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Worth noting: Glyphosate (and other herbicides) has been sprayed on cereal crops, to allow easier harvest, since 1992. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D44dEUcGD/

Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food And Farming member Soil Association has launched as petition that calls on the government to deliver:

> A ban on using the weedkiller glyphosate to dry crops before harvest
> Stronger protections on pesticide residues in food
> Support for farmers to transition to more nature-friendly farming practices

You can find out more and sign on the Soil Association website.

The petition is accompanied by an open letter with more than 25 signatories, which calls for a ban on the pre-harvest spraying with glyphosate.

Glyphosate (better known by the trade name Roundup) is one of the world’s most used weedkillers, though not by certified organic farmers. It is also commonly applied directly to crops by ‘conventional’ and even some ‘regenerative’ farmers just days before harvest to dry grains, pulses and other seeds.

This typically leaves residues in the (not-certified-organic) food we eat, including breakfast cereals, chickpeas, lentils, beer, rapeseed oil, industrial dough products and even Real Bread. The many products of maize and soy mean that glyphosate is found across our shopping baskets and plates.

In 2015, the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), concluded that the glyphosate was ‘probably carcinogenic to humans.’

You can read more in the latest articles section of the Real Bread Campaign website.

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