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Roundup KILLS!

Submitted by Green Monkey Important info for workers in the agricultural sector and hobby farmers/gardeners/landscapers etc. who use Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, especially those who do so on a regular basis. In light of the evidence produced in a recent US lawsuit, anyone using Roundup herbicides would be wise to exercise extreme caution. According to…

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Submitted by Green Monkey

Important info for workers in the agricultural sector and hobby farmers/gardeners/landscapers etc. who use Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, especially those who do so on a regular basis. In light of the evidence produced in a recent US lawsuit, anyone using Roundup herbicides would be wise to exercise extreme caution. According to the jury verdict, the warnings and handling instructions issued by the manufacturer are inadequate to protect users from harm. (Note that Monsanto was recently taken over by Bayer who said they will drop the Monsanto name from products but still maintain sales of Monsanto developed agro-chemicals, GM seeds etc..)

By Catherine J. Frompovich

The Media Relations personnel of the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC emailed me at 6:20 PM Friday, August 10th, the verdict rendered by the jury in the 8-week trial whereby “the jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.”

Read full artcile – https://www.activistpost.com/2018/08/monsanto-taken-to-the-cleaners-in-jury-verdict-dwayne-johnson-v-monsanto.html

Children with autism have a peculiar digestive system disorder, as was recently eloquently described by Dr. Arthur Krigsman at the AutismOne conference.  How might glyphosate (Roundup) cause this?

In May of 2018 I had the opportunity to attend the AutismOne conference in Chicago, Illinois [1]. As in previous years, it was an exciting event where many experts, mostly alternative medicine practitioners, gave impassioned presentations offering their latest insights into various features of autism or biometrics linked to autism or treatment programs that they found to be beneficial. As in the past, I came away with increased optimism that we might finally solve the autism puzzle, along with many new leads on research topics that I needed to dig into more thoroughly, and renewed hope that autism can in fact be reversed.

Read full article – http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-glyphosate-poisoning-explains-peculiarities-autism-gut

 

84 responses to “Roundup KILLS!”

  1. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    When billions of dollars in sales and profits and millions of dollars in executive bonuses are at stake, to those with a realistic understanding of human nature it is no real surprise that fake science is allowed to take over from real science.

    Most Scientific Research of Western Medicine Untrustable & Fraudulent, Say Insiders and Experts

    Fraudulent scientific research is rife throughout the world due to the power of monetary influence wielded by Big Pharma, the giant cartel of multinational pharmaceutical corporations started over 100 years ago by the Rockefellers. This fraudulent scientific research is now so widespread and pervasive it is become an open secret. There is a long list of medical journal editors, doctors and professors on the “outside”, former Big Pharma employees and executives on the “inside”, as well as government officials somewhere in between, who have stepped forward as whistleblowers and acknowledged the fraud. Money buys favorable research. Period. This is not really surprising, given the history of Rockefeller Western medicine and the fact that Big Pharma’s business model is based on “managing” disease, “treating” symptoms and keeping patients on the hamster wheel, rather than actually healing them completely.

    Everyone Knows How the “Game” Works

    Whistleblower Dr. Peter Rost, former vice president of Pfizer, a giant Big Pharma company, spelled it out. In the video clip embedded above, taken from the documentary One More Girl, he reveals that everyone knows how the “game” works:

    “Universities, health organizations, everybody that I have encountered … are out there …. begging for money. (Big Pharma corporations) use that money to basically buy influence … (Big Pharma provides) grants for various kinds of research … make sure they (scientific researchers) became beholden … Everyone obviously knows this is how things work.”

    “They (scientific researchers) are not going to continue to get money unless they’re saying what you (i.e. Big Pharma) want them to say. They know it, you know it, and it’s only maybe the public that doesn’t know it.”

