WHY Ban Glyphosate in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia) and beyond: IN the NEWS

WHY Ban Glyphosate — The Science

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e-Petition — moratorium on aerial spraying glyphosate herbicides in NS

Don't Mess With North Mountain!
Fall/22 Occupation + links to the latest on glyphosate

Bear River Don't Spray Us!
Fall/22 Occupation

• Investigation into mystery neurological symptoms lacking: New Brunswick MLA
  The Guardian reported that the former provincial lead on the file, Dr. Alier Merrero, recently sent a letter to the federal and provincial public health authorities urging them to consider conducting environmental testing for the herbicide glyphosate. He writes in the letter that a number of his patients have shown exposure to the herbicide, often used in the province's forestry industry, and worries that it could be linked to other environmental toxins.
  He goes on to say that glyphosate has been linked to an increase in neuro-toxic cyanobacteria, better known as "blue-green algae," which has become increasingly common in the region.
  
  Global News
  March 2, 2023
• Into the Weeds
  Powerful story of a former Bay Area Groundskeeper who took on Monsanto after his terminal cancer diagnosis. Richard Elenko, a farmer from Biggar, Saskatchewan explains the process of desiccation, the practice of spraying a chemical, such as glyphosate, directly on crops before harvest in order to dry them out evenly.
  
  the passionate eye — CBC Docs — 98min
  February 6, 2023
• Environmental groups taking Health Canada to court for giving OK to pesticide containing glyphosate
  The lawsuit has been filed by Ecojustice on behalf of four groups and comes in the wake of the Jan. 11/23 release of an American research study that found that people exposed to glyphosate have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases.
  
  Francis Campbell — Saltwire
  January 28, 2023
• New US research finds "worrying" evidence linking Monsanto weedkiller to cancer
  Research by top US government scientists has found that people exposed to the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases.
  
  The New Lede
  January 23, 2023
• Health Canada downplayed scientific concerns about risks of toxic pesticide that causes birth defects
  
  Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, National Observer
  January 23, 2023
• By allowing toxic spraying, does Canada breach legal obligations under the Law of the Sea?
  
  Art MacKay, ISSUES
  April 16, 2020
• High time to ban blanket glyphosate spraying
  
  Wendy Elliott, Saltwire
  September 27, 2022
• Anti-glyphosate camps pop up in Nova Scotia forests while spraying is underway
  
  Cloe Logan, National Observer
  September 22, 2022
• These two Canadian farmers used Roundup on their crops for decades.
  Then they were diagnosed with cancer
  
  The Passionate Eye, CBC
  September 20, 2022
• A group of First Nations Elders is trying to ban glyphosate.
  They say it's killing their way of life.
  The Passionate Eye, CBC
  September 13, 2022
• Bayer CEO forced to testify
  For first time, Bayer AG CEO Werner Baumann is targeted to give testimony in Roundup litigation - and within 90 days. Baumann was instrumental in driving Bayer to buy Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion, and he has been the public face for the company's continued insistence that Monsanto's Roundup, and other glyphosate-based herbicides, are not carcinogenic.
  Carey Gillam, The New Lede
  August 26, 2022
• Victory for farmworkers and the environment!
  SAN FRANCISCO — Today, in a historic victory for farmworkers and the environment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its represented farmworker and conservation clients by overturning the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision that the toxic pesticide glyphosate is safe for humans and imperiled wildlife. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer's flagship Roundup weedkiller, the most widely used pesticide in the world.
  centerforfoodsafety.org
  June 17, 2022
• SAFE FOOD MATTERS WINS GLYPHOSATE COURT CASE!
  The Federal Court of Appeal has issued a decision in favour of Safe Food Matters in a court case concerning the pesticide glyphosate. The decision remits the matter back to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency for reconsideration, and offers strong guidance to PMRA to avoid "the endless merry-go-round" of court applications and reconsiderations.
  
  Reasons for Judgement (28 pages)
  February 2, 2022
  
• Giving up glyphosate
  Inconvenient facts about eastern Canada's forest industry.
  
  Moira Donovan - maisonneuve.org
  January 25, 2022
• No to EU's re-approval of glyphosate - Large aerial dispersal confirmed
  
  Phys.org/news
  October 14, 2021
• Letter to Minister of Nova Scotia Environment & Climate Change
  
  From a 5th generation woodlot owner
  October 6, 2021
• Author of "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest"
  Hear why Suzanne Simard questions the use of the herbicide glyphosate.
  
  CBC Info Morning
  October 7, 2021 - 9.35 min
• Freshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate
  
  Published September 7, 2021
• Portia Clark interviews researcher
  
  CBC Info Morning
  Sep 23/21 - 9 min
• Stop the Spray Canada
  
  Excellent, cross-country resource
• Glyphosate pesticides persist for years in wild plants and cause flower infertility
  "To continue to find these effects one to two years after herbicide applications, in new parts of growing plants, is noteworthy."
  
  Dr. Lisa J. Wood, assistant professor
  Ecosystem Science & Management Dept.
  University of Northern British Columbia
  June 16, 2021
• Glyphosate can last 10 or more years in the roots of plants.
  Glyphosate translocates into root systems of perennial herbaceous plants such as raspberries and blueberries and flushes into the fruits the following spring. Residual glyphosate in fruits in the year following treatment with glyphosate based herbicides (GBH) could have chronic implications for wildlife such as birds, bears, and other mammals consuming large quantities of berries in forest cutblocks.
  Begins Carrying Organic Alternatives Instead
  
  August 1, 2021
  Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 493
• Glyphosate Exposure During Pregnancy Causes Hormonal Changes
  in Baby Girls
  
  April 8, 2021
• Study Links Pesticide Exposure to Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors
  One important implication of the study is that the mothers did not have to be directly working in agriculture [or forestry] in order for their children to face dangerous exposure.
  
