Thousands march worldwide against the world’s most hated company, Monsanto

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Isabelle Z.
May 26, 2017

How can you tell if a company is truly evil? If actively covering up the fact that their highly profitable products cause cancer wasn’t your first clue, the knowledge that thousands of people around the world stage protests against them every year should illustrate the extent of their depravity quite nicely.

Of course, you might not have heard much about the 6th International March Against Monsanto, which was held on May 20, because the mainstream media simply does not cover it. The same outlets that are all too happy to show up when even small protests are held against Trump are conspicuously absent when people take to the streets in more than 200 cities across six continents to draw attention to a company that has caused irreparable harm to our planet and the life on it.

Why are they the world’s most hated company? Let’s count the ways. Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide contains the chemical glyphosate, which the World Health Organization labeled a “probable carcinogen.” It is so pervasive that it’s been found in rain samples, vaccines, baby formula, prenatal vitamins, breast milk and around 90 percent of our conventional food supply.

It’s now at the center of a slew of lawsuits that were filed by cancer patients or their loved ones, and it has also been linked to infertility and birth defects. It is also impacting the environment, leading to mass die-offs of butterflies and bees and polluting soil, water and air. Its use has risen 16-fold since GMO crops were introduced in the mid-90s, and it earned Monsanto nearly $4.76 billion in sales in 2015.

Taking evil to new heights

Promoting and selling a product to the public that you know is dangerous is bad enough, but the way that Monsanto has conducted itself in its dealings with the government, regulators, researchers, and the public takes their nefariousness to another level entirely.

Monsanto colluded with the EPA to cover up Roundup’s toxicity, resorting to such abhorrent measures as threatening and bullying scientists, smearing journalists who dare speak out against them, writing favorable research studies and paying scientists to sign off on them, and hiring a crew of trolls to search every corner of the internet – including people’s personal social media pages – for negative mentions of their products and counter them with false science. It’s easy to see why people all around the world from all walks of life are so riled up.

The Twitter hashtag #MarchAgainstMonsanto was flooded with pictures of peaceful protests around the planet. Around 1,500 people showed up in Basel, Switzerland, while 300 people took to the streets in Lyon, France. Protestors in Bordeaux, France held signs that said: “With nature, not against it.”

A crowd marched near Monsanto’s office in Buenos Aires, while demonstrators shouted anti-Monsanto sentiments in Ghana. People in cities from Lisbon and Miami to San Antonio and London voiced their concerns about the firm. Large demonstrations in Montreal and Toronto prompted a Monsanto Canada public affairs director to defend the firm on Twitter, where she quite predictably claimed there is no scientific proof that glyphosate causes cancer.

The message in all these places was the same regardless of location and language: Buy organic and local, or better yet, grow your own food. Eating food with an unknown origin is simply not worth the risk. Be sure to express your outrage over Monsanto by joining in next year’s march!

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EPA just approved another toxic herbicide linked to infertility, birth defects and lung cancer in both humans and animals

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Daniel Barker
December 7, 2016

The EPA has just approved the widespread use of a highly toxic herbicide called dicamba, a chemical which poses serious health risks to both animals and people. In doing so, the agency has turned its back on its legal obligation to assess any threat to endangered species, as well as its responsibility to protect human health.

Dicamba has been in use for years, and is an ingredient in more than 1,000 farming and gardening products. Under the EPA’s new guidelines, however, its use is expected to increase on a massive scale.

Dicamba use will increase current levels more than 20 times

The EPA approval covers the use of dicamba for spraying dicamba-resistant GMO cotton and soybean crops that were developed by (you probably already guessed it) Monsanto as an alternative to its glyphosate-resistant GM crops.

From The Daily Sheeple:

“Dicamba is part of Monsanto’s two-point plan: replace glyphosate (the main ingredient in the company’s best-selling RoundUp weed killer), as it increasingly comes under fire, and create public acceptance of the GM crops engineered to withstand dicamba.