    In this way, the almost the entire medical scientific community has been compromised and has become thoroughly untrustworthy.

    http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/fraudulent-scientific-research-big-pharma/

    Industry writes its own rules for assessing pesticides, GMOs

    Eleven out of 12 EU pesticide and GMO risk assessment methods studied were developed or promoted by industry, a new report from Pesticide Action Network[1] (PAN) shows. The report says that harmful effects observed in animal safety studies on pesticides can be swept under the carpet by using these methods. For example, tumours seen in test animals can be classified as irrelevant for humans; harmful pesticide residues in groundwater or 50% of non-target insects being killed off by pesticide spraying are deemed acceptable; safe levels can be assumed for carcinogens; standards for protection of aquatic life can be relaxed; and a GM crop that unexpectedly differs markedly in composition from the non-GM parent can be waved through the approvals process with little challenge.

    These methods are designed to prevent a ban on harmful and risky substances and result in weakening the protection of the public and the environment.

    The new report shows that industry, often via the industry lobby group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), not only designed the methods but also, in 75% of the cases studied, managed to infiltrate its experts into regulatory panels such as those of EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to get these methods adopted. The WHO, EU Commission and EFSA failed to stop the infiltration of industry and maintained an ineffective conflict of interest policy. Not coincidentally, regulators also failed to keep their distance from industry. In 50% of the cases studied, regulators and EFSA had exclusive meetings with industry on the methods, excluding other stakeholders.

    snip

    Pesticide Action Network stated in a press release that it urges WHO, Commission and EFSA to subject all current risk assessment methodologies to a review by independent scientists with a good scientific track record. It adds that an advanced conflict of interest policy is also urgently needed for regulatory panels.

    PAN commented on its findings, “The study shows that the public and the environment do not get the protection they are entitled to. The science behind the methods is biased and manipulated and the decisions on pesticides unscientific. EFSA and WHO still have cosy relations with industry and an attitude that prevents them from being objective and independent.

    https://gmwatch(DOT)org/en/news/latest-news/18107-industry-writes-its-own-rules-for-assessing-pesticides-gmos

  2. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Theirry Vrain is a retired scientist who at one time worked for Agriculture Canada to promote GM crops to Canada’s farmers. After retirement from his government job as a GMO promoting scientist, he became concerned that the problems with glysophate based herbicides used on most GMO crops had been vastly under-estimated, and he came to regret his previous role as an official promoter of GMOs. He now speaks out and tries to educate the public as much he can as to the dangers of Roundup and other glysophate based fertilizers which are used hand in hand with most of todays GM crops (and are also being used extensively on other crops as a dessicant just prior to harvest and by householders in gardens and lawns for weed control).

    https://youtu.be/yiU3Ndi6itk

  3. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    YOU ARE CERTAINLY WORKING VERY HARD AS YOU GOOGLE AWAY TO PROVE THAT ROUNDUP KILLS, BUT YOUR GOOGLING DOES NOT REALLY TELL US HOW.

    YOU HAVE SO FAR NOT EXPLAINED A MECHANISM OF ACTION FOR ANYTHING

    YOU HAVE, HOWEVER, SHOWN THAT YOU THINK THAT OVERSEAS EXPERTS KNOW EVERYTHING, AND THAT I MISS THEIR POINTS. HILARIOUS!

    DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING EXCEPT WHAT THE OVERSEAS EXPERTS THAT YOU GOOGLE UP SAY? DO YOU REALLY EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING?

    I AM GOOGLING TOO………I.E WATCHING THE MANY GOOGLY BOWLERS IN WORLD CRICKET BOWL THEIR GOOGLES

    NOW GOOGLE ON SIR

  4. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    When billions of dollars are banging on the front door asking to come in, it sure looks to a lay person like me that real science, basic common sense and integrity all flee right out the back door.

    Monsanto’s Roundup Can Alter Your DNA/Cause Cancer: Glyphosate

    https://youtu.be/zhJL21KarXM

  5. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ GreenMonkey
    You are preaching to the converted boss … never mind GP..
    You may recall that he is a Trump supporter.

