Below is a link to today's Huffpost article on the important,
recently-published review of the scientific literature on Roundup, its toxicity
and its regulation.
I provided a link to this study and to another on the issue of Roundup and
RoundupReady crops in a previous post to this list (June 16th). This Huffpost
article covers all the major issues discussed in the original study (for those
of you who didn't have time to plow through that pretty dense report!) and also
includes responses from scientists, Monsanto (Roundup's manufacturer), and
governmental agencies charged with assessing the safety of Roundup and other
pesticides. In fact, it supplies all those "details" about Roundup that Tony
had promised to provide to anyone who stopped by the FOCP table in Clark Park.
In fairness to Tony and to Frank Chance, who vouched for Roundup's
harmlessness, it appears that even the German government was unaware of the
study and its unsettling conclusions! From the Huffpost article: "German
regulators declined to respond in detail for this story because they say they
only learned of the Earth Open Source report last week." In a June 9th post,
Wilma supplied a link to an earlier Huffpost article on the Earth Open Source
study, so, I think you can argue that our listserv readers are better informed
that the German government!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n_883578.html
