If You
Think Monsanto's Roundup
is a Safer Pesticide,
Please read the articles and papers on this page !
Roundup is a pesticide as defined by the
EPA.
If you're still not convinced that Roundup is a highly toxic and persistent pesticide, read on, while at the same time remembering the other contributions that Monsanto has made to society such as:
Saccharin, Astroturf, agent orange, dioxin, sulphuric acid, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), plastics and synthetic fabrics, research on uranium for the Manhattan Project that led to the construction of nuclear bombs, styrene monomer, an endless line of pesticides and herbicides (Roundup), rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone that makes cows ill), genetically engineered crops (corn, potatoes, tomatoes, soy beans, cotton), and it's most significant product to date; Lies, Factual Distortions and Omissions. Here's one of the distortions that Monsanto had on its website a while back. "Sustainability - the idea that the resources and people of this world are finite. That for any business decision we make, we must consider the effect it will have on us and our children. That the products we make must not use up all of a natural resource, or even worse, contaminate what is left behind."
Take a look at what Monsanto is doing to Canadian canola farmer Percy Schmeiser. And he's far from being the sole recipient of Monsanto's vengeful wrath. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of farmers around the world are being sued after Monsanto's police "find" their patented crops on the farmers' lands without paying for use of the technology. Also see the Monsanto Technology Agreement, in which farmers must sign away all rights in order to sow Monsanto seed
- Iraq: Plowing for Profits U.S.: Agribusiness Eyes Iraq’s Fledgling Markets - In These Times 15mar2005
- Seeds of Destruction: The Geopolitics of GM Food - Current Concerns (Zurich) 6mar2005
- Tillamook Bans Monsanto Growth Hormone - AP 19feb2005
- Roundup Ready Alfalfa On The Way - Capital Press Agriculture Weekly 11feb2005
- Canada: Ban Endures on Terminator Seeds - Inter Press Service (IPS) 11feb2005
- Canada Backs Terminator Seeds - The Guardian (UK) 9feb2005
India Bars Monsanto Gene-Modified Cotton In North - AP 25apr03
India: Monsanto Tried to Disrupt Our Meeting - Gene Campaign (India) 17apr03
Justice Department Opens Monsanto Antitrust Probe - Wall Street Journal 14mar03
The effects of acute pesticide exposure on neuroblastoma cells chronically exposed to diazinon - Toxicology v.185, i.1-2, 14mar03
Monsanto & Other Firms will Share Technology with Africa - Washington Post 11mar03
Roundup-resistant weeds are cropping up The herbicide is so popular that it may not be as effective as it was initially - Des Moines Register 10jan03
Glyphosate Resistance Dominates Weed Science Meetings - Successful Farming 6dec02
Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds: Will They Decrease Land Value? - Syngenta Dec02
Monsanto vs Homan McFarling: Judge Clevenger understands - CropChoice 5dec02
Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia BINLFA Sep02
Roundup Resistance NOT Wanted - Western Producer 29aug02
Roundup Ready Golf Course Grass Fight: Group wants to block sales of herbicide-resistant grass - SF Chronicle 2aug02
Roundup/Acrylamide: Acrylamide In Cooked Foods: The Glyphosate Connection - Monsanto's Residues Poisoning Consumers - ISIS Report 1aug02
Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory - Science v.297 5jul02
Acrylonitrile: Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen 9th Report on Carcinogens
Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory - Science v.297 5jul02
Environmental Degradation of Polyacrylamides - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 1jun97
Roundup Provokes Cell Division Dysfunction at the Level of CDK1/Cyclin B Activation - Chem Res Toxicol 15(3):326-31 Mar02
Too Much Roundup: The Plan Colombia Vote - WINONA LADUKE / The Winona LaDuke Reader Mar02
Coca Eradication: Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World - Economic and Social Council / United Nations 24jan02
Spraying Of Roundup In Colombia: Practice A Health Hazard And Waste Of Tax-Payers’ Money - 60 Minutes: Herbicide Problems - CBS 14jan02
