Rev. ratchets up
RoundUp attack
BY ALEJANDRA
O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
Reverend Billy and the Church
of Stop Shopping want the City
Council to “cast out” Monsanto’s
demonic spawn by passing Councilmember
Ben Kallos’s bill banning
chemical pesticides and herbicides in
the city.
The singing reverend, real name
Bill Talen, and his choir protested in
City Hall Park on May 8, to keep up
the pressure on the city to stop using
Bayer AG’s bestselling weed killer,
RoundUp. The herbicide’s active ingredient,
glyphosate, has been linked
to causing cancer and other health
problems. RoundUp was originally
manufactured by the Monsanto corporation
but it sold the product to Bayer
for $63 billion last year.
According to the activist performance
group, the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation
used the spray in parks last summer.
And according to a representative
ntae
from Kallos’s offi ce, the
Parks Department is not a
fan of the bill.
A map on Reverend Billy’s
Web site (http://www.
revbilly.com/map) claims
to show where glyphosate has been
used by the Parks Department around
the city.
The Upper East Side councilmember
reintroduced the bill on April 18,
adding himself to the list of city and
state legislators pushing to ban the
herbicide, which the World Health Organization
classifi ed as a carcinogen
in 2015. Hawaii became the fi rst state
to ban RoundUp in 2018.
“Parks should be for playing, not
pesticides,” Kallos said in a statement.
Shortly after Kallos reintroduced
the bill, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency reaffi rmed its stance
that glyphosate does not cause cancer.
The Parks Department said, in the
past fi ve years, it has made more of an
effort to reduce spraying herbicides
and instead use alternative methods —
like pulling weeds out by hand, mulching
and putting in weed-suppressive
plants.
“When that fails, or when resources
do not allow
allow, we spray approved
herbicides
in complete compliance
with New York City, New
ance with
York State St
and federal laws,”
a Parks
Parks spokesperson wrote
in an e
e-mail to this paper.
PHOTO BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
As his choir members staged a RoundUp-induced die-in at City Hall
Park, Reverend Billy solemnly took a knee.
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