Brazil's Battles against Bayer/Monsanto: Brazilian Federal Judge bans Roundup/Glyphosate for all of Brazil; 83 percent of breast milk samples were found to contain glyphosate; the ban on Roundup will be appealed by pesticide groups AND by Brazilian Health agency next week; Monsanto/Bayer are facing some serious problems; watch for them to take a beating very soon in the world's stock markets and on Wall Street.

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Brazil recently banned glyphosate in a judicial decision.

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Reuters:

A federal judge in Brazil ordered the suspension of all products containing glyphosate until the government re-evaluates the chemical's toxicology, Reuters reported recently, citing legal papers, a decision which prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days, the report said. This affects Monsanto, the maker of glyphosate-based weedkillers such as Roundup and "Roundup Ready" seeds that are genetically modified to resist the chemical. Brazil is the world's largest soybean producer and exporter and plants Monsanto's herbicide-tolerant soybeans on a wide scale.

"I think the judge is wrong and that the decision will be revoked somehow," Director Luiz Lourenço of agribusiness industry association Abag told the news service. "It is impossible to do agriculture without these products."

Glyphosate, as the world's most popular herbicide, has been at the center of controversy since 2015, when the chemical was classified as a "probable human carcinogen" by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer.

In the U.S., Monsanto is facing about 4,000 lawsuits from plaintiffs claiming that exposure to the herbicide caused them or their family to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The lawsuits allege that the company suppressed scientific evidence concerning the health risks of its weedkillers.

Monsanto was recently purchased by German pharmaceuticals Bayer for $62.5 billion, and has vociferously defended the safety of its products. In a statement given to Reuters, Monsanto said that glyphosate has been used for four decades in Brazil and that reviews worldwide have concluded the herbicide can be used safely. It also respects the procedures used by Anvisa, Brazil's national health authority, to ensure the chemical's safe use, the statement added.

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Glypohosate in Breast Milk in Northeast Brazilian state:

"The presence of glyphosate in breast milk indicates direct contamination by this agro-toxin," said researcher Inacio Pereira Lima, or, as well, that the quantities utilized in agricultural activity in the region must be so high that the plant metabolism or microbiology did not degrade the excess. Nearby regions where agricultural activity is not present, we suspect that agro-toxins have contaminated the water."

Inacio Pereira Lima is a master's student in Women's Health at the Federal University of Piaui's (UFPI) Center of Health and Sciences, 83.4 percent of the breast milk samples were found to contain glyphosate or aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) or both substances.

According to Pragmatismo Politico, these samples were taken from the maternity ward at the Dirceu Arcoverde Regional Hospital (HRDA) in the municipality of Urucui, located 450 kilometers from the capital city Teresina, the largest producer of soya in the state, and its crops are sprayed with large quantities of agro-toxins.

Over 80 percent of breast milk samples examined in a study in Urucui, Brazil were found to contain agri-toxins.In 2016, a total of 10.1 million kilos were consumed in the state. It is the equivalent of 3.18 kilos per person, a percentage that is comparable to the national average. The same contamination level was detected in the municipality of Oeiras, roughly 750 kilometers from the Urucui, where agricultural activity is the least in the state.

With a 20 percent stake in world's total consumption since 2008, Brazil has become the primary consumer of pesticides on the planet! This impacts the large-scale agricultural food production and has also been linked to a high number of deaths each year.

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Brazil's public health agency will appeal judge's nationwide suspension of glyphosate

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"The system of direct planting is based on glyphosate, and it will be a gigantic ". setback (to suspend it)," Brazilian Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said, followed by Silvia Fagnani, executive director of a pesticide industry group known as Sindiveg: the appeal in Brazil would be filed [the week of August 13th]. She said Brazilian health agency Anvisa, as well as the Agriculture Ministry, were also going to file separate appeals against the decision ". Anvisa ". confirmed the intention to file an appeal in a statement sent to Reuters.

I wonder how many Federal Appeals Judges in Brazil has Monsanto pressured/bribed/or otherwise influenced to rule in their behalf?

Would we ever see a full scale revolution because of pesticides? Maybe....the Brazilians are suffering more than anyone, because Brazil is now the largest pesticide consumer in the world.

Rip out the jungles and those former plants' seeds want to grow back as they have for millions of years, but the farmers, thanks to Monsanto, are there to poison them with weedkillers, but then when the public in Brazil learns the facts about 83% of the mothers' breast milk having Roundup/Glyphosate in them, we might now see an armed revolution, but maybe make them pay through the courts, but if the judiciary is bribed, you might begin to see some very very angry people in Brazil.

(Article changed on August 13, 2018 at 18:33)

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Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


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