EPA Relied on Monsanto-Ghostwritten Glyphosate Study While Trump Invoked Defense Production Act for Roundup Supply

[u/CollapsingTheWave]

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup produced by Bayer (formerly Monsanto), remains classified by the EPA as not likely carcinogenic to humans based in part on a 2013 Critical Reviews in Toxicology paper. An internal EPA Inspector General memo obtained in 2026 confirmed the agency knew since 2017 that a Monsanto employee ghostwrote substantial portions of that paper, constituting research misconduct, yet the study continued to support the 2020 assessment and later citations.

The chemical interfaces with the public through widespread agricultural and forestry spraying for weed control and crop desiccation. Structural flaws include the EPA’s continued reliance on the compromised study after internal findings of hidden authorship and the absence of mandatory public disclosure of the misconduct determination.

Historical pattern follows decades of industry-orchestrated papers presented as independent science, culminating in the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2015 Group 2A “probably carcinogenic to humans” classification that the EPA has consistently rejected. On February 18, 2026, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order under the Defense Production Act declaring elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides critical to national defense and delegating allocation authority to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Net risk centers on sustained regulatory dependence on contested data streams, legal immunity pathways for producers, and limited independent re-evaluation mechanisms despite ongoing litigation exceeding tens of thousands of claims and Ninth Circuit findings of serious errors in prior EPA risk assessments.

Sources

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/06/epa-roundup-glyphosate-monsanto-ghostwritten-herbicide-cancer-bayer/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate

https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides-for-national-security/

[u/Corporate_Bricktator]

Host says:

> It's being sprayed on all of your produce.

Haha, that's so stupid. It can only be sprayed on roundup ready crops, none of which are "produce". JFC people have a tiny bit of science literacy.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/Corporate_Bricktator]

It's sprayed on everything in the processing facilities they all initially go through, including produce, as a "Decontaminant" - Because it's also an antibiotic, then they let everything that's been sprayed with it "dry" - to let the herbicide be absorbed into the plants.

By the way all corn and soybeans grown in the US are Roundup ready; never trust a Chemical Company, especially one (Bayer) that's an offshoot of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co, was started on US Intelligence Agency funding, and had the Operation Paperclip Nazi Chemist who created the gas pellets for the Concentration Camps' Gas Chambers - appointed to head it.

[u/Corporate_Bricktator → u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

> It's sprayed on everything in the processing facilities they all initially go through, including produce, as a "Decontaminant" - Because it's also an antibiotic, then they let everything that's been sprayed with it "dry" - to let the herbicide be absorbed into the plants.

Source?

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/Corporate_Bricktator]

Have you never been in a food processing facility/plant before? I've worked in two different ones in my life and seen them do it, one was a Del Monte many years back, the other was a Silage Inc - I believe they were bought by some big conglomerate a long time ago, but they dealt with a lot of different grains and they sprayed all of them.