Silent Spring (1/3): Glyphosate reloaded

When the book „Silent Spring“ was published 60 years ago, author
Rachel Carson shaped the environmental movement as we now know it.
But globally, the use of pesticides is still rising steadily, with
devastating impacts on human health and the environment: in Europe
biodiversity is declining rapidly. Already ten years ago, the
International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate
as probably carcinogenic. Now the European Commission finally wants
to act and reduce the use of pesticides by 50 percent until 2030
and reassess the approval of glyphosate. But the pesticide lobby,
together with the conservative EEP group in Parliament, is up in
arms against binding reduction targets and blames the war in
Ukraine to justify the need for high-input agriculture. In this
episode, we will learn about pesticide scandals in recent years and
how millions of Europeans are raising their voices against toxic
pesticides. The podcast includes interviews with: • Nina Holland -
researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Brussels, Belgium
• Jeffrey Smith - consumer activist and author, Iowa, USA • John
Barton - Corporate Communications Officer at Monsanto (today:
Bayer), St. Louis, Missouri, USA • Dr. Kate Guyton - Senior
Toxicologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC), Lyon, France • Christopher Portier - Toxicologist,
Switzerland • Karl Bär – Parliamentarian The Greens, Berlin,
Germany • Veronika Feicht – Umweltinstitut München, Munich, Germany
Shownotes: Many years of original research; The conducted
interviews and original sound recordings come from Europe and the
USA. Study: “Loud lobby for a silent spring” by Corporate Europe
Observatory (CEO):
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2022/03/loud-lobby-silent-spring
Study: „Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species
Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’” by the Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
(IPBES): https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment
Study: „Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food
Production“ by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES):
https://ipbes.net/assessment-reports/pollinators New York Times
article: „Attack of the „Super Weeds“:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/magazine/superweeds-monsanto.html
Evaluation Study: „The Carcinogenicity of Glyphosate“ by Kate
Guyton, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC):
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/129121/PH%20Glyphosate_Guyton.pdf
  This podcast is an English adaptation of the German podcast
series "Stummer Frühling" published in December 2022.