Le renouvellement de l’autorisation du glyphosate dans l’UE expire fin 2022. Les débats à ce sujet font déjà rage et les tensions montent. Les avis, études et scandales se succèdent en Europe comme en outre-Atlantique. foodwatch et Générations Futures lancent aujourd’hui, dans une coalition de 37 organisations de la société
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Monsanto's Roundup weed killer contributed to the cancer of 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, a US jury said Tuesday, inflicting another setback on the agrochemical giant that was heavily convicted in a similar trial last summer. The jurors felt that the retiree had demonstrated that the
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La journaliste Marie-Monique Robin est la lauréate du Prix littéraire des droits de l’homme 2018 qui lui sera remis vendredi 14 décembre 2018 à l’Assemblée nationale par Nicolas Hulot. Le Prix Littéraire des Droits de l’Homme 2018 sera remis au livre de Marie-Monique Robin : « Le Roundup face
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Where do you buy the most pesticides? And which ones? The association Générations Futures - in partnership with Le Parisien - now presents a map of "phytos" which shows where endocrine disruptors and the most toxic substances are sold in France, by department and by category of pesticides.
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It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
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La 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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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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