Of course our listserv members are better informed than the German government! Thanks for the follow-up link.
From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:26:28 -0400 (EDT) To: UnivCity listserv <[email protected]> Subject: [UC] Roundup - you read it here first! 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
