Monsanto's Glyphosate Slammed as a likely Carcinogen

[Bob]

Monsanto who brought to the world GMO's, RoundUP, numerous gene modification techniques to make frankenfoods, has been dealt a slap -

Glyphosate, a herbicide widely marketed by Monsanto Co. and other companies, likely has the potential to cause cancer in humans, a World Health Organization agency said Friday.

The determination, published by researchers for the International Agency for Research on Cancer in a U.K. medical journal, is likely to fuel further debate over the safety of the heavily used agricultural chemical, which Monsanto sells under the Roundup brand.

Glyphosate is the most-used herbicide in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Farmers have ramped up its use over the past two decades with the advent of genetically modified crops, including corn and soybeans, which can withstand sprayings of the chemical. Herbicide-tolerant biotech plants were grown on 94% of U.S. soybean fields and 89% of U.S. corn fields last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In classifying glyphosate as potentially cancer-causing, the international research agency cited studies of occupational exposure to glyphosate in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, which they wrote showed “increased risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma” along with a positive trend for some ailments in mice in separate studies.

Anyone you know has gotten the non-Hodgkin Lymphoma? Maybe there is a way to find some relief.

Monsanto insists that its crops be planted only after ROUNDUP products have been used on the soil, to kill off anything that is not Glyphosate resistant.

references:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/who...nic-2015-03-20

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mit...utism-by-2025/ - "MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Herbicide will Cause Half of All Children to Have Autism by 2025"

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/understa...ic-information - Hodgkins

[Omni]

Anything bad for Monsanto is a victory for mankind. Thanks for this Bob.

[Flash]

My brother had non Hodgkin lymphoma. How come he did and we did not .... yet, his siblings?

We were raised surrounded by potatoe farmers and I am sure they were using it years ago. We must be quite contaminated. I am sorry for our kids.

[Bob]

The Glyphosate Insanity

Glyphosate, commonly known by its original trade name Roundup™ (manufactured by Monsanto), is the world’s most widely used herbicide.

Glyphosate-based herbicides are manufactured by many companies in many countries.

FACTS:

Glyphosate is sprayed on numerous crops and plantations, including nearly 80% of genetically modified (GM) crops (canola, corn, cotton, soybean, sugar beet); with relatively high levels permitted as residues in food and animal feed.

It is used as a pre-harvest desiccant, and because it is a systemic herbicide it cannot be completely removed from food by washing, peeling or processing.

It is widely used in home gardens and public places including roadsides.

Human exposure is widespread and constantly recurring.


EXPOSURE ISSUES to HUMANS AND ANIMALS

Widespread poisonings have occurred in Latin America as a result of aerial spraying of GM soybean crops, and of coca crops in Colombia—effects being recorded as far as 10 km away from supposed spray zone.

The coca spraying (instigated by a US government funded program to eliminate cocaine production in Colombia) has also resulted in widespread animal deaths and food crop losses.

Symptoms of poisoning

Symptoms of poisoning commonly reported from unintentional exposure ro Glyphosate include:

• vomiting,
• diarrhoea,
• abdominal pain,
• gastrointestinal infections,
• itchy or burning skin,
• skin rashes and infections (particularly prevalent in children),
• blisters,
• burning or weeping eyes,
• blurred vision,
• conjunctivitis,
• headaches,
• fever,
• rapid heartbeat,
• palpitations,
• raised blood pressure,
• dizziness,
• chest pains,
• numbness,
• insomnia,
• depression,
• debilitation,
• difficulty in breathing,
• respiratory infections,
• dry cough,
• sore throat, and
• unpleasant taste in the mouth.

OTHER

Other effects reported include:

• balance disorder,
• reduced cognitive capacity,
• seizures,
• impaired vision,
• smell,
• hearing,
• taste,
• drop in blood pressure,
• twitches and tics,
• muscle paralysis,
• peripheral neuropathy,
• loss of gross and fine motor skills,
• excessive sweating, and
• severe fatigue.

Commonly sold to homeowners. "Remove unsightly weeds from cracks.."

