Ace Food Desk – The Millions Against Monsanto movement made glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, a household word.

Once trial lawyers had enough evidence linking glyphosate with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, they forced Bayer, which merged with Monsanto in 2018, to pay billions of dollars to at least 175,000 Roundup-exposed cancer victims. That prompted Bayer to announce that it would stop selling Roundup, but what it really meant is that it would reformulate, replacing glyphosate with even worse toxins–a pyrrhic victory.

Glyphosate is still the most-used chemical in agriculture–where pesticide applicators and farm workers have little choice over what they’re exposed to. But, glyphosate is being phased out of certain products to meet consumer demand–and reduce Bayer’s liability. Meanwhile, the EPA is working to approve new agrochemicals even more toxic than the old ones.

Bayer’s newly formulated Roundup contains diquat, which is 200 times more toxic than glyphosate. Like glyphosate, diquat kicks off a cascade of chronic health problems by damaging our gut health.

And, foods that had become notorious for containing the most glyphosate are now turning up with dangerous levels of chlormequat. Right now, chlormequat is only used on imports, but the EPA wants to approve it for food grown in the U.S.

The EPA has also given a green light to BASF’s trifludimoxazin, a new herbicide that blocks the production of heme, a necessary component of the red blood cells that oxygenate our tissues. In animal studies, trifludimoxazin causes liver, thyroid, neurological, and reproductive problems, as well as cancer.

This is a reminder that it isn’t enough to avoid Bayer’s glyphosate or its herbicide-tolerant genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It’s really important to go completely organic, both with the food you eat and what you use on your lawn and garden.

Most importantly, we have to keep up the fight. Our opposition to glyphosate made Bayer and Big Food cower–if we keep the pressure on we can push organic forward and demand a safer food system: take action against these toxic chemicals!

TAKE ACTION BY JULY 11: Stop EPA Approval of Trifludimoxazin!

TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA: Keep Chlormequat Off U.S. Grown Food–and Get It Off Imports!

TAKE ACTION: Tell Costco to Go Organic & Stop Selling Roundup, Whether It’s Made with Glyphosate or Diquat!

TAKE ACTION: Boycott Pesticide-Drenched Quaker Oats & Tell Congress to Ban Bayer’s Toxic Roundup Weed Killer

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