Glyphosate - Slow Food International

Glyphosate Has No Place in the Future of EU Agriculture

30 June 2022

Glyphosate continues to be subject of much controversy, and the sensitive debates surrounding the process of renewal of its license in Europe are turbulent. As the European Commission has just again reiterated its commitment to halving pesticide use and risk by 2030 in the European Union (EU), we take a closer look at the latest …

Civil society is Carefully Eyeing EU decision Makers on the Renewal of Glyphosate

18 October 2021 Alice Poiron

On October 13, several civil society organizations including Slow Food Europe, Slow Food Italy, and Slow Food Germany, sent an open letter to Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, to express their concerns about the current renewal process of glyphosate. The signatories are particularly worried about the credibility of the studies that …

Anti-glyphosate Polish Uprising

18 November 2020 Anna Maria Ruminska

Millet groats – the food we all love in Poland, no matter if we are omnivore or vegan. The food the Slavonic culinary heritage is based on. The food the Polish language is tightly connected to. But this is also the food that nobody suspects it may be dangerous if eaten on a daily basis. …

Better Safe than Sorry: Austria Wants Ban on Glyphosate

5 July 2019 Paola Nano

Austria’s parliament recently voted to prohibit all use of Glyphosate, an herbicide often referred to as Roundup. The ban is expected to take effect on the 1st of January 2020. While some cities and states of Europe have chosen to autonomously restricts its use, it is our hope that Austria’s full-fledged prohibition will serve as an example for other European governments.

Feeding the World without the Use of Pesticides: Mission Possible

21 March 2019 Paola Nano

The Pesticide Action Week, an annual campaign taking place between March 20 and 30, has just entered its 14th edition. Over these ten days, at the very start of spring, the French organization “Generations Futures” musters up citizens, organizations and institutional stakeholders to tackle the issue of chemical pesticides and warn against the threats to …

Stop Glyphosate: say no to the herbicide for our health’s sake!

30 May 2017 Maurizio Bongioanni

An independent study finds consistent traces of glyphosate in a sample of pregnant women in Rome.

Glyphosate: What Are The Alternatives?

10 April 2017 Michela Marchi

‘For Slow Food, the only alternative to the immoderate use of synthetic chemicals is clearly a drastic change in the mentality of consumers and producers alike, hence in the dominant agricultural model. It’s not a matter of replacing a harmful chemical molecule with another less harmful one and continuing with a sort of agriculture by substitution. It’s a matter of changing the type of agriculture we practice.’

Herbicides are contaminating our food. Where are you eating them?

29 March 2017 Silvia Ceriani

The world’s best-selling herbicide, glyphosate (commonly known by the household brand name Roundup, owned by Monsanto) is used on food crops during their growth, and then to dry them. It is particularly widely used on maize and soya crops which are genetically-modifed to tolerate Roundup. And that’s not all. Glyphosate is commonly used in parks, gardens, cemeteries and along the sides of roads and railways.

Nine Good Reasons to Demonstrate Against Monsanto…and to Share this Article

20 May 2016

Two events of international scope will take place on May 21 and 22. In various countries around the world, on Saturday May 21, thousands of people will turn out to demonstrate in the global march against Monsanto. The next day, Sunday May 22, is World Biodiversity Day, proclaimed by the UN in 2000 to celebrate the signing of the “Convention on biodiversity”.