These spray bottles have been known to leak at the spray handle. Right onto the skin where it can be absorbed.

VISIBLE RESULTS IN 3 HOURS !

Can you imagine the toxicity of something like that?



What about more kill for the buck?

Well there is a PRO version - Monsanto tells the user it is PERFECTLY SAFE !

Roundup Pro Biactive 450 is an advanced glyphosate weed killer that is ideal for providing control of both annual weeds, perennial weeds and broad leaved weeds. For use in non-crop areas such as roadsides, paths hard surfaces and alongside fences and walls. Ideal for cleaning up weedy ground prior to planting or sowing and total weed control on industrial sites.

Roundup 450 is the best weed killer for complete control of annual and perennial grass and broadleaved weeds. It works by blocking the plants enzyme system.

The enzymes that are present in plants do not present in humans, animals, birds or fish making this powerful glyphosate week killer safe to everything except green plants.

Let's get back to the REPORT

Very aggressive public relations and marketing by its developer, Monsanto, has resulted in the widespread belief that glyphosate is ‘safe’. Registration processes have generally supported this attitude, and there are no national or international bans.

However, independent scientific studies and widespread poisonings in Latin America (resulting from aerial application) are beginning to reveal the true effects of glyphosate-based herbicides.

Now France’s Supreme Court has upheld judgments by two previous courts that “Monsanto falsely advertised its herbicide as ‘biodegradable’ and claimed it ‘left the soil clean’” (Anon 2009).

Long-term Toxicity

Recently scientists have found harmful effects on human cells at levels of glyphosate too low to have a herbicidal effect, some at levels similar to those found in food.

These effects are amplified by the adjuvants in the Roundup formulation, which assist penetration of the cells by glyphosate. (SUCH AS SURFACTANTS, wetting agents..)

Several researchers have reported that glyphosate does appear to accumulate in human cells.

LOW LEVEL EXPOSURE Results

Laboratory studies have shown that very low levels of glyphosate, Roundup, POEA, and the metabolite AMPA all kill human umbilical, embryonic and placental cells.

Roundup can reduce sperm numbers, increase abnormal sperm, retard skeletal development, and cause deformities in amphibian embryos.

Exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides, even at very low doses may result in reproductive and hormonal problems, miscarriages, low birth weights, birth defects, and various cancers—
especially haematological cancers such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and hormonal cancers such as breast cancer.

Several epidemiological studies have linked exposure to glyphosate with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, hairy cell leukaemia, multiple myeloma, DNA damage; and one study with spontaneous abortions and pre-term deliveries.

Neurological

Glyphosate is assumed by regulators to have no neurological effects—the US EPA did not require neurotoxicity studies to be carried out for the registration of Roundup.

However there is emerging evidence that glyphosate can affect the nervous system, and in particular areas of the brain associated with Parkinson’s disease.

In one case study glyphosate exposure was linked to ‘symmetrical parkinsonian syndrome’.

An epidemiological study of children identified a link with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Other effects
Glyphosate damages liver cells and interferes with a number of enzymes important in metabolism.

HOW CAN WE RECOGNIZE if our GARDEN PRODUCT has this GLYPHOSATE in it? Sometimes it is disguised..

Trade names
Because glyphosate is so widely used and is off-patent, there are now very many generic formulations.

—Malaysia alone had 311 registered formulations containing glyphosate in February 2009
—so there is a very large number of trade names.

In many cases glyphosate formula concentrations can be identified by the word G360, G450, G510, or G580, preceded by a trader’s name.

The number indicates the concentration of glyphosate in the formulation, i.e. G360 has 360 g/l of glyphosate.

In some cases only the term ‘Herbicide’ is used, preceded by a variety of names such as:

• Farmers
• Own,
• Growers,
• Harvest, etc.

Others make a play on the original product ‘Roundup’ by including ‘up’ in the name:

• Bright Up,
• Conto-Up,
• Dry-Up,
• Farm Up,
• Foldup,
• KenUp,
• Kleenup,
• Klin-Up,
• Move-Up,
• Set-Up,
• Sunup,
• Take-Up,
• Touch Up,
• Wes-Up,
• Zap Up

Or the opposite, ‘down’ (Touchdown, Turndown); or ‘round’ (Myround, Roundsate, Seround).

