Headline: Des Moines Register, 2/19/2026
The move comes as Iowa and other states debate whether manufacturers of the widely used chemical, like Bayer’s Monsanto, which markets it as Roundup, should be protected from legal action over claims linking it to cancer.
Trump’s executive order, issued late Wednesday, Feb. 18, also provides limited immunity to domestic companies that make glyphosate and phosphorus, declaring both essential to the nation’s military and farmers. [emphasis added]
Related reading:
The Cornucopia Institute, 10/17/2014
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in one of the most heavily used herbicide in the world: Monsanto’s Roundup®. The industry claims that Roundup® is quite safe, but authors of a recent article in the scientific journal Entropy reach a very different conclusion:
“Contrary to the current widely-held misconception that glyphosate is relatively harmless to humans, the available evidence shows that glyphosate may rather be the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies.”[i] [emphasis added]
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