Greenpeace activists together with an Alliance of civil society organisations protest against the re-approval by the European Union-Parliament of glyphosate in Berlin.
The environmental activists hand over a petition, with over 130,000 signatures, supporting the ban of glyphosate to state secretary Silvia Bender from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.
Glyphosate is a common herbicide ("weed-killer") used in crop and non-crop lands, including residential areas such as home lawns and gardens.
Exposure to the herbicide not only poses a risk to human health and a variety of living organisms but it also threatens biodiversity and the future of agriculture.