Alors que les députés choisissent les amendements qui figureront dans la loi Agriculture et Alimentation, projet de loi qui est le fruit des États généraux de l’alimentation, la sortie du glyphosate d’ici 2021 ne sera pas gravée dans la loi. C’était un engagement présidentiel, mais le gouvernement assure que l’herbicide
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Interdiction du glyphosate en France au plus tard dans trois ans : face au rétropédalage du gouvernement, plus de 30 organisations de la société civile lancent une pétition. Emmanuel Macron s’est engagé en novembre dernier à interdire le glyphosate en France « au plus tard dans trois ans », après
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Bees play a major role in food production around the world. Without them, there is no pollination and therefore no fruit or vegetables. The decline of bee populations looks like a great extinction. The causes are being sought, analysed and some of them are known. Phytosanitary products used in agriculture
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Two years of debate, a frantic NGO campaign and a vote at the end of the suspense: the glyphosate soap opera has put the spotlight on complex and contested decision-making processes in the European Union, which promises to learn from them. Opponents of
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Les associations de surveillance de la qualité de l’air mesureront en 2018 la présence des pesticides dans l’air, dans le cadre d’une campagne exploratoire destinée à mieux évaluer l’exposition de la population, a indiqué ATMO France, qui fédère ces organismes. La campagne, pilotée par l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire
PlusLa Commission européenne vient de décider le renouvellement pour cinq ans de la licence du glyphosate, une molécule présente dans de nombreux herbicides, et considérée comme cancérogène probable. Le ministre français Nicolas Hulot souhaitait un renouvellement pour trois ans mais 18 autres pays lui ont donné tort. Alors que de
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Thousands of U.S. farmers filed lawsuits in 2017 against Monsanto and dicamba, a herbicide marketed by the group. Dicamba is a volatile herbicide that spreads to nearby fields and devastates almost everything in its path. You thought you knew about glyphosate? There's something better: dicamba! The services of
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Nicolas Hulot a affirmé sa volonté d’interdire le glyphosate dans les trois ans, faisant écho à la tribune de 54 députés LREM, à deux jours du vote de la Commission Européenne sur un éventuel renouvellement de la licence du fameux herbicide pour dix ans. MISE A JOUR DU 25 OCTOBRE
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Arnaud Apoteker, who was for a long time in charge of the GMO campaign for Greenpeace France, was one of the key players in obtaining a ban on the cultivation of GMOs in France. A fierce opponent of the use of pesticides, particularly glyphosate, he was the linchpin and general coordinator of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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Since this Thursday, September 14, on the radio, on TV, in the newspapers, we only talk about that: the NGO Future Generations would have discovered glyphosate residues in our corn flakes and about thirty foods of our daily life. This product, which is considered carcinogenic, is a widespread herbicide.
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Chemical manufacturers producing phytosanitary products and pesticides are engaged in a merciless war to save their business. Public opinion, more or less relayed by the European or national authorities, is upwind against glyphosates, Roundup and other bee-killing neonicotinoids. In this
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All California wines are said to contain glyphosate. Fourteen of Germany's greatest beers, too. The active principle of Roundup, Monsanto's powerful weed killer, glyphosate is considered by many studies to be highly dangerous to health. Everybody is in turmoil. And meanwhile, the Commission
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That's it: the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, has just made public its long-awaited assessment of the controversial pesticide glyphosate, better known in France under the label Roundup, Monsanto's flagship herbicide, whose authorisation expires soon. On the basis of this report, it is now up to the European Commission to decide.
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