“Monsanto’s own conservative estimates predict that dicamba use on soybeans will likely rise from around 233,000 pounds per year to 20.5 million pounds per year — and dicamba use on cotton could go from 364,000 pounds per year to 5.2 million pounds per year.”

Dicamba health risks

Like many other toxic herbicides, Dicamba can cause a range of serious negative health effects in both humans and animals. Dicamba exposure has been linked to lung cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, reproductive damage, birth defects and hormonal disruption.

Monsanto would like for people to believe that dicamba represents a safer alternative to glyphosate, but it is also a highly toxic herbicide that will have an as-yet unknown impact on the environment and human health when its use is so dramatically increased.

The danger posed to other crops by dicamba

Dicamba has recently been making headlines due to crop damage caused by drift. At least 10 states have reported widespread damage to thousands of acres of “non-target” crops, and in one case, a farmer was allegedly killed over a dicamba drift incident:

“Allegedly, a farmer on the Missouri-Arkansas border applied dicamba without a permit and caused significant damage to a neighboring farmer’s soy crop. An argument bubbled over, which led the shooting death of one farmer, and the arrest of the other.”

Much of the recent drift problem was caused by illegal spraying of dicamba, and Monsanto has been highly criticized for selling its dicamba-resistant seed before the EPA approved the herbicide for use.

This resulted in widespread illegal spraying and incidents of herbicide drift – one peach farmer in Missouri lost 30,000 trees. Drift damage from dicamba also affected watermelon, tomato, rice and many other crops as well as non-dicamba-resistant strains of soybean and cotton.

Monsanto’s new dicamba-based herbicide product – designed to work with its dicamba-resistant GM soybean and cotton seeds –  is theoretically formulated to minimize drift contamination, but some are highly skeptical about its true effectiveness, while others worry that many farmers will continue illegally using the old drift-prone dicamba products.

At any rate, the EPA’s approval means that tens of millions more pounds of carcinogenic poison will be dumped yearly into our soil, water and air as the result of a money-making scheme propagated by an evil monopoly bent on owning and genetically manipulating the world’s seed supply, while destroying biodiversity and marginalizing those who would rather rely on organic farming techniques.

Monsanto wins a major victory with the help of the EPA

It sounds like the plot of an improbable Hollywood disaster film, but it’s all too real. Monsanto – after losing much of its company’s stock value and being forced to lay off a sizable portion of its workforce in recent years – seems to be rebounding with new strategies to maintain its stranglehold on global agriculture and food production.

Of course, having the EPA in its pocket hasn’t hurt Monsanto’s cause, either. In the war against food freedom and biodiversity, it appears Monsanto has just won a decisive battle.

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Sources:

TheDailySheeple.com

BiologicalDiversity.org

EcoWatch.com

More Shocking Vaccine News: Common Vaccines Contaminated with Glyphosate!

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Dr. David Brownstein
September 3, 2016

Folks, I have written about the problems with vaccines in previous blog posts.  Now, a new serious contamination problem with our vaccines has been identified.

Researcher Anthony Samsel has published five peer-reviewed articles on the herbicide Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup®).

A yet-to-be published sixth paper found various commonly-used vaccines contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate.

Yes, you read that correctly:  Our vaccines are contaminated with an herbicide that the World Health Organization characterized as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

How can this happen?  That answer is easy.  Many vaccines contain animal byproducts such as gelatin, bovine casein, bovine serum, bovine calf serum, or chicken egg protein.  The animals from which these products come from are fed grains sprayed with glyphosate.  It does not take a rocket scientist to come to the conclusion that these animals, fed glyphosate in their diet, would contain glyphosate in their byproducts.

Samsel sent a letter to Congress that stated, “I have run numerous groups of vaccines and identified several vectors of contamination.  These include the excipient gelatins, egg protein and or similar substrates used to grow vaccines. I have found gelatins and egg proteins contaminated with Glyphosate-based herbicides from animals fed a glyphosate contaminated diet. This contamination carries into thousands of consumer products i.e. vitamins, protein powders, wine, beer and other consumables which use gelatins as part of the product or in fining and processing.”

