The Clarence Shepard Day Jr. of Roundup in Europe are numbered . The EU Parliament voted on Tuesday for the controversial weed killer glyphosate , the main component of the omnipresent Roundup , to bebanned by 2022 . There are serious concerns about the impact the chemical has on human wellness , particularly moot its penny-pinching ubiquitousness in factory farm today .
Despite the legislating being non - binding , the prohibition of the substance was passed by 355 vote to 204 , with 111 abstentions . The impact of this vote has already been felt , as when it came time for the European Commission to renew the permit for glyphosate , they did so forbetween five and seven years – a shorter - than - common length of fourth dimension .
The executive body of the EU was initially anticipate to extend the license for another tenner , but backtrack after strong opposition from within the European Parliament as well as from the world .
The lead up to the suffrage this week has been particularly bitter . The green goddess killer is widely used , not only in Europe but in many other parts of the world . A late study find that45 percent of Europe ’s topsoilcontained the rest of the substance , while another that came out on the same day as the vote found that level of glyphosate hasdoubled in Americansover the two 10 it has been used on crops .
Unsurprisingly , the big manufacturer of glyphosate , Monsanto , have been attempting to advertize back against the ban . However , the attack backfire somewhat for the company . In the lead up to the suffrage , MEPs decided to ostracise Monsanto lobbyist from even entering the European Parliament after the representatives of the company give out to show up at an query search into whether or not Monsanto had been interfere with scientific inquiry on the wellness impact of glyphosate .
Clearly , there has beenmuch controversyover what glyphosate may or may not do to our health . The World Health Organization establish in 2015 that the heart is “ probably carcinogenic to humans ” , and yet the weed killer is still one of the most heavily used . It is thought that in the UK alone , at least 60 percent of all bread down has shadow of the chemic , whilethree - quarters of Germanstested had five times the effectual boundary of the stuff in their piss .
As a result , over a million people contract a request delivered to Brussels asking for an contiguous ban . While the EU has not gone that far , they are establish in fourth dimension for surrogate to be found and then brought into role .
