GMOs and Glyphosate Linked to Infertility, Botulism, and SIDS

[eileenrose]

Insightful article. I havn't seen some of this information before. Very exciting to see the research finally coming in supporting the many testaments that these substances need to be banned now!

Source: http://farmwars.info/?p=8543

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"GMOs and Glyphosate Linked to Infertility, Botulism, and SIDS

Introduction and Background Information

I have heard much confusion and doubt about a man I admire much… Dr. Huber. When I first met Dr. Huber over four years ago, listened to his presentation, then reviewed his work in my hotel room, I began to realize what this meant for mankind. I wept, I cried some more, realizing how much evil was behind this; my tears are still on my notes of his work, I did not sleep, realizing how much work needed to be done. I have seen countless friends and family affected by the evil stemming from this crony capitalism network. Huber’s work is sound, his character strong, and he needs help spreading truth and clearing confusion. I am now asking for help from you, any of my friends, to equip yourselves with knowledge, as knowledge is power. This may bore many of you; too difficult for others, but it is the #2 thing to understand in your life other than God. If we can stop this, Dr. Huber is deserving of any earthly honor we can give him. I urge anyone who comprehends any of what I write to share this with as many as you can. It is a matter of utmost importance right now to ALL life on this planet.

This year farmers, ranchers, gardeners, landscapers and others have a new growing season upon us. Are we in for a hot, dry summer? Cool and wet? Windy, hail, flood, tornado….In some areas, all will be the case. Regardless, we have probably seen something similar before, and will probably see something similar in the future. What we have not seen before is the pollution and the disruption of the biosphere’s ability to adjust to whatever weather befalls one’s area.

Most of you have seen me share with you information coming out of the USDA, various Universities, and research institutes around the world on the adverse affects of genetically modified crops (GMO’s) and pesticides, particularly the glyphosate based herbicides. Don Huber has done a great job in getting the word out despite continuous character “assassination” attempts wielded by his Alma mater and other universities at risk of funding disruption if they admit the truth of their research findings.

This process reminds me of that experienced by Dr. Phil Callahan most of his career. Dr. Callahan was and still is nearly despised by his own entomology department at the University of Florida because he proved that insects’ antennae are more than mere “hat racks” and in fact are the mechanism via which insects detect and home in on mates, prey and food sources. Most infuriating to the entomology community was the fact that he showed the standard scent molecule fit theory to be grossly inadequate in explaining insect behavior, showing rather that electromagnetic signals in the infrared and radio range of the spectrum were the primary drivers of insect behavior. He additionally showed that insects can discern healthy vs sick plants correlating to their nutrient density and will attack ONLY sick plants.

That assertion of course was blasphemy against the chemical industry funded professor guild and afforded Dr. Callahan “quack” status. Fortunately real scientists recognized his profound work and consequently most of his entomology research is published in optics and physics journals. Most interesting is that the funding for Dr. Callahan came not from the chemical industry, rather from the Department of Defense (DoD) and resulted in the development of aircraft cloaking devices and other electronic warfare and communication advancements. Fortunately, the DoD is not intimidated by the chemical industry, nor the political hacks or intellectual prostitutes that do their bidding. As a result, after his retirement from USDA, Dr. Callahan was able to get much of his valuable research information out to the public for its education.

The point of this discussion is that with all the disparaging press against the military, particularly by the current administration and the former Clinton administration, the military seeks results, desirable, workable outcomes regarding its research funding. The result is that if DoD research is politically damaging, they classify the results so the public does not find out about them, as was the case with Callahan’s work. So is the case with Don Huber. His work at Ft. Detrick was about identifying potential biological threats to the US and our allies and sounding the alarm, e.g. informing the chain of command of the potential threat and recommending a response strategy. Dr. Huber’s letter to Secretary Vilsack was exactly that warning he was commissioned as a Colonel in the US Army to do. It is important to note that all the rhetoric coming out of Purdue, Iowa State, and other universities in an attempt to distance themselves from Dr. Huber and his colleagues or outright discredit him, never mention his rank as a Colonel in the US Army, his responsibilities or work for decades, while also at Purdue, as a researcher and the “go to guy” at Ft. Detrick regarding the very issue we face today with glyphosate, genetically modified crops, the evolution of new infective agents as a result of glyphosate and GMO crops and the emergence of new virulence in previously weak crop diseases.