What did Samsel hear back?  He heard nothing.  In other words, our do-nothing Congress, so far, has failed to respond.

In his letter to Congress, Samsel also stated that Glyphosate is a synthetic amino acid.  It bioaccumulates and is found in all tissue types, particularly the bone and marrow of animals fed a diet contaminated with Glyphosate residues.

You can see Dr. Samsel talk about his research here:   http://www.tonu.org/2016/08/31/vaccine-glyphosate-link

The following vaccines were found to be contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate:  MMR, Varicella (chicken pox), Zostavax (shingles), Proquad (MMR, rubella, varicella),  Fluzone Quad (flu vaccine) and Hepatitis B (B Energix-B).  Multiple vaccines from different manufactures were found to be contaminated.

Folks, this is a big deal.  Injecting a vaccine contaminated with a known herbicide that is “probably carcinogenic to humans” should be prohibited.  We need a Congressional investigation into our vaccines.

We keep hearing the mantra that vaccines are safe.  Injecting a vaccine containing an herbicide is safe?

Give me a break!

It is time to call your Congressmen and women and tell them to investigate this matter.
I can assure you that it is not safe to inject a known neurotoxin such as mercury or aluminum.  Nor is it safe to inject a known carcinogen such as formaldehyde.

Guess what?

It is not safe to inject an herbicide that is a probable human carcinogen.

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David Brownstein, M.D. is a Board-Certified family physician and is one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, MI. Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice.

Copyright © 2016 Dr. David Brownstein

Sharp limits on glyphosate coming to Italy; meanwhile EPA wants to raise ‘acceptable’ exposure levels for Americans

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Daniel Barker
August 31, 2016

Italy’s Ministry of Health has imposed sweeping new restrictions on the use of the cancer-causing herbicide glyphosate, a move that represents one of the “largest bans on both consumer and agricultural use of the controversial substance.”

The new restrictions cover a wide range of applications, including the use of glyphosate near schools and other public areas where “vulnerable groups” such as children and the elderly risk being affected by exposure to the carcinogenic substance.

From Sustainable Pulse:

“The list of banned areas includes parks, gardens and courtyards, the edges of roads and railways, urban areas, sports fields and recreational areas, playgrounds and green areas within the school buildings, and areas adjacent to health facilities.

“In addition, the pre-harvest use of Glyphosate – a process known as desiccation – has been banned. The desiccation of crops by spraying glyphosate is a primary source for residual pesticide contamination at the consumer level. Finally, the non-agricultural use of glyphosate is banned on soils composed 80% or more of sand–a measure designed to protect groundwater from contamination.”

A brief history of Europe’s ‘Great Glyphosate Rebellion’

Italy has now become the second EU member state – along with Malta – to announce new restrictions inspired by the “Great Glyphosate Rebellion” that swept through the continent earlier this year, as the deadline for re-approval of the use of glyphosate approached.

A series of articles published by Sustainable Pulse throughout 2016 detail the birth and evolution of the Great Glyphosate Rebellion.

The next few paragraphs are a summary of the important developments:

Initially, the EU was set to vote in 2016 on the re-approval of glyphosate use until 2031, but when it became apparent that many member states would not vote in favor of the long-term extension, the vote was postponed until the end of an 18-month temporary license extension that was granted by the European Commission.

Public pressure played a great part in convincing member state leaders to oppose the long-term extension. More than 1.5 million European and international citizens signed a petition calling for a ban on glyphosate use (the number of signatures has now surpassed 2 million), and their voices were heard. In April, the European Parliament called for a ban on all private use of the substance, as well as a ban on using glyphosate around parks and playgrounds.

The proposed ban also included the prohibition of glyphosate spraying before harvest, and called for the “immediate disclosure of all scientific evidence used by the European Food Safety Authority to back up its claim that glyphosate is unlikely to cause harm.”

