Evaluation of pesticides challenged before the Court of Justice of the European Union October 16, 2017 This post by Guillaume Tumerelle, a lawyer for volunteer reapers, was published on his href=”http://www.avocats-tumerelle.fr/2017/10/12/levaluation-des-pesticides-remises-en-cause-devant-la-cour-de-justice-de-lunion-europeenne/”>blog . We represent activists from the volunteer reapers’ collective who are being sued before the Foix Correctional Court for neutralizing glyphosate-based herbicide cans in various supermarkets. The activists had painted the cans to make them unsaleable. They were prosecuted before… Read More
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science October 12, 2017 A new book by Carey Gillam, research director for consumer group U.S. Right to Know and a board member of Justice Pesticides It’s the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto’s Roundup… Read More
Roundup® can disrupt cells without visible effects on the whole body. September 28, 2017 A new study published today by the research team of Christian Vélot, molecular geneticist at Université Paris-Sud, shows that the disturbances caused by Roundup® at the cellular level manifest themselves at doses for which there is not yet a visible effect on the whole organism. The study, published in the international journal Environmental Science and… Read More
Presentation of Justice Pesticides to the press September 25, 2017 The association Justice Pesticides aims to advise and bring together all those who consider themselves victims of pesticides in the world. Faced with the phyto-product manufacturers’ strategy,”the only effective response today is… the networking of all current and future pesticide victims, whether they are farmers, neighbours, local communities, researchers or others,” explains Corinne Lepage, lawyer,… Read More
“Non-suit” for pesticide application near a school. Generations Futures will bring an action! September 8, 2017 Villeneuve de Blaye case: the examining magistrate transmits a dismissal order. Générations Futures intends to appeal against this order before the trial chamber of the Bordeaux Court of Appeal. ! Background information. On May 5,2014, 23 schoolchildren and their teacher were taken ill and hospitalized in emergency, following sprays carried out near the school of… Read More
More than one million Europeans oppose to the reauthorisation of glyphosate June 15, 2017 The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) calling for a ban of glyphosate, the active ingredient of herbicides marketed as Roundup, a reform of the pesticide authorisation process in the EU and the setting of mandatory targets for the reduction of pesticide use in the EU.–more–>to validate the process in less than 5 months (a record!). This… Read More