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Monsanto Furious At World Health Organization For Claiming Weedkiller Causes Cancer
Following Monsanto lobbyist comments recently that he's "not stupid" enough to drink the weedkiller that he also proclaimed was safe enough that "you can drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you;" Reuters reports that the maker of the world's most widely used herbicide, Roundup, wants an international health organization to retract a report linking the chief ingredient in the weedkiller to cancer. The company said on Tuesday that a report, issued on Friday by the WHO, was biased: "The WHO has something to explain." However, as one scientist noted, "there are a number of independent, published manuscripts that clearly indicate that glyphosate...can promote cancer and tumor growth."
Monsanto, maker of the world's most widely used herbicide, Roundup, wants an international health organization to retract a report linking the chief ingredient in Roundup to cancer.
The company said on Tuesday that the report, issued on Friday by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), was biased and contradicts regulatory findings that the ingredient, glyphosate, is safe when used as labeled.
A working group of the IARC, based in Lyon, France, said after reviewing scientific literature it was classifying glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans."
"We question the quality of the assessment," Philip Miller, Monsanto vice president of global regulatory affairs, said on Tuesday in an interview. "The WHO has something to explain."
Monsanto officials have asked to meet with WHO and IARC members, and Miller said the company wants a retraction.
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The U.S. Geological Survey estimated agricultural use of glyphosate in 2012, the most recent year available, at more than 283 million pounds, up from 110 million pounds in 2002.
Given its massive lobbying efforts, it is no surprise that the United States and other international regulatory bodies have backed the safety of glyphosate when used as directed, but the IARC report cited studies that raised concerns about glyphosate and impacts on health.
Monsanto says such studies are invalid. But critics say they merit attention.
"There are a number of independent, published manuscripts that clearly indicate that glyphosate ... can promote cancer and tumor growth," said Dave Schubert, head of the cellular neurobiology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. "It should be banned."
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Cause cancer, kill bees. Who really cares as long as Monsanto can profit from all the political favors they get. Round up and GMO to the moon.
the damage is done, advantage to the accuser
http://www.eattheweeds.com/ weeds are good for you
What's the big deal!?
It's not like it has anything to do with Agent Orange..
Oh wait....
FUCK Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and all the rest of the evil motherfuckers. Anyone who buys this shit needs to bellyup to the bar and have a glass.
it is YOU who buys the shit, whenever you buy packaged, processed foods.
Unfortunately, Monsatan's genetic monstrosities are found in all kinds of foods, since mandatory labelling of GMO's in the USSA is verboten.
Apparently Monsatan needs to buy some more "scientists".
Fact: This man has never actually been a lobbyist for Monsanto. He's a former cofounder of Greenpeace who got out when they turned into a bunch of hippie jihadists.
Dr Oz apparently on Monsanto's shit list as well after a piece on RoundUp...
http://www.naturalnews.com/049395_Doctor_Oz_Monsanto_Mafia_glyphosate_to...
Poison is poison. My son in the Ag biz told me all about the measures of toxicity, which are not hat bad for Roundup. Unfortunately, they don't allow for tumors, cancer, etc. Even the measurement system itself is bogus so the crap can be put on stuff and it's "OK for ya'". DUH
Just sayin' ....
This would make me mad too....some programmer at the WTO must have intentionally rerouted the routine workflow announcement approval process that required sign-ff by Monsanto.
Someone at the WTO will definitely lose their job over this.
It doesn't really matter what Monsatano says any more. Listening to their blatherings is like listening to some .gov proclamation.
Your statement about GMO stands this argument on its head.
The issue has always been about the use of Glyphosate on crops, NOT the type of crop makeup (nongmo vs. gmo). Glyphosate has routinely been used as a harvest aid in nongmo crops such as corn and soybeans. It is a systemic herbicide which means that it is taken into the plant's system whether that plant is gmo or nongmo.
Everyone gets caught up in the forest of gmo and misses the trees of how and when glyphosate is used.
Why would you even assume that if I KNOW monsanto is poison that I would eat processed poison. I can only assume you are either a fuckface or a stupid assed moron.
“Dr. Patrick Moore is not and never has been a paid lobbyist for Monsanto,” Charla Lord, a spokesperson for Monsanto, wrote in an email Friday. (source)
(not @ cossack55)
Well, he's not now (as of Friday). That's all anyone could really argue as truthful.
What the fuck do I know about this cat. I do, however, know about Michael Taylor.
