Monsanto: German companies stop glyphosate sales
German Economic News | Published: 09:06:15 15:19 clock
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Translated [and with added comments] by Eric Zuesse.
According to Swiss supermarkets, German companies have announced halting sales of Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide.
In 1971, Monsanto patented glyphosate. Today its glyphosate (“Roundup”) constitutes two billion US dollars in annual sales.
[Note from Zuesse: Glypohosate
or “Roundup” sells well especially because it kills weeds while not
killing Monsanto’s GMO crops, which are genetically modified so as to
survive the application of this weedkiller. The U.S. Government allows
GMO foods to sell though there is no scientific evidence that they are
safe. So: not only is Roundup toxic, but all independent scientific
studies also find GMO foods to be harmful to health. Furthermore,
part of glyphosate's profitability is its enabling Monsanto’s patented
crop-seeds to dominate U.S. agriculture. In the future, that is even
more important to Monsanto than are the current profits from the
weedkiller.
