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We demand that France get rid of glyphosate altogether, with a plan to support farmers, and commit to publicly oppose the renewal of the authorization of this toxic pesticide in the European Union.

We ask you to make this public commitment immediately, as an essential component of the broader objective of an accelerated exit from synthetic pesticides and the transition of our agriculture and food system.

Why is this important?

Monsanto’s bee-killing and toxic pesticide just won’t go away. [1]

Together, we fought to ban the use of this pesticide, glyphosate, in Europe. But discussions for it to stay on the market after next year are underway. And Bayer-Monsanto lobbyists are bombarding our European leaders with biased studies. [2]

But we have a big opportunity to stop this. The French president has already said when he takes on the EU presidency in a few weeks he will push “an accelerated phase-out of pesticides". [3] And, above all, with the French presidential elections around the corner, Macron will be in the spotlight all over Europe.

More than ever, Macron wants to be seen as the saviour of the planet to the French and Europeans. If hundreds of thousands of us call on him to put our health above Bayer-Monsanto profits, and end glyphosate in Europe, it will be hard to ignore us.

References:

In March 2015, IARC classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2A): https://publications.iarc.fr/549 ; “Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees”, Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2018: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
In July 2021, Reesearchers from the Institute of Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria said a thorough review of 53 safety studies submitted to regulators by large chemical companies showed that most do not comply with modern international standards for scientific rigor, and lack the types of tests most able to detect cancer risks. Discussed in The Guardian here : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/02/glyphosate-herbicide-roundup-corporate-safety-studies
and original research available here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/Evaluation_scientific_quality_studies_genotoxic_glyphosate.pdf
Emmanuel Macron's commitment at the World Conservation Congress (IUCN) in Marseille on September 4: "I want the French presidency of the European Union to take an initiative on the subject of pesticides, and I am committed to doing so here, for an accelerated phase-out of pesticides" In video and transcript here (in French): https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2021/09/03/ceremonie-douverture-du-congres-mondial-de-la-nature-de-liucn

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