Which of Your Foods are Sprayed with Round Up Just 3 Days Before Harvest?
The crops that could be most toxic
If your food isn’t certified organic, you’re consuming some toxic food. Want to know why? Monsanto’s Round Up ‘pre-harvest’ spraying guide meant for conventional farmers recommends that they spray crops just three days prior to harvest – and they don’t just mean on GMO crops. This means you’re likely consuming food which had been drenched in toxic pesticides.
“Spraying a RoundUp brand agricultural herbicide allows for uniform crop maturity which gives you the option to straight cut harvest.”
RoundUp, the very same Monsanto-made product which contains the recently-declared carcinogenic chemical glyphosate (along with inert ingredients that are also extremely dangerous), is sprayed on your food just before you eat it.
Which Crops Exactly?
Monsanto recommends spraying for:
- Wheat
- Oats
- Non-GMO Canola
- Flax
- Peas
- Lentils
- Non-GMO Soybeans
- Dry Beans
- Sugar Cane
That amounts to just about every grocery store food you can think of – after all, what doesn’t contain wheat, oats, soy, or sugar cane just for starters?
Though of course it isn’t like these conventional foods are totally safe anyway, since they are sprayed through the growing season. What’s more, some pesticides are even genetically implanted right into the plant itself, as in the case of Bt corn. This just means that after exposing you to herbicides not once, through genetic engineering, not twice, through mass fields spraying, but at least three times when the crops are sprayed just prior to harvest.
Further, Monsanto also claims that aerial applications can be made without drift onto unwanted areas. Say what??? Almost all research on the toxicity and environmental fate of herbicides is conducted on herbicide ‘active ingredients’ only and in complete isolation. In fact:
“Aerial applications are typically made by helicopter from 60-80 feet above the target area. Because of the method of application and the chemical behavior of the mixtures used, movement of herbicides, surfactants and inert ingredients off target is both inevitable and extensive.”
Think your foods are safe from glyphosate? Not as long as farmers are spraying crops with multiple rounds of Round Up.
 | 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. |
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There is a recently released study testing oat based cereals to test for glyphosate in the finished product. Many tested positive for roundup, including “organic” cereals!!!
Roundup takes 7-10 days to dry up a plant.
Please read and understand MONSANTO’s OWN document (instant pdf download) that can be found at; http://roundup.ca/_uploads/documents/MON-Preharvest%20Staging%20Guide.pdf
You can see a link to the document near the bottom of http://roundup.ca/
QUOTE from document:
“If you plan on swathing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swather) your crop you can help prevent shattering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattering_(agriculture) in susceptible varieties by spraying near the 30% seed moisture stage. This will help seed heads mature uniformly, allowing earlier swathing to minimize shattering loss. If you straight cut, shattering losses are reduced with a preharvest application because the entire crop matures uniformly.”
In other words, you will get an ENTIRE yield by spraying our poison right before harvest rather than suffering loss of any number of seeds, never mind that it’s poison included in the spray.
Mamma the label is for Canada, and the wheat seeds at 30% or less moisture are mature and will not absorb the glyphosate. If it is sprayed preharvest it is to kill a few leaves and small plants still growing, which dry up and when harvested will blow out the back of the combine harvester and not saved. I have grown wheat for over forty years, very little wheat is ever sprayed with roundup. Thanks
The document being from Canada disproves nothing. I posted that as something that can be FOUND by the general public. If it’s not a problem at all then post the documents that prove so that U.S. people can read.
I am going to try to provide a link whereby anyone can read about glyphosate (Roundup) toxicity studies such as;
“Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases III: Manganese, neurological diseases, and associated pathologies – A recent study on cows fed genetically modified Roundup®-Ready feed revealed a severe depletion of serum Mn. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, has also been shown to severely deplete Mn levels in plants. Here, we investigate the impact of Mn on physiology, and its association with gut dysbiosis as well as neuropathologies such as autism, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), depression, anxiety syndrome, Parkinson’s disease (PD), and prion diseases.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392553/
More at search pubmed glyphosate https://goo.gl/ZSlv4G
It is up to EVERYONE to educate themselves correctly and not depend on so-called authorities. These alleged “authorities” have one thing and one thing only on their minds – how much they’re paid off to shut up.
