Dr. Mercola reported in one of his articles, “In 2009, a French court found Monsanto guilty of lying; falsely advertising its Roundup herbicide as "biodegradable," "environmentally friendly" and claiming it "left the soil clean.
We're now starting to understand just how false such
statements are. For example, last summer, a groundbreaking study
revealed a previously unknown mechanism of harm from glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.
The research showed that glyphosate residues, found in
most processed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar beets,
corn, and soy, "enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne
chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body
functions and induce disease.
More recently, a Norwegian study published in Food Technology
found that genetically engineered (GE) soy contains high levels of
glyphosate, along with a poorer nutritional profile, leading the
researchers to question its quality and safety. Evidence also suggests
glyphosate may be a key player in Argentina's growing health problems,
where birth defects and cancer rates have skyrocketed among GE corn and
soy farming communities.”
When we eat processed foods we are being exposed to
toxic contamination from GMO corn and soy etc. The same goes for meats
from animals raised as soy and corn. As noted in the featured article by
Rodale News. "That herbicide-laced soy winds up in thousands of
nonorganic packaged foods and in animal feed for livestock like pigs,
cows, chickens, and turkeys. Why is this happening? Genetically
engineered crops are manipulated in a way that could never occur in
nature so plants like corn, soy, canola, cotton, and sugar beets can
withstand high doses of glyphosate-containing herbicides that would
normally kill them. The result? Roundup in food that people and farm
animals eat."
It is important to understand that glyphosate
contamination is systemic and affects every part of the plant and every
part of anything or anyone that consumes the plant. It is not something
you can wash off like topical residues.
A Norwegian study investigated contamination levels
and nutritional contents of three varieties of Iowa-grown soybeans:
Roundup Ready soybeans; non-GE, conventional soybeans grown using
Roundup herbicide; and organic soybeans, grown without agricultural
chemicals. On average GE soy contained 11.9 parts per million (ppm) of
glyphosate. The highest residue level found was 20.1 ppm. No residues of
either kind were found in the conventional non-GE and organic
varieties. Similar results were found in a 2012 nutritional analysis of GE corn,
which was found to contain 13 ppm of glyphosate, compared to none in
non-GMO corn. It is calculated Americans eat an average of 193 pounds
of genetically engineered foods each year. Norwegian researchers also
point out that the potential toxicity of Roundup has likely been vastly
underestimated, as toxicity cannot be attributed solely to the active
ingredient, glyphosate.
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They also suspect that Roundup might cause
miscarriages and abnormal fetal development by interfering with hormone
production. It is reported that problems have skyrocketed in
Argentina, following the introduction of GE soy. A toxic combination of Roundup and fertilizers has
also been blamed for tens of thousands of deaths among farmers in Sri
Lanka, India, and Central America's Pacific coastline (El Salvador,
Nicaragua, and Costa Rica).
Argentina has become one of the world's largest
producers and exporters of GE soy and corn. At the same time the
country has experienced an explosion of miscarriages, fertility
problems, and abnormal fetal development. In the province of Chaco,
birth defects have quadrupled in the decade following the introduction
of GE crops.
Many feel the biotech movement of food has turned it
into a poison. Glyphosate, which we already stated, systemically
contaminates the plant and cannot be washed off, has a number of
devastating biological effects on all that eat them.
It causes nutritional deficiencies, interrupts
biosynthesis of essential amino acids, disrupts normal intestinal flora,
raises the levels of formaldehyde in the food itself, impairs sulfate
transport and sulfur metabolism, creates excess ammonia, yields
inflammation etc.
Some researchers now believe glyphosate may very well be one of the most important factors in the development of a wide variety of modern diseases and conditions.
Russia v. Monsanto, The Super Fight of the Century »
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/russia-v-monsanto-super-fight-century/
by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia have
raised the bar to new record heights in the fight against GMO’s. While
Americans fight amongst themselves in an environment of greed and
profit, Russia is going for a bill, which if passed, will criminalize
GMO related activities equating same to terrorist acts.
The bill would impose criminal liability on those who
produce, sell or distribute GMO’s. In addition, the bill also provides
fines for concealing or deliberately distorting information about the
environmental impact of GMO’s. Co-Author of the bill, Kirill Cherkasov,
reportedly maintains that the consequences of GMO’s can be greater than
that of a terrorist act, “And punishment should be proportionate to the
crime.”
Noteworthy is that in Russia, a terrorist act is punishable with a jail sentence of 15 years to life.
We must do our best not to eat GMO foods and seek
legislation to prevent them in our country. Sherry Rogers, MD states
there is no way the human body can digest, assimilate and utilize GMO
products. I hate to refer to them as foods at all. |