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Operating the Carrot: When Digital Art Becomes a Medical Metaphor Against Glyphosate

23-07-2025 19:00

CLOROPHOBIA

GLYPHOSATE, POLITICS, MEDICINE, NFT,

Operating the Carrot: When Digital Art Becomes a Medical Metaphor Against Glyphosate

Glyphosate and health: our NFT turns a contaminated carrot into a visual symbol of the medical and scientific fight against pesticides.

My latest NFT depicts a powerful and symbolic scene: a sterile operating room where two tattooed female surgeons—wearing masks, protective eyewear and gloves—operate on a gigantic carrot. This image becomes a visual metaphor for the medical and scientific battle against glyphosate.

🔬 Real Medical Context

A recent study by the Ramazzini Institute found that chronic glyphosate exposure—even at doses considered “safe” by the EU (0.5 mg/kg/day)—can induce multiple tumors in rats: early leukemia, liver, ovarian, thyroid, skin, and central nervous system cancers Beyond Pesticides+12PAN Europe+12MDLifespan+12.

The study reinforces earlier research from 2023, showing glyphosate fails EU safety criteria and urging authorities to urgently reassess its approval status The Times of India+2PAN Europe+2Parlamento Europeo+2.

Another Italian multicenter study found occupational exposure to glyphosate significantly increased the risk of follicular lymphoma—up to sevenfold in high-intensity cases.

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🎨 Symbolism in the NFT

The tattooed surgeons embody medicine confronting the invisible poison: tattoos symbolize lived experience and resilience.

The giant carrot, treated as a human body, symbolizes something once nourishing but now contaminated.

The scene transforms a humble agricultural icon into an object of surgical diagnosis—just as glyphosate’s effects are excavated, dissected, and measured.

🧠 Why the Message Resonates

This NFT is visual art, yet it speaks to civic responsibility, public health, science, and activism—the scalpel becomes a tool not of surgery but of critical diagnosis. Portraying medical professionals treating a “vegetal patient” is a visual shock that poses urgent questions about the real costs of glyphosate use.