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

Andria Day
Shari Seeman
Jenny Zimmer
Maryann Panzera
Anna Goldbach
marci Vandevoorde
Kelsey Smith
Rachel Beckwith
Anne Donofrio
Mia Kingshill
Jen Curley
Jean Rockwood
Debby Maddy
Daisy Lopez
Tomas Rojas
Audrey Alger
Melanie rueda
Sierra Nduwimana
Lisa Huszar
Frankie Heath
Elizabeth Villarreal
Carol Lockhart
Erika Proctor
Sarah Gilbert
Bonnie Young
Whitney Siconolfi
Kami Collins
Hawley Schneider
Erin Whitt
Karen Ledee
578 signatures

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Showing 412 reactions

  • Andria Day
    signed 2024-08-25 04:37:47 -0400
    I’m mad as hell!
  • Shari Seeman
    signed 2024-08-24 10:59:51 -0400
    Families who buy pasta made from chick peas instead of white flour care about health and are trying to do the right thing for their families. Feeding them food with high levels of the cancer causing herbicide, glyphosate, doesn’t make sense. Banza, help your customers feed their families healthy food by going Organic!
  • Jenny Zimmer
    signed 2024-08-23 12:11:16 -0400
  • Maryann Panzera
    signed 2024-08-20 14:52:40 -0400
  • Anna Goldbach
    signed 2024-08-20 10:30:39 -0400
  • marci Vandevoorde
    signed 2024-08-19 14:40:41 -0400
  • Kelsey Smith
    signed 2024-08-18 22:19:15 -0400
  • Rachel Beckwith
    signed 2024-08-18 17:51:47 -0400
  • Anne Donofrio
    signed 2024-08-18 17:02:47 -0400
  • Mia Kingshill
    signed 2024-08-17 19:45:34 -0400
  • Jen Curley
    signed 2024-08-17 18:21:39 -0400
  • Jean Rockwood
    signed 2024-08-17 16:27:04 -0400
  • Debby Maddy
    signed 2024-08-17 12:53:29 -0400
  • Daisy Lopez
    signed 2024-08-17 10:26:11 -0400
  • Tomas Rojas
    signed 2024-08-15 23:32:33 -0400
  • Audrey Alger
    signed 2024-08-15 22:06:08 -0400
  • Melanie rueda
    signed 2024-08-15 02:39:29 -0400
  • Sierra Nduwimana
    signed 2024-08-14 20:54:56 -0400
  • Lisa Huszar
    signed 2024-08-14 19:54:50 -0400
    O% glyphosate residue in our foods is the only acceptable level!
  • Frankie Heath
    signed 2024-08-14 12:07:51 -0400
  • Elizabeth Villarreal
    signed 2024-08-14 11:55:39 -0400
  • Carol Lockhart
    signed 2024-08-14 07:11:19 -0400
  • Erika Proctor
    signed 2024-08-14 07:03:07 -0400
  • Sarah Gilbert
    signed 2024-08-14 07:01:57 -0400
  • Bonnie Young
    signed 2024-08-14 01:29:29 -0400
  • Whitney Siconolfi
    signed 2024-08-13 21:28:14 -0400
  • Kami Collins
    signed 2024-08-13 17:19:39 -0400
  • Hawley Schneider
    signed 2024-08-13 15:00:40 -0400
    Please!!! We will stop buying from you until you are glyphosate free.
  • Erin Whitt
    signed 2024-08-13 13:01:55 -0400
  • Karen Ledee
    signed 2024-08-13 08:35:25 -0400

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