Tell the EPA: Keep glyphosate away from my food and family!
At MegaFood®, we believe glyphosate, a chemical in Monsanto’s signature herbicide Roundup, shouldn't be anywhere near our food or family.
You can help us ban glyphosate in the following ways:
- Sign our petition!
- Leave a comment for the EPA! Our efforts have gotten their attention- they just opened a comment period asking for feedback on our petition to ban glyphosate for use as a desiccant on oats.
Why is glyphosate so bad?
Glyphosate is the most frequently used weed killer in the world, and use has skyrocketed in the past 20 years. Farmers are increasingly using glyphosate as a drying agent (a desiccant). To enable easier harvest, glyphosate is sprayed to kill and dry out crops.
There's also a good chance this toxic chemical is in the food you and your family eat everyday. In a recent scientific study, glyphosate residues were found on staple breakfast cereals that are popular among children!*
The World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic in humans" and a growing number of countries are restricting or planning an outright ban on this dangerous chemical.*
At MegaFood, we're obsessed with quality, purity and safety and we're working to revolutionize and regenerate our farming system, allowing more people to have access to healthy foods — free of glyphosate.
We're leading the charge, along with the Environmental Working Group, Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia and others, by calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to protect our families and our food. We hope you’ll join us!
Sign our petition calling on the EPA to prohibit glyphosate use as a harvest desiccant on oats, and reduce glyphosate tolerance limits on oats as well. Get glyphosate out of our food!
Sign our petition
Bottom line, cancer-causing glyphosate shouldn’t be sprayed on crops directly before harvest. It’s time for the EPA to protect our health and ban this use of glyphosate on oats. MegaFood has filed a legal petition with the EPA urging them to do just that. Will signing the petition keep glyphosate out of your breakfast today? No, but it most certainly makes our collective voice heard, and could prevent the prevalence of glyphosate residue on our food in the future. Sign here.
* Source: https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/glyphosateincereal/#.W5gsqZNKh3l
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