The European Commission twice failed in 2016 to secure enough support from member states to vote for long-term re-approval, which led to the 18-month temporary extension.

Now that the temporary extension is in place, and EU member states are beginning to impose nationwide glyphosate bans, the widespread use of the deadly chemical may be nearing an end in Europe.

That’s great news for European citizens who successfully banded together in opposition to the use of the controversial substance.

The disturbing contrast back home in the U.S.

Meanwhile in the United States, the situation is quite different. In 2013, the EPA quietly raised acceptable limits of glyphosate with almost no warning or debate, and the public took little notice.

The agency doubled the acceptable glyphosate residue levels of oilseed crops, including soybean, sesame and flax. The FDA also raised acceptable glyphosate residue levels of sweet potatoes and corn by 15 and 25 times the previous limits, respectively.

It’s a sad fact that Americans seem to care little about the widespread use of a cancer-causing chemical, while Europeans are uniting in great numbers to clean up their environment through meaningful bans and restrictions.

Of course, this is partly due to a failed and sold-out regulatory system that does virtually nothing to encourage public input and debate. However, ultimately it is our responsibility as citizens to unite and stand up in opposition to those who are poisoning our food and environment – while raking in billions of dollars in profits.

Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse.

Source: NaturalNews.com

Sources:

SustainablePulse.com

SustainablePulse.com

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CommDigiNews.com

Monsanto Just Gave Us On More Reason To Grow Food, Not Lawns

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Christina Sarich
August 3, 2016

That unassuming patch of green you call your lawn has an interesting history, and it is one you might find eye-opening considering Monsanto’s latest bid to take it over.

The sprawling carpet of lush grass was once a sign of wealth for nobility. Sure, we used to run through the tall grasses, and even hide from predators in the African Savanna, but the lawn more recently has become a symbol of status. For the upper class of 17th century Europe, the lawn was not a means to hunt dinner, or even grow food like fruit trees, tomatoes, peas, or corn, but to show off a massive castle or mansion.

In the 1650s, immigrants to America brought grass seeds with them and started to spread them around. The grass seeds were so coveted that they were often hand carried in small bundles.

Remnants of this history can be seen in American cities named such things as ‘Bowling Green,’ in areas like Virginia and Boston. The wealthy, who could afford lawns, later began to play games on them.

Today, the lawn has become a time-consuming, useless magnet for pesticide pollution. No longer a stretch of artificial glade, the lawn is now ground zero for a Scotts Miracle-Gro merger with Monsanto to unleash genetically modified grass that can withstand the spraying of carcinogenic RoundUp, Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide. Notice that the word grow is missing a ‘w’ in the name. That’s because nothing grows when you spray glyphosate. It is asystemic herbicide which moves through the plant itself. It kills not just ‘weeds,’ but other plants growing in your garden.

Moreover, though industry-supported studies say that glyphosate is minimally toxic to bees, other peer-reviewed findings say the opposite. One groundbreaking study found that glyphosate causes bees to starve to death. Other studies have shown that pesticides like Roundup cause bees to be more forgetful, making it more difficult for them to find flowers which contain pollen for honey-making.

Anecdotal evidence for third-generation beekeepers also points to glyphosate as a culprit for killing our pollinating insects. This is a side-effect of spraying our lawns with Miracle-Gro laced with Round Up.

Scotts previously teamed up with Monsanto to make glyphosate-based herbicides for golf courses, though they ran into a bit of trouble in the process of getting it legally to market. The company was fined $500,000 when a creeping GMO grass was found in parts of Oregon where it could have contaminated pasture land or non-GM grain fields.

Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-tolerant grass is in trials, due to a new legal loophole that has allowed biotech varieties, such as the CRISPR-edited white button mushroom, to bypass government regulations. Scotts’ grass is supposed to grow more slowly than conventional grass so that it doesn’t have to be maintained as frequently.

