An update on the situation with glyphosate
In November 2016, a very concerning report -- Glyphosate: Unsafe On Any Plate -- was released by The Detox Project and Food Democracy Now!,
raising the alarm of the high levels of glyphosate in the US food
supply and the (deliberate?) low levels of awareness of its associated
health risks.
Soon after its release, we brought Dave Murphy, executive director of Food Democracy Now!, on the podcast to
explain the explosive findings within this report on the world's
most-used herbicide (more commonly known by its retail brand: Roundup).
We asked: Are we being poisoned in the pursuit of profit?
As happened in past decades with the alcohol and
tobacco industries, the glyphosate report added compelling evidence that
profits have indeed taken a priority over consumer safety in our food
production system -- and as public health concerns mounted, Big Ag
started circling its wagons and attacking the questioners rather than
embracing open scrutiny.
But last month, the tables turned. In a landmark upset ruling,
Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller was ruled to be carcinogenic, and the
company's attempt to hide this fact from consumers made it guilty of
acting “with malice or oppression”. Monsanto's new parent
company Bayer was ordered to pay the plaintiff, a former school
groundskeeper now dying of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, $289 million in
damages.
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