Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Carcinogenic Pesticides!

Toxic pesticides, including the top-two, Bayer (Monsanto)’s glyphosate and Syngenta (ChemChina)’s atrazine, which we now know cause cancer, must be banned.

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer designated glyphosate a “probable human carcinogen” in 2015 and has just done the same for atrazine.

At the same time, President Donald Trump, spurred on by 11 state attorneys general, is moving to take away pesticide-exposed cancer victims’ right to sue.

The Trump Administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal Environmental Protection Agency labeling rules—that don’t require a cancer warning for glyphosate—prevent state courts from hearing failure-to-warn claims.

Trump was asked to do this by the attorneys general of Nebraska (Mike Hilgers), Alabama (Steve Marshall), Georgia (Chris Carr), Louisiana (Liz Murrill), North Dakota (Drew Wrigley), South Dakota (Marty Jackley), South Carolina (Alan Wilson), Montana (Austin Knudsen), Indiana (Todd Rokita), Arkansas (Tim Griffin), and Iowa (Brenna Bird).

The terrible irony is that these states have some of the highest cancer rates, with Corn Belt states Iowa and Nebraska topping the list. This is driven by pesticide exposure, which scientists now know is as bad as smoking cigarettes.

With the Trump Administration turning on us, the only place we can turn is the states.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Bayer and ChemChina’s Carcinogenic Pesticides, Glyphosate and Atrazine!

READ:

Trump Administration Sides With Bayer in Seeking Supreme Court Ruling on Roundup Fight by Carey Gillam, The New Lede, Truth From the Ground Up

Atrazine Probably Causes Cancer in Humans, WHO Cancer Agency, Says by Stacy Malkan, US Right to Know (USRTK)

by Dr. André Leu D.Sc., BA Com., Grad Dip Ed. International Director, Regeneration International:

The primary scientific study pesticide regulators worldwide used to justify the approval of Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and many other herbicides, has been retracted due to fraud.

This study, by Gary Williams, Robert Kroes, and Ian Munro, was used to cast doubt on the numerous published studies showing that Glyphosate caused cancers and many other diseases. Researchers Alexander A. Kauro and Naomi Oreskes published a study in Environmental Science and Policy that identified multiple flaws in the Williams paper, including the fact that it was ghostwritten by Monsanto employees, which constitutes academic fraud.

The Williams paper used unpublished studies from Monsanto and ignored a large number of scientific studies showing the multiple diseases Glyphosate causes, including cancer.

This paper was cited and used by regulators as the basis for approving the use of glyphosate-based pesticides and overriding the evidence presented in hundreds of studies showing the immense harm caused by them to human health and the environment.

Read how the retraction comes a few months after the landmark study on glyphosate by Panzacchi et al., examining total lifetime exposure to the so-called ‘safe’ levels to which most people are subjected

by Ebele Mogo, DrPH, Blue Zones:

“Loneliness has been dubbed the new smoking by health experts, including the Surgeon General of America, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who says that loneliness is as bad for our well–being as smoking fifteen cigarettes daily. The effects are dire. People who are more socially isolated feel the effects of stress more. They are three times more likely to be depressed and also at greater risk for high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and overall poorer heart health. 

Yet, according to a Gallup survey, 17 percent of American adults answered yes to the question of whether they felt lonely most of the past day. Unfortunately, as much as 24 percent of young adults answered yes to the same question. Our elderly are also no strangers to the pangs of loneliness; with one in ten of them also answering yes to that question. 

As adults, creating and sustaining friendships outside of the typical work and family routines can become a challenge. We lose the natural connections that develop from running into our playmates in our neighborhood and seeing the same faces in school. As the science shows, it takes a literal toll on our hearts.”

Read how we need places beyond work and home where we interact freely and casually in our communities

US News, by Associated Press:

“The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation’s top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.

City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo cookies, Sour Patch Kids, Kit Kat, Cheerios and Lunchables. The lawsuit argues that ultraprocessed foods are linked to diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and cancer.

‘They took food and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the human body,’ Chiu said in a news release. ‘These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused.’”

The other companies named in the lawsuit are PepsiCo; Kraft Heinz Company; Post Holdings; Mondelez International; General Mills; Kellogg; Mars Incorporated; and ConAgra Brands

The fight against toxic pesticides just got tougher.

The Trump administration is siding with Bayer and Syngenta, trying to block cancer victims’ right to sue over exposure to glyphosate and atrazine. The stakes are high, especially in states with high cancer rates, like Iowa and Nebraska, where pesticide exposure is a significant concern.

