Nature Notes (#522)-Herbicide Roundup to be pulled from U.S. store shelves in response to lawsuits

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Many insects and even birds are threatened and under stress from decreasing habitat and the overuse of pesticides and herbicides and the US being guilty of that as well. One of the most common insecticides are glyphosate and Round-Up is one of those. Advocacy groups have worked for years to try to get these pesticides pulled from the shelves while Monstanto promoted Round-Up on TV as a wonderful and safe product.

So Monstanto is pulling the product due to lawsuits not because of how dangerous the product is. Here in the states we use products that have been banned in the EU because there is such a huge chemical lobby that influences our policy-making decisions. So at least this is a win for now, but so much remains to be done…

Herbicide Roundup to be pulled from U.S. store shelves in response to lawsuits

“Facing billions of dollars in potential liability to cancer victims, Monsanto’s parent company said Thursday it would stop selling the current version of Roundup, the world’s most widely used herbicide, for U.S. home and garden use in 2023.

The forthcoming version of the weed-killer will replace its current active ingredient, glyphosate, with “new formulations that rely on alternative active ingredients,” subject to approval by the Environmental Protection Agency and state regulators, said Bayer AG, the German pharmaceutical giant that purchased Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018.

“This move is being made exclusively to manage litigation risk and not because of any safety concerns,” the company said in a statement. It will continue to market the current version of the product for farm use in the United States and for general use in other nations that permit its sale.

But while the EPA has found the current version of Roundup to be safe, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, concluded in 2015 that glyphosate was a probable cause of cancer in humans.

Monarch Butterfly

 

Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.

9 thoughts on “Nature Notes (#522)-Herbicide Roundup to be pulled from U.S. store shelves in response to lawsuits”

  1. It worries me what business will do for the sake of a buck. They didn’t care about the possible risks until it was going to cost them. Very sad state of affairs, and alas true the world over in many industries.

  6. Isn’t that another way of Monsanto saying “we know we did something bad but we wouldn’t have changed it if we hadn’t got caught” , Sigh. Hope all is well with you Michelle and your family.

  8. It’s a sad story, Michelle. Greed and corporate success at any cost is at the bottom of most of our problems nowadays. We should try and educate the young on what is really priceless and what the real price to pay is for “success” as our society now defines it.

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