Dr. OZ is even on to them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_fHxE6RExM.... Those MSM bastards are losing control over their monkeys, maybe Monsanto was behind on their dues.
To which Monsanto promptly responded:
http://monsantoblog.com/2015/04/07/fact-check-setting-the-record-straight-on-the-dr-oz-segment-on-glyphosate-safety/
OK, so real quick sanity check on this one.... scanning down the thread we're pretty much agreed Monsanto is evil. Fine.
But no question of WHO's potential motives here? They're the "good guys"? No need to think about this?
Not saying I know what they are, but I wonder if the WHO declared that guns were the greatest preventable threat to human health on the planet, how many of us here would feel about that.
"International Organizations" give me the creeps because they're the kind of tool politicians would and will use to bypass our Constitution.
<- MONSANTO bad, WHO good.
<- Fuck them both, and the horses they rode in on.
There you go. Let's see if your false dichotomy plays out.
"You can do better than that."
You may be overestimating my abilities, sir. I'm just a guy who does the best he can with his 78 remaining IQ points.
I edited the post to be a little more scientific. Perhaps you are indeed correct. Two Upvotes may have gotten in during the editing process.
I agree about any of these international organizations. I always just assumed that glyophosphate is very bad for you since it kills most plants it touches unless they have been genetically engineered to withstand it. That fact alone leads me to believe i probably should avod injesting it whenever possible. I always just figure if the WHO is getting around to mentioning it, they either have some kind of ax to grind with monsanto, or its cancer causing properties have become so glaringly obvious that no amount of bribery lobbying can keep it under wraps. The US would be much better off if we withdrew all participation from things like the WHO and UN. They pretty much exist to undermine the individual rights of soveriegn countries and their citizens, and have done a lot more damage than good
69 years ago today the UN picked up where the League Of Nations, to which the USA did not belong, left off. Now I could say something sarcastic like "the rest of the world would be better off if the USA withdrew from EVERYTHING/EVERYWHERE" instead of using the UN as a tool to push its policies via "partnering" (controlling the opposition) but I would prefer real cooperation over isolation. Let's see how many forks are stuck in the UN April 20, 2016.
The US would be much better off if we withdrew all participation from things like the WHO and UN...
Are you kidding? WHO and UN membership provides a guaranteed income stream to the likes of Monsatan, ADM, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Textron, Goldman Sachs etc.
They're making a killing on this. No pun intended.
The police are looking for a few good men.
Well, on the positive side this will prohibit Monsanto's ability to sue Soverign Countires over profit losses with the Criminal TPP Agreement.
Sleight of hand?
Keep digging, press is pretty much regulated so why this, now, glyphosate is NAM stuff.
Doctors kill more people every year than firearms do in the US. The WHO can go eat a bag of dicks.
If you analyze GSWs by ethnicity, and disregard blacks and hispanics, our crime statistics are comparable with Scandinavia. But hey, as long as they are from "rich and vibrant" cultures, we can't mention that because..."RAYCISS!"
I know somebody that did some PI work for Monsanto, and they were nailing farmers who saved seed and replanted. The fines weren't trivial. Monsanto is using drones for PI work now as well. What's funny to me is that Monsanto would rather rape US farmers because (ostensibly) they are the only ones complying with contract law.
Drug overdoses kill way more people than guns do in the US as well. Funny how the media and our beloved leader (former coke dealer) are silent on this.
For those that go after the guns, it's never been about how many proles were killed, only about keeping them from being turned on the traitors
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Monsatan!
Love this development.
Time to move in for the kill of "MonSatan".
Monsanto is the second most hated corporation in the US according to polls.
Comcast is the first and has held that distinguished title for some time.
Ironically, most of the people who have a hate-on for Monsanto don't realize there's actually two separate Monsantos.
" Cancer victims for this story could not be reached for comment. "
That's odd?
Just send a fat check to the correct lobbyist and statement retracted. That's how fascism works.
A fat check? I like it.
I wish someone would send me a fat check. Oh wait, I'm now imagining what they would do to me after I bend over. Nevermind, I don't want their fat check.
Just send a fat chick to the correct lobbyist and statement retracted. That's how fascism works.
FTFY... ;-D
Monsanto hates that there isn't a court they can drag them into...tsk...
That is why they are pushing for TPP and TTIP
To all the employees and company officers at Monsanto, enjoy your time in prison or hell, whichever comes first.
Have you or your loved one's been injured by Monsanto?
