California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), gave notice in September that it intended to list glyphosate under proposition 65, a state initiative enacted in 1986 to inform residents about cancer-causing chemicals. State officials said the action is required after the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research committee in March classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
Monsanto is of course threatening legal action.
PS days later. It sometimes takes a while for things to percolate :-)
I started thinking about this and it seems to me that there is obviously at least some reasonable evidence that glyphosate is a carcinogen. I mean the World Health Organization doesn’t generally operate on a wing and a prayer. It may not be a proven fact yet, but what if even part of the research that the World Health Organization looked at is right? Monsanto it seems would rather error on the side of hurting us all then on the safe side. Even if it is only a mild carcinogen the shear magnitude of its use makes that significant.
Instead of looking at the fact that there is some doubt and either continuing to do research while not selling it, or finding another product, or both, Monsanto has instead put monetary pressure on groups, harassed people and threatened legal action simply so that they can continue to error on the side of hurting the rest of humanity: including children, infants, and unborn fetuses (where is the right to life in that).
Hmmmm makes one question their Christian ideals a bit doesn’t it.