As each day goes by, Monsanto’s flagship chemical Glyphosate is getting closer to worldwide rejection. Taking its place at the unofficial sponsor of cancer (2B carcinogen), the fact this chemical remains on the market and is still used on the food supply is a damning admission of the corruption and shortcomings of leadership at all levels of politics and regulatory agencies.
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself! Like most real change that truly benefits the people, the answers will not come from centralized governments or charismatic leaders. Casting glyphosate into the history books as a colossal health blunder that damaged a generation is a multifaceted approach that is seeing all hands on deck.
After being named a 2B Carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the worldwide recoil is now in full swing. The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has announced that it too will label glyphosate a carcinogen. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich recently announced “…we have made the decision not to use any GMO in food productions.” U.S. imports of non-GMO food soared to $85.4 million in 2015. Neil Young, who famously called for a boycott of Monsanto and Starbucks, has reignited the next leg of his Monsanto Years tour happening now. Finally, the link between glyphosate and many diseases and health issues has come into further focus by scientists and medical professionals condemning an entire agrochemical food industry.
Perhaps the most exciting event is coming out of left field and poised to deliver the death blow to Monsanto’s failed food experiment and inferior technology. As with any product, the public has full control via boycotts and press on the retailers. This is what is about to kick off over at amazon.com. Following in the footsteps of France, who banned the sale of Roundup in garden centers across the country, it appears 200,000 signatures will be gathered asking amazon.com to stop selling Roundup. According to the petition found at SumOfUs.org:
“Imagine if we could get the world's largest online retailer, Amazon, to stop selling glyphosate. The impact would be enormous. And what's more, this strategy has worked before -- after nearly 750,000 SumOfUs members asked huge North American retailers to stop selling bee-harming pesticides, both Lowe's and Home Depot listened.”
There is already a precedent for this in 2013 when Amazon agreed to stop selling foie gras on its UK website after animal welfare campaigners piled on the pressure. The People’s boycott and petition has been flexing its muscles hard over the last year. One has to look no further than Vani Hari and The Food Babe Army who has been consistently delivering blows to food manufacturers that historically only gave lip service to people demanding change. We are currently in a new paradigm as many are finding their voice by taking the fight directly to retailers and individual companies.
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself! Like most real change that truly benefits the people, the answers will not come from centralized governments or charismatic leaders. Casting glyphosate into the history books as a colossal health blunder that damaged a generation is a multifaceted approach that is seeing all hands on deck.
After being named a 2B Carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the worldwide recoil is now in full swing. The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has announced that it too will label glyphosate a carcinogen. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich recently announced “…we have made the decision not to use any GMO in food productions.” U.S. imports of non-GMO food soared to $85.4 million in 2015. Neil Young, who famously called for a boycott of Monsanto and Starbucks, has reignited the next leg of his Monsanto Years tour happening now. Finally, the link between glyphosate and many diseases and health issues has come into further focus by scientists and medical professionals condemning an entire agrochemical food industry.
Perhaps the most exciting event is coming out of left field and poised to deliver the death blow to Monsanto’s failed food experiment and inferior technology. As with any product, the public has full control via boycotts and press on the retailers. This is what is about to kick off over at amazon.com. Following in the footsteps of France, who banned the sale of Roundup in garden centers across the country, it appears 200,000 signatures will be gathered asking amazon.com to stop selling Roundup. According to the petition found at SumOfUs.org:
“Imagine if we could get the world's largest online retailer, Amazon, to stop selling glyphosate. The impact would be enormous. And what's more, this strategy has worked before -- after nearly 750,000 SumOfUs members asked huge North American retailers to stop selling bee-harming pesticides, both Lowe's and Home Depot listened.”
There is already a precedent for this in 2013 when Amazon agreed to stop selling foie gras on its UK website after animal welfare campaigners piled on the pressure. The People’s boycott and petition has been flexing its muscles hard over the last year. One has to look no further than Vani Hari and The Food Babe Army who has been consistently delivering blows to food manufacturers that historically only gave lip service to people demanding change. We are currently in a new paradigm as many are finding their voice by taking the fight directly to retailers and individual companies.
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