Sri Lanka Bans Main Ingredient In Monsanto’s Herbicide RoundUp
Last week, the President of Sri Lanka banned the import of the herbicide glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s “RoundUp.” President Maithripala Sirisena cited recent studies which showed that glyphosate causes kidney disease and cancer.
In a statement released last month, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide “RoundUp”, is “probably carcinogenic.”
The report indicated studies that “sufficiently demonstrated” that this substance caused cancer in animals. According to multiple reports, Monsanto was well aware that this chemical caused cancer for decades yet still continued to sell it.
The main concern in Sri Lanka, however, is an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKDu), which studies have now linked to glyphosate.
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