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

Agnieszka Michalczuk
Elizabeth Barris
Carol Williams
Sarah Rybka
John Mains
Lisa Tavakoli
Kathy Hershberger
Jackie Fletcher
Karen Gay
Melenie Lopane
Mary Beattie
Angela Johnson
Becca Nolde-Hurlbert
Kristi Crum
Andrew Altamirano
Melissa Schechinger
Natalie Conant
Michele Krile
Zandra Frank
Olivia Mullins
Michelle Oroz
Autumn Nuss
David Palma
Kathy Joseph
Jyl Burgener
Micky Clark
Virginia Herrick
Jenny Jahraus
Ashlet Halsall
Jennifer Hickey
579 signatures

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  • Agnieszka Michalczuk
    signed 2024-08-07 08:49:41 -0400
  • Elizabeth Barris
    signed 2024-08-07 08:31:57 -0400
  • Carol Williams
    signed 2024-08-07 08:21:07 -0400
  • Sarah Rybka
    signed 2024-08-07 08:10:28 -0400
  • John Mains
    signed 2024-08-07 08:07:33 -0400
  • Lisa Tavakoli
    signed 2024-08-07 08:03:07 -0400
  • Kathy Hershberger
    signed 2024-08-07 07:43:06 -0400
  • Jackie Fletcher
    signed 2024-08-07 07:28:34 -0400
  • Karen Gay
    signed 2024-08-07 06:38:43 -0400
  • Melenie Lopane
    signed 2024-08-07 06:26:39 -0400
    Just horrible
  • Mary Beattie
    signed 2024-08-07 05:17:01 -0400
    No glyphosate in ANY food!
  • Angela Johnson
    signed 2024-08-07 04:05:13 -0400
  • Becca Nolde-Hurlbert
    signed 2024-08-07 01:39:42 -0400
  • Kristi Crum
    signed 2024-08-07 01:20:46 -0400
    Beautiful
  • Andrew Altamirano
    signed 2024-08-07 01:17:06 -0400
  • Melissa Schechinger
    signed 2024-08-07 00:27:49 -0400
  • Natalie Conant
    signed 2024-08-07 00:14:44 -0400
  • Michele Krile
    signed 2024-08-07 00:12:36 -0400
  • Zandra Frank
    signed 2024-08-07 00:04:28 -0400
  • Olivia Mullins
    signed 2024-08-07 00:01:19 -0400
  • Michelle Oroz
    signed 2024-08-07 00:00:35 -0400
  • Autumn Nuss
    signed 2024-08-06 23:54:37 -0400
  • David Palma
    signed 2024-08-06 23:31:26 -0400
  • Kathy Joseph
    signed 2024-08-06 23:17:45 -0400
    Dear Banza,

    It seems like you are making excuses for using chickpea flour laced with glyphosate residue by suggesting boiling as a way to reduce some of this harmful substance as opposed to having integrity as a corporation by switching to using only organic chickpea flour in your products. You came up with a great idea for gluten free pasta / pizza…..too bad you went for a cheap, inferior, harmful option to make your products. You’ve lost my business and I’m spreading the word!!
  • Jyl Burgener
    signed 2024-08-06 23:04:25 -0400
  • Micky Clark
    signed 2024-08-06 22:55:44 -0400
  • Virginia Herrick
    signed 2024-08-06 22:48:18 -0400
  • Jenny Jahraus
    signed 2024-08-06 22:34:51 -0400
  • Ashlet Halsall
    signed 2024-08-06 22:30:51 -0400
  • Jennifer Hickey
    signed 2024-08-06 22:24:24 -0400

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