#glyphosate — Public Fediverse posts
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We’ve Identified California’s Top 100 Roundup Users. Some May Surprise You.
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'Thinning' native forest and wildlife: 'Logging by another name'
"Scrutiny over WA government's decision to 'eco-thin' landmark South West forests."
"These forests, globally recognised biodiversity hotspots, were clear-felled by loggers for almost 200 years, until native logging was banned entirely in 2024."
"A South West landowner says contractors are ripping up trees without thought, and an independent scientist argues there is no scientific basis for the practice...It does not seem like much has changed from the preceding years of native logging.They don't care about the environment; [the contractors] are just ripping up trees for money."
"Almost 146,000 hectares of state forests and timber reserves have been earmarked as potentially suitable for ecological thinning."
A globally acknowledged expert in conservation biology and landscape ecology, Professor Lindenmayer said there was limited scientific evidence to support ecological thinning. The reality is that forests have been in Australia for about 180 million years and that means that people haven't been messing with them for 179,930 years, and they've survived very well … without those kinds of interventions." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/ecological-thinning-experiment-wa-native-logging/107071374
#LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #biodiversity #glyphosate #pollution #deforestation #extractivism #thinning #wildlife #Australia -
#SupremeCourt Rejects Lawsuit Alleging #Roundup #Weedkiller Caused #Cancer
The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against #Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.
By Abbie VanSickle
June 25, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ET"The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, overturning a jury award for a Missouri man who claimed the widely used herbicide caused cancer in a decision that could have sweeping impacts on thousands of other Americans who similarly claim the product sickened them.
In the 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the majority found that a federal law that regulates pesticides barred the Missouri man’s lawsuit.
Justice Kavanaugh wrote that the Missouri case would “require a cancer warning on Roundup’s label,” which would directly conflict with the label required by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Because of this conflict, he wrote, federal law “expressly pre-empts” the Missouri man’s claim.
The dispute focused on a single case, a $1.25 million award for John Durnell, a gardener in St. Louis who had used Roundup for decades and claimed that years of exposure to the product led him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer. Mr. Durnell claimed that the company had failed to warn consumers of the dangers of the product.
The ramifications of the decision could be enormous, potentially jeopardizing thousands of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts against Bayer, the German company that acquired Roundup’s original maker, #Monsanto, in 2018.
The legal question before the justices focused on a narrow slice of the broader litigation: whether Bayer can be sued in state-level courts given that a federal agency decided not to issue a warning label for the weedkiller.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which is in charge of labeling pesticides throughout the country, has determined Roundup is safe. Bayer claims that the finding, which allows Roundup to be sold without a warning label, should override claims by Mr. Durnell and others that under state laws, they were injured by the product.
The Trump administration joined the case on Bayer’s side, reversing the position taken by the Biden administration. The Trump administration’s support for the Roundup manufacturer has been controversial among the Make America Healthy Again movement, whose activists had largely supported the president’s political rise.
Government lawyers asserted that once the E.P.A. determined Roundup was safe, Bayer was in fact required to abide by the agency’s decision in its product labeling.
If the company had tried to unilaterally change the product’s label, they argued, it would have violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
Roundup, which was created by Monsanto in the 1970s, is one of the most popular weedkillers in the world. But concerns over one of its active ingredients — a chemical called #glyphosate that is absorbed by plants, traveling into their roots and blocking an enzyme used for their growth — have prompted one of the biggest waves of class-action lawsuits in U.S. history.
Evidence in lab animals, along with more limited evidence in humans, has shown a link between glyphosate and cancer, and a 2015 report by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as “probably #carcinogenic to humans.”
The E.P.A. has studied the chemical and determined a cancer warning was not necessary. In February 2020, the agency announced findings that “there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label” and that the chemical was “unlikely” to cause cancer in humans.
After a court challenge, the #EPA withdrew those findings and the chemical’s safety currently remains under formal review.
In his lawsuit, Mr. Durnell said the company should be liable for failing to warn users about the risks of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma from exposure to glyphosate.
