May 18, 2026
The Last Roundup
Timothy Birdnow
As regular readers know years ago I penned an article showing that the Left was plotting against glyphosates - the principle ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup - and I quote a mainstream journalist who found environmental activists altered the WHO report - which had originally said there was no evidence these chemicals caused cancer.
Well, Steven Milloy, Founder of Junk Science, agres with me.
Milloy states:
Radical green groups began opposing Roundup in the 1990s as part of their campaign against genetical engineered (GMO) crops. So-called "Roundup Ready” crops were engineered to withstand the application of Roundup to crops, thereby increasing crop yields.
Though the campaign against GMOs largely failed, the radical green groups kept attacking Roundup, even though it had passed scrutiny by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under seven presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat.
That’s an impressive feat as EPA staff is known for being anti-pesticide and, in my experience, has no compunction about changing the rules to ban pesticides that become politically incorrect, which Roundup certainly has.
The greens had success in getting Roundup in the crosshairs of the United Nations’ International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, pronounced "eye-ark”). In 2015, IARC concluded that Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, was "probably carcinogenic.” No other regulatory body in the world before or since has made that determination.
And once this designation was made the mainstream media ran with it, and now it is the conventional wisdom. There is scant reliable science to back up the claim.
Milloy goes on:
While activist groups and trial lawyers are easy to blame for the threat posed to this safe and invaluable chemical, I lay the blame for this situation at the feet of the chemical industry. Decades ago, the chemical industry stopped vigorous factual defense in the media of its products in favor of feel-good messaging.
It’s easy to scare people about things they don’t understand, like pesticides. But the industry’s ongoing failure to defend its own products, especially in the face of aggressive attackers, is inexcusable.
Yep. And why did they do that? They did it because they saw how the tobacco companies got annihilated by defending THEIR own product and hoped to avoid those same kinds of mistakes. (Oil and gas companies now face a similar threat.) It's craven but the chemical companies figure they can earn good will and this will protect them, that the environmentalist wackos will go elsewhere for fun and the trial lawyers will seek a softer target. But that is merely hoping you get eaten last; the only way to take on this hydra is to face them and fight them. THEN they may move on to a softer target. The humble porcupine has few creatures that predate on it. Same holds true for skunks.
The attack on glyphosates is a crime against humanity. It will lead to reductions in crop yields, killing the poor in the Third World as prices for food skyrocket. The Gang Green pursues this as they would pursue any "forbidden work of Man" as somehow unnatural and anything they can do to reduce the human footprint on the Earth is to them the ultimate good. Human beings are just an unfortunate casualty, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
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