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

Dena Salera
Donna Hudson
Julie Ostoich
Ingrid Hinton
April Rivera
Lisa Mair
Penny Flores
Barbara Schwendenmann
Catherine Zanon
Patricia Charbonneau
Gail Stoughton
Gail Searfoss
Charity Miller
Dianne Golding
Maureen Ogonowski
Christianne Liberatore
Carissa Rodriguez
Mavis Jan-lai
Connie Youngman
Tim Berg
sandra moran
Corinne Smith
Jerry Archer
Amber Manske
Deana Gibbs
Alejandra Lorenzo-Chang
Bradley Heinrich
Aimee Garcia
Pamela Alviset
Dawn Buitenhuis
586 signatures

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  • Dena Salera
    signed 2024-08-09 08:49:10 -0400
  • Donna Hudson
    signed 2024-08-08 21:48:06 -0400
    I’ve learned that commerical chickpea products make me feel terrible, just like commercial oats. Turns out the most likely reasonis preharvest dessication with glyphosate. I can eat only the organic chickpeas and oats. Commercial masa is now GMO corn, I can only eat organic corn.
  • Julie Ostoich
    signed 2024-08-08 21:24:14 -0400
  • Ingrid Hinton
    signed 2024-08-08 18:39:26 -0400
  • April Rivera
    signed 2024-08-08 16:20:27 -0400
  • Lisa Mair
    signed 2024-08-08 14:52:16 -0400
  • Penny Flores
    signed 2024-08-08 13:09:23 -0400
  • Barbara Schwendenmann
    signed 2024-08-08 11:44:24 -0400
  • Catherine Zanon
    signed 2024-08-08 11:04:34 -0400
  • Patricia Charbonneau
    signed 2024-08-08 10:34:13 -0400
    Disallow glyphosate as a drying agent on food and feed crops!
  • Gail Stoughton
    signed 2024-08-08 07:41:16 -0400
  • Gail Searfoss
    signed 2024-08-07 22:48:02 -0400
    I always buy this brand! I won’t anymore!!! It’s awful how greedy people desire money over people’s health. Shame on them!!
  • Charity Miller
    signed 2024-08-07 21:02:40 -0400
    No poison please!
  • Dianne Golding
    signed 2024-08-07 19:49:54 -0400
  • Maureen Ogonowski
    signed 2024-08-07 18:04:47 -0400
    Bandza: Just do the right thing. I love Chickpea Pasta, but until I see you have gone to Organic, better yet, Regenerative Organic Sources, I will no longer make Bandza purchases of any kind.
  • Christianne Liberatore
    signed 2024-08-07 17:49:09 -0400
    Would love if this product was organic.
  • Carissa Rodriguez
    signed 2024-08-07 16:03:40 -0400
  • Mavis Jan-lai
    signed 2024-08-07 15:44:47 -0400
  • Connie Youngman
    signed 2024-08-07 14:53:18 -0400
  • Tim Berg
    signed 2024-08-07 13:12:59 -0400
  • sandra moran
    signed 2024-08-07 12:49:50 -0400
    Glyphosate has got to go!
  • Corinne Smith
    signed 2024-08-07 12:24:02 -0400
  • Jerry Archer
    signed 2024-08-07 12:15:05 -0400
  • Amber Manske
    signed 2024-08-07 11:47:02 -0400
  • Deana Gibbs
    signed 2024-08-07 11:43:29 -0400
  • Alejandra Lorenzo-Chang
    signed 2024-08-07 11:34:00 -0400
  • Bradley Heinrich
    signed 2024-08-07 11:22:03 -0400
  • Aimee Garcia
    signed 2024-08-07 11:03:31 -0400
  • Pamela Alviset
    signed 2024-08-07 10:51:47 -0400
  • Dawn Buitenhuis
    signed 2024-08-07 09:58:43 -0400
    Do the right thing!

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