Call the Law Offices of Goldenfarb and Silverstern today!
[cue Folger's Crystals music]
We've secretly replaced the sweet and sour in the Monsanto cafeteria frozen Margarita machine with Roundup concentrate, let's see if they notice.
Dramatic Correlation Shown Between GMOs, Glyphosate And 22 Diseaseshttps://www.popularresistance.org/dramatic-correlation-shown-between-gmo...
The Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation”http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-complete-history-of-monsanto-the-worlds...
Dr Stephanie Seneff of MIT explains how Glyphosate causes so many diseases:
Jeffrey Smith interviews Dr. Stephanie Seneff about Glyphosatehttps://vimeo.com/65914121
Speaking of cancer, I was thinking about driving over to the Gulf's Celebration of the 5-year anniversary of the Eco-disaster oil spill. Some menu items include the "BP Platter" of deep oil fried shrimp with side dish of "sticky algae." Not bad but the algae was a little too degenerated for me.
The "Horizon" BBQ was disappointing but the flaming flambae dessert was excellent despite being a little overcooked.
Wanna take a trip to Fukushima on the anniversary too? I'm down! We can have iridium-192 Sushi. I hear it's to die for!!!!
Better if marinated in Round Up overnight.
WHO is quiet on Monsanto & others GMO products though. GMO is virtually impossible to avoid today in foods/sauces.
GM foods on the international market have passed risk assessments and are not likely to present risks for human health. No effects on human health have been shown as a result of the consumption of such foods by the general population in the countries where they have been approved.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/np5/en/
Totally anecdotal, but I live in an area which is heavily sprayed with RoundUp, and the incidence of MS is roughly 10x more than the national average. Looking to scurry out of here pronto.
Check out the stats for Autism in [drought-sticken] California; most cases are near farms where tons of pesticides are used from what I read.
Makes sense about what you say with MS also.
Overlay a bar chart on the adoption of cell phones with autism from 1992 to present & you'll see they're exponentially in lock step.
This is not discounting all the other poisons, e.g. metals in chemtrails & vaccines only exacerbate the problem making us human antenna's.
Fuck, cell fones are great, they cull and call at the same time.
SOme will perish from these misdeads but they really want us all to look and feel like shit to not pay attention to the NWO.
Professor Don Huber of Purdue has been warning about Glyphosate for over a decade. It is destroying the soil by chelating metals (it was patented to descale pipes originally in the early 1960s) and causing a variety of diseases in humans and animals. He points out that autism rates in the 1960s were 1 in 50,000 increasing to 1 in 88 in 2011 and 1 in 50 in 2013 and he predicts that autism rates will be 1 in 2 in USA by 2020. Here is his talk with Dr Mercola and in the last two minutes are his predictions for autism rates in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx4UVhJcnpo
Dr Stephanie Seneff of MIT predicts 1 in 2 American children will be autistic by 2025.
Most of the reason that autism rates have climbed so spectacularly in recent years is that the label "autism" has been greatly broadened and is now officially referred to as "autism spectrum disorder". There is no actual epidemic of autism if you control for improved detection rates and the vastly broadened definition.
Some speculate that it is actually glyphosate, not wheat that is behind the epidemic of "gluten sensitivity/ intolerance" and IBS that seems to be plaguing us now. It stands to reason since wheat has been cultivated for centuries and was the backbone of the Roman Empire. Of course, today's wheat is vastly different form those ancient varieties but I am hoping to see some scholarly papers that may show a link.
In any case, this shit should never had been released publicly. Don't get me started on aspartame.
Miffed
precise engineering for colon cancer.
aspartame=Rumsfeld.
I was at Home Depot yesterday to buy a few drip irrigation fittings.
Huge displays of Roundup and other poisonous products up by the front door. All in cheerful bottles and bags. The average suburban idiot in America sprays bug killer and weed killer all over his property. Never occurs to them that anything that can kill tough little bugs and weeds is probably pretty damn bad for everything else.
For 70 years now we've been told that every nasty creation of corporate chemistry is "safe", from DDT to depleted uranium to agent orange to roundup. Same story every time. We find out it's all toxic as hell but only after millions of people have been killed or poisoned.
They are also pushing hard for the TPP and TTIP to protect their poison seeds. Fuck Monsatan.
http://wtfrly.com/gmo
Sounds like the WHO needs some 'freedom'...
Monsanto may have a point, because almost everything can cause cancer if not "used as directed."