Glyphosate [Roundup] and plant growth regulators Chlormequat & Mepiquat in Cereals produced in Denmark - Food Additives and Contaminants Oct01
Colombian Court Immediately Suspends Aerial Spraying of Roundup on Drug Crops - Reuters 27jul01
Monsanto's Roundup Sales Rose 4 percent in the second quarter, led by gains in the United States and Argentina - Reuters 25jul01
Effects of Acute Exposure to a Commercial Formulation of Glyphosate on the Tadpoles of Two Species of Anurans - Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. Jul/Aug01
Biotech Soybeans Plant Seed of Risky Revolution: Critics fear health dangers and an ecosystem changed forever - LA Times 1jul01
Horseweed Roundup Now Resistant: Find will affect Farmers' Strategies Nationwide - Indianapolis Star 20feb01
Bumper Crop Basics: Yellow Leaf Mystery Solved (Roundup Problem) - Farm Progress 5feb01
Glyphosate Fact sheet (in two parts) Caroline Cox / Journal of Pesticide Reform Fall98 rev.Oct00
Roundup Inhibits Steroidogenesis by Disrupting StAR Expression - Walsh, LP, McCormick, C, Martin, C., Stoccol, DM. / EHP Aug00
Roundup Introduction - Caroline Cox Journal of Pesticide Reform Fall98 (an earlier version of the Oct00 edition above)
Monsanto's Toxic Bear: Roundup - HighGrader Magazine Sep/Oct99
Monsanto's Roundup Linked to Cancer - Press Release 22jun99
The Green Machine - Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market - Harper's Magazine 1apr99
A case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and exposure to pesticides - Lennart Hardell, and Mikael Eriksson. / Cancer 12mar99
Environmental Degradation of Polyacrylamides II. Effects of Environmental (Outdoor) Exposure - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 1jun97
Monsanto v Attorney General of NY State: Attorney General of the State of New York. Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. Environmental Protection Bureau. 1996. In the matter of Monsanto Company, respondent. Assurance of discontinuance pursuant to executive law § 63(15). New York, NY, Nov. - Nov96
In vitro percutaneous absorption of model compounds glyphosate and malathion from cotton fabric into and through human skin - Food Chem Tox Aug96
Atrazine: Monsanto's Dirty Tricks from Toxic Deception - Dan Fagan, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity 1996
Glyphosate Properties - Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR)
Monsanto Viciously Threatens, Bullies and Ruins Farmers
HEARTBREAK IN THE HEARTLAND: The true cost of genetically engineered crops Transcribed by mindfully.org 21jul02
Percy Schmeiser speaking on Biotech Bullies Threaten Farmer and Consumer Rights at the University of Texas at Austin 10oct01
Genetic Engineering and Productivity
Do GM Crops Mean Less Pesticide Use? - Charles Benbrook / Pesticide Outlook Oct01
Monsanto Roundup-Ready Soybeans under fire - St. Louis Business Journal 17aug01
Roundup Ready Beans and Herbicide - Charles Benbrook 10dec00
Roundup 70% of Monsanto sales - Traditional Seeds & Tech Feeds for GMOs comprising the remainder - DJN 13oct00
Buried Data in Monsanto's Study on Roundup Ready Soybeans - Whole Life Times Aug00
Monsanto Discovers Wild Gene Fragments in Roundup Ready Soya - Agribusiness Examiner 6jun00
Research Shows Roundup Ready Soybeans Yield Less - IANR News Service, University of Nebraska 16may00
Roundup's Surprise Crop Puzzles Farmer Percy Schmeiser - Guardian 5feb00
Troubled Times Amid Commercial Success for Roundup Ready Soybeans: Glyphosate Efficacy is Slipping - Dr. Charles M. Benbrook 3may01
Monsanto's Roundup Victim of its Success: Widespread Herbicide Resistance, More Diseases - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3may01
North Dakota, Montana Consider Moratoriums on Roundup Ready Wheat - Cropchoice News 9feb01
Farmers, Foreign Markets Send Negative Signals on Roundup Ready Wheat - Cropchoice 1feb01
Monsanto's Roundup-Ready Soy Beans Cracking in Heat - New Scientist 20nov99
Roundup Ready Soya and Yield-Drag (Benbrook) - Doug Powell 12nov99
Evidence of the Magnitude and Consequences of the Roundup Ready Soybean Yield Drag - C. Benbrook 13jul99
Are Roundup Ready weeds in your future? - Bob Hartzler Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University 3nov98
Monsanto Confirms Australian Rye Grass Resistant to Roundup - (Transcript) Australian Broadcasting Corp. 14sep97
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