These issues genuinely threaten the health and the very survival of human and animals on this planet. It is important for you to pay attention that in all of Dr. Huber’s presentations, his citation of multiple researchers from USDA, universities and research institutes around the world doing research independent of Dr. Huber, yet arriving at the same conclusion as Dr. Huber, proves that this “sound the alarm” is not merely a “Huber mirage,” but rather a real crisis of epic proportion confirmed by researchers around the world.

One must think about a man with both university and military retirement pensions, with a lovely wife and over 30 grandchildren whom he loves dearly, a comfortable home in a beautiful Western States valley, in his late 70′s, why he would put his entire career reputation on the line and travel over 200 days of the year tirelessly, driven by God, family and country to talk about the GMO and glyphosate situation? What many people don’t understand is that military veterans, especially career military veterans like Don Huber NEVER lose their oath to protect our country and its people to the day we die. How many of you care that much about yourselves, your families and loved ones, country, the unborn children and people around the world that you would risk everything to make the world a safer place, a healthier place? I know many of you are doing just that and I thank you. We will succeed at allaying these problems because of you and the many people in our ranks tirelessly doing their part to do what they can. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, and I urge you to help out where you can.

I will summarize some of the latest animal and human research on the GMO and glyphosate issue, none of which were done nor published by Dr. Huber. Look at this information carefully, get the articles and read these articles yourselves so that you are informed when the pompous naysayer wags his tongue."

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And thanks to Rense for posting this today

ps: The article goes on to describe more new valuable information. If it looks too heady, just glance through it and save the memory for later. You will need it (if you would like to survive these substances).

[eileenrose]

specific snips

Re:

"Testosterone Decrease and Birth Defects

Of particular note in this article are the endocrine problems associated with herbicides, particularly glyphosate.

“At lower non toxic concentrations of Roundup and glyphosate (1 ppm), the main endocrine disruption is a testosterone decrease by 35%.”

When one thinks about it, imagine the effects on masculinity when during a hot day in the field spraying glyphosate, the farmer stops for a cold beer and donut. Now he has three things that are anti-testosterone. Beer is pro-estrogenic. The donut is made from wheat most likely sprayed with glyphosate pre-harvest resulting in both a residue of glyphosate and mycotoxins (endocrine disrupting) from the growth of Fusarium promoted by the glyphosate. Further, it is most likely made of white wheat flour, which is high glycemic, which induces more fat deposition, which is pro-inflammatory and estrogenic. Then of course there is the glyphosate he is spraying and absorbing from the drift. No wonder the drug companies are smiling all the way to the bank from their profits on Viagra, Cealis, etc., anti-diabetic drugs, testosterone patches, cardiovascular drugs, anti-lipid drugs, NSAIDS and weight loss drugs."

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[eileenrose]

No yogurt? Botulism in my gut due to all beneficial bacteria's death?

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"Antimicrobial Effects and Botulism

There is another important issue regarding glyphosate, mentioned repeatedly by Huber, Kremer, Krueger and others pertaining to the antimicrobial effects of glyphosate. Keep in mind that in spite of the vehement denial by industry and their academic prostitutes that glyphosate kills beneficial soil microbes, August 10, 2010 the US patent office issued a patent for glyphosate’s use as an antimicrobial drug. The problem with glyphosate residue in the food, in this case particularly in milk, is that is affects the ability of dairy companies to make cheese, yogurt, and kefir.

“…three food microorganisms (Geotrichum candidum, Lactococcus lactis subsp. Cremoris and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. Bulgaricus) widely used as starters in traditional and industrial dairy technologies. The presented results evidence that Roundup has an inhibitory effect on microbial growth and a microbicide effect at lower concentrations than those recommended in agriculture. Roundup is always more potent than glyphosate, and in all cases, toxic from levels 10-100 times below the lowest agricultural uses (10,000 ppm). G. candidum and L. cremoris are more Roundup sensitive than L. bulgaricus.”