Get with the script, MonSatan never has a point.
Sure they do. Their point is to make as much money as possible any way they can. If that involves controlling our entire food supply, then by golly, that's what they're going to aim for!
I'm not weighing in on the potential dangers of glyphosate here, just pointing out that this fact alone makes the fuckers evil. As if debt slavery alone weren't bad enough, we get food slavery too.
Nicely ensuring they make money from their toxic seeds and chemicals while slowly killing off the serfs with countless illnesses that drain the energy and money of families, while enriching big Pharma, coincidentally helping the planet by reducing CO2 exhalers through infertility, illness and premature death....they really do tick every satanic box on the check list.
Its almost a fools errand to try and avoid their products today, their toxic seeds and chemicals are in so many of even the "healthy" foods and drinks we consume we are already enslaved.
Nice summation. +100
Food is an integral part of the perpetual growth paradigm. Is a catch-22 here. Generic engineering, better living through modern chemistry, etc. are all vital components in maintaining crop yields.
Just another card in the house of cards that is now reaching ridiculous proportions.
it's sarcasm... i get it...
The problem is spraying it all over food crops eg. roundup ready soy, is using it as directed. Spraying it down the sides of your drive way or under trees. no problem.
Sure nuff, spray that shit all over your lawn and then let your rugrats go out and crawl around in the grass all summer. Good parent!
if not "used as directed."
Thanks
MonSatan has a whole disinfo department. Let's hope their unemployment is expedited.
We fertilized some folks
we sterilised
we zombi fried many folks
They say smoking causes cancer too and recently they admitted smoking may exacerbate cancer but does not cause it.
Cause of lung cancer is genetic folks.
Eggs and milk used to cause cancer.
These sci fi guys better get back to their experiments because you can't trust them anymore. We all got to die of something. Some get cancer, some heart attacks, vehicle accident, CIA tortured to death and so on. That is life.
might want to check out epigenetics.
you were sold a bill of goods with the genome project.
look no further than 23 & me, sponsored by...
cui bono
And "they" are......?
Honestly I've been fairly busy so I may have missed the news reports that say cigarettes do not cause cancer.
Either you are FOS or a 6th-level Troll. Well played Sir.
Petrol will cause cancer if you drink it! Mind you it will kill you in many other ways first if you do before Cancer gets going - so best the WHO bans it!
Round Up...isn't that what cowboys do to cattle right before they butcher them?
MPFags.net members drink a cup everyday. They sound ok...
The Monsanto family was the first to bring slaves to the USA.
pause and refresh
drink goy
eat already
empty cup and plate.
ddt,agent orange,ass party time
chew on depleted uranium and round up monsanto bayer nazi ready
they do this all for you
all for the cattle
the rabbi feeds you mules and all you do is complain already.
get back to your human dna burger and shut that hole
it for chewin der cud not back talkin
Glyphosate (Roundup) kills weeds by inhibiting the synthesis of the amino acids: tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine.
This shuts down the photosynthesis pathway for an actively growing plant. Supposedly, this doesn't hurt humans, but I'm pretty sure those amino acids are important to us. Different pathways and DNA (and we don't need to photosynthesize) but as the saying goes "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature".
Roundup resistant plants were developed when a resistant bacteria at a Roundup production facility was found in the waste area. They inserted a synthesized molecule from the bacteria into genetically engineered crops (the GMO crop produces the synthesized molecule from the bacteria).
Some plants ("weeds") are already developing resistance naturally due to selection pressures.
More information on the mechanism of action here:
http://boundlessthicket.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-glyphosate-and-glyphosate-resistant.html
My Hippy daughter tried to raise an organic garden ...production sucked!...thats why theres Monsanto, for hippys who tried to raise crops without them once..and want to sell their shit at the Farmers market so they can buy dope...
Operator error...organic gardening is easy if it important enough
Agribusiness is busy killing off heritage varieties that had natural resistance to diseases and pests from centuries of cultivation.
They're still out there, but if she's trying to grow modern varieties without propping them up via petroleum based fertilizers and pesticides/herbicides it is no wonder.
