Image Credit: World Wildlife Fund
It's difficult to search for Obama's recent signing of a bill to protect Monsanto written by a Senator with close ties to that giant chemical company/giant industrial agriculture company. Most of the sites that come up in a search for the signing of this bill are known conspiracy sites so it looks like Google has had some tweaking done.

DeSmogBlog has got the picture of how the corporate media reinterpreted the UN's WHO report on RoundUp

Corporate Media Confuses Consumers About Dangers Of Monsanto’s RoundUp
The report — a mere six pages long — actually does very little to weaken the link between glyphosate and “cancer” because the panel wasn’t looking at “cancer” as a whole. They were looking for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma incidences in organisms that had ingested produce that had previously been treated or exposed to RoundUp during the growing process. Additionally, they only relied on research that was submitted to the panel, and conducted no studies of their own.

Notice all of the caveats in that last statement.

1. They didn’t do the research themselves, nor did they contract any of it.

2. They looked for only one disease.

3. They did not look at skin exposure or inhalation dangers.

When those factors are removed, it becomes increasingly unlikely that they would be able to find a link because you are removing some of the largest criteria.

As well as being a hazard to human health, the use of this pesticide is partly responsible for the decline of the Monarch butterfly which just hit a record low.

Midwestern US industrial agriculture's use of Monsanto Roundup is the 3rd factor in the rapid decline of the Monarch butterfly.
Say Good-bye to the Monarch butterfly.
BP: You also mentioned Midwestern agriculture as a third factor in the decline. What's happening there?

LB: The most catastrophic thing from the point of view of the monarch butterfly has been the expansion of crops that are planted on an unbelievably wide scale throughout the Midwest and have been genetically manipulated to be resistant to the powerful herbicide Roundup.

These crops are planted in the grassland ecosystems of the United States, where the monarchs do most of their breeding. And normally in that area there are milkweed growing all over the place on the agricultural fields and the edges of fields and the sides of roads. There are 108 species of milkweed in the United States — the whole monarch migration evolved in relation to evolution of this milkweed flora.

Anyway, where they use these herbicides, it kills all emergent seedlings and all the emergent perennial plants. A paper last year by John Pleasants of the University of Iowa and Karen Oberhauser of the University of Minnesota estimated that 60 percent of milkweed has been eliminated from the grassland ecosystem. We're not just talking about one species, we're talking about the entire native flora being eliminated.

The other thing herbicides do is kill sources of nectar. This is important: When monarchs come back [to the United States] they lay their eggs on milkweed, the caterpillars hatch out in four or five days and develop over a period of two or three weeks, then form the chrysalis, then a week later it hatches into an adult. These adults initially have about 20 milligrams of fat in their body that's carried over from larval development. But the butterflies that migrate back [to Mexico] have about 125 mg of fat. All that additional fat is gotten from drinking nectar from wildflowers. And this agriculture is killing off the wildflowers.

EPA Agrees Monarch Butterflies are in Jeopardy, But Refuses to Use Authority to Limit Habitat-Killing Pesticide
“The EPA apparently plans to study the monarch migration to extinction,” said Dr. Sylvia Fallon, an NRDC senior scientist and director of its Wildlife Conservation Project. “Everyone loves the monarchs, including the Obama White House. But love isn’t going to save monarchs from glyphosate. It’s inexcusable for the EPA to call for more time to show glyphosate’s harm while at the same time approving new glyphosate-based pesticides that kill the sole food source monarchs need to live,” said Fallon.