/ 7 September 2021

A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour

South African Bread King Of Soweto Turns A Side Hustle Into A 25 Employee Business
A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

About half of South Africa’s maize crop and 100% of the soya crop is genetically modified — it’s grown with the use of glyphosate. But Bayer South Africa disagrees that it causes cancer

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