02/05/2025
Glyphosates cause so much harm to Gut Health! Please sign to reduce this toxin in our food supply.
📝 Sign the petition to stop the increase of glyphosate levels in New Zealand food!
📅 Deadline to sign: May 22, 2025
🔗 Sign the petition here: https://petitions.parliament.nz/66da9603-f385-44ff-abda-08dd8139b86b
New Zealand Food Safety is proposing to dramatically raise the legal limits of glyphosate residues in mainstream New Zealand food.
Right now, the limit is 1 mg/kg for wheat, oats, and barley.
They want to increase it to 10 mg/kg - and to 6 mg/kg in dry peas.
Why? Because residue levels are already exceeding the current limits. Instead of reducing use, the proposal is to simply change the rules.
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup, one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world and certainly NZ. It’s absorbed by crops, stays in the food chain, and ends up in our bodies.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
A growing body of independent research links glyphosate exposure to:
- Certain cancers, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hormone disruption
- Neurological effects
- Gut microbiome damage
- Liver and kidney dysfunction
Glyphosate has been suposedly found in urine, breast milk, placentas, and umbilical cords, showing how deeply it’s embedded in our environment and in us already.
We are being exposed through supermarket bread, grain-fed meat and dairy, public parks, gardens, and the air around sprayed fields. All exposure adds up..
This isn’t just a human health issue. Glyphosate harms soil microbiology, weakens crop health, and contributes to nutrient decline. It affects pollinators, beneficial microbes, and more.
📢 Take action:
🖊️ Sign the official petition to Parliament: https://petitions.parliament.nz/66da9603-f385-44ff-abda-08dd8139b86b
📬 Make a submission to NZ Food Safety: https://www.mpi.govt.nz/consultations/proposals-to-amend-the-new-zealand-food-notice-maximum-residue-levels-for-agricultural-compounds/