Banza Petition - Moms Across America

Banza Petition

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Please sign this petition to Banza:

Dear Banza,

We at Moms Across America, our team and supporters as signed below, are concerned about the health of our families and community. We are writing to you to request that you switch to sourcing your chick peas only from organic or regenerative organic sources and join us in creating a safer food supply for all.

We agree that chickpeas can be a healthy source of protein and nutrients. We love chickpeas and the idea of chickpea pasta! However, we disagree that chickpeas with any (low or high) levels of glyphosate on them are ever healthy.

We also disagree that just because your products or any food company's products test below FDA allowable maximum residue levels for glyphosate or any pesticide, that your products are safe. Hundreds of studies show that glyphosate and other agrochemicals are not safe at very low levels of exposure. To ignore these studies is irresponsible and misleading to the American public. We know you have no intention of misleading the American public and ask you to do better than the FDA. You can find many of the studies here.

We are also concerned that your letter to the public on your website states that glyphosate cooked down to .1 ppm (100 ppb) when cooked, but you do not state for how long that pasta was cooked. A doctor who communicated with you by email reported that your team stated that the pasta was cooked for 15 minutes to achieve that result. We assert that no one cooks their pasta for 15 minutes unless they have forgotten about it; normal cooking time, according to your package, is 6-9 minutes.

In MAA's testing, cooking the pasta in distilled water for 6 minutes, as recommended, showed 161.5 ppb of glyphosate still present. Neither finding, 100 or 161 ppb is safe. Therefore, it is not accurate to state that your food is safe containing these levels of glyphosate.

In addition, if anyone uses your pasta product dry, as in a casserole recipe, the glyphosate (over 2000 ppb from the box we tested) will not be discarded in the water. It will remain in the casserole dish. Also, for any chickpea pizza crust product you sell, one might expect that all glyphosate residues will remain in the pizza crust if the chickpeas are not first boiled. We ask that you inspect these matters and take action to provide safe products.

We know it is not your intention to have glyphosate in your food products, but continuing to allow it is unconscionable. We ask you to join with us in petitioning the EPA to disallow glyphosate as a drying agent on food and feed crops. In the meantime, we also ask that you switch suppliers to organic and/or regenerative organic farmers and require that future suppliers do not spray glyphosate or any other harmful agrochemical on the ingredients you use in any food product. 

We hope you will agree to these two reasonable and healthy requests.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Moms Across America and supporters as signed below.

 

Who's signing

Eliz Meyers
Jill Mogen
Carol Mero
Susan Jones
John Dodge
Jenny Rajda
William VanTassel
Chelle Subber
William Bazin
Daniele Rubcic
Stephanie Thomas
Sandra Moskovitz
Jeff Toste
Leah Harris-Lupton
Deirdre Jones
Robert Abell
Carol Delashaw
Lezlie Forster
Jessica J Denning
Pat Bourret
Elizabeth Hammack
Danielle Venable
Joyce Grabush
Jordan DeLozier
Robert Fortier-Bensen MD
Raisha Singh Malhra
lisa sweet
Roseann Colucci
larrilyn Stiles
Margaret Dorn
586 signatures

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Showing 418 reactions

  • Eliz Meyers
    signed 2024-08-06 16:38:55 -0400
    Sad to see so much glyphosate in your so called healthy product. Get rid of it, please!
  • Jill Mogen
    signed 2024-08-06 16:33:32 -0400
  • Carol Mero
    signed 2024-08-06 16:30:42 -0400
  • Susan Jones
    signed 2024-08-06 16:29:18 -0400
  • John Dodge
    signed 2024-08-06 16:28:33 -0400
    Capitalism at its worst
  • Jenny Rajda
    signed 2024-08-06 16:27:32 -0400
  • William VanTassel
    signed 2024-08-06 16:26:06 -0400
  • Chelle Subber
    signed 2024-08-06 16:26:04 -0400
  • William Bazin
    signed 2024-08-06 16:24:40 -0400
  • Daniele Rubcic
    signed 2024-08-06 16:23:18 -0400
  • Stephanie Thomas
    signed 2024-08-06 16:22:29 -0400
  • Sandra Moskovitz
    signed 2024-08-06 16:20:33 -0400
  • Jeff Toste
    signed 2024-08-06 16:20:32 -0400
    I’m not a Mom, but I support them. I’ve stopped buying Banza till they get rid of glyphosate.
  • Leah Harris-Lupton
    signed 2024-08-06 16:18:28 -0400
  • Deirdre Jones
    signed 2024-08-06 16:15:58 -0400
  • Robert Abell
    signed 2024-08-06 16:15:45 -0400
  • Carol Delashaw
    signed 2024-08-06 16:12:14 -0400
  • Lezlie Forster
    signed 2024-08-06 16:11:38 -0400
    I am throwing out my pasta and banning purchase until proven nontoxic. I refuse to harm the microbiome, immunity, and health of my family! Please read MIT Sr. Researcher, Dr. Stephanie Seneff’s book “Toxic Legacy” to learn more.
  • Jessica J Denning
    signed 2024-08-06 16:11:01 -0400
  • Pat Bourret
    signed 2024-08-06 16:10:22 -0400
  • Elizabeth Hammack
    signed 2024-08-06 16:09:32 -0400
  • Danielle Venable
    signed 2024-08-06 16:09:13 -0400
  • Joyce Grabush
    signed 2024-08-06 16:09:07 -0400
  • Jordan DeLozier
    signed 2024-08-06 16:08:41 -0400
  • Robert Fortier-Bensen MD
    signed 2024-08-06 16:08:25 -0400
    Greetings Mr. Brian Rudolph:

    Please initiate further independent studies with MAA to prove you honor your customers’ health.
  • Raisha Singh Malhra
    signed 2024-08-06 16:08:06 -0400
    To say I was excited when Banza came around with an alternative to wheat based pasta is n understatement. After hearing of their use of poison as a drying agent, I have thrown ALL my Banza products in the trash. Hopefully they will clean up their act and err on the side of health vice profit based on convenience.
  • lisa sweet
    signed 2024-08-06 16:07:05 -0400
  • Roseann Colucci
    signed 2024-08-06 16:06:49 -0400
  • larrilyn Stiles
    signed 2024-08-06 16:05:38 -0400
  • Margaret Dorn
    signed 2024-08-06 16:04:53 -0400

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