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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Tell FAO to stop the #ToxicAlliance with CropLife!

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Tell FAO to stop the #ToxicAlliance with CropLife!

International campaign by PAN. Please consider signing.

"This collaboration with CropLife, an association of corporations which produce and promote dangerous pesticides, directly undermines FAO’s priority of minimizing the harms of chemical pesticide use worldwide."

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Organic Research Specialist position open

deadline for application 21 July 2021

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Position open at the Swift Current Ag Canada Research station
Organic Research Specialist deadline for application 21 July 2021
 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

petition on change.org

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Stop the use of non-essential chemical herbicides in Ontario's public forests ...

would like as many signatures as possible.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Take Action: What’s In the Bottle, Bag, or Box Is Not Tested Fully for Adverse Effects

Most formulations not tested.

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Take Action: What’s In the Bottle, Bag, or Box Is Not Tested Fully for Adverse Effects  (Beyond Pesticides, March 17, 2019)

Forget about single-pesticide issues: this affects every single one of them. EPA is allowing massive data gaps to persist for each and every pesticide product it registers by conducting the bulk of its health and environmental risk assessments using active ingredients alone. With its current practices, EPA is failing its federal mandate to protect public health and the environment and misleading the public about what is “safe.”

'Based on EPA’s current policies, the agency does not require any testing on the health effects of pesticide products, as commonly applied, in the areas of chronic toxicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity, or subchronic oral toxicity, inhalation toxicity, and neurotoxicity. Nor does it require any testing on the effect of whole pesticide products on avian oral toxicity, avian dietary toxicity, avian reproduction, freshwater aquatic invertebrate life cycle, freshwater fish early-life stage, or honey bee acute contact toxicity.'

'To put it another way: EPA has no idea whether the pesticide products it registers and claims pose an “acceptable risk” could cause cancer, chronic disease, developmental delays, or infertility. EPA has no idea whether the pesticide products it registers could harm or kill birds, fish, aquatic invertebrates, or honey bees. These data gaps are alarming and unacceptable, and a misinterpretation of the law.'

SNAP Comment: Same is done in Canada. more info under Inert ingredients (called formulants in Canada)/Canada including updated links to the PMRA web site links on formulants.

filed under Inerts/Formulants

Friday, January 18, 2019

Petition. Please sign.

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Health Canada: glyphosate isn't safe just because Monsanto says so (SumofUs petition to Health Canada, January 2019)

Update January 13 2019: Health Canada just announced that it thinks that Monsanto's toxic glyphosate is perfectly safe. Now, more than ever, we need to pile on the pressure to have the registration reviewed.

Please sign.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Petition: Stop spraying BC forests with herbicide to kill trees like poplar that wildlife need

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Petition: Stop spraying BC forests with herbicide to kill trees like poplar that wildlife need
I signed it because spraying essentially turns forests into plantations with their loss of habitat and diversity. I also signed because it is now getting clearer that aspen groves act as fire breaks and I have breathed enough smoke form BC fires this year to last me a lifetime!
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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Stop the University of Saskatchewan Monsanto Cover-up!

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To: University of Saskatchewan Chancellor, The Honourable Roy Romanow
Stop the University of Saskatchewan Monsanto Cover-up!

"When we made a request for review to Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, it was his determination that most of the redactions were unlawful, and he recommended that the University should lift most of the redactions to make the transcript more publicly accessible. The University’s refusal to comply has impelled us to begin costly legal proceedings paid with personal funds, which the University has strenuously resisted, using its much greater (public!) resources. A judicial review in Court of Queen’s Bench is pending."

Sunday, November 11, 2018

TAKE ACTION: Tell Florida’s Natural: Orange Juice with Roundup Weedkiller Isn’t ‘Natural’

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TAKE ACTION: Tell Florida’s Natural: Orange Juice with Roundup Weedkiller Isn’t ‘Natural’ (10 November, 2018)

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

'Ban all bee-killing pesticides!'

Petition to ask France not to approve a new neonicotinoid

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There is currently (November 2017) a campaign to ask for France to 'Ban all bee-killing pesticides!' Please consider signing and sharing. 

We’ve just learned that regulators in France have authorised the use of a new bee-killing pesticide called Sulfoxaflor. It’s a neonicotinoid -- the class of pesticides that is known to pose a deadly risk for bees and other pollinators.

We still can’t believe it!

France has been at the forefront of the battle to protect the bees: it is the first country to ever decide on an outright ban of all neonics starting in 2018.

great references on the page and entered  under fact-sheets

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Ban Glyphosate in British Columbia

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Ban Glyphosate in British Columbia
Petitioning Minister of Agriculture, BC Lana Popham and 1 other

Petition on change.org