There is also the evolving problem of glyphosate’s killing of beneficial gut microbes that suppress botulinum bacteria resulting in chronic, systemic botulism poisoning and death in cattle with probably findings also in humans. One study on SIDS babies found that 20% of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome babies have detectable levels of botulinum toxin."

[eileenrose]

Where I am going with this thread is for us to start looking at some of the results coming out of these tests/research.

For one thing, who here knows anything about self treatment for Botulism?
Not on my radar.

I've had all kinds of stomach issues and perhaps it is what I am eating? At first I thought it was just the wheat and occasional GMO snack (hard to avoid eating something without GMOs at all...ever). As I can't just switch diets right now (was hard to get where I am already), I am looking at having to treat my stomach complaints and chronic constipation on my own. And if it is a new illness due to a new GMO endocrine disrupting/botulism causing GMO product, well then, I like to take a better look at the research on-going.

that is all

Perhaps other are seeing doctors, alternative treaters who are seeing this in their clients.

Anyway...I will let the thread go....but if I find something easier to read/put out, I might come back to it.

[Kristin]

GMO's are also linked to celiac disease. As the protein bonds (gluten) have been modified to five times stronger in order to preserve seed longer, the human body has not been able to digest this new protein and so the end result reacts like sand paper in the small intestine.

From the Heart,
Kristin

[Kristin]

Here's a great link to many GMO articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/gmos.html

From the Heart,
Me.

[Hervé]

A new plague for the 21st century:

Government study finds: Roundup weedkiller found in 75% of air and rain samples (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-found-75-air-and-rain-samples-gov-study-finds)

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-found-75-air-and-rain-samples-gov-study-finds)
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:16 CST


http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/172152/large/rain_air_roundup_herbicide.jpg (http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/172152/full/rain_air_roundup_herbicide.jpg)

The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathing...

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online ahead of print in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry, titled, "Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007," reveals that Roundup herbicide (aka glyphosate) and its still-toxic degradation byproduct AMPA (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/aminomethylphosphonic-acid) were found in over 75% of the air and rain samples tested from Mississippi in 2007.

The researchers evaluated a wide range of pesticides currently being used through weekly composite air and rain sampling collected during the 1995 and 2007 growing seasons in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region.

The researchers discovered the following:

Thirty-seven compounds were detected in the air or rain samples in 2007; 20 of these were present in both air and rain.
Glyphosate was the predominant new herbicide detected in both air (86%) and rain (77%) in 2007, but were not measured in 1995.
Decreased overall pesticide use in 2007 relative to 1995 generally resulted in decreased detection frequencies in air and rain, but observed concentration ranges were similar between years even though the 1995 sampling site was 500 m from active fields while the 2007 sampling site was within 3 m of a field.
Mean concentration of detections were sometimes greater in 2007 than in 1995 but the median values were often lower.
Seven compounds in 1995 and five in 2007 were detected in ≥50% of both air and rain samples. Atrazine, metolachlor, and propanil were detected in ≥50% of the air and rain samples in both years.
Total herbicide flux in 2007 was slightly greater than in 1995, and was dominated by glyphosate.

According to the report, 2 million kilograms of glyphosate were applied statewide in 2007, or 55% of the total herbicide flux for that year (~129 μg/m2), leading them to state the high prevalence of glyphosate in air and water "was not surprising." Even though glyphosate was only tested in 2007, based on the 1995 figures on glyphosate use (147,000 kg state-wide) the researchers estimated that glyphosate added 3% of the total herbicide flux for 1995, or approximately 7 micrograms per centimeter (~7 μg/m2) per sample. This estimate, if correct, reveals that there has been an[I]~ 18 fold increase in glyphosate concentrations in air and water samples in only 12 years (1995-2007).

