Moms to EPA: Recall Monsanto’s Roundup
by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association, 29 May 2014
Hell hath no fury . . . like a mother whose child has been sickened by a toxin that’s almost impossible to avoid.
Two activist groups, Moms Across America and Thinking Moms Revolution, want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recall Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used herbicide/pesticide in the world.
Now is the time to do it, they say, because the EPA is conducting a registration review of glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup.
Representatives of the two groups contacted the EPA to request a meeting. When the EPA ignored them, they rallied supporters. Over a period of three days, about 10,000 moms from all over the country rang the phones off the hook at the EPA.
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by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association, 29 May 2014
Hell hath no fury . . . like a mother whose child has been sickened by a toxin that’s almost impossible to avoid.
Two activist groups, Moms Across America and Thinking Moms Revolution, want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recall Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used herbicide/pesticide in the world.
Now is the time to do it, they say, because the EPA is conducting a registration review of glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup.
Representatives of the two groups contacted the EPA to request a meeting. When the EPA ignored them, they rallied supporters. Over a period of three days, about 10,000 moms from all over the country rang the phones off the hook at the EPA.
Read more »