Argentine doctors call for Monsanto ban

[Judi Lynn]

1. Over 30K Doctors and Scientists Demand That Argentina Ban Monsanto

Over 30K Doctors and Scientists Demand That Argentina Ban Monsanto
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04:47 01.05.2015(updated 08:43 01.05.2015)

More than 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina have asked the federal government there to ban Monsanto products after recent studies found that they likely contain carcinogens.

The demand follows last month’s report by the World Health Organization, which found that the herbicide glyphosate – the active chemical ingredient in weed killer Roundup – is "probably carcinogenic."

According to Fesprosa, Argentina's union of medical professionals, glyphosate “not only causes cancer, it is also associated with increased spontaneous abortions, birth defects, skin diseases, and respiratory and neurological disease.”

In a statement released earlier this month, the union cited stats from the Physicians Network of Sprayed Peoples (RMPF), which said that each year in Argentina, 108,000 square miles of soil is sprayed with more than 320 million liters of glyphosate, putting 13 million people at risk of being affected.

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