> *Prologue* > > The twentieth century gave birth to honeybee neurotoxins – > organophosphate, carbamate and neonicotinoid pesticides. It also gave birth > to glyphosate, a weed killer that achieved global significance, being the > biggest selling pesticide — ever. But where does this chemical come from? > Rosemary Mason, a European physician, prolific science writer, and > environmentalist, tracked down the toxic birth of glyphosate. At her 2021 > *Open > Letter to Head of Pesticide Unit at the European Food Safety Authority*, > she explained how Monsanto created glyphosate. She said: > > “Monsanto’s weedkiller comes from beneath the soil. The active ingredient > in Roundup is glyphosate, which is ultimately derived from elemental > phosphorous extracted from phosphate rock buried below ground. Monsanto > gets its phosphate from mines in Southeast Idaho near the town of Soda > Springs, a small community of about 3,000 people. The company has been > operating there since the 1950s. I went to visit last summer [2020], and > what I found was startling. I stood just beyond a barbed-wire fence at > about nine o’clock at night and watched as trucks dumped molten red heaps > of radioactive refuse over the edge of what is fast becoming a mountain of > waste. This dumping happened about every fifteen minutes, lighting up the > night sky. Horses grazed in a field just a few dozen yards away, glowing in > the radiating rays coming from the lava-like sludge. Rows of barley, for > Budweiser beer, waved in the distance.” > > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/08/glyphosate-and-neonicotinoids-are-poisoning-honeybees/ > > >
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