Colombia Bans Monsanto’s RoundUp From Being Sprayed On Coca Plants

[polly7]

May 20, 2015 by Amanda Froelich



It’s true. Colombia is removing glyphosate chemicals from their coca crops – the raw materials used to make cocaine.

Don’t the irony be lost on you. That means that while it is completely legal for glyphosate (the main ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp herbicide) to be sprayed on all sorts of crops in the US – including the apples your kids take bites from or the corn which is used in the nation’s ever-increasing junk food diet, glyphosate-free drugs will soon be available in Colombia.

According to BBC, glyphosate has been used in US-sponsored crop-spraying anti-narcotics programs in South America. But as stated by President Manual Santos, anti-narcotic officials will now have until October of this year to find another glyphosate-free method to care for their coca crops.

The president told reporters:

“I am going to ask the government officials in the National Drug Council at their next meeting to suspend glyphosate spraying of illicit cultivations . . . The recommendations and studies reviewed by the Ministry of Health show clearly that yes, this risk exists.”

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[dgibby]

1. Excellent!

Another step toward putting the enviromental terrorists out of business.

[djean111]

2. I wonder if Monsanto will sue them for lost profits.

[FlatBaroque]

4. That's the first thought that crossed my mind. n/t

[arikara]

3. Actually, they spray the roundup to kill the coca

and in the process they indiscriminately spray everything, including villages and farms sickening the people, animals and destroying their legitimate farm produce. I understand that this is a program of the US gov't and of course all the roundup is supplied by monsanto bringing them great profit.

Anyhow, I wonder if they will now attack Columbia for loss of "trade" under their investor's right treaty aka free trade agreement.