I am sure most Mauritians have heard of Round-Up. For those who haven't, Round-Up is a very well known herbicide which is widely used in the Sugar plantations. It is a very powerful weed killer but its lethal side effects are little known among Mauritians.
A quick search online will yield hundreds of pages describing the effects of Monsanto's Round Up on the human body and nature is general.
I am sure fellow Mauritians are aware of the fact that cancer rates have gone through the roof during the past 10 years.
It is a shame official cancer figures are not being published but based on studies abroad, I cannot help worrying about the amount of this lethal chemical used to widely over the past years.
Will our government do something about it?
Videos:
youtube.com/watch?v=Rml_k005tsU&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=OLzELDt3d2I&feature=fvst
Read:
organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/glyphocancer.cfm
huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n_883578.html