Wednesday, May 13, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Tales from a
Sisters
Naturalist
by Jim Anderson
The cost
of greed
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Life and times of the monarch butterfly: 1, monarch egg; 2, larva; 3, pupating; 4, chrysalis; 5, emerging.
pollinators — this pesticide
has been linked to cancer.
“And now Roundup®
is causing big problems
for Bayer-Monsanto.
Thousands of people with
cancer are suing the pesti-
cide giant alleging exposure
to Roundup® caused their
cancer. In every case that has
been decided so far, judges
have ruled in favor of the
cancer patients.
“With more lawsuits in
the pipeline, the company
is facing increasing scrutiny
from its shareholders and
the public. In response, it¾s
trying to settle these cases
out of court for billions of
dollars. It¾s trying to keep
Roundup® out of the public
spotlight and on store shelves
— and keep pretending that
its safe.”
My wife, Sue, and I
have been conducting but-
terfly surveys at Lava Beds
National Monument ever
Because of the flagrant
use of the chemical Roundup,
monarch butterflies no lon-
ger have the milkweed to
lay their eggs on. The sci-
entific evidence against the
use of the chemical glypho-
sate (the active ingredient in
Roundup) is accurate enough
to take the stuff off the mar-
ket, and yet it remains on our
hardware shelves.
Glyphosate has been
linked to cancer in humans,
and it is now causing seri-
ous issues with the survival
of our monarch butterflies,
one of the chief factors in
their precipitous decline in
the West.
Friends of the Earth just
posted this news piece on
their website:
“Monarch butterflies
have declined by 99 per-
cent in the West — largely
thanks to Bayer-Monsanto¾s
Roundup®. But Roundup®¾s
impacts go far beyond
since our three kids were
toddlers, anda during that
time she tagged hundreds
of the butterflies to study
their migration patterns.
Capturing and tagging mon-
archs was part of our kid¾s
summer for over 20 years.
Last year we did not see
one monarch while conduct-
ing our summer r inventory in
the monument.
Migrating monarchs,
coming north from their
ary on the
winter sanctuary
st could not
California coast
weed to lay
find any milkweed
their eggs on when they
tral
arrived in Central
California.
Why? Because
what milkweed
hadn¾t been
oundup-
destroyed by Roundup-
rs, was dead
wielding farmers,
igation. The
by lack of irrigation.
Friends of the Earth news
goes on:
“At the same e time, World
Health Organization and
the state of California have
determined that glypho-
sate, the key ingredient in
Roundup®, is linked to
cancer. Now, with more
than 40,000 people suing
Bayer-Monsanto over its
link to their Non-Hodgkin¾s
Lymphoma, the company
can¾t keep hiding from the
truth.”
Enough is enough. With
pressure mounting from
consumers, scientists, and
investors, now is the time for
Bayer-Monsanto to cut this
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
toxic chemical out of its port-
folio. You and I, as nature
enthusiasts, need to send a
loud, clear, resounding mes-
sage to Bayer-Monsanto and
our local hardware stores: Go
to Bayer AG on Google and
tell ¾em what trouble they¾re
in…
Please, stop poi-
soning people
and pollinators
now!
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