Thursday March 12: MAFA Potluck at Home Base!

Not this Thursday 3/5 -- Robot Gladiator League in ON this week!

Mar 04, 2026

Join us next Thursday 3/12 for our monthly potluck at Newton’s Attic: 4974 Old Versailles Rd, Lexington! Bring a dish to share, big or small, there’s always lots of good food and excellent company. Let’s talk about the state of the Commonwealth and what the heck our legislators are up to. Bring a friend, too, and continue to grow our community. There’s lots to do!

DANGER: Pesticide Immunity Bill passes KY Ag Committee!

Now it goes to the Senate floor for 2 readings, then a full Senate vote.

It could get a first reading TOMORROW! They want to rush this through.

This must not pass! Here’s why:

SB199 not only gives a liability shield to glyphosate (RoundUp) but to ALL companies who manufacture any of the 57,000 CURRENT CHEMICALS as well as ALL FUTURE CHEMICALS. Forever.
*Need To Know: The EPA definition of “pesticide” includes insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, fungicides, disinfectants and sanitizers, plant regulators, defoliants, and desiccants.

This liability shield prevents those of us harmed by these cancer-causing chemicals from suing the manufacturer.

These chemicals are not just sprayed on food crops. Glyphosate and atrazine (even worse) are routinely sprayed on school playgrounds and public parks. In fact, DeWayne Johnson, the first person to sue Monsanto over glyphosate causing his non-Hodgkins Lymphoma was the guy spraying school property! He won, even after several appeals.

Monsanto/Bayer has paid out $11B in awards with another $10B on the brink of being awarded AND another 108K cases in the works. They want relief even though they knew about the harms to humans and LIED about it to get EPA approval.

The lobbyists at yesterday’s Senate committee hearing were dismissive of these “state lawsuits” stating that they didn’t prove glyphosate caused cancer and they would continuing spraying until they see The Science. Go here to see The Science.

🐝 WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Right now is the time to double-down: call, email, and/or write your senator TODAY to oppose SB199. It takes a second and has an impact! Every Big Ag farmer is calling. Many of them were there yesterday filling the room, alongside their keeper, the Farm Bureau.

POINTS TO MAKE in your email/call/text:

Pick one or two or three of the following that speaks to YOU or just request that your Senator OPPOSE SB199! Maybe mention that Monsanto KNEW its product was harmful and lied.

Stand for Health Freedom has an excellent pdf here — send this to your Senator!
The 7th Amendment to the US Constitution and Section 7 of KY’s Constitution guarantees our right to trial by jury to sort our grievances. The Founders included the court system to keep us from shooting each other over harms done to us by another. SB199 flies in the face of that.
This bill protects not just glyphosate but the current 57,000 chemicals on the market AND all FUTURE chemicals! These are found in dish soap, hand soap, personal care products, cleaning products, vaccines, all conventional wheat and bean products (granola, cookies, crackers, cereals, hummus, canned beans), and more.
This cancer-causing chemical is routinely sprayed on school properties and public playgrounds as well as medians, sidewalks, the exterior of buildings, gardens… Imagine your kids and grandkids playing on playground wood chips soaked in glyphosate.
$11B paid out so far in lawsuits by people harmed by glyphosate with billions more in the works.
As Senator Funke Frommeyer (R, 24) pointed out, liability shields discourage innovation. Don’t have to do better when what you have is without consequence.
Did you know that farmers can now kill weeds with lasers? Why not help farmers upgrade???
Other known health effects of glyphosate:
- Found in breast milk and umbilical cord blood
- Linked to premature births and low birth weights
- Glyphosate kills bugs, including the good bacteria in our guts.
- Found in grocery store eggs and chickens from GMO feed.
- Increases risk of liver damage in kids and adults
- Causes permanent damage to reproductive organs affecting fertility
- Crosses blood-brain barrier (the BBB) promoting dementias and brain inflammation
- Present in 57% of sperm samples from infertile men
- Exposure during pregnancy raises child’s risk of poor brain function
- Linked to worse brain function in teens
- Linked to severe depression and cognitive decline
- 55% of manatees have glyphosate in their bodies (2020)
- Linked to antibiotic resistance to hospital-inquired infections (like MRSA)

There’s no way around the fact that persistent poisoning leads to serious disatrous health effects. Glyphosate and the other 57,000 chemicals on our food and in our products are contributing to our chronic health problems. Today, 64% of American children now have a chronic health condition. Fifty years ago, it was 10%. Glyphosate was introduced in 1995.

Correlation does not prove causation, but when correlation is high enough, that’s a signal to look deeper.