Here is a link, to the US label, it is the law on how to apply roundup. http://www.cdms.net/ldat/ld7F2008.pdf. If you read it , Check section 9.4. It talks about no-till, aid to tillage, seedbed prep. These are all done before the crop is seeded ( could be up to 24 months) and glyphosate can not be transferred from soil to the new plant. This is how about 98% of glyphosate is used in growing wheat. It also states as required by law 7 DAY day wait , (NOT 3 As her headline claims) till harvest. How many acres of wheat have you grown and harvested? Please check your sources, Senneff and Swanson have created graphs that are skewing the facts to fit their own false agenda. So many miss uses of information. Thank you
If it’s sprayed upon the wheat crop 3 days prior to harvest, and no rain washes it off, how is it that it’s not coated the seed grain? It’s all over the plant!
The farmers will be out of business if people know.
what is used today isn’t the same as forty years ago. Gramoxone (today’s brand name) goes inactive as soon as in comes in contact with clay particles. It still deserves respect, but then again all the ag chemicals do.
If it’s ON the crop it’s not in contact with clay particles much.
Yes and there isn’t any dust as they are harvesting either is there.
Duh, they sell roundup, while the competition (Syngenta) makes paraquat under the brand name Gramoxone.
Well, I’m sure you of all people ought to know all about that, you stupid shill.
GMO Bob’s BS notwithstanding, I just find it interesting that most of the crops in question mentioned in the article are high-carb, something I tend to avoid as a rule anyway. So…paleo diet = 1 problem solved, at least.
Thank God. It would be horrible to lose someone as unselfish & empathetic like YOU! I guess all of your “loved ones” are on paleo diets, too?! Gee, wonder what that paleo protein eats? Corn, maybe? Oops…
Not solved if the animals you eat are fed GMO grain, sprayed with RoundUp, and they include the chaff in their feed, and I’ve seen cattle out in fields of corn shocks chewing on dead, dried up corn shocks.
The sock puppets have a play book.There is no arguing,no discussion,nothing.Just a commercial for Monsanto.Ignore their comments and call em out.They cant play when the fish dont bite.
When they post just post….sock puppet troll.thats all thats needed.
When they post just post….sock puppet troll.thats all thats needed.
Why do you argue with the monsanto sock puppets.Just point them out and ignore them.They HATE that.Marginalize them as they deserve.
Why do you argue with the monsanto sock puppets.Just point them out and ignore them.They HATE that.Marginalize them as they deserve.
This article doesn’t make sense. Roundup GMO plants are resistant to Roundup. You are saying the farmer is spending $8 TO $10 per acre to spray a crop that is Round up resistant 3 days before harvest. What is the benefit? In the real world this does not happen. Hysteria marketed as fact to ignorant city slickers. If it did happen, grains are covered by pods, husk and other protective covering. When shelled or processed the chemical is gone with the trash. Relax understand the farming process.
unfortunately you are so wrong…….. please inform yourself better….. it is sprayed to get the plant into stress so it produces more the last minute before harvest and usually it takes about 10 days to get most of it out….. only in USA such practice is allowed, in Europe people are less intolerant to wheat, and one reason for this is, that they don’t allow this practice…..
Where do you come up with these crazy ideas? At this point the plant is dying rapidly how are you going to stress it? It doesn’t have enough energy left in it to add any more to the yield no matter what you do.
The purpose of spraying at the last minute is to desiccate the plant and make it easier to harvest. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it, but I now have a Google alert set for “glyphosate” and I read it regularly in farm trade magazines, etc. If you search for “glyphosate desiccant” you’ll find plenty of confirmation of this practice.
I agree to a point. Glyphosate doesn’t work that well for a desiccant because it takes to long to work. Paraquat is a much better alternative because it works in hours not days.
Paraquat kills the people who work nearby. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001085.htm
I have a post awaiting moderation about Paraquat. In the meantime look up Paraquat/Diquat toxicity.
Vim you are wrong about roundup being sprayed to stress the plant to produce more seed! The wheat plant forms the seed acouple months before harvest. Very little wheat is ever sprayed with glyphosate, it is not needed. If it is sprayed before harvest, the seed are mature and in the drying process and the plant can’t translocate the glyphosate to the seed. I have grown wheat for 40 years and know how wheat grows.
Who gives a shit WHY they say they are doing it? They ARE DOING IT. Your answers don’t solve the problem. You say the seed doesn’t ‘absorb’ the glyphosate. Really? Do you wash the seed after harvest to remove it? What a joke. We have LOADS of wheat growing around Oregon – it’s all the tiny short hybrid stuff and the helicopters are BUSY let me just say. Your lies don’t change what we can see with our own eyes.