Some names are variations of the word glyphosate:

• Glifosate,
• Glifosato,
• Glyfo,
• Glyfosaat,
• Glyfosat,
• Glymax,
• Glyphogan,
• Glyphosat,
• Glyphotis

Some use the last syllable of glyphosate:

• Ancosate,
• Envisate,
• Farmfosate,
• Gofosate,
• Herbisate,
• Ken-phosate,
• Masate,
• Megasate,
• Narscosate,
• Pilarsate,
• Sulfosate,
• Sulfosato,
• Supresate,
• Tecforsate,
• Vefosate

Or some use the chemical constituent glycine:

• Glyacid,
• Glycel,
• Glycin

Many more trade names are in local languages.

Many other trade names bear no distinguishable relationship to Roundup or glyphosate.

Some of these attempt to present a benign image:

• Aglow,
• Ecomax,
• Esteem,
• Granny’s Herbicide,
• Lotus,
• Spirit,
• S-Star,
• Vision

But many more do just the opposite:

• Ammo,
• Armada,
• Arrow,
• Assassin,
• Avenger,
• Challenge,
• Decimate,
• EKill,
• Fire,
• Frontier,
• Harass,
• Hatchet,
• Knockout,
• Monster,
• Mustang,
• Pounce,
• Punch,
• Q-Weapon,
• Raider,
• Rival,
• Rodeo,
• Salute,
• Samurai,
• Scud,
• Sentry,
• Shoot,
• Siren,
• Slash,
• Smash,
• Squadron,
• Stampede,
• Sting,
• Swing,
• Thunder,
• Tomahawk,
• Trounce,
• Turbo,
• Typhoon,
• Wallop

Others just try to indicate the product kills weeds:

• Weedact,
• Weedcut,
• Weed-go,
• Weed Hoe,
• Weedo,
• Weego

Some formulations combine glyphosate with other herbicides such as aminopyralid:

• Broadnet, or
• 2,4-D (Bimasta, Campaign, Evo, Hat-trick, Kontraktor, Landmaster),
• dicamba (Fallowmaster),
• diquat (A-13692B),
• imazapyr (Tackle, Imasate),
• MCPA (Fusta, Rapid, Rextor, Panton),
• metsulfuronmethyl (Fusion),
• picloram (Fusta),
• pyrithiobac sodium (Staple Plus, a pre-plant herbicide for glyphosate-resistant soybeans),
• simazine (Ricochet),
• terbuthylazine (Folar, Terminate),
• and triclopyr (Glytron).

The formulation Tag G2, registered in New Zealand, contains glyphosate, amitrole, oxyfluorfen, and terbuthylazine.

WHO MAKES GLYPHOSATE

The original manufacturer of glyphosate herbicides was the Monsanto Company of St Louis, Missouri, USA.

It still manufactures them under various trade names including the original Roundup.

However since the patent on Roundup expired, many other companies in many countries now also manufacture glyphosate-based herbicides.

China is the world's largest producer, with its production capacity accounting for more than 40% of the global total (CCM International 2009b).

references: the full report in PDF form is HERE for those wishing additional data

[Bob]

Posted by Flash (here)
My brother had non Hodgkin lymphoma. How come he did and we did not .... yet, his siblings?

We were raised surrounded by potatoe farmers and I am sure they were using it years ago. We must be quite contaminated. I am sorry for our kids.

Hi Flash - from http://www.potatogrower.com/2013/06/be-aware - Published online: Jun 20, 2013

Roundup (and generics) herbicide is now more widely used throughout Idaho and other potato-producing areas than ever before. Roundup's active ingredient is glyphosate, which is now sold under several other names. Glyphosate was patented in 1971 or 1972 and the first commercial use was about 1974.

Thirty-one years ago, when Lloyd started research with glyphosate on potatoes at low (simulated drift) rates, glyphosate was used on a relatively limited basis. His first commercial experience with glyphosate on potatoes was talking with a grower in Madison County, Idaho, where Roundup had been sprayed by air to a grain stubble field adjacent to his potato field in the early 1980s. There was some drift to his potato field.

