Chuck Norris Kicks Monsanto For Endangering Food Supply
Chuck Norris has had enough of Monsanto endangering the food supply and is ready to lay down a side kick. Chuck Norris views Monsanto’s use of the glyphosate-based Roundup Ready herbicide as a threat to our health and well-being.
Like many other people, Chuck Norris wasn’t sure of the threat the herbicide posed, and what actions needed to be taken to understand and deal with the threat. This is what makes it so hard for people to avoid what is toxic to them.
Chuck Norris highlighted this problem in a recent article by focusing on Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Ready Roundup herbicide.
Monsanto began marketing glyphosate under the Roundup name in the 1970s, and it quickly became an industry standard. In 1997, its use tripled with the introduction of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, plantings genetically modified to withstand glyphosate in order to enable farmers to use more of the herbicide in killing crop-threatening weeds. Glyphosate is sprayed on most of the corn and soybean crops in the United States, as well as over sugar beets, canola and other crops.
In 2007 alone, the agricultural sector applied between 180 million and 185 million pounds of glyphosate to crops in this country. The home and garden sector applied 5 million to 8 million pounds, and industry, commerce and government applied 13 million to 15 million pounds of glyphosate. It was the most widely used herbicide in U.S. agriculture and second-most widely used herbicide in the home and garden sector.
The reason it should be on our radar now is that glyphosate is under a standard registration review by the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency is determining whether glyphosate use should continue as is or be limited or even halted.
It is good to see a well-known public figure speak out and put himself on the line against big businesses like Monsanto. This would be less likely to have happened a few years ago but now the word is spreading, and this is a testament to the hard work of the activists who are exposing the dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready herbicide.
As the movement touches public figures like Chuck Norris who have a far reach, we can exponentially increase the movement and awareness of the problem.
