"You cannot claim to care about health while protecting poison. You cannot tell Americans to eat real food while protecting the cancer-causing chemicals sprayed on it," said Vani Hari at the rally, highlighting the coalition's frustration with the Trump administration's stance on glyphosate.
The analysis by Food & Water Watch found that 60% of counties with high glyphosate use had non-Hodgkin lymphoma rates above the national average, indicating a strong correlation between glyphosate application and cancer incidence.
Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a health crime that would threaten food security and farmers' livelihoods. The country's president, Joseph Aoun, condemned what he called an environmental and health crime and a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and he vowed to take all necessary legal and diplomatic measures to confront this aggression.
