World’s Top Weed Killer Linked To Infertility

[Donnachaidh]

http://mediaroots.org/worlds-top-weed-killer-linked-to-infertility.php

LIFE SITE NEWS- The world’s top herbicide for decades has come under criticism after evidence surfaced suggesting that the chemical may be linked to infertility and miscarriage in animals, raising serious concerns about the possible effect on human consumers.

Glyphosate is the weed-killing ingredient introduced over 30 years ago by the multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto under the brand name Roundup. Monsanto also produces “Roundup Ready” corn, soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to withstand large doses of Roundup that would be deadly to normal plants.

But Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and a well-known plant pathologist, wrote to both American and European officials earlier this year to express his concern over a newly-discovered, extremely small organism that has appeared in higher concentrations in conjunction with Roundup and Roundup Ready crops.

The “electron microscopic pathogen,” Huber wrote in a Jan 16 letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, “appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings,” noting that preliminary experiments have been able to reproduce the pathogen’s effect of causing miscarriages.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Round up is used in the GM corn and soybeans which permeate our food products.

High corn fructose syrup in innocuous soda and drinks.
Corn meal in your Doritos that you wash down with the HCFS in your soda.
Corn mash fed to dairy cows and beef cattle. Milk and hamburgers.
Corn syrup in your pecan pie.
Soy milk, soy sauce for your Chinese take-out, tofu, edami, powdered soy protein drinks.

And this list is the tip of the iceberg. Almost all prepared food from bread to canned fruit has either GM corn or soybeans in them, which includes the pesticides that were sprayed on them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Happy to be 5th rec

[Kali]

2. so if we consume the resistant mutant corn maybe we will be resistant

to the side effects of round-up too! its all good for Monstersanto:crazy:

[rurallib]

3. telling Vilsack ain't going to do much good.

IIRC he was known as the governor from Monsanto.

[jberryhill]

4. This "electron microscopic pathogen" made the rounds here a few weeks back /nt

[applegrove]

5. And nature fights back!

[robinlynne]

6. I'm more concerned that it is killing all the bees!!!!!