Glyphosate-containing products are now used for weed control in several Roundup Ready crops, such as corn, alfalfa and sugarbeets in Idaho and other states. It is also used extensively for weed control under various cropping (non-Roundup Ready crops) and non-crop systems.

Recently, we have had cases of glyphosate remaining in a spray tank after glyphosate application to another crop and then spraying potatoes with a fungicide, insecticide or other chemicals. Potatoes were injured. Potato seed quality has been reduced in certain instances where potato fields have had "drifted" glyphosate from application to adjacent fields during the year potatoes were grown for seed.

Examples of Potatoes that have experienced "drift" from fields sprayed in the area:



The phenomenon has been observed many times in grower fields, with glyphosate, 2,4-D, dicamba.

Recently, reported cases of contamination have happened with traces of glyphosate remaining in a spray tank after glyphosate application to another crop and then the same tank used for spraying potatoes with a fungicide, insecticide or other chemicals.

[Star Wonder]

Thank you, Bob, for this awesome link on Monsanto. The power that the company has is overwhelming. We haven't got a chance against them.

[jackovesk]

Thanks Bob...

Monsanto's ((Glyphosate)) is ((EVIL))...

The evil fkers ((ARE) going to get their ((Comeuppance One of these Days)) and when they do ((NOT ONE)) of their (Employees) in any capacity will be safe...

[Zanshin]

Thanks Bob,

All I hear in my neighborhood is how Round Up is the totally safe alternative to 2-4-D (watered down agent orange).

Totally biodegradable, didn't you know?

A comprehensive list of effects and symptoms is useful when conversing with the fluoride is safe brigade.

The old farmer I purchased my land from, used to talk of just about bathing in glyphosate safely -
then his health failed with symptoms such as intense pressure behind his eyes etc.

When I saw him out spraying post health issues, he was dressed more like Darth Vader.

Of course he didn't discontinue using the toxin

The old story - you can lead a horse to water....

Update:

Just found out the guy is now suffering from Alzheimer's.

Another stalwart goes down.

[Ahnung-quay]

For home use, a mixture of vinegar, salt and water is more effective against weeds in sidewalk cracks.

[Omni]

Posted by Ahnung-quay (here)
For home use, a mixture of vinegar, salt and water is more effective against weeds in sidewalk cracks.

I personally love greenery growing in concrete cracks. I don't see it as a pestilence at all. If I had a corporation my logo might be a flower growing out of the cracks of cement. I like what it represents. Nature still grows in artificial environments. Life finds a way.

When I see people kill the life in sidewalk cracks I ask Why?

Still very nice to know a cheap and safe concoction though, so thanks for that.

[Aspen]

For the past year I have been trying to eat drastically less wheat because here in Canada more and more of it is being sprayed with ROUnd Up before it is harvested.
Last year I read an article that basically said that research appears to show that glyphosate appears to kill gut bacteria. Remember the flora and fauna living in your gut? Well you need it in order to have a strong immune system. It would only make sense that it could be affected by Round Up, right. Well apparently that was "overlooked" in the government approval process.

This article convinced me and contains links to some of the research studies. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how...ora-unfriendly

One study that had been published showing it produced large tumours was even retracted after it was published because of pressure from industry! quote below from this article http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...h-effects.aspx
"This wasn’t the first time this pesticide has been linked to cancer. In 2012, the first-ever lifetime feeding study evaluating the health risks of GM foods was published. It found that rats fed a type of GM corn that is prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive mammary tumors, kidney, and liver damage, and other serious health problems.5 According to the authors:


"The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize (from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup, and Roundup alone (from 0.1ppb in water), were studied 2 years in rats. [Editors note: this level of Roundup is permitted in drinking water and GE crops in the US]


In females, all treated groups died 2-3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs. All results were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments.


In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5-5.5 times higher... Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3-2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls, which occurred up to 600 days earlier.


