major contributing factors of arsenic (and of course, glyphosate) residues in our wine and beer.

Today Moms Across America is releasing new findings of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, most of which are from the US, and in batch test results in American beer. The findings were at first, confusing. But one thing that was clear was that the beer and wine industries must and in many cases are, moving away from Monsanto’s Roundup in order to avoid contamination by this chemical herbicide, a known neurotoxin, carcinogeny endocrine disruptor, which causes liver disease. Despite Monsanto’s impassioned appeal of “irreparable harm”, CA federal Judge Shubb allowed glyphosate to remain on the CA Prop 65 carcinogen list in a ruling out just two weeks ago.

El juez de California aprueba la inclusión de la propuesta de glifosato 65, pero decide que el público no necesita una etiqueta de advertencia de cáncer en nuestros alimentos y productos

febrero 27, 2018-- Today a CA Federal Judge ruled that the public does not need a warning label to inform us that cancer-causing and harmful chemicals in glyphosate herbicides are in our food or products, temporarily relieving manufacturers from the responsibility of being honest with their customers.  At a time when more and more American families are struggling with diseases and their high cost, one man decided that it was an injustice to the chemical companies to have to tell us about the presence of their chemicals.

Senior United States District Judge William B. Shubb released his ruling regarding the case of Wheat Growers and Monsanto against the California Environmental Protection Agency (CA EPA), Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and the CA Attorney General to remove glyphosate, the declared active chemical ingredient in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, from the CA Prop 65 carcinogen list, a law approved by California voters by ballot initiative in 1986.

El juez dictaminó que OEHHA puede mantener el glifosato en la lista de carcinógenos de la Proposición 65, pero los fabricantes como Monsanto y los productores de alimentos no tendrán que etiquetar sus productos con una etiqueta de advertencia. Normalmente, la ley establece que los productos que contienen sustancias químicas en la lista, por encima de cierto nivel, deben etiquetar sus productos dentro de un año a partir de la lista. La etiqueta indicaría: "ADVERTENCIA que este producto contiene una sustancia química conocida en el estado de California como causante de cáncer o daños reproductivos". La medida cautelar temporal otorgada por el juez detiene el inminente etiquetado por parte de los fabricantes de productos y alimentos que contienen glifosato y les permite no informar a sus clientes de este hecho ... que se ha descubierto que el glifosato causa cáncer en animales y es un probable carcinógeno humano.

 New test results show the presence of Glyphosate, a proven neurotoxin and the declared active chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup, to be contaminating more and more American foods, many considered fit for a “healthy” lunch. Instead, we are finding that these foods are likely contributing to poor mental and physical health.

Batch testing of popular almond milk (1), vegetarian burgers (2), and various breads (3), including organic, gluten free and whole wheat breads, revealed up to 140.98 ppb. Individual brand testing of Skippy’s “100% Natural” peanut butter y Lipton’s “100% Natural” Mint and Green tea up to 208.29 ppb of glyphosate herbicides.

New Discoveries
Presione soltar

2018

Los descubrimientos de J Douzelet y GE Séralini:

Se propone una primera descripción de los gustos de 11 plaguicidas. Primero son detectados en agua, diluidos frescos a los niveles encontrados en los vinos, por 36 profesionales del vino o la cocina en 195 pruebas a ciegas en diferentes períodos.

Son los pesticidas que se encuentran con mayor frecuencia en los vinos de nuestro experimento. Algunos animales pueden detectar pesticidas y cambiar su comportamiento en respuesta. Para averiguar si los humanos también pueden detectar pesticidas por su sabor en los vinos, se llevó a cabo un experimento de tres pasos.

enero 31, 2018 Zen Honeycutt and Anne Temple of Moms Across America attended the Monsanto Shareholder meeting held at their corporate headquarters in St. Louis.

Zen represented John Harrington of Harrington Investments and presented a three minute presentation for the forming of  a Human Rights Committee.  Unfortunately the vote was taken before Zen spoke on behalf of the proxy.  A document was presented to the board and Executive Team listing just some of the examples of 11 categories of crimes against humanity attributed to Monsanto's products.  You can read that document AQUÍ.

Below is Zen's presentation for the forming of a Human Rights Committee.

PREPARADO PARA LA 2018 REUNIÓN DE LA JUNTA DE MONSANTO

VIOLACIÓNES DE DERECHOS HUMANOS

ATRIBUIBLE A LOS PRODUCTOS DE MONSANTO

Datos compilados por miembros del Equipo del Tribunal de Monsanto, Navdanya, Moms Across America y ciudadanos preocupados de los EE. UU.

Introducción

Sostenemos que Monsanto, ante todo una empresa química, se equivoca al pensar que es su trabajo "Alimentar al mundo". El trabajo de Monsanto es asegurarse de que los productos químicos que venden sean seguros y efectivos. O, para redirigir sus recursos al negocio, lo que no incluye el uso de productos químicos tóxicos que pueden dañar a los humanos, la vida silvestre, el ganado, el suelo y el suministro de agua. Monsanto tiene la responsabilidad de mantener su compromiso con la seguridad e integridad de los productos formando un comité para investigar si se han producido violaciones de derechos humanos debido a sus productos y prácticas comerciales.

Millones de personas en todo el mundo están trabajando para reclamar su derecho básico de libertad de semillas, para proteger la salud y los derechos humanos y para promover la agricultura orgánica y la agroecología libres de veneno. Hacemos un llamado a Monsanto Company para garantizar que sus violaciones de derechos humanos reconocidas mundialmente cesen y desistan.