Another, perhaps more compassionate and responsible option? Rip out your lawn and grow some food. That’s what many families are now doing, instead of perpetuating the ruling class legacy of a sprawling lawn which has now become toxic.

Read More At: UndergroundReporter.org

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The Whole Truth About Whole Foods: Shocking New Min-Documentary Excoriated This Deceptive, Fraudulent Corporation For Becoming The Monsanto Of Food Retailing

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Mike Adams
August 6, 2016

I’ve just released a damning new mini-documentary called The WHOLE TRUTH about Whole Foods. Click here to watch it now.

This mini-documentary reveals how Whole Foods has become a supporter of Monsanto, deliberately deceiving health-conscious food consumers into falsely believing that Whole Foods Market stores sell no products containing GMOs, heavy metals or toxic pesticides and herbicides.

In truth, Whole Foods Market stores are loaded with unlabeled GMOs, heavy metals, toxic pesticides and even glyphosate herbicide.

Marketing fraud and deliberate deception

The Whole Foods corporation deliberately deceives its consumers by making false, fraudulent claims that its stores sell “Nothing artificial, ever” when, in reality, Whole Foods Market stores are filled with artificially engineered food crops (GMOs) which, to this day, remain unlabeled.

As this mini-documentary reveals, Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb has mastered the language of healthy eating and sustainability in order to deceive Whole Foods consumers into thinking his company is acting in their best interests. Yet behind the scenes, Whole Foods was a major force behind the pushing of the Monsanto-inspired anti GMO labeling law that President Obama just signed.

Now, thanks to the efforts of Whole Foods and Monsanto, all GMO labeling laws across America have just been obliterated, replaced by a federal non-labeling scheme that will financially benefit both Monsanto and Whole Foods. See SELL OUT: Whole Foods partners with Monsanto to endorse fake GMO-labeling bill that’s actually an ANTI-labeling bill with zero penalties for non-compliance.

What Whole Foods and Monsanto have in common is that they both benefit from the deception of selling unlabeled GMOs to unwitting consumers.

Click here to watch the entire mini-documentary now (and share this with everyone you know).

Learn how Whole Foods promotes chemical violence against women and children in this eye-opening story: BETRAYED! Whole Foods and the Organic Trade Association just plowed right through American food consumers like the terrorist truck rampage in France (op ed).

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Monsanto’s GMO Wheat Found Growing Illegally AGAIN…This Time In Washington

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Isabelle Z.
August 4, 2016

A farmer has found 22 illegal plants of genetically modified wheat in an unplanted Washington field, sparking fears of another international trade fiasco like the one that occurred three years ago when similar wheat was found growing illegally in Oregon.

The wheat, which has been developed to be resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is unapproved for sale and commercial production in this country. The exact location of the wheat plants in question has not been released, and it’s not clear how it got there in the first place. It is being reported that the field where it was found had not been planted since last year.

Federal officials are working together with the farmer to make sure the modified wheat is not sold. They will be testing the farmer’s entire harvest of wheat to make sure none of it is tainted with GMOs. The wheat they have tested so far has all come up clear, and the USDA claims there is no evidence that this wheat has made its way into the market.

The plants found in Washington are eerily similar to wheat that was discovered three years ago in Oregon. The inserted DNA in the plant is the same, although it appears in a different location.

Similar discovery led other countries to ban American wheat in 2013

When genetically modified wheat was discovered in an eastern Oregon field in 2013, a number of Asian countries placed a temporary ban on American wheat imports, including Japan and South Korea, while the European Union began to scrutinize American wheat. The plants involved were discovered after being sprayed with Roundup and surviving. An investigation failed to uncover how the plants got there.

In light of the Washington finding, South Korea, the fifth biggest market for American wheat, has already said it will be inspecting all American wheat imports for signs of GMOs. The USDA said it would make a test available to trading partners. Washington Grain Commission CEO Glen Squires said be believes trading partners will continue to buy the wheat once they have the tests, and he added that he doesn’t anticipate major trade disruptions taking place as a result. Prices on wheat are nearing multi-year lows thanks to tight competition in the international market.

