It’s been more than a decade since
many independent scientists, researchers and food critics have been
warning the public about the health risks associated with
“glyphosate”, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. Last year, a non-profit organization
in Britain called the “Earth Open Source” released many documented studies
about health risks associated with glyphosate in Roundup such as
birth defect, reproduction failure and cancer.
However glyphosate is approved and regulated by
both FDA and EPA and in an interview the “Earth Open Source”
mentioned that the approval of glyphosate by DFA and EPA is deeply unreliable
and flawed. Glyphosate
is Monsanto’s top selling herbicide used in both gardens and farmers
in the United States and almost 89%
of corn and soy produced in the US are genetically
modified.
Fact-checking
about the chemical known as roundup:
In many independent studies glyphosate has
been related to birth defects, reproduction failure and deformities in laboratory
animal. However the impact of glyphosate on humans is unclear since there
hasn’t been any study about its side effect directly on humans. Pre- and
postnatal toxicity of the commercial glyphosate formulation in Wistar rats. Roundup:
Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say However
the two independent studies both in 2005 and 2009 show
that glyphosate can even cause death of human cells.
In the last few decades, the FDA has approved many
herbicides and toxic additives and has called them within safety
limits. Jeffrey Smith, the producer of Genetic Roulette and an advocate
on genetically modified foods said in an interview that “there is
obviously a limit on how much poison can be tested on human beings since many
independent studies have shown that feeding lab rats with Roundup has caused
reproductive failure and birth defects”. And he also suggested that more
independent studies are required in order to evaluate the exact toxicity of
Roundup in our food supply. -Monsanto has been marketing and calling
Roundup “environmentally friendly”. In 1996 an attorney General in NY filed a
lawsuit against Monsanto for calling Roundup safe. Monsanto paid the New York
State 250,000 dollars to settle the lawsuit but didn’t admit any
wrongdoing. Attorney General of the State of New York. Consumer Frauds
and Protection Bureau. Environmental Protection Bureau. - In June 2012, the
Earth Open published a full report on how Roundup can cause birth
defects and failure in delivery.
Roundup and
birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?
- 98% of soybeans in Argentina are GMOs. In
2009 200 million liters of glyphosate was sprayed in farms of Argentina.
Although at the time GMO soy helped with Argentina’s economy and poor
farmers, in several years the residents close to farms that were sprayed with Roundup
started developing cancers and birth defects. Many farmers also lost their
livestock and glyphosate caused malformation in chicken embryos.
GM's Soya 'miracle' turns sour in Argentina
GM's Soya now Linked to Illnesses in Farm Pigs
-The study below is performed by Andres Carrasco,
the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the University of
Buenos Aires about harms of Roundup. Interesting enough Andres Carrasco
and his colleague faced a mob attack before his speech about the correlation
between Round up and birth defects. Andres Carrasco made it safely to his car,
but his other colleagues were not that lucky and one of them got paralyzed and
the other one was knocked unconscious. Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Produce
Teratogenic Effects on Vertebrates by Impairing Retinoic Acid Signaling
Even Andres
Carrasco points out that the malfunction in chicken embryos by Roundup is
similar to the birth defects of people in the regions that were sprayed by
Roundup. He also suggests that glyphosate can be a real toxic and
danger to human’s health. Glyphosate causes malformations in frog and chicken
embryos Right after this study, a group of farmers and environmentalists
requested a ban on Monsanto’s Roundup product in Argentina, but it was rejected.
Argentine herbicide lawsuit alarms soy farmers
However, in March 2012, Monsanto’s Roundup got banned
in some regions of Argentina by a regional court in Santa Fe province after
presenting a report on how both childhood cancer rate and birth defect had gone
up nearly four times more after the use of Monsanto’s glyphosate.
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby
doesn't want you to read about ...
- Dr. Huber a plant pathology professor at
University of Purdue discovered that Roundup was related to a mystery
organism in lab rats that was causing miscarriages. He wrote a letter to the
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack expressing his concern about this new
pathogen that can have significant side effects to the health of humans and
other species. He asked the secretary of agriculture to deregulate glyphosate
until further tests are performed. However none of Dr. Huber’s letters were
responded.
-In 2007 presidential election
Obama promised to label GMO food, but not only that he hasn’t made
any effort to label GMO foods, his policies have supported and promoted
genetically modified foods by appointing Mike Taylor, Monsanto’s former VP
and attorney as
the commissioner of FDA. Yet the EPA has done nothing, despite all the
promises that was made by EPA to evaluate the side effect of glyphosate on
human’s health. However, the EPA and FDA do not perform any
independent studies and completely rely on the studies performed by giant
agribusiness and chemical companies such as Dow, Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont and
BASF about the safety of a product.
Cancer cause
or crop aid? Herbicide faces big test:
The Toxin in Roundup so Dangerous It's Causing
Catastrophic Birth Defects. So currently the food companies are self regulating
many toxic foods and additives by calling them safe where the average
consumer is poisoned every day by these carcinogens in our food supply. These
big pesticide companies have declared a war on American freedom of choice by
refusing to label GMO. If GMO was good, the food industry would have
a big banner and label on foods called "GMO GREAT FOR YOUR HEALTH".
But instead they try to hide GMO under differnt names including natural.
GMO is the CREED of IGNORANCE and its INHERENT VIRTUE is ILLNESS and MISERY!
So, will you still trust big corportations?
As always, stay safe !
-Bird
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