Modern methods produce a lot of bushels per acre, but they are also producing a genetic and logistical cul-de-sac.
clade7
your as dumb as a bunch of rocks
you are already monsanto brain dead
While many in the world are completely dependent on large scale agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. Their agricultural economy is small scale, predominantly organic and in the capable hands of the nation's people.
in 2011, dacha gardens produced over 80% of the countries fruit and berries, over 66% of the vegetables, almost 80% of the potatoes and nearly 50% of the nations milk, much of it consumed raw.
http://naturalhomes.org/naturalliving/russian-dacha.htm
6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Homestead - Urban Permaculturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM
What's a little glyphosate here and there? I don't hear nobody complaining about all the Trisodium 1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-(4-sulfonatophenylazo)-5-pyrazolone-3-carboxylate) – or Yellow #5 – in their pickles. Cocoa Pebbles, Mac-n-cheese, Cheezits is all just different flavors of Soylent Yellow. It’s just dadgum crap. Sure it makes you feel full but provides little or no nutrition. Now I ain’t no Euell Gibbons, but you gotta limit ALL that crap.
I use Round-Up. Works great!
While I'm no fan of Monsanto I'm getting a little sick of this everything is going to give us cancer. Should everyone live to 90? 100? Haven't we already figured out that to many people and not enough jobs might be a problem in say like 20 years. Alzheimer's also might be a problem with people in their 90's. For every "sharp as a tack" 90 year old I've seen many more who are having serious congnative and memory problems.
The African-Africans have a great food production model that doesn't use Round-Up.
According to a leaked cable, the US government was heavily involved in drafting Ghana's 2011 Biosafety Act, which provided a framework for the introduction of GM foods. The US aid department provided technical assistance and some funding.
https://cablegatesearch.wikileaks.org/cable.php?id=10ACCRA59
Status of development, regulation and adoption of GM agriculture in Africa: Views and positions of stakeholder groupsAbstract
The use of genetically modified (GM) crop technology in tackling food security problems and poverty reduction in Africa continues to generate debates over its benefits and safety. Only four countries, South Africa, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Egypt have commercialized GM crops in Africa but controversy surrounds current cultivation of GM maize in Egypt. Our study provides new perspectives on the status, development and regulation of GM crops through examining the views of 305 stakeholders in six African countries across four regions: South Africa, Kenya (East Africa), Egypt and Tunisia (North Africa), Ghana and Nigeria (West Africa), supplemented by interviews with relevant international organizations. The study revealed the challenges leading to the development of biosafety regulatory frameworks and the role of individual stakeholders in the facilitation of GM crops across African countries. This study also revealed that some countries may go through a Fiber–Feed–Food (F3) approach to adopt GM crops where Bt cotton will be adopted first followed by GM crops for livestock feed while undergoing all the necessary assessments before producing GM foods for human consumption. An overwhelming majority of stakeholders placed emphasis on risk analysis (risk assessment and management) in view of limited capacity, lack of scientific expertise and public concern, and encouraged a centralized approach to risk assessment similar to the European Union model of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919213001346
Read. Research the highly abnomal rates of disease in America. Alz. autism, cancer, etc. You are sick of hearing this, but you should be disgusted about what is going on. And it isn't just naturally occurring.
it simple.
to the dumb fucks that want this kosher witches brew
of talmoo
to the paid sayinim hasbara trolls here
eat it drink it swim in it enjoy it
just fuckin label it godamit instead of hiding it
A Study on Glyphosate (Roundup),.... FUCK MONSANTO.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/30/glyphosate...
The true toxicity of glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup—is becoming increasingly clear as study after study is published demonstrating its devastating effects. In June, groundbreaking research was published detailing a newfound mechanism of harm for Roundup.
This was immediately followed by tests showing that people in 18 countries across Europe have glyphosate in their bodies,1 while yet another study revealed that the chemical has estrogenic properties and drives breast cancer proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range.2
You're going to have to do better than Mercola if you want people to take you seriously.
It's not just roundup.
We are a corn based society. I've used BT on my crops for years. It will even kill bagworms if they're sprayed while only 3/8" big. Harmless to humans but disables the gut of insects. When they spliced the BT gene into the crops, guess what?
Yum, yum.
Luddite bullshit. So we want crop yields to be even lower? Great.
“You can drink a whole quart of this roach killer and it won’t hurt you,”
“You want to drink some?”... “We have some here.”
“I’d be happy to, actually,” “Not really. But I know it wouldn’t hurt me.”
“If you say so, I have some,”
“I’m not stupid,”
“So, it’s dangerous?”
"Roach killer is so safe that people try to commit suicide by drinking it, and they “fail regularly.”
“Tell the truth, it’s dangerous,”
“It’s not dangerous to humans,” “No, it’s not.”
