Apparent 'victories' in the fight against toxic chemicals - like the EU's failure to re-approve glyphosate yesterday - are illusory, writes Jonathan Latham. The real problem is not one of specific 'bad actors', but the entire system that allows new, likely to be toxic compounds to pollute the environment in near-total ignorance of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level.
… and sperm cell defects (humans), prostate cancer (humans), risk of breast cancer (human and rats), blood pressure rises … development; it causes obesity and probably cancer; it causes erectile dysfunction. Many …
University of California president Janet Napolitano halts use of glyphosate on all ten of its campuses.
… Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer." She met with a UC Regent, who became … prevent even one groundskeeper from getting cancer and going through what Lee is going to, …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
… the male population would develop prostate cancer, infertility on the islands is rising, …
Are GMOs safe? Up to a point, writes Jonathan Latham - provided you're not eating them. That's certainly not proven to be safe, indeed the hazards are numerous: protein encoding viral DNA fragments, herbicide metabolites, biotoxins whose operation is not understood, poorly conducted experiments ... and those are just the ones we know about.
… in vitro cell- killing action on human cancer cells'. J. Appl. Microbiol. 86: …