{"id":55621,"date":"2017-07-25T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-organic-consumers-association-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-tests-positive-for-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-glyphosate\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:58:41","slug":"organic-consumers-association-helados-ben-jerrys-dan-positivo-en-pruebas-para-detectar-el-herbicida-de-uso-mas-generalizado-el-glifosato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/organic-consumers-association-helados-ben-jerrys-dan-positivo-en-pruebas-para-detectar-el-herbicida-de-uso-mas-generalizado-el-glifosato\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Consumers Association: Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream Tests Positive for Roundup Herbicide Ingredient, Glyphosate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vermont<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 25, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a> today reported that 10 of 11 samples of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s ice cream tested positive for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup herbicide, or AMPA, glyphosate&#8217;s main metabolite, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The results originated from independent lab testing of these flavors: Peanut Butter Cup, Peanut Butter Cookie, Vanilla (2 samples), <span class=\"xn-person\">Cherry Garcia<\/span>, Phish Food, The Tonight Dough, Half Baked, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Americone Dream and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. <span class=\"xn-person\">Cherry Garcia<\/span> was the only flavor that tested negative for glyphosate and\/or AMPA.<\/p>\n<p>OCA is calling for Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, a <span class=\"xn-location\">Vermont<\/span>-based subsidiary of Unilever, to begin an immediate transition to using only organic ingredients, including milk, in its products or face a national and international consumer boycott. <\/p>\n<p>The groups also call on natural and organic food stores to drop the Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s brand unless the company commits to transitioning to organic.<\/p>\n<p>OCA International Director <span class=\"xn-person\">Ronnie Cummins<\/span> said: &#8220;Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s falsely advertises its products as &#8216;natural&#8217; and its brand as &#8216;sustainable&#8217; and &#8216;socially responsible.&#8217; Nothing could be further from the truth. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s profits are built on the back of an industrial dairy system that poisons the environment and produces pesticide-contaminated food products. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s sales, driven in large part by its deceitful claims, damage the organic industry by cutting into the sales of authentic natural, grass-fed and organic producers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2015<\/span>, the World Health Organization&#8217;s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a &#8220;probable carcinogen.&#8221; On <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 7<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added glyphosate to its Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/sites\/default\/files\/fatty_liver_disease_following_chronic_exposure_to_ultra-low_dose_of_roundup.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">report<\/a> published <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 2017<\/span>, in the journal Nature, linked low doses of glyphosate to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, suggesting that there is no &#8220;safe&#8221; level of glyphosate despite otherwise indicated by regulatory agencies.<\/p>\n<p><b>Available by request:<br \/><\/b>Summary of test results<\/p>\n<p><b>About Organic Consumers Association<br \/><\/b>The Organic Consumers Association is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public-interest organization advocating on behalf of more than two million U.S. consumers for health, justice, and regeneration. For more information, please\u00a0visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.organicconsumers.org<\/a>. @OCA_Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Organic Consumers Association<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vermont<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 25, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a> today reported that 10 of 11 samples of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s ice cream tested positive for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup herbicide, or AMPA, glyphosate&#8217;s main metabolite, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The results originated from independent lab testing of these flavors: Peanut Butter Cup, Peanut Butter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comida-y-bebida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}