    Roundup not only kills – it destroys agricultural lands, and is counter-intuitive for long-term agriculture.
    It is however a key tool for Monsanto’s global greed machinery…..

    What do you want to bet that neither of these goodly doctors uses the stuff… ??

  6. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Some free advice to GP: First thing Monday morning call your broker and tell him SELL! SELL! SELL! on the Bayer stock while it might still be worth somewhat more than 2 or 3 cents a share. I understand there is another 4,000 or so lawsuits like the recent one already in the pipeline. That is probably just the trickle flowing out from the crack in the dyke, when the dyke blows it will be real rough on the people downstream for sure. Remember these are the only 4 words you need to remember when you call the broker Monday morning: BAYER! SELL! SELL! SELL!

  7. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    GREEN MONKEY

    I OWN NO STOCK TO SELL, OK
    I REALLY DONT CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO BAYER OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT

    YOU HAVE GOOGLED AND PRESENTED STUFF AND NOWHERE HAVE YOU EXPLAINED BASIC INFO ABOUT HOW GLYCOPHOSPHATE IS ABSORBED, METABOLIZED, DISTRIBUTED OR ELIMINATED

    YOU HAVE NOT EXPLAINED A PROVEN MECHANISM OF ACTION OF HOW THIS SUBSTANCE CAUSES MUTATIONS OR HOW IT AFFECTS THE CELL CYCLE.

    YOU ARE JUST GOOGLING AND REGURGITATING INFO FROM HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE WHICH THE AVERAGE PERSON ON BU DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND PERHAPS DONT REALLY CARE TWO HOOTS ABOUT, AND YOU SEEM UNABLE TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISSUES.

    I WONDER IF YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND YOURSELF WHAT IS BEING SAID IN YOUR GOOGLE-ATES

    THE FACT THAT I LIKE THE WAY THE TRUMPET CARRIES ON AS HE SEEKS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP…………SEEING THAT HE GOT WHERE HE GOT WITHOUT THE MONEY OF THE POWERFUL DONORS, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF CHEESE HERE.

    BUT YOU MAY GOOGLE ON AND PREACH TO THE CONVERTED AND OTHERS AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE.

    I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ASK QUESTIONS AND TO EXPECT SIMPLE BASIC INFORMATION

    I DONT JUST ACCEPT THE STUFF IN YOUR GOOGLE-ATES, BECAUSE YOU ARE HAPPY TO SEE INFO THAT YOU THINK PROVES YOUR BELIEFS

    I HAVE NOT EXPRESSED AN OPINION FOR OR AGAINST

  8. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Hi GP, you being a doctor and all. I was sort of surprised you didn’t leave a comment on the link I posted just upthread about corruption in the medical establishment. Have you been asking questions about the corruption in medical research which appears to take the same lines as the corruption in the biotech and agro-chemical research industry (i.e. money talks, integrity walks) that allowed poisonous, carcinogenic filth like glyphosate to be sprayed with abandon over the crops and fields off a significant part of the world’s prime farmlands for 22 years while making billions in profits for one of the worlds most anti-human, corrupt corporations in history?

    Just to save you having to page back up:

    Dr. Richard Horton is the current editor-in-chief of the British Lancet journal, which is respected as one of the best peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. He came out and stated:

    “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”

    …..look at what Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), had to say about the pervasive fraudulent scientific research:

    “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines … I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

    Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, a professor of disease prevention at Stanford University, published a study in a PLoS One paper entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. He found that research conclusions are less likely to be true when study samples sizes are too small, when effect sizes are even smaller, and when there are major variances in study designs, definitions, outcomes and analytical modes. He highlighted the corrupting influence of Big Pharma and concluded that:

    “There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false … it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true.”

    http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/fraudulent-scientific-research-big-pharma/

  9. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    I AGREE WITH Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis,Marcia Angell, AND Dr. Richard Horton WHOLEHEARTEDLY, AND HAVE FELT THIS WAY FOR MANY YEARS ,

  10. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Well then GP, maybe you can agree with an ex- EPA scientist too.

