Roundup.
Kills weeds, fast.
Is cheap.
Gets the job done.
But what else does it do?
Dr Stephanie Seneff, a senior MIT
scientist, co-authored a report in April last year (that was only ratified in
November) that found Roundup directly responsible for ever-increasing levels of
neurological damage. The report found that the herbicide Roundup, a signature
product of agro-giant Monsanto, uses glyphosate as its active ingredient. The
study focused on the exposure of humans to glyphosate and found that the
ingredient damages gut bacteria. According to Dr Seneff, when gut bacteria is
altered by outside influences/toxins, it cannot break down nutrients (amino
acids and vitamins etc), starving the brain from the essentials it needs to
maintain and develop.
“Many neurological disorders
including autism, depression, anxiety disorder and Parkinson’s disease are
associated with abnormal sleep patterns, which are directly linked to pineal
gland dysfunction. The pineal gland is highly susceptible to environmental
toxicants. Two pervasive substances in modern industrialised nations are
aluminium and glyphosate, the active ingredients in the herbicide Roundup. In
this paper, we show how these two toxicants work synergistically to introduce
neurological damage.”
In the paper, Dr Seneff and her
colleagues, Chen Li and Nancy Swanson, provide irrefutable evidence linking the
use of Roundup and autism in young people. Dr Seneff got her data on glyphosate
use on crops from the Department of Agriculture and correlated the data with
the CDC data on neurological disorders.
So what was Monsanto’s defence?
They claim that Dr Seneff and her independent team made a “correlation/causation”
error. They also claim that increasing cases of autism and the increasing use
of Roundup “may not be directly related”.
Monsanto hired three “internationally
recognised toxicologists” to publish a risk assessment of the use of glyphosate
and Roundup. This assessment found that Roundup and glyphosate had “low acute
toxicity”, that the use of Roundup- “does not pose a health risk to humans” and
that “Glyphosate is not a carcinogen”.
It is not clear how they came to
these conclusions. The three “internationally recognised toxicologists” are not
named. The report is not fully published and is inconclusive. In the report,
they claim to have fed mice and rats “extremely high doses of glyphosate every
day for two years”. It has long been established that the testing of products
and substances on rodents for a presumption of knowledge on human reaction is
futile, given the differences between human and rodent DNA.
There was a law recently passed
regarding GMO labelling, stating that all GMO producers must declare what’s in
their products. Monsanto are challenging the law under the first amendment,
claiming that the law will force them to “speak” against their will.
“This is crazy”, you may say.
However, this follows the
Citizens United ruling that gives corporations the same rights as people.
Monsanto claims that their “corporate constitutional rights are being violated”.
Ridiculously, Monsanto have a case.
You may decide to avoid using
Roundup to avoid ingestion of glyphosate.
I’m afraid I’ve got some bad
news.
Glyphosate has been around since
the 70s. It is regularly used with crops, especially wheat and genetically
modified soy and corn plants. If it contains wheat, corn or soy, it probably
has been exposed to glyphosate. Soft drinks, bread, milk, soy milk, and many
other products contain this deadly ingredient.
In 2000, autism was prevalent in
1 in 150 children. In 2010, autism was prevalent in 1 in 68 children.
That is an increase of almost
120% in just 10 years.
Never accept the world with which
you are presented.
Never stop asking questions.
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