Tell the EPA to ban cancer-causing, monarch-killing glyphosate today

Tell the EPA to protect our health and environment by banning glyphosate today! Monarchs pushed to the brink of extinction. Links to cancer. These are the devastating effects from the toxic pesticide glyphosate -- aka Monsanto’s Roundup®. In the last 20 years, monarch populations have declined by 90% -- largely thanks to Roundup®, which kills off the only food source for young monarchs. It’s a simple formula: More Roundup® = less milkweed = fewer monarchs. The EPA could revoke Monsanto’s license to poison our environment and communities. It’s accepting public input on whether to ban Roundup®. But if we want the agency to act, we need you to speak up, Jessie.  Take action now: Demand the EPA ban Monsanto’s Roundup® and save monarch butterflies. Glyphosate is linked to monarch decline and it is harmful to bees, but it’s also terrible for people. In fact, the World Health Organization has listed the herbicide as a probable carcinogen, which means it’s linked to cancer.  More than 13,000 people are suing Monsanto because they believe their exposure to Roundup® caused their cancer. Monsanto has already been held legally responsible to the tune of billions of dollars in damages for the three cases so far.  The court decisions are a great first step in holding Monsanto accountable for harming people. But they’re not a permanent solution. Now, Monsanto is trying to get these verdicts reversed, meaning we need to stay one step ahead by demanding the EPA ban glyphosate. It’s time the EPA steps up and does its job to protect butterflies, our environment, and our well-being from this toxin. You have the power to make the EPA act by signing your name today. Sign your name: Demand the EPA protect our health and environment by banning cancer-causing glyphosate. Roundup® is making Monsanto $5 billion richer every year. So you can be sure the company will do everything it can to protect its profits. And Monsanto has a captive audience for its lobbying with Trump in the White House. An administration official even said “we have Monsanto’s back.”   It’s time the EPA stop Monsanto from putting profits over people and the environment. But it won’t act unless you speak up. Together, we can save monarch butterflies from extinction and protect communities from this toxic pesticide. Can we count on your support? Help send 50,000 signatures: Demand the EPA revoke Monsanto’s license to pollute our environment now!   Standing with you, Tiffany Finck-Haynes Pesticides and pollinators program manager, Friends of the Earth Action

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Ban Monsanto glyphosate 

pesticides. 

They are literally killing us!

Monsanto, the behemoth biotech agricultural corporation, produces and sells poisonous pesticides directly linked to cancer in humans. And the Trump administration's response?... “We have Monsanto’s back.”

In 2015, the World Health Organization announced its analysis that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, was a “probable carcinogen” And that's to say nothing of Roundup's many other ingredients.

Recently, a California jury awarded a couple more than $2 billion in a verdict against Bayer, which recently bought Monsanto after the jury found Roundup contributed to cancer and that it failed to warn of the risks. This is the third recent court decision involving claims that the company's Roundup weed killer causes cancer with more than 13,000 plaintiffs awaiting their own day in court.

Internal documents produced in court indicated Monsanto had reason to believe glyphosate was dangerous as early as 1983. And yet they continue to dismiss the science and cover up the findings to avoid regulation.

The EPA, aided by Monsanto, ultimately came to the conclusion that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, again deliberately ignoring science. EPA officials even sought to delay or "kill" a Department of Health and Human Services review of glyphosate's health risks. That draft report is now out, and it confirms glyphosate's well-known connection to cancer -- even as Trump's EPA seeks to renew glyphosate's approval.

The Trump administration is putting our health and lives at risk in the name of business interests. They are quite literally putting a price on human lives. We demand these carcinogens be banned.

Sign the petition to demand the EPA protect American lives.

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We demand you ban glyphosate - a pesticide that has been shown to cause cancer in humans. You are meant to protect us! We will not accept putting our lives at risk in the interest of business.

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Milkweed planted by the wind or birds hosted Monarch Butterflies each year.  

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