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Glyphosate ads [1]
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Date: 2025-03-08
Lately I’ve started seeing TV ads for Modern AG Alliance. The ads talk about the “litigation industry” attacking farmers’ ability to use glyphosate. They also talk about how safe the stuff is. Their website says they’re “...a diverse coalition of agricultural stakeholders, founded by Bayer, advocating for U.S. farmers’ access to the crop protection tools they need to ensure we have a robust and affordable domestic food supply.” (emphasis added). Bayer, of course, makes Roundup, whose main ingredient is glyphosate, since its purchase of Monsanto in 2018. Modern AG Alliance is headquartered right here in suburban St. Louis, not far from me, where there’s also a large Bayer presence. Modern AG Alliance has been around since March, 2024.
Of course, you know that in addition to killing weeds, there’s evidence that Roundup also causes cancer. In January, 2024, a jury in Philadelphia handed down a $2.25 billion verdict against Bayer. The EPA has determined that glyphosate itself is unlikely to cause cancer but the jury is out for some of Roundup’s other ingredients. Last year, Modern AG Alliance pushed the Missouri legislature to pass House Bill 2763, which stipulated that EPA labeling alone was sufficient for products like Roundup. Because, of course, by limiting the focus to just glyphosate, it’s possible to make Roundup seem safe. The very similar HB1318 passed the North Dakota House in January, and SSB 1051 in Iowa in February.
Unfortunately, I can’t find anything online that doesn’t read like propaganda but the fact that Bayer is involved is pretty much a smoking gun. Modern AG Alliance’s website says “More than 90 agricultural organizations are collaborating with federal and state policymakers to advance legislative solutions that ensure consistency in pesticide labeling and continued innovation in farming.” You’ve heard the story: A company’s PR department writes a bill and gives it—in identical form—to various tame politicians in different states, who then offer and sponsor it as their own bill. And given the current political climate, you can just guess the majority of the pols sponsoring those “legislative solutions” will have an (R) after their names.
(See:
https://modernagalliance.org/about-us/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/us/roundup-cancer-verdict-philadelphia-bayer-monsanto/index.html
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/herbicide-glyphosate-cancer
https://www.americanagnetwork.com/2025/01/27/
https://climategkc.org/bayer-pushes-roundup-protection-bill-in-missouri/)
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