Dear friends,
Glyphosate is a toxic chemical used in the now-infamous weedkiller RoundUp, created by Monsanto and its parent corporation, Bayer. It's become an extremely controversial chemical, because hundreds of thousands of people have come forward to reveal they developed cancer after being exposed to RoundUp.
But Bayer wants to protect itself from having to pay people who were poisoned by RoundUp. So right now it is intensifying its lobbying efforts with U.S. lawmakers. It's also outright written a piece of legislation for the U.S. Congress, one that would insulate Bayer from accountability.
This is a clear conflict of interest, and deeply corrupt. No corporation should be allowed to write laws for Congress, and certainly not laws that protect themselves from justice.
The effects of weedkillers like RoundUp can be found everywhere. Research has discovered traces of it lingering on the foods we buy, including products like cereals and oats, as well in our water supplies, in our bodies, and even in human sperm.
The World Health Organization's division on cancer research concluded that glyphosate is likely carcinogenic — in other words, a cancer-causing toxin. In the U.S., Bayer has stated it has faced 170,000 claims of RoundUp-related cancer, and that's just from agricultural workers.
Many countries have restricted or even outright banned its use. This includes Vietnam, Mexico, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Costa Rica, and more. But the U.S. has still not banned glyphosate yet, because lobbying efforts by parent company Bayer have been extremely effective.
We cannot let Monsanto write legislation for Congress, and we certainly cannot let it inoculate itself from being held accountable for its own dangerous, toxic chemicals! Sign the petition!
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