In 2023, a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, a state court, sided with Mr. Durnell. The company appealed the case, which eventually landed at the Supreme Court."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-weedkiller-roundup-bayer.html
#USPol #EPAFail #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ImpeachSamuelAlito #SCOTUS #RoundupKills
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Is pesticide spray on food leading to movement disorders?
Precautionary principle - ban paraquat"Paraquat and the related herbicide diquat are fast-acting weedkillers that farming groups say are essential for controlling resistant weeds."
"Multiple epidemiological studies from different groups of scientists have shown that people exposed to paraquat have around a three times greater risk [of developing Parkinson's disease]."
'The chemicals have been under review by the APVMA since 1997 and they are banned in the EU, the UK and China due to their toxicity.'
"There are now multiple epidemiological studies or real-world exposure studies that have suggested that paraquat increases the risk of Parkinson's disease by around threefold...Like Australia, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to allow restricted use of the pesticide despite ongoing health concerns." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/neurologists-not-consulted-in-paraquat-weed-killer-review/106758882Visualising the “blanket of agricultural toxins” from space
This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals Where Farmers in the Netherlands Spray the Controversial Herbicide >>
https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/this-yellow-glyphosate-map-reveals-where-farmers-in-the-netherlands-spray-the-controversial-herbicide/
#food #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #paraquat #weedkillers #SprayDrift #volatilisation #neurotoxicity #MovementDisorders #toxins #harm #farm #workers #residents #councils #LoggingIndustry #science #APVMA #regulation #Australia #SoilDegradation #water -
RE: https://mastox.eu/@realmarcel1/116557543518421985
Un débat, un combat, à porter aussi dans les autres "ex"-colonies, les "pays d'outremer" où non seulement il y a toujours une main-mise de la bourgeoisie occidentale mais aussi des dégâts socio-économiques impactant durablement la santé, l'environnement, etc. : #radioactivite artificielle, #chlordecone, #malathion, etc. plus, évidemment, les #plastique, #PFAS et autres #glyphosate toujours balancés partout sans contrôle, ce à quoi il serait partial de passer sous silence le rôle de dépotoir à marchés foirés mais dont les stocks de substances malsaines sont quand même écoulées chez "les sauvages", bon ou mauvais (...)
#colonialisme #capitalisme #pollutions #esclavage #nucleaire
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Duke study raises concerns about Roundup use https://www.allforgardening.com/1654120/duke-study-raises-concerns-about-roundup-use/ #30PercentVinegar #DefenseProductionAct #DukeUniversity #epa #farmworkers #garden #gardener #gardening #Glyphosate #H2AVisas #HeavyMetals #herbicides #It'sOurFuture #LandscapeContractors #LandscapeFabrics #NorthCarolinaStateExtension #PesticideApplicatorLicense #PresidentTrump #Roundup
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CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192439506710815
"To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."
This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌
Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.@mongabay 🌱
@Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
#Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate -
Hey, whatever it takes to #WakePeopleUp!
#MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as #RFKJr flips on pesticide
MAHA members call movement a “sham” after Kennedy supports #glyphosate order.
Beth Mole – Feb 20, 2026
"Members of the Make America Health Again movement are in open revolt after founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly backed President Trump’s executive order Wednesday that would increase domestic production of glyphosate—a pesticide the MAHA movement and Kennedy have railed against.
"Vani Hari, an ally of Kennedy who goes by 'Food Babe,' told The Washington Post she was left 'speechless' by the move.
" 'We truly were hoping that this administration would put people over corporate power,' she said, 'but this action moves us away from that commitment.'
"#Trump’s executive order invoked the #DefenseProductionAct to boost domestic production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in #Bayer’s #Roundup products. Currently, the US imports large quantities of glyphosate from China, according to Reuters.
"The MAHA movement has been vehemently opposed to the use of glyphosate, claiming it contributes to childhood health problems. In 2024, Kennedy—an anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer who was then running for president—wrote on social media: 'The herbicide Glyphosate is one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic. … Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its use as a desiccant on wheat, not as an #herbicide. From there it goes straight into our bodies. My USDA will ban that practice.' " [Yeah, right, sure you will... And I have a bridge I can sell you.]