The researchers pointed out that, "the 2007 weekly air concentration pattern for glyphosate was similar to those of other commonly detected herbicides in both 1995 and 2007 in that the highest concentrations occurred in April and May. However, there were detectable concentrations of glyphosate over the entire growing season, which is consistent with how glyphosate is used on GM crops, including for post-emergent weed control throughout the growing season." The longer period of exposure adds to growing concern that this ubiquitous toxicant represents an unavoidable body burden and that even small daily environmental exposures may be causing significant harm through their cumulative and synergistic effects (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-study-renews-roundup-weedkiller-toxicity-concern) with other toxicants.

So, what is the toxicological significance of the discovery of glyphosate in most air samples tested? In the month of August, 2007, if you were breathing in the sampled air you would be inhaling approximately 2.5 nanograms of glyphosate per cubic meter of air. It has been estimated the average adult inhales approximately 388 cubic feet or 11 cubic meters of air per day, which would equal to 27.5 nanograms (billionths of a gram) of glyphosate a day. Of course, when one considers the presence of dozons of other agrichemicals found alongside glyphosate in these samples, the interactions between them are incalculably complex and produce far more harm together than glyphosate alone (i.e. synergistic toxicity). Also, now that recent cell research has shown that glyphosate may act as an endocrine disrupter exhibiting estrogenic-like carcinogenicity within the part-per-trillion range (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/breaking-glyphosate-roundup-carcinogenic-parts-trillion-range), there is all the more reason to raise the red flag of the precautionary principle - especially since inhaled toxicants evade the elaborate detoxification mechanisms of ingested toxicants which must pass through the microbiome, intestinal lining and liver before entering the blood and only a long time later the lung far downstream.

This study brings to the surface the extent to which GM farming has altered our daily exposure to chemicals, such that even the rain and air we now breath contains physiologically relevant levels of glyphosate 'fall out' from the war against any plant not part of the monocultured, genetically engineered system of production. With a significant body of research now available today showing that glyphosate and its components are far more toxic (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate) than believed at the time of its widespread approval, the implications of ubiquitous glyphosate exposure should be carefully considered.

Ultimately, findings like these reveal just how illusory is the perception of choice and health freedom when it comes to the GM/non-GMO debate, and the consumer's right to avoid harm from GMOs by refusing to buy or consume them. Not only are consumers in the U.S. not allowed to know what is in their food with accurate and truthful labeling of ingredients, we now know that biopollution from GMOs (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsanto-and-bio-rape-india1) produces uncontrollable and irreversible changes in the genomes of affected organisms when their transgenes escape into them, and we know that even beyond their genomic/proteomic differences the contamination of GM foods with herbicides like Roundup (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/roundup-herbicide) (glyphosate) makes them non-substantially equivalent (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsantos-game-over-extreme-toxicity-roundup-destroys-justification-gm) in chemical composition to their non-contaminated alternatives.

The reality is that the environment is becoming so saturated with the 'fall out' from the ever-expanding GM agricultural/agrichemical farming grid that even if you somehow find a way to avoid eating contaminated food, you will be forced to have to deal with its adverse health effects, as long as you need air to breath and water to drink (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/gmo-farming-poisoning-worlds-drinking-water). Ultimately, unless our food production system moves through its present chemical war-modeled phase of GM monoculturing, even non-GM food will end up being contaminated with these chemicals and transgenes, because nothing 'natural' lives in a vacuum - and if it does, then it really shouldn't be called "organic," and maybe shouldn't even be called food.

Source

Michael S Majewski, Richard H Coupe, William T Foreman, Paul D Capel. Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007. (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/pesticides-mississippi-air-and-rain-comparison-between-1995-and-2007) [I]Environ Toxicol Chem. 2014 Feb 19. Epub 2014 Feb 19. PMID: 24549493 (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/pesticides-mississippi-air-and-rain-comparison-between-1995-and-2007)

[Carmody]

Some great speculation here... I own and have read Farrell and DeHart's book, 'Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas'.

http://cloudfront-assets.reason.com/assets/db/13630122389611.jpg

The most revealing statement:

So…. no… it may be the case, if this study should prove to be correct, that the digestive system is not an adequate defense against genetic modification through GMO ingestion, and if that’ts the case, the “alchemical” agenda Dr deHart and I warned about – the ingestion of GMOs leading to a deliberate modification of man – may be in play, and indeed, the article also highlights this possibility:

“It’s interesting to ponder if the scientists at these biotech corporations have already identified this method?”