You are incorrect. There are several different strains of Glysophate, and they use one strain for the GMO “Roudup Ready” crops, mostly soybeans and another strain that kills everything including the beans. I’ve seen them do it here in Canada, right next door to me. They spray it 3 days before harvest and EVERYTHING including the soybeans dry out FAST. Then they harvest. And don’t think that those hulls are not used in livestock feeds, because they are. Yes, they are a waste product but they even market chicken feathers for crying out loud to add to feeds, so grain hulls are marketed and put into pelleted livestock feeds all the time. They are not thrown out ‘with the trash’. You don’t know farming at all.
You sir, do not know farming. You know agribusiness,which is a wholly other animal, in deed. You should cease calling yourself a farmer. It disrespects those people who grow plants without poisons for the wholesome nourishment of the earth and her people. Poisons grow poison. Whether the spray is ‘active’ or ‘inactive’ the soil is dead. You are not a farmer. You are a commodities broker who works in dead soil to produce vacuous hollow and nutrition-less crops for sale to the ‘food manufacturing industry’ which is itself a producer of poisonous processed food-like products of no value to the human race other than as a distraction from their unhappy lives disconnected from nature.
They said they spray Roundup on the field so that the slower ripening portions or spots in the field ripen up faster 3 days prior to harvest. The plant is killed so it makes the effort to ripen the seed faster, not make more of it. It’s for uniformity of swathing, so it can all be at the same ripeness.
Watching just two weeks ago as the copters flew over the wheat fields north of Junction City Oregon. It most certainly does make sense and it most certainly is happening all the time. Those were wheat fields. There is no GMO wheat. Get it? It was harvest time for the first crops of spring sown wheat. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy to be driving on the state hi-ways under the sprayers, let me tell you.
Canola and wheat are sprayed prior to harvest around here. Roundup isn’t as popular with farmers as it was a few years ago. It is becoming less effective on a lot of weeds.
How much will it cost for you to crawl back under the rock you normally hide under you F–ing Judas/ a la GMO dik-head…..just remember what happened to people like you after WWII …thing is… psychopaths like you have NO conscience & you’ll still be wondering what you did wrong as they stand you up against a wall somewhere for some frontier justice….people like you would gleefully inject poisonous vaccines into babies without a thought …as long as you please your masters…you obsequious sychphantic rat gab….is that plain enuff???
Tsk tsk edward aren’t we all worked up. It is a shame that when confronted with facts that destroy your little fantasies that you have to go into a rage.
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Chrissy really needs to actually research real farming before she writes, or copies, these articles. While Roundup might be labeled for use on these crops as a harvest aid, the actual number of acres that it actually happens on is very very small. Roundup is impractical to use in most situations as a harvest aid as it takes to long to work (7 to 10 days). A defoliant like Gramoxone (paraquat) would be the chemical of choice and is labeled on several of the crops little miss chrissy listed. It works in hours not days, and even with that it is rarely used, because it is an additional cost and can affect grain quality. It really isn’t that hard to find the truth, so one must ask — Why doesn’t Chrissy want to?
You talking about truth, that’s a good on. Thanks for the laugh!
Yes that is something you don’t know much about.
I know your a paid dis info shill and you pay for it badly.
Gee, you act just like Obama now talking like you know everything when in reality you don’t have a clue who I am, or why I’m even doing this.
Are you doing “this” for Satan??!!
I am defending my way of life that I believe in very passionately.
Oh see your a paid troll.. Your soul is for sale and you are pathetic for selling out humanity! I dont doubt you love Satan, the problem bub, he does NOT love you!
Oh I see, you can’t comprehend. My family has been in the business of helping farmers feed the world for over a hundred years. Myself and my customers are not going to stand by while some goof tries to spread lies about what we do.
Sock puppet troll alert.
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Your family HAHA Satan! MY FAMILY has been farming for almost 100 years. A week before my grandfather died he confessed he was “tricked” into buying this GMO, Monsatan SCAM! Thank God we have records via Discus and hackers of your IP(s).. Would you prefer a rope or firing squad after your trial?
Oh, so then you ARE a part of the Monsanto “family”, you admit it then?
There are a lot of other companies in agriculture than monsanto. If you actually did a little research you would see that they don’t have a majority market share of anything like seed, fertilizer, chemicals, equipment.
