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University of California – Davis Health
Summary: Public health experts have found there is sufficient evidence that prenatal exposure to widely used insecticides known as organophosphates puts children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.
Leading researchers call for a ban on widely used insecticides.
Use of organophosphates has lessened, but risks to early brain development still too high.
Link: www.sciencedaily.com
What do a pharmacist, a nursery school teacher and an architect all have in common?
They all became unlikely activists in the historic case of the first pesticide-free town.
In vitro evaluation of genomic damage induced by glyphosate on human lymphocytes
Glyphosate is an important broad-spectrum herbicide used in agriculture and residential areas for weed and vegetation control, respectively. In our study, we analyzed the in vitro clastogenic and/or aneugenic effects of glyphosate by chromosomal aberrations and micronuclei assays. Human lymphocytes were exposed to five glyphosate concentrations: 0.500, 0.100, 0.050, 0.025, and 0.0125 μg/mL, where 0.500 μg/mL represents the established acceptable daily intake value, and the other concentrations were tested in order to establish the genotoxicity threshold for this compound.
A MANIFESTO WRITTEN BY NATURE HAIRDRESSERS FOR HUMANS, ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This manifesto was created by: BBF – Bewegung bewusster Friseure International (Movement of Conscious Hairdressers International). The text is based on and inspired by the manifesto “Der Malser Weg” (The Malser Way), written by doctors, pharmacists, biologists, veterinarians of the Upper Venosta Valley, with the contents of which the authors are associated in solidarity.
Save the date!Agroecology can feed Europe pesticide-free in 2050, new study finds
European agriculture can phase out pesticides, reduce its impacts on climate and biodiversity while ensuring food security for Europeans, French researchers Pierre-Marie Aubert and Xavier Poux told a conference held in Paris on 13 September.
Defending A Way of Life Against Pesticides
Professor, Farmer and Author Philip Ackerman-Leist Discusses How One European Town was Able to Push Back Against Pesticides, Big Apple to Save Their Traditions.
Link: >> Interview Ackerman-Leist
Quelle: © http://ecofarmingdaily.com
THE TOWN THAT BANNED PESTICIDES
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned from the story of Mals, it is that we have to move beyond the idea of organic farms as the answer; “organic communities” are the more sustaining and resilient objective. Philip Ackerman-Leist
Link: >> Interview Ackerman-Leist
Quelle: © www.heifer.org
LETTER OF SUPPORT
We got a support declaration from the 2 attorneys who won the spectacular suite against Monsanto some weeks ago.