#TrumpRegrets #MAGARevolt #USPol #RoundUpKills #Poison #SoilIsLife #WaterIsLife #BayerKnew
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"Today's decision proves that collective action works. The 3,100 submissions opposing a 100-fold increase in glyphosate residues represent thousands of New Zealanders who refused to accept a future of higher chemical residues in their food. Farmers, consumers, health advocates, and environmental champions came together and changed the course of food policy in this country."
Organic Aotearoa New Zealand, 2025
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📢 New paper out in Ecotoxicology! 🪲🌿
We tested whether a common glyphosate-based weed killer harms European earwigs.
🧪 Despite exposure to high doses, we found no major effects on maternal care, development, or immunity.
This surprising resilience raises new questions: Why are earwigs so tolerant to chemical pollution?
Read more:
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-025-02912-w#Ecotoxicology #Insects #Glyphosate #Pesticides #Earwigs #Science #PollutionResilience
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FNSEA - Syndicat de l'agriculture intensive. (2025)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/elevage_viande.php?art=l214_fnsea_syndicat_agriculture_intensive
#L214 a enquêté sur le plus grand #syndicat agricole #français, la #FNSEA (Fédération nationale des syndicats d’exploitants agricoles), qui prône une #agriculture productiviste et intensive...#FDSEA #glyphosate #profit #politique #FNPL #FNPF #FNB #AVRIL #AgroAlimentaire #Bétail #Viande #SANDERS #Éleveurs #AGPB #UNIGRAINS #CréditAgricole #Multinationales #Entreprises #Semences #Souffrance #animaux #Paysans #Informassue
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*We have a similar longtime movement in #BritishColumbia for same government approved aerial herbicide toxic spraying issue #StopTheSprayBC *
#FirstNations and #environmentalists have denounced the practice of aerial #herbicide spraying on #forestlands for decades. This year, #Indigenous groups in Northern #Ontario have announced a ban on blanket herbicide use, while in #NovaScotia, residents have resorted to peaceful #DirectAction to enforce their own ban.
The #ForestIndustry routinely dumps tons of chemicals like #glyphosate, the main ingredient in #Roundup weedkiller, on logged areas to kill off naturally-regenerated trees and shrubs in favour of commercial #TreeFarms. The problem is, these herbicides are #lethal to frogs, lizards, and salamanders. They wipe out #MedicinalPlants and berry bushes that Indigenous people and #wildlife rely on. Glyphosate, a suspected #carcinogen, #contaminates #rivers and #groundwater far and wide through indiscriminate spraying.
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/spray-down/
#CDNpoli #StopTheSpray #Ecocide #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BanCorporateLobbyists #ForestryReformNow
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Monsanto hit with $175M verdict against Roundup
https://www.ehn.org/roundup-lawsuit-2666088361.html
#ycombinator #toxics #herbicide #Roundup #glyphosate -
RFK was also correct about the problems with #GMOs. Namely #GMSoy and others crops that are sprayed with the "probable #carcinogen" and herbicide known as #glyphosate.
#gutFlora #rfk #foodAdditives #soy #canola #soyFlour #soyFiller #mayContainSoy
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If #Russia went back on the long-held ban of #RoundUp (#soy and #canola), would #Bayer (#Germany) even sell the seeds to them. Due to #sanctions we are unsure. Are #bioTech seeds considered “#food” and thus not included in sanctions?
We assume Russia will not reneg on their stance against #glyphosate (known carcinogen that also damages #gutFlora) but we’ve heard *nothing* about it.
Boosts appreciated. #askFedi
#herbicide #GMSoy #GMCanola #monsanto #trade #seedFreedom #patents #microbiome
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If the ingredients list of #driedHerbs people bought at the #supermarkets listed the net weight in #herbicides…
#glyphosate #gutFlora #microbiology #masterfoods #marsCorp #cancer
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En marche vers le désastre écologique !
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