90% of the
food in the supermarket is grown using
Roundup... Organic food is now allowed to contain a percentage of GMO.Soon the
corporations will push the FDA into allowing
Roundup on organic food.
Roundup herbicide was manufactured by Monsanto and is one of the worlds most widely used herbicides around the world. Within the past few years, numerous studies have emerged linking its main ingredient, glyphosate, to a number of health ailments that include cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and more. Sri Lanka recently joined the long list ( and growing) of countries who have completely banned it, citing a link to deadly kidney disease. You can read more about that and view other studies here. Russia also became the latest country to completely ban GMOs, you can read more about that here.
Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Found To Be 125X More Toxic Than Regulators Claim
Roundup herbicide was manufactured by Monsanto and is one of the worlds most widely used herbicides around the world. Within the past few years, numerous studies have emerged linking its main ingredient, glyphosate, to a number of health ailments that include cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and more. Sri Lanka recently joined the long list ( and growing) of countries who have completely banned it, citing a link to deadly kidney disease. You can read more about that and view other studies here. Russia also became the latest country to completely ban GMOs, you can read more about that here.
A new study published in the journal Biomedical Research International shows that Roundup herbicide is 125 times more toxic than its active ingredient glyphosate studied in isolation.(1) The eye opening abstract reads as follows:
“Pesticides are used throughout the world as mixtures called formulations. They contain adjuvants, which are often kept confidential and are called inerts by the manufacturing companies, plus
a declared active principle, which is usually tested alone. We tested
the toxicity of 9 pesticides, comparing active principles and their
formulations, on three human cell lines. Glyphosate, isoproturon,
fluroxypyr, pirimicarb, imidacloprid, acetamiprid, tebuconazole,
epoxiconazole, and prochloraz constitute, respectively, the active
principles of 3 major herbicides, 3 insecticides, and 3 fungicides.
Despite its relatively benign reputation, Roundup was among the most
toxic herbicides and insecticides tested. Most importantly, 8
formulations out of 9 were up to one thousand times more toxic than
their active principles. Our results challenge the relevance of the
acceptable daily intake for pesticides because this norm is calculated
from the toxicity of the active principle alone. Chronic tests on
pesticides may not reflect relevant environmental exposures if only one
ingredient of these mixtures is tested alone.” (1)
Greenmedinfo
describes it perfectly, stating that this just further illustrates the
“deceptive semantics of pesticide formulations and their regulation.”
This paper does indeed prove that the agrochemical industry conceals the
truth about how toxic their chemicals really are, is this not a crime?
Is this not mass poisoning through deception? Who exactly is setting the
‘acceptable’ amount when it’s clear there should be no acceptable
amount at all?
It’s also worth mentioning here that the
African Center for Bio-safety orders Monsanto to stop making false
claims about GMOs, you can find out more about that here.
“The problem of underestimated
toxicological risk is so severe that the researchers describe previous
research which found unexpected toxicity in so-called ‘inert’ adjuvants
that were up to 10,000 times more toxic than the so-called active
principle glyphosate itself, revealing them to be a greater source for
secondary side effects than the main ingredient itself. They
also note that this ‘synergistic toxicity’ may explain the results of
previous long-term animal research where glyphosate-based formulations
showed toxicity in the parts per trillion range that could not be
explained by glyphosate alone” (2)(3)
If you think about it, it seems
insidious that Roundup herbicide is still heavily used in North America
despite the numerous studies that have surfaced illustrating its extreme
toxicity. It’s time for North America to do what what many other
countries have already done, completely ban these pesticides and the
GMOs that go with them.
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