Ai os glifosatos...

... desta vez não testados. Convenientemente:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/pesticides-antibiotics-polluting-streams-europe-wildlife

Citando:
"The testing techniques used in the new research meant only a subset of pesticides could be detected. Two very common pesticides – glyphosate and chlorothalonil – were not included in the study, meaning the findings represent a minimum level of contamination. The research focused on streams, as these harbour a large proportion of aquatic wildlife."

Ai os glifosatos - n.º69!

Afinal a UE diz que os glifosatos "dão saúde e fazem crescer", quando parecia que iam ser banidos (e foram em Portugal):

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• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/no-cancer-risk-to-using-glyphosate-weedkiller-says-eu-watchdog
• http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/roundup-weedkiller-glyphosate-not-cancer-causing-european-expert-committee-echa-a7631796.html
• https://www.ft.com/content/82325be6-9d2f-3022-8129-944626ca22bc

Citando do FT: 

"The recommendation is good news for German chemicals group Bayer, which has been vilified for its courtship of Monsanto. The deal was also built in part on hopes for an expansion of the market for genetically-modified products such as glyphosate-resistant seeds. Monsanto sells a range such seeds in North America, but they have not been approved for use in the European Union.

A final decision on the chemical will be made by the European Commission, but had Echa ruled that glyphosate does cause cancer, the commission would likely have forced companies to warn every customer about its health effects.

The EU already warns that glyphosate is toxic to aquatic life and can cause irreversible eye damage; Echa maintained those warnings.

The decision was criticised by environmental campaigners. Greenpeace EU food policy director Franziska Achterberg said “the data vastly exceeds what’s legally necessary for the EU to ban glyphosate, but Echa has looked the other way”.

However, Echa executive director Geert Dancet has defended the agency’s independence, writing in a series of open letters last week that last week that it is “an organisation built on science”, and its “independence policy builds on international best practice”."

A novela do Glifosato continua: mais um ano para decidir

Citando:
"Comissão Europeia quer congelar a decisão sobre o glifosato pelo menos um ano."
(...)
"O glifosato encontra-se em herbicidas de uso corrente, como o Round-Up da Monsanto, bem como dos concorrentes Syngenta, BASF, Bayer, Dupont e Dow Agrosciences. No entanto, a CE preparou uma segunda proposta para “minimizar” a utilização do glifosato nos jardins, parques e em zonas de jogos públicos, bem como nos campos agrícolas no período que precede as colheitas."


A autorização expira em Junho e em PT o uso já foi proibido.

Bayer e Monsanto podem criar um monstro

(ainda maior - filtrem por Roundup neste sítio):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/28/the-frankenstein-merger-how-bayers-bid-for-monsanto-could-create/


Citando:
"Surveys support that assessment. The idea that one of Germany’s most respected companies – the inventor of aspirin, no less – could join hands with a company infamous for its aggressive treatment of the farmers who must rely on its seeds has sparked outrage in some quarters.
There is no shortage of dirt in Monsanto’s 115-year history for campaigners to throw at the deal. It had a hand in the creation of the atomic bomb, the manufacture of the environmentally disastrous pesticide DDT and the Agent Orange herbicide used by the US Army in the Vietnamese jungle, causing birth defects."