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- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- August 16, 2012
- 5:11 pm
- 80 comments
The Romans had lead. Victorian hat-makers had mercury. Our parents had cigarettes. We have Roundup. Thanks to the much-hated, genetically-modified corporation Monsanto and other herbicide manufacturers, the known toxic chemical glyphosate found in Roundup has also been found in shocking amounts in drinking water and human bodies.
According to a German study, the herbicide ingredient was found in ALL human urine samples tested. Worse than that, the amount found in urine was 5 to 20 times the established upper limit for drinking water.
The chemical is used in food production but is also sprayed on private lawns, railway lines, urban pavement, golf courses, and community roadsides and public land.
Earlier research showed that the toxic chemical prevents plants from growing and causes birth defects in frogs and chicken embryos in much lower amounts than that used in agriculture and on lawns. The same study found that glyphosate primarily affects the skull, face, parts of the brain, and spinal cord. As unknowing participants in a planet-wide, uncontrolled experiment, we are only starting to discover the results for humans.
In a 2009 study testing highly diluted (100,000 times or more) Roundup on human cells, the cells died within 24 hours. Other research showed that glyphosate is linked to the death of human kidney cells, and infertility and testicular cell death in rats. It has also been a factor in Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS).
Keep reading to find out what you can do to protect yourself…
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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+ add your ownNot Roundup® -ready yet, but I'm working on it.
Monsanto needs to be stopped!
Here in Ontario, we are not allowed to use pesticides and weed killers to beautify our lawns. We must learn to love the dandelions in the spring or get down and dirty and pull them out by hand...one giant taproot at a time.
I had no idea roundup was that toxic to humans. I will do my part and educate my family and friends on the benefits of not using it.
Never had I known how toxic Round-UP was. I stopped using it a couple of years ago.
Thanks for sharing. Sad and unfortunate too.
thanks, copied for my husband to read!
do things the old fashoned way pull weeds and kill bugs by hand not poison, every one will be getting some exercise and the planet will be cleaner
Have never used a product like this and never will..........
This whole industry is poison. It's a monster.
Thanks to the favorable comments to my previous post. Here are 5 more links I found in another file:
http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/hungary-destroys-gm-corn-africa-no-place-for-gmo-eu-bans
Standing Up To Monsanto in Paraguay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmeBaw28oKc
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/roundup-weed-killer-is-toxic-to-human-cells.-study-intensifies-debate-over-inert-ingredients
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-article/glyphosphate-pollution-so-omnipresent-us-frequency-detection-ranged-60-100-both-air-an
Glyphosphate pollution is so omnipresent in the US that the frequency of detection ranged from 60 to 100% in both air and rain. - GreenMedInfo Summary
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21128261
Occurrence and fate of the herbicide glyphosate and its degradate aminomethylphosphonic acid in the atmosphere.
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