Tell the EPA: Ban Monsanto’s Cancer-Causing Roundup Herbicide

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Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is probably causing cancer in humans. 

That’s according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) panel of cancer experts, which published its latest review of the cancer risks of glyphosate on March 20, 2015. 

The timing of this new report couldn’t be better. Why? Glyphosate is currently under review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has the power to ban its use in Roundup, or anywhere else.

TAKE ACTION! Tell the EPA to ban glyphosate. Please add your own comments, especially if you or your family members have been sickened from exposure to glyphosate.

Monsanto has already rushed to attack this latest science, published by credible international scientists at WHO. Just as the Gene Giant has attacked every credible independent scientist in the past. 

And it’s no wonder. Monsanto’s $6 billion in annual sales of glyphosate are at stake.

At what point will U.S. regulators start believing the scientists, instead of pandering to Monsanto?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not test foods for glyphosate residues because the agency says it’s “too expensive.”

In 2013, the EPA raised the allowed limits of glyphosate residue for various crops, including soybean oil and potatoes. 

Driving the increase in glyphosate use are GMO crops that have been engineered to tolerate the constant, direct application of the herbicide. These so-called “Roundup Ready” crops—soy, corn, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa—have generated a tenfold increase. According to Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., of Washington State University, data shows that U.S. farmers used enough glyphosate in 2014 to apply the equivalent of almost three-quarters of a pound on every acre of farmland used to grow crops. Worldwide, 99.7 percent of GMO crops are pesticide plants.

Now that WHO has made clear that all of this glyphosate is probably causing cancer, it’s time for the EPA to take action and once and for all ban this dangerous chemical that is making people sick and polluting our environment.

In addition to threatening human health, the use of glyphosate is destroying the monarch butterfly habitat—milkweed plants that use to thrive in corn and soybean fields. The monarch population has suffered a 97-percent loss since the introduction of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops.

Please tell the U.S. EPA to do its job: Ban glyphosate now.

Petition Deadline is tomorrow. Thank you!