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.
🎨 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.