“So, are you ready to drink one glass?”
“No, I’m not an idiot,” “Interview me about golden rice, that’s what I’m talking about.” "The interview is finished.”
“That’s a good way to solve things,”
“Jerk!”
One of my best friends is a conventional crop farmer, my uncles/cousins help start organic valley... i like having a few beers with my buddy, but sometimes we argue.
Just remind people what "overspray" does to a garden.
I think we should be a tad more worried about the cancer proliferation from widespread WiFi and cell phone use!
go to antennasearch.com & plug in your address.
plausible deniablilty. worse than asbestos, agent orange & cigarettes combined. there is no escape/refuge from it other than a faraday.
the pattern is 50 yrs.
listen to Barrie Trower & you'll get the whole bloody enchilada.
BTW, WHO has also classified EMF as possible 2B carcinogen.
We glyphosated some folks...
you got cancer...sue Monsanto. It has a nice ring to it...dont ya think.
Yes, well you could say that petrol causes cancer - if you drink a quart a day. Guess it should be banned along with diesel and turps and natural gas as that will kill you if you breath it for an hour. shit. ban everything and go back to the caves. Glycophate is made by many companies, more cheaply than mansantos round-up brand. it is probably the most widely used and important weedkiller in the world. ban it and you reduce food production 15% but who cares who starves - not Greenpeace who lobby WHO thats for sure. ive washed my hands in glycophate when fixing a broken sprayer just like ive washed my hands in Petrol and diesel when fixing engines - not going to drink any of them but happy to carry on using them.
Shouldn't you be wearing a jacket with extra long sleeves that buckle?
Tell that to your mechanic. Obviously you dont work or get your habnds dirty. Leave the weeding to your serfs.
There is plenty of food in the world today. It just doesn't reach enough people because of political games being played by warlords and dictators and in the West food is expensive due to food speculation. Even so, in the West much food doesn't even make it to shelves of the supermarket or green grocer because 'it doesn't look perfect'. And of the food that is bought in the West, 40% gets thrown away.
Glyphosate has shown up in urine of men and in breast milk of mothers so it could possibly deposit itself in the fatty tissue of babies. It is widely used in Argentina and over there birth defects as well as cancer rates in the country side have gone up.
What Glyphosate and Roundup has caused is that weeds become resistant to it, developing into 'superweeds' that require more use of this particular herbicides and other even stronger more dangerous herbicides. Farmers now more and more need to resort to removing weeds by hand from their lands and from their machines.
And now studies show that it indeed is carcinogenic.
Wow you are right out there! There is pleanty of food in the world BECAUSE of the break through technolgies not inspite of them! Food is cheap & pleantiful because of agra-science - and thankfully so! To limit education & chemistry is a death warrant for the world! Especially the poor that nobody gets a shit about!
There is no point in trying to reason with you but here we go. Mechanization of agriculture was the biggest contributor to increases of agricultural production. More so than any product you talk about (and you cannot even make the distinction between conventional/hybrid breeding and GMO). Even before the production of agri-chemicals, mechanization had led to a huge increase in production. What pesticides and chemical fertilizers have done is destroy topsoil and kill off soil biodiversity. The world's Food and Agriculture Organization has as one of its strategic objectives the preservation of soil biodiversity as a means to maintain soil fertility. They announced 2015 as the year of the soil. They developed a 'climate smart agriculture' framework that builds on agri-environmental aspects in order to make agriculture more resistant and resilient to the effects of climate change. That entails reduction of the use of agri-chemicals, banning of bad practices and promoting good agricultural practices such as no-tillage, less or no chemical use, green mulching, natural pest control.
But what do they know, they are only the Food and Agricultural Organization. You know, full of agronomists and agricultural specialists.
Lol! I was waiting for the mindless climate change spin! You didn't disappoint! We are experiening record crop yields globally for wheat, soybean & corn along with desperately LOW CROP PRICES the farm manager has to deal with! All this while the world is under the stress and destruction of anthroplogical climate change! Who woulda thunk it? I take my baloney sliced thin! Crop rotation, strategic fertilization & soil runoff control has been around lots longer than you & Monsanto & the Food & Agriculture Organization!
How is that working out in California for you then?
Crop rotation? Where in the US is that happening then on big farms? Wheat/corn, wheat/corn. That is hardly crop rotation. You're clueless. Crop prices are low because high yields but also due to low demand and high buildup of stocks plus the market is distorted. Farmers don't get what they deserve because the big retail chains extort them. Plus farmers have huge costs because they need to buy seeds every year from biotech companies plus the pesticides and herbicides that go with them.
