The Canadian Food Inspection agency reports
that glyphosate, the carcinogenic key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup,
was found in 29.7 percent of 3,188 foods tested in the last two years.
Glyphosate was found in 47.4 percent of beans, peas and lentil
products; 36.6 percent of grain products; and 31 percent of baby cereals, the agency report states.
HuffPost
report: Only 1.3 percent of the total samples were found with glyphosate
residue levels above what Canadian regulators allow, though 3.9 percent of
grain products contained more of the weed killer than is permissible.
These legally allowable levels are referred to as Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs), and they
vary from food to food and pesticide to pesticide, as well as from country to
country. Regulators and agrichemical industry interests say as long as residue
levels are lower than the established MRLs, consuming the pesticide residues is
not harmful to humans.
But a growing number of scientists and medical professionals say
such claims are false, particularly with pesticides like glyphosate, which is
the most widely used agrichemical on the planet, commonly used in the
production of dozens of food crops.
Glyphosate is sprayed directly onto crops like corn, soybeans,
sugar beets and canola, all of which are genetically engineered to tolerate the
pesticide. Monsanto has also encouraged farmers to spray the chemical
directly on oats, wheat, peas, and lentils shortly before harvest to help dry
them out.
A court case in California has forced the release of emails
between Monsanto and the EPA, and the contents are sickening. We now have
certifiable proof that Monsanto has always known Roundup causes cancer.
But even worse, we now have proof the EPA is a corrupt
organization that is more interested in money than protecting the
environment or the health of Americans.
This weedkiller isn’t just used on GMOs but on 70
different food crops in the U.S. – it’s in practically everything Americans eat.
So, if glyphosate in Roundup is causing cancer and other diseases, I want to
know about it and get it out of our food – don’t you?
Food Babe reports: Monsanto makes
billions off of Roundup sales, so they don’t want anyone to question its
safety. Some never-before-seen confidential documents just released in a
court case against Monsanto give us a glimpse into how they are working to
influence the EPA (who is in charge of determining whether they are
allowed to sell Roundup anymore) and undermine any efforts to ban its use.
These documents show what many of us have known and suspected
for quite some time… Monsanto is manipulating scientific research and has
gotten some EPA officials on their side who seem to be helping them
cover-up the health dangers of Roundup so they can keep it on
the market.
Keep in mind… Monsanto and the EPA are both fighting to stop the
public seeing these internal emails! Why do you think that is?
While Monsanto is being sued in California by dozens of
people who claim Roundup caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Monsanto had to
provide over 6 million pages of internal emails and documents to the court and
attorneys and marked the majority of them as “confidential” so they’d be
hidden from the public.
When the plaintiffs asked the court to make the records
public, both Monsanto and the EPA objected. The judge
didn’t agree with their objections and threatened to
sanction Monsanto if they continued trying to seal documents and found
it in the best interest of the public to release them for all of us
to see, “even if
Monsanto doesn’t like what they say”.
The public interest group U.S. Right To Know is publishing these
documents in their entirety on their website here.
This is just the beginning and more are coming out.
Here’s what we have uncovered in these documents so far.
·
Monsanto was in
private talks with a top official at the EPA, Jess Rowland, who was in
charge of evaluating the cancer risk of glyphosate for the EPA. Rowland was
allegedly helping them stop another federal agency from investigating
whether glyphosate causes cancer and told a Monsanto employee, “If I can kill this I should get a
medal”. Rowland also signed off on the mysteriously leaked
and deleted EPA memo which found glyphosate “not likely to be carcinogenic to
humans”, which Monsanto touted as proof the EPA finds it safe.
·
Long-term EPA
toxicologist Marion Copley accused EPA’s Rowland of playing “political conniving games with the
science” and making decisions based on his “bonus” in favoring
pesticide makers (such as Monsanto). Dr. Copley went on to allude that other
EPA staff have conflicts of interest and may be taking bribes. She asserts that
Anna Lowit (still at the EPA) intimidated staff to change their findings to
favor the industry. Dr. Copley also stated, “It is essentially certain that glyphosate causes
cancer.”
·
A Monsanto employee
proposed they could “ghost-write”
portions of a scientific report and then just have hired scientists “sign their names so to speak”.
The EPA would later use this report evaluate the safety of glyphosate. The
reason they would do this is highly unethical – to make the report appear to
have been prepared by independent scientists when in reality Monsanto wrote it!
This begs the question, how often do they do this? An email suggests they ghostwrote this report
presented to EPA regulators in 2000, although no Monsanto employees are listed
as authors.
·
Way back in 1999, Monsanto
buried the findings of their own scientist
(Dr. James Parry) who found glyphosate is genotoxic and recommended further
testing. Internal emails show that Monsanto employees questioned whether Parry
had “ever worked with
industry before”, “hoped
that it didn’t cost too much” and that they should hire a different
expert who would be “influential
with regulators” and help them with “outreach” efforts. Ha! They only want to
hire scientists who will make findings in their favor to deceive our
regulators.
·
Monsanto knows other
compounds in Roundup such as NNG and 1, 4 Dioxane are toxic and can cause
cancer as they acknowledged this with each other in emails mentioned
in court docs: “If you
talk to Kerry [Liefer, an EPA employee], I wouldn’t push the NNG issue too hard
— don’t
want to draw attention to the toxicity of our product”.
They are feeding us lies and these secrets are poisoning
us!
Most Americans are eating glyphosate every day… No matter
how healthy we eat or how much we try to protect ourselves from it, this
weedkiller is being used on most major
conventional food crops and is so rampant in our
environment that it is contaminating virtually all of our food.
It’s been found in honey, cereals, meat, drinking water, breast
milk, infant formula, chips, cookies… the list goes on. Our government agencies
(FDA and EPA) know this and are allowing corporations to poison Americans for
profit. It’s truly disgusting!
Monsanto is stooping to corruption to continue selling their
poisons. Everything from seeking to keep their correspondence with the EPA
secret, to intimidating scientists at the WHO International Agency on
Cancer (IARC) who found Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate “probably
carcinogenic”.
A large body of peer-reviewed research links
glyphosate to cancer, reproductive problems, liver, kidney and skin
cell damage, antibiotic-resistance, and more – but Monsanto
doesn’t want the public to know the truth!
Glyphosate should be banned worldwide and consumers
have the power to make this a reality.
Here’s our ACTION PLAN:
1.
Choose to buy only certified organic food and products. This will hit Monsanto where it really
hurts, their bottom line! Their best-selling products like Roundup and GMO
seeds are banned on organic farms. If all farms were organic these products
would bite the dust! This is voting with your dollars and is the most effective
way to force change.
2.
Share this post with everyone you know! Expose their corruption. They should be
shamed for this! Especially if you know anyone who is still eating
non-organic food or using Roundup around their homes, make sure you get this
information in their hands.
3.
Ask your favorite companies to test for glyphosate and get
certified. Wouldn’t it be
nice to know if the food you buy contains glyphosate?
I have an exciting announcement! The Detox
Project just launched a new “Glyphosate Residue Free Certification”
program and will begin labeling products that have been tested and are free of
glyphosate. I’ve partnered up with them to help spread the word – They are
working with food manufacturers and grocery chains, so that soon we will see
labels like this on some products – send this link to your favorite
companies and ask them to go glyphosate free.
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