US Food Brands Petition EPA to Ban Pre-Harvest Glyphosate Spraying

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The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm, MOM’s Organic Market, Nature’s Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co+op Grocers and Happy Family Organics, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to sharply limit glyphosate residues allowed on oats and prohibit the pesticide’s use as a pre-harvest drying agent.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is mostly used as a weedkiller on genetically modified corn and soybeans. But it is also increasingly sprayed on oats just before harvest as a drying agent, or desiccant. Glyphosate kills the crop, drying it out so that it can be harvested sooner than if the plant were allowed to die naturally. This allows easier harvesting but also increases the likelihood that the pesticide makes it into foods.

https://sustainablepulse.com/2018/09/28/us-food-brands-petition-epa-to-ban-pre-harvest-glyphosate-spraying/#.W7wT0lJRfUY

(GROSS -Pre-Harvest glyphosate spraying is also done in Florida on the sugar cane crop for sweeter sugar. Glyphosate also feeds algae and red tides.)

[OhNo-Really]

1. Big Ag needs a trip to the woodshed. More profit via more toxins? Good grief

[KT2000]

2. Roundup was touted as safe

because it utilized the shikimate pathway to kill weeds (metabolic route that blocks protein synthesis). It was believed that humans did not have that pathway. Turns out the bacteria and fungi that reside in and assist our health do use this pathway.

Because weeds have developed resistance to glyphosate, more glyphosate is being used in addition to herbicide mixtures.

Neighborhoods and our food supply is awash in this stuff.