We need to take action and demand our state legislators ban these carcinogenic pesticides.

You can help us move forward with our work on these issues by making a donation to support our efforts to ban both Glyphosate and Atrazine, and advocate for stricter pesticide regulations all around and promote an organic, regenerative food system.

Together, we can create a healthier, more sustainable world for all living things.

Let’s stand up against toxic pesticides and fight for a toxic-free future.

If you can, please make a donation today.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Make a tax-deductible donation to Regeneration International, our international sister organization

Have you considered making a gift from your IRA?

David Cox, BBC:

“Everyone knows that the key to a healthy long life is to exercise and eat well. But what if you simply don’t have the time to slog it out at the gym, or chalk up 10,000 steps a day? The good news is that doing everyday activities with more rigour and energy can achieve huge benefits. Think running up the stairs, power walking around the house, or playing with your children or pets.

If you’ve followed exercise science in the last three years, you might have encountered a new term: vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity or VILPA. Also described through the various monikers of ‘exercise snacking,’ ‘snacktivity,’ or ‘activity microbursts,’ it’s the latest solution to a long-term problem – how best to coax the most reluctant of exercisers to sit less and move more?”



Read about the benefits of doing everyday activities with slightly more gusto, with the aim of raising your heart rate for one or two minutes at a time

Joshua Hadi, Earth.org:

“Antimicrobials – including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics – are medications used to treat or prevent infections in humans, plants and animals. These antimicrobials target pathogens by inhibiting their growth or by directly killing them. On the other hand, pathogens could stop responding to their respective antimicrobials, rendering these antimicrobials ineffective to treat infections. Collectively, this phenomenon is known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 

In particular, bacterial pathogens are notorious for having mechanisms to resist antibiotic treatments. Some bacteria can be resistant to more than one antibiotic at the same time, a phenomenon known as multidrug resistance. Indeed, bacterial AMR was associated with 4.71 million deaths globally in 2021, of which 1.14 million deaths could be directly attributed to bacterial AMR. Concerningly, the same study highlights an increasing trend in the annual global death tolls of bacterial AMR – particularly in people 70 years or older – forecasted to directly result in 39.1 million deaths between now and 2050.”

Read about how food production is a major source of bacterial AMR, as antibiotics used in agriculture and aquaculture often eclipse those in human medicine

Also learn how the EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on U.S. food crops amid resistance fears

Rebecca Shavit writes for Brighter Side:

“Skin does more than wrap your body like a protective layer. It works as a living boundary that links your inner organs to the outside world. Across nearly 20 square feet, it helps you hold heat, release it, and judge what is safe to touch. A growing body of research now shows that this same system also shapes how you feel about your own body.

A review in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences pulls together decades of work in neuroscience, psychology and medicine. The paper argues that sensing warmth and cold is not just about comfort. It is tied to emotion, identity and mental health. The review was written by Dr. Laura Crucianelli of Queen Mary University of London and Professor Gerardo Salvato of the University of Pavia.

‘Temperature is one of our most ancient senses,’ Crucianelli says. ‘Warmth is one of the earliest signals of protection. It keeps us alive, but it also helps us feel like ourselves.’”

Read this fascinating article and about practical implications of this research

Sharon Lerner, ProPublica:

“The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

Last week, in a highly unusual move, the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials.”

Science on formaldehyde hasn’t changed but this EPA has found an administration willing to ignore the findings of its own scientists

Megan Mayhew Bergman, The Guardian:

“Westerners could admit at any point that we have misread our place in the cosmos and shift toward this older, still living worldview: humans not as commanders of the natural world but as kin, interconnected equals among other beings and systems.

This suggestion might sound sentimental and naive in a political moment when even extending compassion to other humans meets resistance. Refugees are being turned away at ports of entry – grim proof of how easily our empathy falters. 

But new ideas are hard precisely because they threaten the story that keeps our lives coherent. It is natural for our minds to leap to defend old ways before testing new ones.

Psychologist Erik Erikson, writing in the shadow of the world wars, described our human tendency towards pseudospeciation – the desire to split the world into ‘us’ and ‘not us’ – in order to justify mistreatment. Pseudospeciation grants us the psychological distance to degrade other beings we deem inferior without troubling our conscience. That psychological distance becomes a powerful permission slip.

​​But humans are capable of self-reflection and growth, and I believe this point in the Earth’s history requires us to use those abilities and begin to question the ways we center human experience.”



Read how the ability to use the best of our social human traits – and advanced scientific knowledge – could alter the course of life on Earth

Humans Are Built for Nature Not Modern Life


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