Genetically engineered wheat is illegal for commercial use and production in the U.S. and throughout the world. Monsanto admitted that GMO wheat plants were used during field trails between 1998 and 2001 in the Pacific Northwest, but they were never commercialized. Illegal GMO wheat was also discovered at a university research center in Montana, 14 years after Monsanto had tested it there.

Possibilities of contamination high

Part of the problem is that wheat pollen can blow into neighboring fields, which means it is fairly easy for crops to become contaminated. Wheat is also capable of self-pollination, which means there is no telling just how far the GM wheat from Monsanto’s open-air tests could have spread. It seems to be popping up unexpectedly even more than a decade after the tests. This places the integrity of our nation’s wheat crops at risk, and it means that short of growing your own organic fruits and vegetables at home, there is little that can be done to ensure that the food you consume is completely pure.

Farmers aren’t happy about the possible contamination, and the tests used to check for purity can be quite expensive. Monsanto shelled out $2.4 million in order to settle a lawsuit that was filed by American wheat farmers in the fallout of the Oregon GMO wheat scare. In 2015, the firm paid a further $350,000 to various farmers for the same problem. Of course, these amounts barely make a dent in the firm’s bottom line as their annual profits number in the billions.

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Glyphosate Disrupts DNA Function, Causing ‘Medical Chaos’ In The Form Of Multiple Diseases Including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Say Researchers

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Julie Wilson
July 26, 2016

Nearly half a century has passed since Monsanto scientist John Franz first discovered glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, which today is sprayed heavily all over the globe, including on our food and water, and in recreational areas where people go for leisure.

However, it is only now that scientists are beginning to truly understand the way this insidious chemical affects not only wildlife and the environment, but also the human body and its intricate biological functions.

A recent review of the scientific literature conducted by independent researchers Anthony Samsel, Ph.D. and Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D. – a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – uncovered some disturbing information about the way glyphosate interferes with the structure and functionality of important proteins in the human body.

What they learned is that glyphosate behaves as a glycine analogue that incorporates peptides during protein synthesis, according to AlterNet. In other words, the herbicide alters various proteins dependent “on conserved glycine for proper function.”

Glyphosate found to adversely impact structure and function of important proteins

When the human body substitutes glyphosate for glycine, it leads to a host of serious illnesses including diabetes, obesity, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s disease, among other conditions, according to the study’s authors.

“Glycine, the smallest amino acid commonly found in proteins, has unique properties that support flexibility and the ability to anchor to the plasma membrane or the cytoskeleton.

“This new direct biological evidence, taken together with correlational data, make a compelling case that glyphosate action as a glycine analogue accounts for much of glyphosate’s toxicity,” explains AlterNet, interpreting the researchers’ data.

Researchers say that when glyphosate behaves as an amino acid analogue of glycine, it can be incorporated into polypeptide chains during protein synthesis, which in turn affects the structure and function of important proteins in the human body.

Metabolic and regulatory processes may be disrupted by widely used herbicide

“Proteins fold up, and glycine is a small molecule that is often found at the folding places. Since glyphosate is much larger, it prevents the protein molecule from folding properly, leading to the disruption of function of many proteins with essential roles in metabolism and regulatory processes.”

Samsel and Seneff highlight a number of ways that this may affect humans, as well as other organisms, including the potential that “impaired fatty acid release” could lead to obesity and diabetes, because the chemical can disrupt the behavior of insulin receptors.

The researchers observed that glyphosate may prevent proteins from folding properly, causing “impaired one-carbon metabolism,” leading to neural tube defects and autism.

Researchers explain how glyphosate may cause autism, cancer and autoimmune diseases

It’s highly plausible that the herbicide may also disrupt “cell cycle control during DNA synthesis, and disregulated phosphorylation cascades,” which can end up causing cancer, complications with the lungs and autoimmune diseases.

