*[Enwl-eng] Glyphosate killed her daughter, now she’s fighting back

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                        A brave mother in Argentina has been fighting to ban 
glyphosate for over two decades.

                        Now, she has a historic opportunity to take her case 
to court.

                        Will you chip in $2 to help Sofía ban glyphosate in 
Argentina?




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            Twenty years ago, a baby girl was born in a small Argentinian 
community. Three days later, she passed away. The cause of her death: 
poisoning by pesticides. The community is surrounded by soy fields drenched 
in Monsanto’s glyphosate.

            The baby’s mother, Sofía, decided to fight for justice and take 
on one of the biggest companies in the world: Monsanto, sparking a 
decades-long battle to ban glyphosate.

            She knew her baby would not be the first or last to fall victim 
to Monsanto’s pesticides. A study later revealed 80% of children in the 
community had agrochemicals present in their bodies.

            Sofía rallied other local mothers with similar tragedies, and 
now they have a historic opportunity to take their case to court -- but they 
need your help, Vladimir. To build their case, they need a multidisciplinary 
team of scientists, lawyers and technicians. And they don’t have much time, 
the court date is set for March.


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            Pesticide poisoning is a huge problem in South America. A recent 
study found that thousands of babies died from pesticide poisoning in 
Brazil, after glyphosate in surrounding soy fields leaked into the local 
water supply.

            The facts are clear, but these mothers have their work cut out 
for them. Monsanto won’t give up easily and will do anything they can to 
make sure it can still line its coffers with profits from glyphosate.

            But this is why I feel hopeful for Sofía’s fight: Incredible 
members like you have proven countless times that people can win over 
corporate profit.

            Thanks to your support, Dewayne Lee Johnson became the first 
person to beat Bayer in a U.S. court over allegations that Monsanto’s 
Roundup causes cancer -- and French farmer Paul François, who was poisoned 
by Monsanto’s toxic chemicals, was able to win his case against 
Bayer-Monsanto after you paid for him to attend Bayer’s Shareholder Meeting.

            Now, Sofia and her community need your support. Every extra coin 
we raise will power our campaigning against the pesticide industry -- and 
fight for bans across the world.


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            Thanks for all that you do,
            Laura and the SumOfUs team


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            More information:

            What the World's Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural 
Argentina. Longreads. 1 October 2017.
            Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding 
Populations (PDF) IZA Institute of Labor Economics. 1 February 2019.
            One Woman’s Fight Against Glyphosate. The Goldman Environmental 
Prize. 15 October 2015.


      SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together 
to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, 
sustainable path for our global economy.


      From: Laura Krasovitzky, SumOfUs
      Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2021 6:18 PM
      Subject: Glyphosate killed her daughter, now she’s fighting back



 
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