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03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Glyphosate found at high levels in mothers’ breast milk

Chemicals that destroy the natural world, like glyphosate, are being blasted into the earth at an unprecedented rate. Sales of Monsanto’s Roundup, which contains glyphosate, spiked 73 percent in 2013. The rise of genetically modified crops is ushering in the mass application of immune system-destroying chemicals, as consequences are unveiled, one after another. It’s no […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

DARK Act would cause America’s crop fields to be saturated with cancer-causing glyphosate

A bill pending before the U.S. Senate would not just deny consumers the right to know whether their food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it could also strip states of their right to limit or regulate the use of dangerous herbicide chemicals widely sprayed over fields of GMO crops. The bill in question, which passed […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Glyphosate toxicity to humans: An overview

Monsanto’s infamous Roundup contains the hotly debated compound called glyphosate. This merciless herbicide is also found in 750 or more U.S. products. An herbicide like this infiltrates the landscape and accumulates in mammals, especially bone, hindering cellular detoxification along the way. A destroyer, glyphosate annihilates a plant’s building blocks of life, tearing apart amino acids. […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health

The following article reveals the devastating and unprecedented impact that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is having on the health of our soil, plants, animals, and human population. On top of this perfect storm, the USDA now wants to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, which will exacerbate this calamity. Please tell USDA Secretary Vilsack not to approve Monsanto’s […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Urgent action alert: EPA about to raise allowable concentrations of glyphosate on food crops, edible oils and animal feed – comments needed by July 1

This is an urgent action alert from Natural News and the Health Ranger. Public comments are due by July 1 to object to new EPA regulations which are already in place, allowing glyphosate contamination of food crops, edible oils and waterways at concentrations which are thousands of times higher than the amount needed to cause […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Glyphosate residues in Roundup Ready crops are ignored in safety studies

All but one of the animal feeding studies performed by independent researchers found significant effects from GM feed (Story by GMWatch, republished from GMWatch.org.) Glyphosate residues in GM Roundup Ready crops are largely ignored in studies used for GMO regulatory safety assessments, according to a new review published in Environmental Sciences Europe. The review also […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Why Is Our Government Working for the Private Good Over the Public Good?

It’s been more than two years since a massive chemical spill in West Virginia left regulators puzzled over basic questions like, how toxic is this chemical? Does it pose a threat to pregnant women and children? How long will this chemical stay in the environment, or in people’s bodies? (Article by Daily Take Team, republished […]

03/09/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Monsanto Weed Killer Glyphosate Herbicide Found In Popular Beer Brands

Want a round of Round Up with your beer? The German beer industry is in shock after finding that 14 different popular beer brands have traces of the ‘probably’ carcinogenic herbicide, glyphosate – an ingredient found in Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer, Round Up. Germany’s Agricultural minster is playing down the risks in order to save one […]

03/04/2016 / By glyphosatenews

Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate

Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by ‘Roundup-ready’ GM corn and soy, will […]

03/04/2016 / By glyphosatenews

FDA to Monitor Glyphosate Levels in Food Supply

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that starting this year it will evaluate milk, corn, eggs, and soybeans for remnants of the world’s most widely used agricultural chemical: glyphosate. (Article by Conan Milner, republished from http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1970803-fda-to-monitor-glyphosate-levels-in-food-supply/) Some food system reform advocate groups say the FDA’s decision shows a step in the right direction, while others […]

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