by Jeff Stier and Julie KellyMarch 2, 2018 Foxnews.Com
Question: When is a carcinogen not necessarily a carcinogen?
Answer: When the labelling is done by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a French-based institution that is having a big and unjustified impact on American law and our economy.
That's the majority view from an investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which is trying to understand how IARC classified the most commonly used herbicide in the world as a probable carcinogen, while nearly every government agency which evaluated the chemical, including our own EPA, reached the opposite conclusion.
Big money, and the future of American agriculture, is involved. The chemical is glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, which is used worldwide to boost agricultural productivity, increasingly in conjunction with genetically modified crops. The product is a huge target for class-action lawyers and green activists who make a living sowing hatred of Monsanto and its products. (Neither of us has ever received funding from Monsanto.)........."An IARC working group collaborates behind closed-doors to select data, analyze data, and reach conclusions. So, without any public engagement or independent scientific peer review, the working group acts as hand-in-hand with IARC staff as judges, juries, and executioners.".........To Read More....
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