Well, you had me until DDT, which was falsly villified for contributing to overpopulation by preventing Malaria. This may still be accurate but the false DDT reference makes me suspicious. I have always worried about GM crops and have actively avoided them to the point of avoiding corn for my family altogether. Will have to see where this goes....

Glyphosate's Toxicity

It should come as no surprise that sickness is becoming the normal state of health. Chronic diseases, once fairly rare, are now how we live and die. Diseases once seen almost exclusively in the elderly are now being seen in children. Autoimmune and neurological disorders are becoming common.

There are many potentially causative and contributory factors, but glyphosate has generally gotten a pass because it was considered "generally recognized as safe"—GRAS—for its apparently low toxicity. Indeed, short term studies appeared to confirm its innocence. However, long term studies of its effects on health weren't done until recently. The most insidious factor in glyphosate's toxicity has been the slow expression of harmful effects. Because of it, studies demonstrating glyphosate's insidious action inside the body—like those Samsel & Seneff reviewed—have been systematically ignored.

So glyphosate is now the most popular herbicide on earth, and that factor is driving the extent of harm it produces. It isn't just the fact of its toxicity that's at issue, it's the sheer volume of usage.

Samsel & Seneff's research is blowing away the smokescreen around the harmful effects of this monstrous product. They have provided specifics for how glyphosate can destroy health and produce the modern plague of chronic diseases.

Glyphosate: A Trajectory of Human Misery

The proven and probable effects of glyphosate are manifold. The meteoric rise in chronic diseases and metabolic disorders has occurred during the same time period that glyphosate was introduced, and has followed a trajectory much like that of the herbicide's massive increase in use.

At some point, officials in power must take their heads out of the sand and address the evidence that ties glyphosate to the epidemic of chronic diseases. Samsel and Seneff have now collected, sorted, and logically extrapolated on evidence from studies, and they leave little question that there must be an association between the herbicide and the phenomenon of mass ill health.

Samsel and Seneff do not oversell their findings. They clarify that glyphosate is not the only toxin in today's world. Nonetheless, its known effects on some of the human body's most basic functions—disruption of gut bacteria, impairment of sulphate transport, and interference with CYP enzyme activity—indicate that, at the very least, glyphosate must have a synergistic effect with other environmental toxins.

It is, therefore, imperative that—at the very least—a moratorium be declared on the use of glyphosate until and unless it can be demonstrated to be safe. Surely it's long past time to apply the precautionary principle to glyphosate and its partner in synergy, Roundup. The toll in human suffering, not to mention costs to society and economic losses, cannot be allowed to continue.

Surely civilization cannot be maintained when the average person is irrevocably ill. This trajectory of human misery must come to an end.

Monsanto is a criminal enterprise.

Star is being kind to Monsanto. One company has the power to poison and genetically change the whole world and our government is encouraging them to do it. I knew when Obama put that POS from Monsanto on his cabinet it was all over with. When Monsanto started getting bad press in the 80's who other than our dear friend Romney was hired to try to improve their image. WD I still have half a gallon jug of chlordane left. Mosquitoes were bad in my neighborhood and about once a week the local government would send a truck and fog the neighborhood with DDT. I would jump on my bicycle and follow behind the truck, was like riding in the clouds. Webster will tell you that's whats wrong with me today. Could actually be the truth, I have heart disease, Lupus and diabetes. I wish I had the power to destroy Monsanto but its probably too late. They're any which way the wind blows which is basically all over the planet. My kids and grandkids, what have we done to them?

And people are wondering why we are getting allergies to all sorts of of food ...
Yea that's your peanut has a gene from a shark in it, a gene from a horse and one from a cricket ...

Cool.
Srinath.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/01/13 at 10:29:03:


JOG you always had me against pharma and monsatan.
Cool.
Srinath.

I keep wondering when Monsanto is going to get into the pharmaceuticals business.  Then they'd have the perfect setup.

Produce the foods that make us sick and then produce the "medicines" that make us "better" when all we need is to consume real food.