A new correlation study published in the Journal of Organic Systems has linked glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, Roundup, to an enormous increase in chronic diseases across the United States.
Supporting countless studies before it, this new report is a detailed analysis proving an undeniable link between glyphosate-based herbicides and the rates of chronic disease all over the country.
Dr. Nancy Swanson and the President of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), Andre Leu, led the research team which proved – once again – that glyphosate and Roundup are lethal, even in small amounts.
The chemical is prevalently used on crops across the nation and world. Friends of the Earth Europe, says that more than 650,000 tonnes of glyphosate products were used over five years ago, with the amount being used increasing each year.
This increase in use is contributing to the development of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, lipoprotein metabolism disorder, Alzheimer’s, senile dementia, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, autism, and cancer. The report details how there is a direct correlation between the incidence of these diseases and glyphosate use.
It isn’t as if the toxicity levels of glyphosate are not already known by its makers. Monsanto was refusing to release to the public lab tests conducted in St. Louis, Missouri, which gave them authority to use glyphosate in China.
This is the company that is responsible for making PCBs, DD.T and Agent Orange as well, all of which caused irreparable health damage ignored by regulators for decades.
Glyphosate-based herbicides have been identified as the next widely used chemical on a list of chemicals consumers should be aware of.
Read: 7 Nasty Effects of Pesticides
The world’s number one weed killer, Glyphosate, or N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine, is posing serious harm to humans and the environment, yet the poison developed by John E. Franz of the Monsanto Company has been allowed on the US market since the 1970s.
It isn’t just Monsanto who sells glyphosate, though. There are now over 100 different manufacturers of the product throughout the world. You can find it in other products with names such as Clearout 41.
Although glyphosate is used primarily in agricultural settings, it is also sprayed by public authorities on roads and pavements. Even managers of golf courses and home gardeners still use the toxic chemicals to control weeds.
According to the new study:
“Within the last 20 years there has been an alarming increase in serious illnesses in the US, along with a marked decrease in life expectancy (Bezruchka, 2012). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the cost of diabetes and diabetes-related treatment was approximately $116 billion dollars in 2007.
Estimated costs related to obesity were $147 billion in 2008 and cardiovascular diseases and stroke were $475.3 billion in 2009. Health care expenditures in the US totaled 2.2 trillion dollars in 2007 (CDC, 2013a). The onset of serious illness is appearing in increasingly younger cohorts. The US leads the world in the increase in deaths due to neurological diseases between 1979-81 and 2004-06 for the 55-65 age group (Pritchard et al., 2013).”
The study points out that, “these findings suggest environmental triggers rather than genetic or age-related causes,” especially since chronic diseases are showing up in younger and younger individuals.
“During this same time period, there has been an exponential increase in the amount of glyphosate applied to food crops and in the percentage of GE food crops planted (Benbrook, 2012). We undertook a study to see if correlations existed between the rise of GE crops, the associated glyphosate use and the rise in chronic disease in the US.”
The bottom line?
“The significance and strength of the correlations show that the effects of glyphosate and GE crops on human health should be further investigated.”
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I’m penning an article for my local gardening group on this very subject. They are avid users of this product, disregarding the history of the effects of pesticide and herbicides and their subsequent banning. They still trust these manufacturers as if their history was washed from the books.
Unfortunately, correlations do not prove causation … particularly to minds trained in science and statistics. For the rest of us however, the precautionary principle should apply. Even if there is only correlational evidence (and there’s actually stronger evidence than this study) that there might be a connection … we’re wise to avoid exposure as much as possible. Correlational evidence may be the best we’ll be getting in terms of human effects of this garbage. RCT trials would be unethical.
Agree. These studies are not going to spur change unless they are peer-reviewed. But, yes, I will be reducing exposure as much as possible.
I am not going to wait for more scientific tests to prove/disprove that RoundUp Ready foods are dangerous. Do not use your personal money to buy their Frankenfoods.
How do we eradicate these Biotech MONSTERS from the face of the earth?
Decriminalizing our Government who allows these MONSTERS to kill us with their poison would be a start.
And our Government has the tenacity to call others Terrorists.
I wish they would look in the mirror.
great conclusion
Buy nothing but organic foods, that’s how you get rid of GMOs and Glyphosate. Monsanto made Glyphosate to clean pipes for industry. It penetrates what is in pipes and cleans them. Glyphosate in Roundup does pretty much the same thing in humans and animals. If you get a drop on you, the Glyphosate will go through your skin right into your bloodstream. Leaky Gut syndrome is caused by Glyphosate. Many other NEW diseases are caused by Glyphosate. Please do not buy GMO foods, Glyphosate will be in them and YOU can’t wash it off. It’s in the crop in the fields and it stays there on the crops. Monsanto made Roundup to work with GMO crops. If you stop buying GMOs then farmers will be forced to grow something else. But right NOW their fields are totally and completely contaminated with glyphosate! They are screwed!
Most people have a hard time knowing what is GMO and what is not. That’s why I switched to Organics in 1996 because the food I was eating was making me sick. Some people don’t have enough money to buy Organics. I tell people to go online and find out which foods are being sprayed with Roundup, don’t buy those. GMO FOODS, CORN, SOY, CANOLA, BEETS AND SUGAR BEETS, ALMONDS, DRIED PEAS, CARROTS, QUINOA, AND SWEET POTATOES. My list maybe outdated, so check monthly.
This is a total crime against Soy and Corn. There they are, in most of our foods.
People often say, FOLLOW YOUR GUT INSTINCT.