Yes… it’s interesting to ponder that high octane speculation… did they know all along, and was the alchemical agenda of modification of man through his food ingestion the goal all along, as we suggested in Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas? If that is the case, then is this the real reason behind the apparent immunity of the GMO agenda from any sort of public pressure against it? Is this the real reason the big agribusiness giants can get away with their principle of “substantial equivalence”?

This story is one to watch very carefully folks… and it is also now evident that thus far, we may have just been skimming the surface of the real motivations behind the GMOs, the politicians who have smoothed their way, and the agribusiness giants.

http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/02/another-one-gmo-transhumanist-scrapbook-dna-transference-gmos-humans/

~~~~~~~~

Of course, to provide 'leaky gut' to the public. Gift them with things like 'splenda', which create leaky gut. The DNA gets into the blood via the leaky gut. One corporation to introduce the one thing, and another to do the complement.

People try to get healthy and get away from the toxins, and the price is they run right into the trap that makes the toxins even worse.

[Sidney]

A new plague for the 21st century:

Government study finds: Roundup weedkiller found in 75% of air and rain samples (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-found-75-air-and-rain-samples-gov-study-finds)

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-found-75-air-and-rain-samples-gov-study-finds)
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:16 CST


http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/172152/large/rain_air_roundup_herbicide.jpg (http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/172152/full/rain_air_roundup_herbicide.jpg)

The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathing...

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online ahead of print in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry, titled, "Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007," reveals that Roundup herbicide (aka glyphosate) and its still-toxic degradation byproduct AMPA (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/aminomethylphosphonic-acid) were found in over 75% of the air and rain samples tested from Mississippi in 2007.

The researchers evaluated a wide range of pesticides currently being used through weekly composite air and rain sampling collected during the 1995 and 2007 growing seasons in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region.

The researchers discovered the following:

Thirty-seven compounds were detected in the air or rain samples in 2007; 20 of these were present in both air and rain.
Glyphosate was the predominant new herbicide detected in both air (86%) and rain (77%) in 2007, but were not measured in 1995.
Decreased overall pesticide use in 2007 relative to 1995 generally resulted in decreased detection frequencies in air and rain, but observed concentration ranges were similar between years even though the 1995 sampling site was 500 m from active fields while the 2007 sampling site was within 3 m of a field.
Mean concentration of detections were sometimes greater in 2007 than in 1995 but the median values were often lower.
Seven compounds in 1995 and five in 2007 were detected in ≥50% of both air and rain samples. Atrazine, metolachlor, and propanil were detected in ≥50% of the air and rain samples in both years.
Total herbicide flux in 2007 was slightly greater than in 1995, and was dominated by glyphosate.

According to the report, 2 million kilograms of glyphosate were applied statewide in 2007, or 55% of the total herbicide flux for that year (~129 μg/m2), leading them to state the high prevalence of glyphosate in air and water "was not surprising." Even though glyphosate was only tested in 2007, based on the 1995 figures on glyphosate use (147,000 kg state-wide) the researchers estimated that glyphosate added 3% of the total herbicide flux for 1995, or approximately 7 micrograms per centimeter (~7 μg/m2) per sample. This estimate, if correct, reveals that there has been an[I]~ 18 fold increase in glyphosate concentrations in air and water samples in only 12 years (1995-2007).

The researchers pointed out that, "the 2007 weekly air concentration pattern for glyphosate was similar to those of other commonly detected herbicides in both 1995 and 2007 in that the highest concentrations occurred in April and May. However, there were detectable concentrations of glyphosate over the entire growing season, which is consistent with how glyphosate is used on GM crops, including for post-emergent weed control throughout the growing season." The longer period of exposure adds to growing concern that this ubiquitous toxicant represents an unavoidable body burden and that even small daily environmental exposures may be causing significant harm through their cumulative and synergistic effects (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-study-renews-roundup-weedkiller-toxicity-concern) with other toxicants.