Biochemistry data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for all treatments and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney related. These results can be explained by the non linear endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO and its metabolic consequences."

They really are not exaggerating when they say it caused massive tumors… some of the tumors weighed in at 25 percent of the rat's total body weight. In fact, the researchers had to euthanize some of them due to the profound pain and suffering these tumorous animals were observed to be experiencing. You can see the pictures for yourself here.

The research was considered so "hot" that the work was done under strict secrecy. According to a French article in Le Nouvel Observateur,6 the researchers used encrypted emails, phone conversations were banned, and they even launched a decoy study to prevent sabotage. The findings were a nail in the coffin for the pesticide/biotech industry, but then the journal began to receive Letters to the Editor alleging fraud and calling upon the editors to retract the paper.

After what the journal described as a “thorough and time-consuming analysis” of the study, they said they found “no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data.”7 All they could find “wrong” with the research was that it used a low number of animals for the study, even though it was the same number of animals Monsanto used in their study… so they, quite outrageously, retracted this important paper. Even the retraction statement admits that the results presented are “not incorrect” but rather may be “inconclusive”! If every paper that could be considered inconclusive were retracted, there would scarcely be a published paper left!

As reported by the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS): “…the unsettling results of the Séralini study… almost certainly lie behind its notorious retraction by the journal editor a year after it was published.” The most damning revelation of this debacle was that a former Monsanto employee, Richard E. Goodman, early in 2013, was appointed “Associate Editor for biotechnology” for the journal that retracted the study.8 The obvious question is: was Monsanto behind the retraction?"


More recent research shows that glyphosate combines with other chemicals in our body. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...e-residue.aspx

This 2015 article (above) states that based on more recent research,

"glyphosate appears to be strongly correlated with the rapid rise in celiac disease. Dr. Seneff's research shows that glyphosate destroys the villi in your gut, which reduces your ability to absorb vitamins and minerals.

Wheat also contains gliadin, which is difficult to break down. Normally, a reaction takes place that builds connections between different proteins in the wheat. But glyphosate prevents that process from occurring, resulting in wheat that is highly undigestible. Dr. Seneff and her co-researcher Dr. Anthony Samsel believe the glyphosate may attach to the gliadin as a consequence of a chemical reaction. The end result is that your body develops an immune reaction."

That is exactly how wheat feels in my gut now: much less digestible.

[onawah]

New Study Shows Roundup Herbicide Causes Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Posted on Mar 24 2015
http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/03/...e-in-bacteria/

Research lead by a team from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand has found that commonly used herbicides, including the world’s most used herbicide Roundup, can cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics.


Full Study: 15http://mbio.asm.org/content/6/2/e00009-15
Herbicides are used to kill plants. They can be tested for killing bacteria, too, as part of the process of reviewing their approval for use. However, they have never been tested for other effects on bacteria, University of Canterbury’s Professor Jack Heinemann says.

This is the first study of its kind in the world. While other substances such as aspirin have been shown to change bacteria’s tolerance to antibiotics herbicides have never been tested. The team at the University of Canterbury investigated what happens to species of disease-causing bacteria when they are exposed to common herbicides such as Roundup, Kamba and 2,4-D.

“We found that exposure to some very common herbicides can cause bacteria to change their response to antibiotics. They often become antibiotic resistant, but we also saw increased susceptibility or no effect. In most cases, we saw increased resistance even to important clinical antibiotics,” Professor Heinemann says.

“We were so surprised by what we were seeing. We wanted to be sure it wasn’t an artefact of conditions in our laboratory or some kind of contamination. So we enlisted a fellow researcher at Massey who conducted the same experiments but without knowing what she was adding to the bacteria. She got the same results.”

The effects found are relevant wherever people or animals are exposed to herbicides at the range of concentrations achieved where they are applied. This may include, for example, farm animals and pollinators in rural areas and potentially children and pets in urban areas. The effects were detectable only at herbicide concentrations that were above currently allowed residue levels on food.

Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing problem for human and animal health. New antibiotics are hard to find and can take decades to become available. Effects of chemicals such as herbicides could conflict with measures taken to slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.