You are poisoning us. I farm full time and I use non-GMO and all my animals gain faster and are healthier as a result. Even the manure smell isn’t as offensive and I believe that is because they can digest it better.
LOL, keep dreaming. Your animals don’t gain any faster than the gmo fed animals, nor are they healthier. Only a fool like you would think there manure don’t stink either.
Too bad you don’t like facts. We raise the same number of pigs from chunk weight to finished weight in the same place every year. Fact is the manure didn’t smell hardly at all since we switched to the Non-GMO feed. And we are able to market them 2 weeks earlier, so they are gaining faster. I attribute that to the Non-GMO feed, because that is all that has changed. Sorry if you don’t like the truth, but the facts speak for themselves.
That’s interesting, but if you have done this for very long, you know that each group of pigs is different. Unless you run multiple trials on multiple groups you are just guessing.
beware the sock puppet,LOL.
Come on now can’t do better than that?
Nope,not to a sock puppet.
If he REALLY wanted to convince the gullible that GMOs are, as Obunghole would say, “Grape!”, he wouldn’t call himself “GMO” what ever. I think all those years of shooting-up paraquat made him “brilliant”, like Hitlery Cliton.
Another Monsanto Troll! Ya, we believe ya! NOT!
Tell me where I’m wrong then? Oh I forgot you only shout troll because you have no evidence.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-pro-gmo-scientist-speaks-out-on-the-real-dangers-of-genetically-engineered-food/5424010
Here is a former Pro GMO EPA scientist’s reply:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-pro-gmo-scientist-speaks-out-on-the-real-dangers-of-genetically-engineered-food/5424010
Thank you for this link!!!
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https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001085.htm
Paraquat kills people even quicker than glyphosate. And Monsanto openly advises farmers to use Roundup as a desiccant. It’s in their online instruction brochure.
You are a joker, Monsatan Robert. Lol!
It’s pretty clear to me that this sick GMO ‘Bob the knob’ is truly mentally ill … a rabid dog ….leaving only one solution…best to ignore this idiot after we let him know he’s not welcome…he luvs all the attention cos deep down he has incredible low self esteem…common with all garden variety control freak moron cop mentalities.
..cheers A CATAL…Justinmango
Gee, edward you really like to throw the insults. Is that because of your poor upbringing? Did your mommy not give you enough attention? It is a shame that you have nothing of value to add. I will pray for you.
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Alright and take care!
Your Alinsky tactics (which reich-wingers claim to despise but use all the time) are noted: Your trivializing the author by calling her “Chrissy,” your implication of plagiarism, your statement that she doesn’t want the truth. – Then you proceed to lie your ass off. The number of acres is large, Monsanto recommends the spraying within at least 3 days, and Roundup is pathogenic, as is paraquat (i.e., this isn’t an either-or issue).
How much does Monsanto pay you to pimp its propaganda?
Look at the numbers to see how wrong you are. The number of acres can’t be large. Chrissy herself said it is for non gmo crops. With over 90% gmo in the major grain crops that leaves very few acres left for what she is talking about. Next, it simply makes no since to spray a chemical that works in seven to ten days THREE days before harvest now does it? Funny when presented with facts you can only claim that some must be paying me.
Dude. Stop. It is simple. It does not require a huge scientific explanation. Spraying poison on your food is harmful to your health regardless of when it is sprayed on it.
That’s the point! It is rarely sprayed on when she claims, and when it is sprayed properly it is fine. The next part is that if we get rid of gmos all non organically will still be sprayed, but with even more dangerous chemicals than we use today. Try looking up the granular insecticides and the sulfurons that we use to use. Glyphosate is tame compared to them. Hopefully tomorrow we can have something better than glyphosate, but until then we must use what we have.
you’re a LIAR
what did I lie about, or instead what don’t you understand?
glycophosphates are NOT safe at any level at any time in the food chain , period. just now its coming out monsanto knew 30 years ago of the health effects and covered it up . cancer and all the rest . these poisons as well as the abomination that is GMOs are soft kill pop reduction weapons , period. the elite eat organic , period. monsanto might as well be called mom diablo and anyone who can defend them also works for the destruction of free humanity.
Thanks for sharing your conspiracy theories that have all been proven wrong!!! Nice try but only the gullible are dumb enough to believe your crap.
now i know you are an ad hominim troll , hope that works out for you when your kids have cancer
Who knows what the future holds for any of us? I’m 100% certain though that eating good nutritious home cooked meals with gmo sweet corn and gmo fed beef isn’t going to cause cancer, especially since it hasn’t for the last two decades.
