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

Nancy Perlman
Maria McCord
Laura Fisher Andersen
Shannon Cunningham
Lore Flavell
Stephanie D Reynolds
Brittany Stokel
Erin Crawford
Nikole Curfman
Tamara Bemiss
Ana Jackson
Robin Hodge
Robin Fraser
Barbara Loeppke
Lauren F
Schuyler Diehm
kimberley Mckee
Cass Naumann
Ashley Schneider
margaret miller
Lauren Knebel
Julie Briggs
Fred Edward
Leo Richiuso
Vicki Martin
Teri Brittain
John Doe
Britney Furgeson
Sarah Shslon
Cinda Cummings
587 signatures

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Showing 419 reactions

  • Nancy Perlman
    signed 2024-08-10 14:03:58 -0400
  • Maria McCord
    signed 2024-08-10 13:41:59 -0400
  • Laura Fisher Andersen
    signed 2024-08-10 13:29:45 -0400
  • Shannon Cunningham
    signed 2024-08-10 13:26:20 -0400
  • Lore Flavell
    signed 2024-08-10 13:22:51 -0400
    We use gluten free products to promote better health, but the additional exposure to glyphosate completey undermines any benefit and instead exposes consumers to additional jarm. Please help us by going organic with your products.
  • Stephanie D Reynolds
    signed 2024-08-10 13:20:01 -0400
  • Brittany Stokel
    signed 2024-08-10 13:13:43 -0400
  • Erin Crawford
    signed 2024-08-10 13:12:46 -0400
  • Nikole Curfman
    signed 2024-08-10 13:08:41 -0400
  • Tamara Bemiss
    signed 2024-08-10 12:58:19 -0400
  • Ana Jackson
    signed 2024-08-10 12:55:37 -0400
    No one wants to put poison into their bodies by confusing glyphosate. Please switch to organic, even if it costs more money to the consumers. We want delicious, healthy food, not frankenfood
  • Robin Hodge
    signed 2024-08-10 12:44:54 -0400
    I eat this all the time… 😡
  • Robin Fraser
    signed 2024-08-10 12:41:55 -0400
    Why do we have government agencies set up to protect the health of the people when they just continue to allow us to be poisoned?
  • Barbara Loeppke
    signed 2024-08-10 12:29:17 -0400
  • Lauren F
    signed 2024-08-10 12:28:36 -0400
  • Schuyler Diehm
    signed 2024-08-10 12:12:58 -0400
  • kimberley Mckee
    signed 2024-08-10 12:09:47 -0400
  • Cass Naumann
    signed 2024-08-10 12:05:59 -0400
  • Ashley Schneider
    signed 2024-08-10 12:02:18 -0400
    My kids enjoyed eating this until we found out if had such high glyphosate levels so I stopped buying it.

    With the amount of cancer and chronic illness we owe it to our kids to feed them non toxic food!
  • margaret miller
    signed 2024-08-10 12:01:19 -0400
  • Lauren Knebel
    signed 2024-08-10 11:57:38 -0400
    Stop using glyphosate on our food crops. Enough!
  • Julie Briggs
    signed 2024-08-10 10:44:12 -0400
  • Fred Edward
    signed 2024-08-10 08:36:27 -0400
    Please work to eliminate glyphosate from the processing process. It is proven negatively effect human health.
  • Leo Richiuso
    signed 2024-08-09 21:37:37 -0400
  • Vicki Martin
    signed 2024-08-09 19:14:17 -0400
    I will never buy Banza brand again, so disappointing.
  • Teri Brittain
    signed 2024-08-09 16:55:42 -0400
  • John Doe
    signed 2024-08-09 14:13:39 -0400
    Will Monsanto/Bayer kill mankind? It’s looking like it!


    Anyone supporting glyphosate is clearly out of touch with nature and is in a dark frequency run by their ego. Ban glyphosate altogether and remove Banza pasta and all other products that use glyphosate from grocery shelves.


    Your profits are for material gain, and you poison the consumer for higher margins. You’re ruining the soil for what? The fact that you want to industrialize some pasta? That’s immoral.


    Buy organic, folks. As consumers, we’ll have to use our buying power to eliminate Monsanto, Bayer, the EPA, and all organizations that poison Mother Nature and our human bodies. Experts say eliminating glyphosate from the environment will take over 50 years. We can start today!


    Stay safe, healthy, and in the present. Happy Friday!
  • Britney Furgeson
    signed 2024-08-09 11:18:45 -0400
  • Sarah Shslon
    signed 2024-08-09 10:54:33 -0400
  • Cinda Cummings
    signed 2024-08-09 10:17:17 -0400

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