The research team included researchers from Mexico, Lincoln University and Massey University.

For further information contact Professor Jack Heinemann, School of Biological Sciences, jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz

[avid]

Thank goodness this vile atrocity is being 'laid bare', keep washing the veggies. Tinned goods are really unfair to 'poison' folk via canning!
I noticed the skies in the UK are being almost covered daily by 'tartan trails' from airplanes. We feel lethargy, trying to 'fix things' seems to be futile. BTW - no nasty unusually-sprayed skies for days = nice weather, but within 24-48 hours of 'sky-stripes' it all goes to pot! So repetitive, so obviously contrived. Time it for yourselves!

Sorry Bob, there are nasties out there, and I sneaked off-topic! I just can't contain myself sometimes.... :-O

[Hervé]

Monsanto Demands WHO Retract Study Linking Product to Cancer

In the wake of a scathing World Health Organization report which found connections between cancer and one of its major products, Monsanto is demanding a retraction.Agrochemical giant Monsanto produces one of the most widely used herbicides, known as Roundup. But a report issued last Friday by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found that the product’s chief ingredient, glyphosate, was "probably carcinogenic to humans."

"We question the quality of the assessment," Phillip Miller, Monsanto vice president of global regulatory affairs, said during an interview on Tuesday. "The WHO has something to explain."

And to that effect, Monsanto officials have requested a meeting with both the WHO and IARC, and have demanded a retraction.

© Flickr/ Mike Mozart
Monsanto Pesticides Cause Cancer, United Nations Claims

According to Miller, his company provided its own research to the IARC which proved the safety of glyphosate, but was largely ignored in the report. He also cited the fact that both US and international regulatory agencies have approved the ingredient.
But the US Environmental Protection Agency is currently conducting a new review of the product, and Monsanto is concerned that the WHO’s finding could have a large influence over the agencies ultimate decision.

"This contradiction has the potential to unnecessarily confuse and alarm parents and consumers, farmers and the public at large," Brett Begemann, president and chief operating officer with Monsanto, told reporters.

Despite Monsanto’s insistence that its products are safe, many experts note that the WHO’s new findings should not be ignored.

© AP Photo/ Whitney Curtis

Monsanto Chief: Our Hubris Fueled Fears of GMOs

"There are a number of independent, published manuscripts that clearly indicate that glyphosate…can promote cancer and tumor growth," Dave Schubert, head of the cellular neurobiology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, told Reuters. "It should be banned."

THE EPA has the power to do just that.

The findings are especially alarming given the way that Roundup is used. The herbicide is used to kill weeds which can hinder the growth of crops, and when paired with its sister product, Roundup Ready seeds, farmers are able to spray entire fields. Monsanto’s seeds are genetically engineered to withstand the herbicide, and as such, any food harvested from such crops could have been soaked in the glyphosate-rich Roundup.

"We use these tools on our land, working alongside our family members, so the safety of these products is critical to us," Chris Novak, chief executive officer of the National Corn Growers Association, said, according to the Des Moines Register.

© Flickr/ Bs0u10e0

Monsanto to Pay $350k in Settlement Over Franken-Wheat

According to the US Geological Survey, agricultural use of glyphosate in 2012 reached in excess of 283 million pounds.

The demand for a retraction comes from a company which is no stranger to aggressive legal proceedings. Monsanto has a history of suing individual farmers in an effort to protect its seed patents. Through these legal suits against farmers who can barely afford to stay afloat, Monsanto has raked in nearly $23 million.

"We expect farmers will continue to use [our products] and do not anticipate that there will be an impact on our sales," Begemann said, though it’s hard to imagine Monsanto officials remaining confident in their product while at the same time expressing clear concern about a WHO scientific study.

[3(C)+me]

I stole this from Geo's thread up at the ranch and beyond:
In this interview the spokesperson for Monstanto is asked to drink some of this Glyphosate:
See what happens, a bit funny really.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qeYEgwlE19M

[onawah]

That's priceless!!