Needless to say, the adverse effects glyphosate has on humans and other living things is absolutely frightening, and we still don’t understand the full extent of its impact. Nearly every chronic illness affecting Americans today can be traced back to glyphosate.

Yet, we can’t even get our regulatory agencies (namely the EPA) to recognize its carcinogenic effects, let alone the host of other debilitating, painful diseases it’s causing among humans.

“When a cell is trying to form proteins, it may grab glyphosate instead of glycine to form a damaged, mis-folded protein. After that it’s medical chaos. Where glyphosate replaces glycine, the cell can no longer conduct business as usual causing unpredicted consequences with many diseases and disorders as a result,” explains Stephen Frantz, Ph.D., a research pathobiologist.

While it’s essentially impossible to avoid exposure to glyphosate, you can take control of your health by boosting your immune system with clean, healthy foods such as The Health Ranger’s Organic Bee Pollen, sourced solely from carefully selected beekeepers in Spain.

Sources:

AlterNet.org

Roundup.ca

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Study: Glyphosate proves incredibly hazardous to women, affecting fertility while promoting uterine cancer

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Isabelle Z.
July 21, 2016

The current issue of the Toxicology journal, details the first study in glyphosate’s more than 40 years on the market, to study its effects on uterine development. In the study, a group of researchers injected newborn rats with a commercial dose of glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH), while a control group was given a saline solution.

The researchers found that the rats who were exposed to GBH showed signs of morphological changes in their uteri from exposure as early as a week after being born. The GBH group also showed altered expression of the proteins responsible for uterine organo-genetic differentiation. This is very significant, and can mean changes in the form of embryos, such as birth deformities or being born with three ears, for example. It was also shown to affect their organs.

The findings led the researchers to conclude that glyphosate exposure affects female fertility, and could even promote the development of uterine cancer. In addition, glyphosate herbicides can disrupt the endocrine function of prepubescent rats, which indicates that the chemicals are likely endocrine disruptors.

‘Safe’ dose responsible for uterine effects

The dose of glyphosate that was found to disrupt the rats’ uterine development was based on the reference dose of the substance that regulators have claimed is safe for daily consumption over the course of one’s lifetime: 2 mg per kg of body weight each day.

This study’s findings are hardly surprising to those who are familiar with the well-documented ill effects of glyphosate, but it is notable that it was carried out and published in the first place. After all, GMO chemical firms like Monsanto do their best to make sure that unbiased scientists are not able to study the dangers of their products and release their findings.

Of course, no one should be surprised when the agrochemical lobby tries to discount these findings and/or discredit the researchers. After all, that has been their modus operandi for a number of years, and they have been quite successful in getting their product to remain on the market despite its very real dangers and being labeled by the World Health Organization as a “probable carcinogen.”

The findings are significant because glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup are the most widely used in the world, with more than four fifths of all edible agricultural GMOs being sprayed with the substance.

While glyphosate is indeed very dangerous on its own, it is typically combined with adjuvants that have been found to be 1,000 times more toxic than glyphosate alone. Monsanto and other firms refuse to disclose the identities of the adjuvants that they use, claiming patent proprietary rights, while risking human health and even life in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Glyphosate already known to cause birth defects

A report released by Earth Open Source in 2011, revealed that regulators have known that Roundup causes birth defects since 1980. In addition, it is common knowledge that high rates of miscarriage have been noted in women who live in areas of Argentina where Roundup Ready soy is sprayed with glyphosate.

None of us want to be exposed to harmful toxins like glyphosate, but the truth is that we are seemingly bombarded with them from every angle in modern life. One way you can neutralize the free radicals that may damage DNA is by taking astaxanthin, one of the most important nutrients there is for human health.

It can help protect against environmental stresses, UV radiation and oxidation. It comes from algae, and is all-natural. In fact, astaxanthin is what gives salmon its pink color as well as its incredible energy for swimming against strong currents. With so many dangerous substances in our environment, we need all the strength we can get to remain healthy and have a fighting chance for lifelong health.

