75% of Air and Rain Samples Contain Monsanto’s Round Up
Biotech isn't just tainting the food supply
A new study proves just how invasive Monsanto’s best selling chemicals are, revealing how herbicide toxins are appearing in 75% of rain and air samples.
Take a deep breath. Thanks to the massive use of herbicides across the planet, you likely just inhaled a dose of Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, Round Up – at least according to the latest US Geological Survey published in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry.
The chemical ingredient used in Round Up, known as glyphosate, as well as other ‘inert’ toxic chemicals, were found in over 75% of the air and rain samples tested from Mississippi in 2007 – a large river that cuts through the middle of the US, and is the basin in which hundreds of farms’ runoff drains.
An evaluation of numerous pesticides currently used were measured through water and air samples collected from 1995 to 2007 during growing season along the Mississippi Delta agricultural region. If 75% of samples containing Round Up isn’t shocking enough, there’s more:
- Round Up chemicals were prevalent, but so were 37 other toxic compounds – all present in both rain and air samples.
- Glyphosate was found in 86% of air samples, and 77% of rain samples.
- Seven compounds in 1995 and five in 2007 were detected in more than 50% of both air and rain samples. Atrazine, metolachlor, and propanil were detected in more than 50% of the air and rain samples in both years.
Read: 3 Studies Proving Toxic Glyphosate in Urine, Blood, Breast Milk
The report states that 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.”
What is surprising is that these results are not becoming widely distributed until 2015.
This estimate, if correct, reveals that there has been an ~ 18 fold increase in glyphosate concentrations in air and water samples in only 12 years (1995-2007), and likely more since the samples were taken.
This means that our bodies have been under fire with biotech toxins, not just in the food we eat, but in the air we breathe, and the water we drink, for more than a decade.
The longer the period of exposure we are subjected to, you can bet the more diseases will crop up.
These toxins have cumulative and synergistic effects with other toxicants with incalculably complex results that produce far more harm together than glyphosate alone (i.e. synergistic toxicity).
If you want to breathe a sigh of relief, you’ll have to fight biotech. It isn’t just the food they are poisoning.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
I see that RU is loosing it’s power with “careless weed” aka palmer amaranth. Hence the move to 24d.
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It sounds like time for a class action lawsuit to put Monsanto out of business. Lazy Americans need to get their fat azzes and actually pull weeds. For the record yes I actually pull weeds from my yard by hand and use ZERO poison on anything!
Well don’t you deserve a cookie!!! Why don’t you try and actually do it on a couple of thousand acres instead of a little yard. What good do you really think putting Monsanto out of business? Most of the Roundup is made by generic companies and a good portion of it comes from China. As for their traits, the first one is set to expire soon which means that farmers will no longer have to pay royalties to Monsanto and will be able to save their seed for that trait. Other companies are also coming out with their own Roundup gene that will leave Monsanto out of the royalties. So while you are so worried about Monsanto, there are a lot of other players in the game today. It is uneducated people like yourself that has caused this whole issue in the first place, where there was never a problem to begin with.
Hey troll, its corporate greed and revolving door policy at the EPA and FDA that green lighted such heinous practices. Americans are just waking up to the fact. Monsanto needs to be stopped along with Dow and other killer companies
Sure it is. Ag chemicals have been used for decades and have helped farmers become more efficient and have also helped to keep food prices low. This is very important as the world population grows and the rural population shrinks.
But don’t forget that these crops feed people – that’s right – not robots or sewing machines. So really what is the point of feeding an increasing population is becoming more and more ill because of the technology that is supposed to help improve their health.
Sounds counterproductive doesn’t it?
If it was true it would. Lifestyle is the major issue, and that is a personal choice.
In this case, are you feeding yourself fast food 3 meals a day? Because that should count as food as well and not bother with consequences. I also presume you are super healthy. If you have the age for it, remember how the tomatoes and cucumbers and all the plants tasted 50 years ago compared to how they lack any taste now. Just try to remember. Here, where I’m from, this change occured in less than 10 years and it’s visible as hell. And our lifestyle has not changed during this time.
Next, you’re going to tell me that all the poor people get more diseases because they eat perfectly safe food, just as the other ones? Why do children get high cholesterol or diabetes at age 8? why? Why all the children my age were skinny and now all i see on the street is being overweight? When I was young (not many years ago) french fries were just as present. Salads tasted awesome. Now everything is bland and boring and full of salt. Who breeds these plants that have no taste? Who?
Lol! Not that long ago people also got more exercise. Yes, strawberries tasted wonderful, but didn’t look great, they were small. Today they are huge and bland, gmos? No, hybrids made to appeal to the eyes. People blame gmos for what companies have turned food into, in reality they would have done the same to non gmo food as well. s for your kids, they use to play outside not on an Xbox inside. Gmos certainly didn’t create that problem. They use to have chores so they could cherish play time, now they think play time is a right, and in goes with them into adulthood. So again we have created a lazy society and instead of looking at the real cause let’s blame gmos, for no good reason.
Glyphosate destroys the shikamate pathway of your microbials. We are 90% microbial and 10% human DNA. Glyphosate converts into glyoxalate and impairs sulfation since oxalates and sulfates share the same transport system. Long story short, you need sulfation to sulfate D3 to make one billionth of a gram of GcMAF that attacks disease in 20 different ways and cancer in 6 different ways including regulating the cannabinoid receptors in the brain and regulating A1C levels. Glyphosate is toxic! If you cannot sulfate D3 into GcMAF from this domino effect after you have run low on GcMAF, autoimmune diseases, cancers and viral overloads take over the body. Also when a child that is not sulfating D3 because of what glyphosate toxicity does to impede sulfation and said child gets a vaccine with stealth pathogens, viruses, excipients and adjuvants, and is running low on GcMAF brain swelling occurs. This is when autism hits. Glyphoste is BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t blame this BS on exercise. There is a much larger picture. FYI, I know what I’m talking about. Learn some biochemistry.
LOl, at least I don’t make things up using techno babble like you do. Long story short, gmos make up a large portion of the grain production, glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide and life expectancy KEEPS going up and only thing you have is your fantasies.
it would be if it were not some advertising factoid. Sustainable farming practices without millions of pounds of poison wiping out the worlds pollinators can feed the world in a healthy viable way. the dollar signs are getting in the way of you ever percieving that
LOL your sustainable farming practices need one thing — man power and a lot of it. Today the farming population is lower than ever. If it wasn’t for migrant workers there wouldn’t be any produce in the stores. The only reason grain farmers can produce so much is thanks to things like ag chemicals. People left the farm because there was to much risk and way to much work.
It’s nice to just quote percentages, and not actual numbers or locations of where the samples came from. With this sites track record for telling the truth the just might have been following the sprayer through the field.
Monsanto is an evil company. The crime scene is Vietnam. The victims are too many to count.
Evil troll.
Yes, I can see how anyone that destroys your lies with the truth would be considered evil by you.
your an idiot
Now there is an advanced hought that confirms my theories of lies. Only insults instead of discussion. Thanks for killing your point of view.
Let’s see these facts you lay your basis on… I think you are chugging this pbc. Because you sound high!
High on life yes indeed, thanks for pointing that out.
We don’t need round up to grow food. How do you think we have thrived before Weed killer. Get a clue!
Before round up? We used different chemicals, much more dangerous and much more polluting. Before that, we didn’t raise enough food to feed the current population let alone the future population.
evil troll
Oh yes when that’s a nice comeback when you have nothing real to say.
http://inhabitat.com/monsanto-being-sued-for-poisoning-west-virginia-town-with-agent-orange-chemicals/