Posted by cccme (here)
i stole this from geo's thread up at the ranch and beyond:
In this interview the spokesperson for monstanto is asked to drink some of this glyphosate:
See what happens, a bit funny really.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qeyegwle19m

[3(C)+me]

From our friends Monstanto, the gift that keeps on giving.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=su0om5L4Bhg

[Hervé]

Scientist Who Discovered GMOs Cause Tumors in Rats Wins Landmark Defamation Lawsuit in Paris

By Nick Meyer On November 30, 2015 ·

Seralini and his team in Normandie, France in 2013. Via: GMOSeralini.org

Was French Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini correct when he discovered that scientific feeding experiments past 90 days with GMO food and rats can cause serious health problems including tumors?

The answer to that question has been debated ever since the initial publication of his study, culminating in a republication of the study in another peer-reviewed journal that wasn’t nearly as well covered as the initial retraction was by the mainstream media.

Now, Prof. Séralini is in the news again – this time for winning a major court victory in a libel trial that represents the second court victory for Séralini and his team in less than a month.

On November 25, the High Court in Paris indicted Marc Fallous, the former chairman of France’s Biomolecular Engineering Commission, for “forgery” and the “use of forgery.” The details of the case have not been officially released.

But according to this article from the Séralini website, Fallous used or copied the signature of a scientist whose name was used, without his agreement, to argue that Séralini and his co-workers were wrong in their studies on Monsanto products, including GM corn.

A sentencing for Fallous is expected in June 2016.


Second Court Victory Reached
This was the second such court victory for the professor’s team, following a November 6 victory in a defamation lawsuit over an article in the French Marianne magazine which categorized the Séralini team research as “scientific fraud (you can read more about the case here).”

What few people realize about the original Séralini study on GMOs is that it was only retracted after a serious PR offensive from Monsanto and the Biotech industry, one that included the creation of a whole new position on the original Food and Toxicology journal: Associate Editor for Biotechnology.

The new position was actually filled by a former Monsanto employee who helped convince the journal’s author to retract the study.

Now more than 2 years later, these are the facts: Séralini and his team’s original study has been republished in a different peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Sciences Europe; they have won two key lawsuits against those who have attempted to ruin their reputations; and a recent peer-reviewed letter even asserted that Séralini and his team may have been right after all on their discovery showing tumors in lab rats fed GMOs.

In other words, the jury is still out on GMO safety to say the very least, just as countless independent scientists have warned, and Séralini’s study stands as yet another cause for concern with the ongoing GMO experiment. It also shows the lengths that the Biotech industry will go to in order to discredit any independent science that clashes with their own version of science.

For more on Séralini and his studies, check out the team’s website by clicking on this link.

[Bob]

I've pointed out elsewhere about MonSanTo's use of spider toxins to be spliced into foods.

MonSanTo's logic is well in humans the strong acid in the stomach will prevent these spider toxins from punching holes in the gut.. In Insects, those spider toxins cause the gut to become leaky, and the insect dies... MonSanTo's logic seems sound from their point of view..

It was pointed out elsewhere, people, HUMANS use ACID reducers, acid blockers, and guess what? The gut then matches the pH of insects.. Any wonder people are ending up with leaky gut syndrome? Can we say massive class action suit, to take over MonSanto by the People of the World who have been harmed. No rocket science there in connecting those dots..

The Glyphosate is bad, for the reasons shown in this thread... The Glyphosate is designed to kill OFF anything that doesn't match MonSanTo's genetically created (foods) to be resistant to that..

SO that they have a monopoly on the genetic material being used as foods, laced with spider toxins.. DOTs? ALL over the place..

==Update==

When the People of the World have obtained the appropriate legal action against MonSanTo, they can institute a program, to DESTROY all GENETIC foods created by MonSanto's GENE SPLICE techniques, using of all things, a substance that TARGETS ONLY that food (plants) with that specific gene in it.. reversing the poisoning of the world's protein supply.. It would be the ethical clean up action.

Following up with a campaign of education of the damage that can happen from incomplete or bastardized "studies", used to justify profit motive products.. to stop the abuse before such gets out into the world. EDUCATION.. then REMEDIATION of the toxins.