So, what is the toxicological significance of the discovery of glyphosate in most air samples tested? In the month of August, 2007, if you were breathing in the sampled air you would be inhaling approximately 2.5 nanograms of glyphosate per cubic meter of air. It has been estimated the average adult inhales approximately 388 cubic feet or 11 cubic meters of air per day, which would equal to 27.5 nanograms (billionths of a gram) of glyphosate a day. Of course, when one considers the presence of dozons of other agrichemicals found alongside glyphosate in these samples, the interactions between them are incalculably complex and produce far more harm together than glyphosate alone (i.e. synergistic toxicity). Also, now that recent cell research has shown that glyphosate may act as an endocrine disrupter exhibiting estrogenic-like carcinogenicity within the part-per-trillion range (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/breaking-glyphosate-roundup-carcinogenic-parts-trillion-range), there is all the more reason to raise the red flag of the precautionary principle - especially since inhaled toxicants evade the elaborate detoxification mechanisms of ingested toxicants which must pass through the microbiome, intestinal lining and liver before entering the blood and only a long time later the lung far downstream.

This study brings to the surface the extent to which GM farming has altered our daily exposure to chemicals, such that even the rain and air we now breath contains physiologically relevant levels of glyphosate 'fall out' from the war against any plant not part of the monocultured, genetically engineered system of production. With a significant body of research now available today showing that glyphosate and its components are far more toxic (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate) than believed at the time of its widespread approval, the implications of ubiquitous glyphosate exposure should be carefully considered.

Ultimately, findings like these reveal just how illusory is the perception of choice and health freedom when it comes to the GM/non-GMO debate, and the consumer's right to avoid harm from GMOs by refusing to buy or consume them. Not only are consumers in the U.S. not allowed to know what is in their food with accurate and truthful labeling of ingredients, we now know that biopollution from GMOs (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsanto-and-bio-rape-india1) produces uncontrollable and irreversible changes in the genomes of affected organisms when their transgenes escape into them, and we know that even beyond their genomic/proteomic differences the contamination of GM foods with herbicides like Roundup (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/roundup-herbicide) (glyphosate) makes them non-substantially equivalent (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsantos-game-over-extreme-toxicity-roundup-destroys-justification-gm) in chemical composition to their non-contaminated alternatives.

The reality is that the environment is becoming so saturated with the 'fall out' from the ever-expanding GM agricultural/agrichemical farming grid that even if you somehow find a way to avoid eating contaminated food, you will be forced to have to deal with its adverse health effects, as long as you need air to breath and water to drink (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/gmo-farming-poisoning-worlds-drinking-water). Ultimately, unless our food production system moves through its present chemical war-modeled phase of GM monoculturing, even non-GM food will end up being contaminated with these chemicals and transgenes, because nothing 'natural' lives in a vacuum - and if it does, then it really shouldn't be called "organic," and maybe shouldn't even be called food.

Source

Michael S Majewski, Richard H Coupe, William T Foreman, Paul D Capel. Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007. (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/pesticides-mississippi-air-and-rain-comparison-between-1995-and-2007) [I]Environ Toxicol Chem. 2014 Feb 19. Epub 2014 Feb 19. PMID: 24549493 (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/pesticides-mississippi-air-and-rain-comparison-between-1995-and-2007)

As soon as I think I have all the bases covered, something else comes to fight against. It feel SOOOOOO defeating sometimes. Seriously, we have to breathe. I guess the key survival mechanism is daily detoxing. every day. very depressing though. 75% is HUGE[COLOR="red"]

[Hervé]

Looks like Monsanto won the lottery for Agenda 21 panacea...

Monsanto's Roundup may be linked to fatal kidney disease, new study suggests (http://rt.com/news/monsanto-roundup-kidney-disease-921/)

Published time: February 27, 2014 01:20 Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/monsanto-roundup-kidney-disease-921/)