  April 7, 2021
• Bayer Admit Defeat in Groundbreaking Roundup Cancer Case
  Bayer-Monsanto have announced that they will not be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $20.6 million verdict awarded to former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Lee Johnson, who proved that their glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes cancer.
  In a recent interview before Bayer admitted defeat, Mr. Johnson said he knew the legal battle with Monsanto could continue for many more years but he was committed to trying to hold the company accountable.
  He has managed to keep his illness in check so far with regular chemotherapy and radiation treatments, but is not certain how long that will continue.
  
  "I don't think any amount would be enough to punish that company."
  
  March 26, 2021
• Bill seeks to ban the use of aerial herbicides in Maine forests
  Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, a logger and the bill's sponsor, said aerial application of glyphosate and other herbicides has caused irreversible environmental damage.
  
  March 2, 2021
• Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
• Groups Argue EPA Failed on Glyphosate
  
  Environmental, Ag Worker Groups:
  EPA Ignored Own Findings on Glyphosate Effects
  December 22, 2020 - see the next link for the full brief
• Case Nos. 20-70787, 20-70801
  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
  FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
  
  RURAL COALITION, ORGANIZACIÓN EN CALIFORNIA DE
  LÍDERES CAMPESINAS, FARMWORKER ASSOCIATION OF
  FLORIDA, BEYOND PESTICIDES, AND CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY,
  Petitioners
  v.
  UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [and others] 93 pages
• DNA Damage Found in Keystone Species Exposed to Roundup
  
  December 15, 2020
• New research highlights impacts of weedkiller [Roundup] on wildlife
  
  Prolonged exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of the weedkiller Roundup causes significant harm to keystone species according to new research at the University of Birmingham.
  December 16, 2020
• "Buy it or else:"
  
  Inside Monsanto and BASF's moves to force dicamba on farmers. Internal company records show the companies knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway.
  December 4, 2020
• Glyphosate & the Gut
  
  Over half the species of bacteria commonly found in our guts can be damaged or killed if exposed to glyphosate in high enough quantities. From cancer, to how our bodies absorb nutrients, how our brains deploy serotonin to fight depression and mental illness, glyphosate is shown to be very harmful to our health.
  November 25, 2020
• How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
  
  Greenwashing at its worst
  After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry appears to have become a climate champion.
  Investigation: November 17, 2020
• Safe Food Matters
  
  Safe food matters to you and me, but does it matter to Health Canada?
  Informing Canadians since 2016.
  October 21, 2020
• Bayer late lymphoma study meets primary endpoint
  
  Monsanto manufactures glyphosate
  Monsanto was bought out by Bayer
  Glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
  Bayer announces it can significantly prolong non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma patients' progression-free survival
  October 14, 2020
• Letter to NS Minister of Environment from Margaree Environmental Assoc.
  
  In part:
  "The Margaree Environmental Association (MEA) is strongly opposed to the NS Dept. of Environment's issuing of permits to spray glyphosate herbicide on 1498 hectares of forest land on mainland Nova Scotia. Furthermore, MEA supports the efforts of individuals and groups protesting the herbicide spray program, as spraying has been shown to be dangerous to human health, destructive to the environment, expensive, and totally unnecessary."
  September, 2020
• Where have glyphosate-based herbicides been banned?
  Updated July, 2020
• Canada's Largest Agribusiness Bans Pre-Harvest Glyphosate Spraying from Oat Supply Chains
  July, 2020
• Bayer To Pay More Than $10B To Resolve Cancer Lawsuits Over Weedkiller Roundup (US)
  June, 2020
• Missouri Farmer Wins $265 Million Verdict Against Monsanto
  February, 2020
  The jury found that Monsanto and BASF conspired in actions that created what Bader's attorney called an "ecological disaster" designed to increase profits at the expense of farmers.
• Removal of glyphosate from global usage
  A Statement by the FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) Committee
  on Reproductive and Developmental Environmental Health
  July, 2019
• Glyphosate in Food: List of Products and Brands Filled with Dangerous Weed-Killer
  July, 2019
• Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides?
  Conclusions:
  "In this commentary, we have identified factors that heighten concerns over the adequacy of safety assessments, and by extension, permitted levels of exposure to glyphosate and GBHs. These factors include increased use of GBHs on crops and for non-crop weed control, leading to measurable concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA in foodstuffs and likely increases in human exposures. The lack of biomonitoring data and epidemiological studies remain important data gaps. A small number of controlled laboratory studies using contemporary scientific approaches have identified adverse effects of glyphosate and GBHs at much lower doses than those used to make risk assessment decisions. Although there is controversy and debate regarding the carcinogenic and endocrine disrupting potential of these compounds, conclusions such as those drawn by IARC call into question the safety of GBHs beyond "reasonable certainty of no harm," Considering what is now known about glyphosate from studies published over the last three decades, as well as the knowledge gaps that continue to raise concerns, we conclude that current safety standards for GBHs are outdated and may fail to protect public health and the environment."
  June, 2017
• Consumer Safety - Roundup lawsuits & information
  Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma; Evidence; Verdicts; Settlements
• Roundup Class Action Lawsuit Canada
  If you were exposed to Roundup between 1976 and April 4, 2019, you may be eligible to join the class action lawsuit and you may be eligible for financial compensation.
• More information on Glyphosate including Health Canada's policy via several emails