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Glyphosate Disrupts Uterus Study Finds

Source: Journal-Neo.org
F. William Engdahl
July 11, 2016

One of the most difficult aspects of demonstrating the possible risks of GMOs and their paired chemical herbicides such as Monsanto Roundup containing glyphosate is that the GMO chemical companies make it virtually impossible for serious, unbiased scientists to test possible dangers. An uncharacteristically huge resistance inside the member countries of the EU among the population and various NGOs has three times forced a postponement of EU Commission decision to renew the EU license for glyphosate. In 2015 an agency of the World Health Organization labeled glyphosate a “probable carcinogen. Now a team of scientists has published their peer-review findings discovering serious damage to the uterus of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world’s most-used weed-killer. Other alarming signs of high glyphosate toxicity also to humans are being documented as well.

In an article published in the current issue of the international scientific journal, Toxicology, researchers injected a group of newborn rats with a commercial dosage of glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) and a control group with a saline solution to compare. Astonishingly, it was the first test in the 42 years since Monsanto first brought glyphosate to market as the main component of its most popular weed-killer, Roundup, that tested effects on uterine development of glyphosate-based herbicide exposure. The results are hair-raising and ought to have been featured on the front page of every major world press.

Among the findings of the researchers was that GBH-exposed uteri showed morphological changes when they are exposed for only 7 days after birth. Further, GBH treatment also altered the expression of proteins involved in uterine organo-genetic differentiation. ⁱ For the layperson, morphological change in an embryo in a uterus is pretty major, to put it mildly. It means a change in form of the embryo, say a born rat with three ears or grossly deformed head. Altered expression of organo-genetic differentiation means that the GBH diet also affected the very organs of the embryo.

The study’s authors concluded that exposure to glyphosate herbicide may affect female fertility and/or promote the development of uterine cancer. They also report endocrine-disrupting effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on the uterus of newborn and pre-pubertal rats, supporting the possibility that glyphosate-based herbicides might be endocrine disruptors. The dose of herbicide found to disrupt uterine development in the rats was 2 mg per kg of bodyweight per day, based on the US “reference dose” of pure glyphosate that regulators deem safe to consume every day of our lives for a lifetime.

Adjuvants far more toxic

While the Toxicology study tested injected doses of glyphosate-based herbicides on newborn rat uteri, the Monsanto GMO agrochemical lobby will clearly try to ignore the findings claiming that tests should be made on oral exposures not subcutaneous injected doses to most replicate the transmission path humans world be exposed to. The authors counter that as the newborn would still be feeding directly from the mother, injections are a legitimate measure of exposure.

Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides are the most widely used pesticides in the world. Their residues from crop spraying have been found to be among the main pollutants in surface waters. Today more than 80% of edible agricultural GMOs are sprayed with Roundup or other glyphosate-based herbicides.

French leading endocrinologist Gilles-Eric Serralini of Caen University, who has studied hormonal disruption by carcinogens in rats for over thirty years, summarizes the three decades of his group’s research into toxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides. Seralini points out, “They are composed of glyphosate (35–40% in general) and adjuvants that are around 1,000 times more toxic than glyphosate alone, and are also endocrine disruptors below toxic thresholds.”

The French researcher notes, “We studied Roundup’s mammalian toxic effects and its role in endocrine disruption at a time when it was considered as safe as water. Regulatory authorities considered it ridiculous to question its safety.” His researches concluded that since glyphosate is apparently not a steroid-like molecule, “even if it has some endocrine-disruptive activities, we searched for other compounds, hidden in the Roundup formulation, which could be responsible for the aromatase disruption. By 2005 we had concluded that the adjuvants exercised this toxic effect, even if glyphosate alone was demonstrated to bind the active site of aromatase at higher levels, in a semi-irreversible manner.”

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F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”