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Posted on 06/28/2026 4:24:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Prominent activists with the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement are raging and saying they feel betrayed after the Supreme Court sided with pesticide maker Monsanto on Thursday and said it did not need to put a warning label about a potential cancer risk associated with its Roundup weedkiller.
The backlash could test the movement’s ties with the Republican Party, especially after the Trump administration backed Monsanto in the case.
Several studies have found a link between glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, and cancer, including a major study from last year. Bayer and Monsanto have denied any such connection.
But MAHA followers have long been alarmed by the idea, and many have grown impatient with a White House that has largely resisted their calls for tighter regulation of pesticides.
In April, President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and high-level administration officials held a private meeting with MAHA activists to hear their complaints and try to smooth over any ill-will.
Later that month, a MAHA-led coalition rallied outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments, saying people should be able to hold companies accountable.
Inside, the justices heard arguments — including some by the Department of Justice — that companies should be protected.
For some MAHA supporters, Thursday’s verdict showed that despite Trump’s alliance with Kennedy, the administration would rather prioritize the interests of pesticide makers.
“A lot of MAHA voters are realizing they’ve been snookered, they’ve been had by Republicans that had no intention of protecting their health. It’s just a talking point that they added,” said David Murphy, founder of United We Eat and finance director of Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
Murphy said the decision could be a tipping point for MAHA voters, who have historically...
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For the record, I never would have succeeded in restoring our property to almost 100% native plant cover without herbicides, including glyphosate to kill sprouting weeds after 200 years of weed deposition. I have been using glyphosate for 27 of the 37 years I've been using herbicides (started with triclopyr because the exotic cover was all woody brush). One of the backpack sprayers I had used to leak that crap down my butt crack. Still no sign of cancer at the age of 71. Almost all of the spraying I do now is out of 1qt squirt bottles. This place is amazing.
To learn more go to wildergarten.org.
I try to avoid American wheat and anything else that can be dusted with Roundup.
It’s mostly left-wingers who oppose glyphosate, which puts it in the DDT/nuclear energy/global warming category for me.
That is, I assume it’s safe and that their real beef with it is ideological.
“For some MAHA supporters, Thursday’s verdict showed that despite Trump’s alliance with Kennedy, the administration would rather prioritize the interests of pesticide makers.”
That should read “... the administration would rather prioritize the interests of users makers.” Try growing a crop without pesticides.
I am sympathetic to MAHA. But under the language of the law, snf my understanding of the Supremacy Clause, it looks like the Court decided correctly. MAHA should work to get the law changed.
If Monsanto/Bayer and Pfizer and all the usual suspects have a legal argument to make, they will make it as well as anyone can, and likely prevail if the law provides them with enough to make the case.
The cure for bad policy is good policy.
How many cancers caused by Roundup
Their likely sponsor's beef is economic. Bayer bought Monsanto. The patent on glyphosate has run out. Bayer wanted the Roundup Ready technology. The first study "finding cancer" by the usual outrageously bogus overfeeding method was in Germany. Lo and behold a California jury leapt to the siren call of the lawyers. When the lawsuits hit, every private label manufacturer of glyphosate dropped out and Monsanto/Bayer had their monopoly back! Now they have a newly patented alternative to glyphosate, glufosinate ammonium AND they have compatible seed varieties already patented.
Isn't this fun? You can't really know for certain if the stuff is bad because of the BS involved in the "science." It's where we are. If I were an agribusiness lobbying group I'd be looking hard for money from Bayer laundered through a succession of tax-exempt foundations and NGOs pushing the lawsuits.
Tough to do when policy goes to the highest bidder.
You could have asked Grok with the same amount of effort it to took to ask me.
I use my covid masks for a lot of things now...like keeping my nose warm in winter...I hate the Rudolph look.
Maybe not. What if the scientific reality is that you cannot really know for certain what the quantitative hazards really are when coupled with all the other chemicals, both synthetic and natural, to which people are exposed by wildly varying degree, having different genetic makeup, and massively different behaviors?
People attribute deterministic answers to science when they aren't always possible.
MAHA feels betrayed after Supreme Court ruling on Monsanto, glyphosate
The Hill ^ | 06/28/26 5:00 PM ET | Nathaniel Weixel and Rachel Frazin
And what else should we expect from THE HILL?
Reminder to order some round up concentrate. 🤔👍🇺🇸
I have used roundup here at this house for almost 20 years. the weeds were 8feet high and the ivy consumed about 30 percent of the property. I’m slowly planting Kentucky bluegrass. man is it nice. my roundup did a number on my neighbors zoysia growing in my front yard. I use tenacity to manage the weeds in the kbg. on the slopes I have mini blue stem.
Ther notin wong witt me newrogically.
Use round up according to label directions. I’m 74 I’ve used it for 50 years. Does it cause cancer? Well I don’t chase a shot of it with a beer (that’s not in the use directions) but hell I wouldn’t know. I used Roundup yesterday day. I’ve got a couple gallons I’ll use along the way. People are stupid. Read the freaking directions. IMO
Orders of manitude more people are saved from starvation by Roundup than contract cancer from it.
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