Friend,

Why does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still allow the sale and use of a weedkiller linked to cancer?

It's because the EPA has long taken Monsanto -- now Bayer -- at its word when the chemical manufacturer claimed its product is harmless. But Monsanto's own documents and emails have revealed the company's deceptive efforts to manipulate the media in favor of its product's safety.1

Monsanto has worked hard to convince us its product is safe -- but meanwhile, the World Health Organization has labeled glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen."2

Our families' health isn't worth the risk. The EPA should ban Roundup unless and until it is proven safe by independent research.

Take action today to tell the EPA that you support a ban on Roundup.

Even if you don't use it in your own lawn or garden, glyphosate is nearly impossible to avoid contact with.

So much glyphosate is used in agriculture that traces of it creep into food and drink of all kinds. Traces of glyphosate have been detected everywhere from ice cream and children's cereal to beer and wine.3

That's why calling on the EPA is so important. The agency has the power to regulate the use of glyphosate nationwide -- that's how we can keep it off the shelves of your garage, out of public parks and gardens, and far away from the fields where the food that eventually makes its way onto your table is grown.

Tell the EPA to oppose the sale of glyphosate and keep our communities safe from Roundup.

At PIRG, we have years of experience campaigning to protect the public from toxic threats. We know we can win with your support -- because together, we've won before.

A pesticide called chlorpyrifos was used on crops for decades, even though chlorpyrifos exposure was linked to brain damage in children. To tackle the problem PIRG and our national network kicked off a campaign to ban chlorpyrifos, and we had our work cut out for us.

We mobilized to gather more than 27,000 petition signatures to the EPA urging the agency to ban chlorpyrifos -- and in 2021, we won.4 Every step of the way, this victory was made possible by supporters like you.

Your voice can make all the difference, Friend. Add your name to support a ban on Roundup today.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Carey Gillam, "How Monsanto manipulates journalists and academics," The Guardian, June 2, 2019.
2. "IARC Monograph on Glyphosate," International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, January 3, 2016.
3. Kara Cook, "Glyphosate Pesticide in Beer and Wine," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, February 2019.
4. Coral Davenport, "E.P.A. to Block Pesticide Tied to Neurological Harm in Children," The New York Times, August 18, 2021.

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