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A farmer tills a rice paddy field on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Reuters / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)


A heretofore inexplicable fatal, chronic kidney disease that has affected poor farming regions around the globe may be linked to the use of biochemical giant Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide in areas with hard water, a new study has found.

The new study was published (http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/2/2125%5D) in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Researchers suggest that Roundup, or glyphosate, becomes highly toxic to the kidney once mixed with “hard” water or metals like arsenic and cadmium that often exist naturally in the soil or are added via fertilizer. Hard water contains metals like calcium, magnesium, strontium, and iron, among others. On its own, glyphosate is toxic, but not detrimental enough to eradicate kidney tissue.

The glyphosate molecule was patented as a herbicide by Monsanto in the early 1970s. The company soon brought glyphosate to market under the name “Roundup,” which is now the most commonly used herbicide in the world.

The hypothesis helps explain a global rash of the mysterious, fatal Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown etiology (CKDu) that has been found in rice paddy regions of northern Sri Lanka, for example, or in El Salvador, where CKDu is the second leading cause of death among males.

Furthermore, the study’s findings explain many observations associated with the disease, including the linkage between the consumption of hard water and CKDu, as 96 percent of patients have been found to have consumed “hard or very hard water for at least five years, from wells that receive their supply from shallow regolith aquifers.”

The CKDu was discovered in rice paddy farms in northern Sri Lanka around 20 years ago. The condition has spread quickly since then and now affects 15 percent of working age people in the region, or a total of 400,000 patients, the study says. At least 20,000 have died from CKDu there.

In 2009, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health introduced criteria for CKDu. Basically, the Ministry found that CKDu did not share common risk factors as chronic kidney disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and glomerular nephritis, or inflammation of the kidney.

Based on geographical and socioeconomical factors associated with CKDu, it was assumed that environmental and occupational variables would offer clues to the disease’s origins – or in this case, it came from chemicals.

The new study noted that even the World Health Organization had found that CKDu is caused by exposure to arsenic, cadmium, and pesticides, in addition to hard water consumption, low water intake, and exposure to high temperatures. Yet why that certain area of Sri Lanka and why the disease didn’t show prior to the mid-1990s was left unanswered.

Researchers point out that political changes in Sri Lanka in the late 1970s led to the introduction of agrochemicals, especially in rice farming. They believe that 12 to 15 years of exposure to “low concentration kidney-damaging compounds” along with their accumulation in the body led to the appearance of CKDu in the mid-90s.

The incriminating agent, or Compound “X,” must have certain characteristics, researchers deduced. The compound, they hypothesized, must be: made of chemicals newly introduced in the last 20 to 30 years; capable of forming stable complexes with hard water; capable of retaining nephrotoxic metals and delivering them to the kidney; capable of multiple routes of exposure, such as ingestion, through skin or respiratory absorption, among other criteria.

These factors pointed to glyphosate, used in abundance in Sri Lanka. In the study, researchers noted that earlier studies had shown that typical glyphosate half-life of around 47 days in soil can increase up to 22 years after forming hard to biodegrade “strong complexes with metal ions.”

Scientists have derived three ways of exposure to glyphosate-metal complexes (GMCs): consumption of contaminated hard water, food, or the complex could be formed directly within circulation with glyphosate coming from dermal/respiratory route and metals from water and foods.

Rice farmers, for example, are at high risk of exposure to GMCs through skin absorption, inhalation, or tainted drinking water. GMCs seem to evade the normal liver’s detoxification process, thus damaging kidneys, the study found.

The study also suggests that glyphosate could be linked to similar epidemics of kidney disease of unknown origin in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and India.

Recent investigations by the Center for Public Integrity found (http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/09/17/10855/kidney-disease-kills-thousands-across-continents-scientists-scramble-answers%5D) that, in the last five years, CKDu is responsible for more deaths in El Salvador and Nicaragua than diabetes, AIDS, and leukemia combined.