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European Experts Don’t Agree On Risks of Glyphosate

November 24, 2015   •   Leave a Comment

The Salt at NPR:

Glyphosate, widely known by its trade name, Roundup, probably gets more attention than any other herbicide. It’s one of world’s most-used weedkillers, and it is also closely linked to the growth of genetically modified crops.

Monsanto invented Roundup, and also invented crops that grow well when it’s used on them. Farmers find that combination almost irresistible.

So in March, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probably carcinogen, it set off a furor. Monsanto was outraged, and vociferously questioned the IARC’s judgement. Opponents of GMOs welcomed the agency’s conclusion as a scientific validation of their cause.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: Cancer, europe, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup

Coming Soon: Organic Food From Europe

March 9, 2012   •   Leave a Comment

NPR:

If you buy organic products, your options may be about to expand. The U.S. and the European Union are announcing that they will soon treat each other’s organic standards as equivalent. In other words, if it’s organic here, it’s also organic in Europe, and vice versa. Organic food companies are cheering because their potential markets just doubled.

Those formal definitions of “organic” actually were codified quite recently — just a few decades ago. Before that, organic farming was more of philosophy, based on the idea that you could grow healthier food by nurturing natural life in the soil. In different countries, there were different prophets of this idea:Rudolf Steiner in Germany; Sir Albert Howard in England; J.I. Rodale in the United States. All of them became organic advocates early in the 20th Century.

Interesting insight into the business and regulation of organic foods.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: europe, organic, regulation

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