Tavira Council continues to use Roundup despite cancer link

Tavira Council is still buying and spraying glyphosate on verges and public spaces, despite the increasingly widespread rejection of the Monsanto weed-killer by governments, State authorities and farmers.

Tavira’s Left Bloc opposition tried to get the Socialist Council to stop the use of the chemical, sold under the name Roundup’ which gets into the water supply and increasingly is linked to some forms of cancer.

In the last Tavira Council assembly, the Socialist Party voted against a proposal from the Left Bloc which wanted to improve environmental conditions and the health of local people by banning the chemical’s use.