Don't expect high yields to remain. Last year was already critical due to failure of harvest globally due to drought. Soil fertility is decreasing everywhere. Humus content is going down.
Well California could have managed their resources better indeed. But their Environment Scientists banned the storage of an 'unneeded' fresh water supply to avoid pressure on wildlife & ecosystems & banned added cistern development dumping & diverting 4.4m acre feet of water a year of their strategic water supply into the San Jaoquim River & ocean for the fishies to enjoy! Now no wawa , no wildlife, no salmon run, vegetation or ecosystems all thanks to best friend of the environment & mensa candidate Gov Jerry Brown! All in the name of sustainability of course!
Think B.S.T Big stoopid government!
Sure and lifestyles and waterting your lawn for 3 hours per day does not have anything to do with that right?
Yep, full of academics and no farmers. All theorists who have never got their hands dirty. Just like economists!
You can make your own ''Roundup'' which is safer and works just as well. One gallon vinegar , some orange oil and SALT.
Works great.
Do YouTube search and see for yourself.
Sounds like salad dressing to me!
Yeah, put salt on the soil- and never grow a garden again.
Might wanna do a little research on that.
Perhaps it wasn't salt. take the time to do YouTube search for it.
"Monsanto Furious At World Health Organization For Claiming Weedkiller Causes Cancer"
Monsanto IS a cancer.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Our poison blew onto your land, so you owe us."
At least 80% of all the food we consume has been either genetically modified or GMO's in one form or another and thankfully so. Left to totally 'natural' effects the world would experience crippling & lethal cycles of starvation just for starters. I think Dr. Moore is a good guy who is on the side of common sense and practicality! This is another perverted move by tree-hugging & windmill loving cigarette smoking EU environmental fanatics who are positively orgasmic about 'de-population' and are extremely 'anit-progess & development!' Fertilizers & pesticides used properly are safe & a blessing to the world! Don't be fooled!
what is it like? to sell your soul to the devil? was the price that good?
or just another paid gov troll for nsa /cia/ doj.. whatever?
Sorry I don't use Apple products!
80% of the food we consume is the result of thousands of years of conventional breeding that stayed within species and often mixed wild variations with domesticated ones. That was process of trial and error until they developed a variation of a crop with certain characteristics. Now with GMO they 'mix' genes of species that have no relation whatsoever in nature.
And these GMO are not tested long term for possible toxic effects for humans, animals and the environment......Well, actually they are. Cause they are testing them out on us right now.
Wow I almost never down vote anybody.
But if you think that 80% of food in the world is GMO you need educating.
Cross breeding and hybridization are not genetic modification.
It depends on how you define "GMO."
While colchicines (used for over 50 years) and hybridization are used to create seedless watermelon, those techniques are not considered “GMO,” in that they are not lab-created, gene-spliced plants that could not ever occur naturally. So in the vernacular, there are only a few foods currently approved for human consumption in the US.
is there anyone so foolish as to imagine this stuff is safe? seriously?
monsanto, if nothing else, is out to monopolize world food supply and production.
so many chemicals, so much toxin unleashed on the world.
wtf?
At least 80% of the food you have consumed in your ENTIRE life has used all sorts of chemicals products & processes and look at how welll you turned out ......... errr skip the last part! You know what I mean!
It depends on how you define "GMO."
While colchicines (used for over 50 years) and hybridization are used to create seedless watermelon, those techniques are not considered “GMO,” in that they are not lab-created, gene-spliced plants that could not ever occur naturally. So in the vernacular, there are only a few foods currently approved for human consumption in the US.
Sounds like Monsanto refused to be financially extorted by the EU!
And with TTIP on the horizon they can extort the EU financially! Win-win for biotech companies: "Better allow the cultivation of our GMO crap or else we'll sue you". If would not surprise me at all if with TTIP biotech could sue consumers who refuse to eat their GMO crap.
I am very proud to reside in Jackson County, OR which voted a year ago to eliminate the growing of any GMOs within its boundary.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/jackson_county_gmo_...
Does that include seedless watermelons, 100's of varieties of apples & lettuce, the entire pepper family, dozens of varieties of potatoes, tangerines, challots etc etc etc ??? You have consumeed 10Xs more hybride GMO food that supposedy organic natural food. That includes all the smoke you do too!