Well I guess dead rats cant speak..
Strange live ones can’t either. Proves a lot doesn’t it.
Ed Snowden revealed (although critical thinkers already knew) that paid SHILLS troll these threads. Thats PROVED.. Now go play your “shell” game somewhere else, my guess yahoo news is where you will find real sheepal..
Sorry, but I’m not one. And you are the sheepal giving in to unrealistic fears.
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Working hard arn’t we freddie? Shame you have nothing real to say!
Sorry sock puppet.
I agree with what JahRatraMan said. Poison is poison.
It should not be sprayed on anything, and we should not be eating anything that systemically absorbs the poison.
Saying that This poison is less harmful than That poison is propaganda. They’re ALL poison.
How much poison do sane people want in their food? ZERO.
Sorry, but that is your opinion. I have people come into my store all day long to buy insecticide spray and dust for their gardens.
Essentially two types of people buy biocides – those who are too lazy to hand-work their gardens and those who are too cheap to hire people to hand-work their fields.
Bot types are fools.
How much poison do SANE people want in their food? ZERO.
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Working hard arn’t we freddie? Shame you have nothing real to say.
Working hard arn’t we freddie? Shame you have nothing real to say
The major grain crops are not 90% GMO.
Rice is not GMO. Wheat is not GMO. Rye, Barley ….. I could go on..
90% GMO is incorrect.
At 56 million acres, it is still well below corn and soybeans, but I will give you wheat. Rye at just 1.5 million, while barley and rice are both at three million are very minor.
he’s been trained in NLP altho I think he has the IQ of a fence post…that’s why this moron is proselytizing for the same Nazis of IG Farben… morphed with their scoin into present day PIG pHARMaceuticals & BIG AG ‘s plethora of chemical poisons…the cancer rate was 1 : 68 in the 1950’s …& since the imposition of chemical chimeras it’s now 1 : 3….+ some mentally ill people like this guy gets a kick out of shit disturbing …either way he’s absolutely dis-eased…oh Yeah GMO Rat Bag GFYS!
Boy edward, it is a shame that gmos won’t ever disappear, because I would like to know what you would whine about then and what would you blame everything that went wrong in your miserable little life on then? I do feel sorry for you sach ol boy.
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What more do you want? It’s already been researched about the danger of these “Round up” and you’re such a pathetic or a psychopath, Monsatan Robert. Lol!
Yes it has been researched and proven safe, that is why it is still being used. Thanks for confirming.
That is a lie and you know it, too, it’s about money and that is why it being continued to use it, you damn psychopath Monsatan Robert.
It is still being used because it works, and it has been proven to be safe when used properly. This isn’t something that just came out. This chemical has been around for many decades.
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Come on now can’t do better than that? LOL
Sorry, sock puppet.
Yes you, but still try to do better.
It never been proven to be safe, so stop lying about.
Thousands of times all over the world, even with independent funding. You just don’t like the results because they fail to meet your twisted agenda. So stop lying to yourself.
Lol, you are big joke, Monsatan Robert. Lol! You are a twisted mind because you’re a psychopath. I don’t lie about the result about these GLYPHOSATE can cause health effect and FDA has admitted it and knew about it for over 40 years, you can’t make this stuff up. You to need shut your ass up, and you are a poor liar, Monsatan Robert.
Looks like someone can’t handle the truth. Even the WHO admitted the only ones at risk are farm workers that handle glyphosate directly day after day. But you are correct “I can’t make this stuff up”, but obviously YOU can.
You are twisting with your word game here, and you don’t make any sense here because you are a liar. WHO have said about Glyphosate is carcinogenic and the FDA knew about this for more forty years and they kept it quiet about it because the $$$ are involved, enough said.
Now who is lying? Show us all where the WHO said glyphosate IS a carcinogen. Even Chrissy has gotten this one right, I know it’s amazing.
Oh, SURE – Right!!! So, that has nothing to do with maybe why I haven’t been able to eat regular, commercially prepared food from the grocery stores for the last, oh…10 to 15 years. Yeah, sure right!!
“the chemical of choice”: Oh, so just because it’s not poisoned by RoundUp, it’s somehow better if it’s poisoned by paraquat!? OK, so then you are somewhat aware that paraquat can affect grain quality if not applied correctly. But, according to you since it’s not RoundUp, then it’s “safer”.