    Dr. Ramon Seidler, a retired senior scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency, has become a leading spokesperson against genetically modified foods and the increasing use of pesticides with GM crops. He actively supported Oregon’s GMO labeling initiative, Measure 92, which was narrowly defeated last fall.
    Dr. Seidler’s criticism of GMOs is noteworthy because during his career at the EPA he studied the impacts of genetically modified organisms on the environment. He and his fellow researchers developed methods to evaluate and predict the survival, multiplication, gene exchange, effects, and dispersal of GMOs. He published papers on these topics.

    Prior to his work at the EPA, Dr. Seidler was a professor of microbiology at Oregon State University for 16 years.
    Dr. Seidler was elected as Fellow in the American Academy for Microbiology. He was listed by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England as one of the 2,000 Outstanding World Scientists of the 20th Century. He twice received the EPA Bronze Medal for research service to the agency and has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific peer reviewed publications.

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    What are some of the problems you see with genetically engineered crops?
    Dr. Seidler: From the risk assessment, economic, and legal perspectives there are many issues. There is a mixture of unfilled promises, concerns over litigation resulting from cross pollination and seed comingling events, and a disappointment that crop management practices have had significant negative impacts upon environmental biosafety. All of these side effects are happening despite no yield or production advantages of GE crops over traditional crops. There are also major concerns over whether the increased use of pesticides on our food crops have impacts upon the human population.

    Over 90 percent of Americans wish we had labels on our foods to indicate when GE products are present. One-third of the world has this choice because their foods are labeled, but Americans are denied that option.
    Very little sound research has been conducted by independent scientists in American universities. This is because industry essentially restricted such research by requiring professors sign an agreement prior to the research that any published information first be sent to the biotechnology seed industry for review. This de facto censorship discourages scientists and their students from becoming involved in conducting years of research that may never reach the scientific peer reviewed literature.

    So what does he think is the way to go to resolve our food production issues? Hint, it does not involve spewing out more and more improperly tested, poisonous chemicals of increasing potency and doubtful safety across the landscape to enhance the bottom lines of mega-corporations with questionable safety records.

    What would be your recommendations for creating a healthy sustainable food system?
    Dr. Seidler: It is understood widely that a petroleum and chemical-based, corporate agriculture involving GE crops is not a solution for promoting soil health and carbon sequestration to reverse global warming and for promoting sustainable food production. Developing new and applying proven methods that maintain soil sustainability and sequester carbon into soil to reverse global warming will require concerted efforts by world scientists.

    However, we already have an excellent store of information and practice that allows us to immediately restore billions of degraded acres worldwide without relying on “cheap,” and destructive petrochemical-based solutions. The methods currently available today are referred to as agroecology, restoration ecology, and organic farming.

    http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/june-2015/former-epa-scientist-biotech-companies-encouraging-pesticide-treadmill.php

  11. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Well then GP, maybe you can agree with an ex- EPA scientist too.
    WHY SHOULD I? THIS MAN IS SAID TO BE A MICROBIOLOGIST.
    HE NOR YOU ARE ANSWERING ANY OF MY QUESTIONS

  12. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Robert D.Lucas August 14, 2018 2:29 AM

    To illustrate what I am talking about. chlorine is used in potable water at 200ppm(parts per million) and there is NOEL. If however chlorine is used at 1000ppm it is carcinogenic.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………..
    Isn’t it the practice of the two major fast food outlets in Barbados to immerse their raw chickens in Chlorine before frying ? What is the ratio of the solution? And how can they be certain that all residue of the chlorine is removed from the products before baking.
    I know of an employee who was employed at one of these fast food businesses n the section which deals with the washing of the raw chickens in chlorine,and who had lost her vocal cords for almost two years.
    When Roundup was very popular with farmers in Barbados, along with the other dangerous herbicides and pesticides, on popular hardware in Barbados used the shelves in its outlets to store large quantities of these chemicals, and as a customer as you enter the store, you were hit with the very strong smell of these various chemicals.
    We should always remember the ongoing aftermath of TANSITOR (Barbados), the American electronic factory in Newton Industrial Estate.

