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    Up-to-date news on glyphosate’s link to cancer, social media for heirloom gardeners, and low-nitrogen corn.

    Mar 01, 2019 4 minutes
    By Jordan Carley

    NEW RULINGS ON GLYPHOSATE EXPOSURE

    Monsanto, owned by Bayer AG, made headlines recently—and not in a good way.

    Monsanto’s Roundup contains the active ingredient glyphosate, which acts as a non-selective herbicide. Monsanto defends the safety of their product with a December 2017 memo in which the Environmental Protection Agency claims that “glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” However, the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization rules that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic” to humans.

    To date, there are more than 5,000 open civil suits against Monsanto based on allegations of a strong link between glyphosate exposure and

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