Newly Released: Study Confirms Chronic Kidney Failure 5 Times Higher in Glyphosate-Ridden Areas
The evidence for the abominable toxicity of Round Up chemicals like glyphosate is already overwhelming, yet there seems to be a never-ending stream of research and evidence pointing toward their dangers. A new study has just been published showing that farmers in Sri Lanka exposed to glyphosate through drinking water are 5 times more likely to develop chronic kidney failure than those who don’t drink herbicide-polluted water.
Farmers in this part of the world often wear scant protection when spraying glyphosate on their rice fields, but it seems that this protection is not enough. The fact that Round Up has contaminated their drinking water is an example of how multi-tiered the problem of herbicidal toxicity truly is.
Big Ag chemicals, more specifically, biotech’s chemicals (since their GM rice, soy, corn, and other genetically altered seeds are meant to withstand copious amounts of spaying) are detrimental to humans and the environment from the moment they are sprayed to years later. In this case, the toxicity is felt when residents of small rural villages drink from wells that have contaminated ground water due to spraying.
The research abstract concludes:
“The current study strongly favors the hypothesis that CKDu epidemic among farmers in dry zone of Sri Lanka is associated with, history of drinking water from a well that was abandoned. In addition, it is associated with spraying glyphosate and other pesticides in paddy fields.”
To summarize the study, Dr. Channa Jayasumana states:
“Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka.”
Simply put – but apparently not so simply solved.
Concentrations of glyphosate and metals are much higher in these abandoned wells, increasing the risk of deadly chronic kidney disease (CKDu) by up to 5-fold.
The Center for Public Integrity says fatal chronic kidney disease of unknown origin, or CKDu, has killed more people in El Salvador and Nicaragua than AIDS, diabetes, and leukemia combined over the past five years. This wave of CKDu affecting numerous poor farming countries around the world simply didn’t exist prior to 1990.
Another study published in the Journal of Organic Systems also found a link between glyphosate and the enormous increase in chronic diseases across the United States.
It has already been established, through groundbreaking research that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Round Up, might be “a crucially important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions.”
This is just more confirmation that the world should ban GMOs and their chemicals as fast as possible.
As much round-up as I am in contact with in my business I should have been dead years ago. And I only have one kidney. Survival of the fittest I guess!
That is one theory used in circles of the money changers who developed this technology as a soft kill; however, most of the impacts are seen at the end of life or in animal studies in the subsequent generation. Meant to kill slowly to avoid revolution. My neighbor and his worker both developed a rare form of thyroid cancer and both went into remission after converting the farm back to organic. I hope you are one of the lucky to be immune; however, the following graphs show a strong link between glyphosate and several serious health problems.
Sounds like another George Burns
Time to light up another stogy
Exposure to Glyphsate alone is not sufficient. Low quality water is important.
China’s Hard Line on Biotech Burns U.S. Hay
Traces of GMO Alfalfa, Unapproved by Beijing, Wreak Havoc With a Formerly Booming U.S. Crop
Wall Street Journal, Updated Dec. 15, 2014 1:19 p.m. ET
China’s tough new stance on imports of genetically modified crops is shaking up a little-noticed U.S. industry: hay.
Over the summer China began testing imports to detect the presence of hay made from a biotech alfalfa that Beijing hasn’t approved. Consequently, shipments to China have plunged since midsummer and some deliveries have been rejected.
Possible explanations for the presence of genetically modified material in alfalfa shipments thought to be non-GMO include cross-pollination of one crop by the other or crops becoming mixed during harvesting, baling or storage of the hay. Another is the seed itself. Roughly 30% of U.S. alfalfa seed sold in the U.S. is genetically modified, according to Monsanto. The Monsanto variety is engineered to withstand sprays of Roundup, a widely used Monsanto-made weedkiller. The USDA in 2011 authorized farmers to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa without restrictions. Critics had fought in court to block the alfalfa, charging that it could transfer by pollen to non-biotech crops including organic alfalfa—a scenario some suggest is happening now.
Exporters including Anderson Hay & Grain Co. in Washington state and California-based Al Dahra ACX Global Inc. have lost millions of dollars from forfeited sales and higher costs from rerouting rejected shipments to other countries, according to industry executives.
Anderson Hay, one of the largest U.S. hay exporters, said its sales declined markedly after China rejected some of its shipments.
“It’s had a huge impact on our business,” said Mark Anderson, chief executive of the closely held Ellensburg, Wash., company.
“The consequences for exporters who ship a lot of product to China are huge,” said John Szczepanski, director of the U.S. Forage Export Council, a hay-industry group.
U.S. farmers and grain traders including Archer Daniels Midland Co.have sued Syngenta, claiming it acted irresponsibly by selling the biotech seeds in the U.S. before Chinese authorities approved the corn. Syngenta has said the suits have no merit and it has been transparent about the approval
process for the biotech corn. Last week, the company said it expects China soon will grant approval of the corn.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/hundreds-of-farmers-block-roads-in-protest-of-monsantos-gmo-crops-polands-largest-farmer-uprising/5433844
Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance
Interdiscip Toxicol. 2013 Dec; 6(4): 159–184.
Published online 2013 Dec. doi: 10.2478/intox-2013-0026
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/
May 2016 I write……I noticed a lot of people NOW in America that have kidney disease.U don’t have to live in Sri Lanka to get it.The two that I know have polycystic kidney disease or PKD.It’s time for everyone with kidney problems to get their blood tested for “glyphosate” and time to get an attorney and file a lawsuit against the poisoners.It has to stop one way or another…..!!!!!