Monsanto Has Knowingly Been Poisoning People for (at Least) 35 Years
But we're not allowed to know about it
Evidence has surfaced from the archives of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that now proves that Monsanto has been fully aware of the potential of glyphosate to cause cancer in mammals (human populations) since as early as 1981.
When the WHO recently announced that Monsanto’s glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic,” the first thing the company did was move to damage control – to “evade detection of apprehension” for their heinous deeds. Teams of writers with links to the biotech industry went to work refusing that their chemicals were causing cancer the world over, even though study after study has proven a link between the two.
How can Monsanto maintain that glyphosate and GMOs are harmless? What are these “800 studies” proving its safety, and where are they? And how can the EPA, which reviews extensive toxicological and environmental data before registering an active ingredient, corroborate such nonsense and classify glyphosate as “practically non-toxic” when there is so much evidence to the contrary? Especially when their own documents tell a very different story!
With a search through EPA around the time of glyphosate’s initial registration (in addition to earlier investigations by Sustainable Pulse which highlighted a sudden change in the EPA view on toxicity in 1991), what was discovered was very illuminating.
Among the EPA’s records were multiple animal experiments (using rats, mice, and dogs) designed to test the acute and chronic toxicity of glyphosate in the period 1978-1986, conducted by laboratories such as Bio/dynamics Inc for Monsanto and submitted for EPA consideration.
At least two of the these reports involving the reproductive systems of rats exposed to glyphosate had telling results, but these were shielded from pubic view as ‘trade secrets’ of the biotech industry. What exactly were in those studies? Why can’t the public know? Monsanto’s need for secrecy shows that their aims were likely far more sinister than anyone would like to think.
Dr. Pang (retired US Army Medical Corps, former consultant to the World Health Organization for 20 years ) offers his important assessment of what might sit underneath all those Monsanto blacked-out lines [in recently exposed secret Monsanto documents regarding the Maui County vs. Monsanto case]:
As Jon Rappoport recently detailed:
“There are two worries I have about the redacted lines which only Monsanto and the judge sees. What if…[the redacted lines] reference a Monsanto…chemical similar to toxaphene (banned for toxicity and spreading hundreds of miles). Can she [Judge Mollway] tell us what [Monsanto] chemicals are similar enough to toxaphene to be worrisome? Can she recognize the chemical structure of toxaphene (from multiple choice diagrams)? What if it is toxaphene itself? Furthermore…the [Monsanto legal] argument depends intimately on untested combinations [of Monsanto chemical pesticides]……I need to know the number of chemicals used AND the amounts used to see their potential for [toxic] overlap. I feel I am competent to make these assessments.
I don’t have access to the [un]redacted versions of Monsanto documents]. Only two other parties do. 1) Monsanto is grossly biased and 2) the Judge who is not scientifically qualified. If she brings in a third party ‘independent’ (say UH) to assess for her, they have to be both non-biased and scientifically qualified. I am not even convinced she can recognize the scientific qualifications of her own advisers. For example, ask them their opinion on the recent ruling of WHO on glyphosate risk of cancer [glyphosate is the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s pesticide Roundup]. On the mutational potential of glyphosate for human pathogens related to antibiotic resistance. On the gene toxicity (same mechanism as cancer) relationship [of glyphosate] to birth defects (widely published, even before the cancer risk publications).
If [the Monsanto] info is redacted because of threat of vandalism [at their secret facility locations on Maui]—that is a police issue to be resolved if it occurs, not a court decision.”
In this argument, Dr. Pang obliterates any rationale for Monsanto and the federal court to heavily censor Monsanto documents – from the EPA, USDA, or elsewhere.
It is now common knowledge that during the Cold War, Monsanto’s 2,4-D was a form of biological warfare, and Operation Ranch Hand using Agent Orange killed millions and caused an untold number of birth defects. Is this what Monsanto is hiding about their toxic brew of chemicals used today?
Many attest that GM foods are nothing more than biological weapons. Some say they are premeditated murder. Some say they are meant to sterilize an entire generation of people:
“We have a greenhouse full of corn plants that produce anti-sperm antibodies.” ~ Mitch Hein, president of Epicyte, a California-based biotechnology company.
Moreover, the Codex international organization, founded by the United Nations, charged with regulating all foods, minerals, and herbs in the world, does not believe that GMO products are food, and as such, “can be used for various practices, including birth control and the creation of infertility in a nation or people.”
President of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, said his company’s transgenic corn plants, “create anti-sperm antibodies.”