Most anyone with a pulse, would concur that many, many people’s brains are not firing on all cylinders these days, and seem to be mindlessly making repetitive mistakes, REPETITIVELY, as if they learned nothing from the last time around. Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again, the same way, but somehow expecting a different result. Kinda like expecting a recipe will bring different results each time you follow it.
All G.M.O.’s have one thing in common, Glyphosate!
It might well be dubbed the INSANITY CHEMICAL as you’d have to be to use it, or you certainly will be after you do!
This short video explains my point exactly.
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And what are the options if you need to do weed control ? Large areas , not a little garden or flower bed , please dont say weed by hand , nobody is going to weed 50 acres by hand
vinegar or salt.unless its in the same area you are growing food,but using herbicide WILL toxify your food AND harm the ecology ,birds,beneficial insects,and any critter that injests the vegetation of the insects that are bathed in the herbicide or injest the sprayed vegetation . or just leave the weeds,most are beneficial if one would just research,ALL are food for the soil or food for something .people need to quit crying about “appearance ” and start realizing what they are doing to our lands ,health,and critters
Monsanto stands for pollution, corruption and the control of the worlds food supply. After two decades of biotech bullying and force-feeding unlabeled and hazardous genetically engineered (GE) foods to animals and humans, there can be no such thing as “coexistence” living in the Monsanto world. It is impossible to coexist with a reckless industry that endangers public health, bribes public officials, corrupts scientists, lies to consumers, contaminates organic farmlands, manipulates the media, destroys biodiversity, kills the soil, pollutes the environment, tortures and poisons animals, destabilizes the climate, and economically enslaves the world’s 1.5 billion seed-saving small farmers globally destroying regional agriculture.
Monsanto’s pollution of local environments by the dumping of mercury, dioxin and PCB’s from their factories is horrific. Just Google Anniston Alabama, Sauget Illinois, Nitro W. Virginia, Kanawha River in S. Carolina, Seveso Italy and the UK’s South Wales. Monsanto has paid out hundreds of millions for pollution lawsuits including $180 million settlement for Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
And how can you patent a seed that they claim is the “substantial equivalent” to conventional or organic seeds? It’s Monsanto’s way of bypassing regulations and testing. GM seeds cannot be saved for replanting, forcing farmers to buy their seeds every year at 3 to 6 times the cost of non GM seeds. In spite of Monsanto’s assurances that it wouldn’t be a problem, crop contamination has been a consistent and often overwhelming hardship for seed dealers, farmers, manufacturers, even entire food sectors.
With a history of making such toxic chemicals as PCB’s, Polystyrene, DDT, Dioxin, Agent Orange, Petroleum Based Fertilizers, Glyphosate, Aspartame, Bovine Growth Hormone, etc. it’s time to take down the biotech behemoth and their partners in crime, before the living web of biodiversity is terminated. Why would we trust Monsanto, who specializes in making toxic chemicals, with our food supply?
Monsanto’s claims of feeding the world, greater crop yields and less herbicides and insecticides have all been proven wrong, in fact it’s the opposite. Hunger is caused by poverty. Since the introduction of GMO’s our health as a nation has been in decline. GMO crops have been banned, or at least labeled, in over 64 countries. Gene-altered foods have absolutely no benefits for consumers or the environment, only hazards. Ninety percent of processed foods contain GMOs.
There has been a drastic decline of crop-pollinating insects all over the world. Wild pollinators like bumblebees, butterflies, and beetles are basically disappearing. GMO industrial agricultural practices are causing this insect genocide.
Given the near-dictatorial control of Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association over Congress, the White House, the FDA, USDA, EPA, and state legislators, consumers must demand change and boycott all GMO products. Ever hear of the revolving door?
The fundamental weakness of Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Sumitomo, Mitsui and the biotech industry is “CONSUMERS RIGHT TO KNOW”. If GE-tainted foods are labeled in supermarkets and natural food stores, a massive rejection of chemical and GMO foods will take place, transforming the marketplace and supercharging the organic and local foods revolution and restore the public trust in our foods. Our government will not protect us so “we the people” have to take action. Be a part of the food revolution, for your health, the health of future generations and the planet.
On a personal note, “I have been blocked from the so called “Monsanto Conversation” and their FB page for trying to have a conversation with them. Their “paid internet shills” are laughable and cannot be taken seriously. The TV ads they produce are a pathetic joke and a white wash designed to lull consumers into believing they are here for the good of the world. People are waking up and polls show that Monsanto is one of the most hated companies in the world and they couldn’t care less.
Feel free to copy and share this post, spread the word, eat only organic. We will win because they are wrong and we are right.
The longest feed study of GMO and glyphosate called Factor GMO is about ready to take off and it’s making the biotech industry very nervous. The truth may finally come out. I hope it blows up in Monsanto’s face.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_31418.cfm
Christina, Dr NANCY Swanson has created some very artful graphs but they prove nothing. She has ajusted the scales to fit her theories, and she compares % increases with quantity numbers that have no baseline numbers. It is sort of like comparing % of people who ate breakfast with the gallons of house applied each year. It proves nothing.
From 30 year veteran EPA scientist Dr Marion Copley, she shows the scientific mechanism for how glyphosate causes cancer and exposes why the EPA has not classified it a carcinogen https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JessRowlandMarionCopelyfiling.pdf?
My husband I were exposed as people using it on a property and they failed to test anything, we cannot get the medical help we need, it is awful. I have not even been able to find people because although I know from us, there are a lot of symptoms and because of this it is hard to pinpoint