Yes, but these are conventional breeding techniques that have been used and developed over thousands of years. And more importantly, these techniques stay within the species, often mixing wild variations with domesticated ones.
But with GM techniques, different species gets 'mixed'. Remember the flavor savor tomato? They inserted genes of a polar fish into a tomato to make it frost resistant. Ever seen a tomato mate with a polar fish?
In Bt corn or other crops they mix the genes of a toxic bacteria into a crop so it produces its own pesticides. Bugs that eat from this GMO have their guts burst open. This pesticide is in the crop from the seed until it ends up as animal fodder and there have been cases of animals having all sorts of intestinal infections which need to be treated with anti-inflammatory medications. Anyhow, the meat containing hormones that try to react to the infections and the medications residue end up on your plate.
All the same can be said about the development of miracle drugs like penicillan etc. Hormones in livestock are used primariliy to enhance yield and output (ie eggs & milk) & promote healthier herd metrics. Without the use of these important products our society would spiral back into 'dust bowl' & pestillance epidemics more often than not! The 'science' is very closely analyzed & evaluated! Remove GM products and store shelves would be empty! Remove break-through drug development & hearald a return of the days of epidemics & plague!
Bullshit! Hormones are not allowed in Europe and no problem there with food provisioning. In Europe they don't have growth hormone infested meat (not yet, TTIP will change that). Growth hormone ends up in the meat you eat.
And you do not make a good distiction between hybrid and GMO. They are not the same.
You missed my original comments! This is just more wacky EU environmental sensationalism just like all the other nonsense these anti-production control freaks & reduced-population lovers crave! And if you haven't noticed ...the EU has got all the self-inflicted problems they can handle besides worring about the use of weed-killers.
"anti-production control freaks & reduced-population lovers crave".
And you accused me in a previous comment of "classic hysteria & espionage theorism". Lol!
Actually I meant to say conspiracy theorist!
This nonsense all leads to the 'there is too much population in-the-world meme' & 'peak resource-production ukase' from the misguided hysterical (unscientific) activist environmental movement. Sadly none of these idealists (not a one!) offers to be the first to leave the planet to remove global 'sustainability' pressure! Baby polar bear hugging pro-abortion supporters! A sad crew!
Ok, you've lost it. Been exposed to too many agri-chemicals I guess.
Sure Joey ... but I had to call you out on the nonsense! A student-loan funded liberal arts education is a dangerous thing!
Actually, I have a MSc. in computer sciences, a MSc. in Environmental Sciences and I work for an agricultural consultancy firm in Europe so yes, I do know what I am talking about.
You're the one spreading the non sense. You cannot even distinguish between conventional, hybrid and GMO.
You sure do have NGO environmental/extortionist 'scientist' written all over you! I can hardly wait for your carbon credit pontifications & ruminations!
You have ignorantia tremens written all over you. You've been watching too many of them Itchy and Scratchy shows.
You keep on mixing things that have nothing to do with Monsanto. Another attention deflection strategy used by people who are cornered with arguments and have to hide the fact they don't know the difference between conventional, hybrid and GMO.
Carbon credits? Most environmentalists are against the carbon credit system. It is a scam invented by people who wanted to create another bubble to exploit.
absolutely!
those miracle drugs are great for stomach bacteria.
corn is the dietary choice of ruminant feeders.
hormones accelerate the growth of titties & menstrual cycles in little girls as early as 7 yrs old.
more fodder for the pedo's in charge.
you really got SFB.
hybridization does not equal genetic modification.
sheesh
And seedless 'man-made' grapes. Natural grapes have seeds.
Do any so-called environmentalists (sic) actually look at the science & evidence of their hairbrained claims, schemes & pathetic hysteria's - or do they just prefer to be naive so-called activists for criminal organizations who extort & bribe successful & important companies? What a retarded freak show! Politically correct losers!
Actually, many environmentalists and scientists (including professors of genetics) have indeed studied GMO and came to the conclusion that there are a lot of uncertainties and inconsistencies when its come to GMO. Certainly that it has not been studied properly regarding the effects on humans, animals and the environment. You see, GM is not a precision technique. They aim certain genes or genetic treats of often completely different species into a target set of genes in a target species but often they 'miss' and overshoot hitting other strings of genes with possible forms of genentic mutations that are not tested for.
Remember, any genentic alteration can lead to the creation of a new protein (there are thousands of proteins) which can trigger an immune response in an organism.