He has also explained that the creation of transgenic organisms and their use in food could be used as a tool to solve the “overpopulation problem.”
Monsanto is not creating food.
 | 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. |
With all the rhetoric here about the laurels and problems with Monsanto products, where oh where is the discussion of a class action lawsuit against Monsanto?
Why is everyone wasting time discussing the obvious – it matters not what Roundup does or does not do – what matters is that Monsanto knowingly put a product on the market that gives people cancer! If they knew 35 years ago that the glysophates were a cancer causing agent, then the FDA, and anyone who knowingly put people at risk needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Anyone who kills people (whether by violence or poisoning) is still subject to capital punishment under our existing laws. A slow kill is still murder – and Monsanto has been slowly poisoning people for decades. Remember Agent Orange? Now Roundup; and then we factor in their Genetically Modified Seeds that the rest of the world will not even purchase. Where are lawyers that have the testicular fortitude to take on this industry giant? Why haven’t they and others even attempted to put a stop to frankenfoods and the slow kill of the American public?
Increased Pesticides
Monsanto-Mahyco’s primary promise was that Bt cotton would reduce the amount of chemicals needed to control pests. Over the past 10 years, however, government data show that pesticide
usage has stayed the same or increased across the cotton belt. This is due to two factors: Insects have developed resistance to Bt cotton: The cotton bollworm, Bt’s target pest, developed resistance to the Cry toxin produced by Bt cotton, pushing farmers to use more pesticides to control the pest. To
combat this problem, in 2006, Monsanto released a second generation of Bt cotton called Bollgard-II, which has two Bt genes instead of the original single gene in Bollgard-I. Secondary pests are becoming a problem: Because of the initial reduction in bollworm populations in Bt cotton fields, pests that did not previously pose a significant threat to cotton crops, such as mealy bug, aphids and thrips, have become more prevalent.[xiii] Farmers are now using highly toxic pesticides to manage these new pest problems.
Increased Costs
Bt seed, which farmers have to buy from seed companies every year, is anywhere from 3 to 8 times more expensive than conventional hybrid seed, and several times more costly than the local seed farmers could buy in the market two decades ago. The seeds can cost anywhere between 700
($13) to 2,000 rupees ($38) per packet. Cotton farmers in India are also spending significantly more on pesticides and other farm inputs. In 2002, farmers spent Rs 5.97-billionon pesticides and in 2010 this number rose to Rs 8.80-billion as farmers tried to combat pest resistance and the emergence of secondary pests. Bt cotton also requires higher levels of irrigation and fertilizer to yield well, further
pushing up farmers’ costs.
You’re as full of it as your Gish gallops.
A couple of days ago, you pretended to be the coy scientist, saying (and I’m paraphrasing) that if Monsanto ever found out you worked in a lab, you’d never get a lab job again.
I’m calling BS. You’ve never worked in a lab, except maybe to mop the floors and empty the trash!
In english gematria monsanto is 666
Another latest and finest example of Monsatan corruptions.
Monsanto was involved in Manufacturing PCB’s since 1935 so maybe you should change the title to at least 80 years. My mother worked in the attorney generals office and she told me about it. I just did a quick search and came up with this article about one of many suits brought against them from their time in Massachusetts.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091213/NEWS/912130326
At least 10 yrs ago I attended a lecture on Round Up by a prof at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). The details are sketchy now, but as I recall, she had researched the use of Round Up on family gardens in Mexico. Some gardens were treated, but others, in a separate area were not. In the end she observed the same birth defects in children who ate from the treated gardens as has been observed in some of the world’s frog populations damaged by pesticide runoff. In the village where the children ate from the Round Up sprayed garden, little boys were born with damaged genitalia, some with micro penis, some with no penis at all. The horrifying truth about this product has been know for a very long time.
Why would you spray a broad spectrum herbicide on a garden?
I don’t think this article will surprise anyone who is awake.
What are these “800 studies” proving its safety, and where are they? And how can the EPA, which reviews extensive toxicological and environmental data before registering an active ingredient, corroborate such nonsense and classify glyphosate as “practically non-toxic” when there is so much evidence to the contrary?
See Bobo, the same question you can’t really answer. You say you do, but all you produce is BS!! There’s almost 2000 peer reviewed and published studies available to the public!! FOR FREE!! There’s are 52 bucks a day to read and then cross reference!
Check for yourselves!!
GMO SCIENCE – STUDIES & RESEARCH
http://www.gmofreeusa.org/research/gmo-science-research/