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    NOT SEEN YOU FOR A WHILE COLONEL
    NICE TO SEE YOU BACK

    RE I know of an employee who was employed at one of these fast food businesses n the section which deals with the washing of the raw chickens in chlorine,and who had lost her vocal cords for almost two years.
    HOW EXACTLY DID SHE LOSE HER VOCAL CORDS SIR?
    HAVE THEY RETURNED? HOW?

  14. David Avatar
    David

    There is that company Monsanto and Roundup again! Agg Quaker Oats this time around.

     

    Roundup ingredient found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats, and other cereals

    By Jade ScipioniPublished August 15, 2018Food and BeverageFOXBusiness

    Bayer shares fall on $289M Monsanto verdict

    FBN’s Ashley Webster on Bayer shares’ falling on news a California jury ordering the company’s newly acquired Monsanto unit to pay $289 million for not warning of cancer risks from the company’s weed-killer Roundup.

    Days after a California jury awarded a school groundskeeper more than $289 million in damages after he claimed Monsanto’s best-selling weedkiller Roundup gave him cancer, the controversial ingredient – glyphosate — has been detected in popular kids’ breakfast cereals, including Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, according to an activist group.

    Lab tests conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit advocacy group that specializes in toxic chemicals and corporate accountability, indicated almost three-fourths of the 45 food products tested detected high levels of glyphosate, which has

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/roundup-ingredient-found-in-cheerios-quaker-oats-other-cereals

  15. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Alarming Levels of Glyphosate Contamination Found in Popular American Foods
    Nov 4, 2016

    Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide linked to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready genetically engineered crops, has been found at alarming levels in a wide range of best-selling foods across the U.S., Food Democracy Now! and The Detox Project announced Monday.

    The results published in this report are from the first independent glyphosate residue testing of popular American food products performed using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), the regulatory recognized “gold standard” testing methods at an FDA registered laboratory.

    These newest findings also come as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed hearings last month, which were due to explore glyphosate’s link to cancer in humans. Last year, 17 leading global cancer experts from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) sparked a firestorm when they classified glyphosate as a class 2A “probable human carcinogen”.

    On the heels of the growing controversy surrounding glyphosate’s safety, this unique testing project that started in 2015, has so far found alarming levels of glyphosate in General Mills’ Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Raisin Bran and Frosted Flakes and PepsiCo’s Doritos Cool Ranch, Ritz Crackers and Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips, as well as many more famous products at levels that present significant risks according to the latest independent peer-reviewed science on glyphosate.

    Ask the EPA Office of Inspector General to Take Action HERE

    “Frankly, such a high level of glyphosate contamination found in Cheerios, Doritos, Oreos and Stacy’s Pita Chips are alarming and should be a wake-up call for any parent trying to feed their children safe, healthy and non-toxic food,” said Dave Murphy, Executive Director of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots advocacy organization based in Iowa with more than 650,000 members, that commissioned the new glyphosate residue food tests.

    More:
    https://detoxproject.org/alarming-levels-of-glyphosate-contamination-found-in-popular-american-foods/

    How much do you suppose is in the Barbados water supply? Would be interesting to find out, considering the way it has been routinely used for the longest time by some of my own neigbours as a weed killer on their properties, I imagine it would have similar widespread use in many other Bajan households. And of course this would be independent of how much might have been used in agricultural production. Bear in mind too, that Monsanto’s lies to a naive public at large that Roundup easily and quickly biodegrades after application and is therefore harmless to humans has been proven to be a blatent lie (but no doubt an effective marketing ploy).

    Dr Young: Roundup Herbicide Is Endocrine Disruptor in Human Cells at Drinking Water Levels

    Roundup is an endocrine disruptor and is toxic to human cells in vitro (tested in culture dishes in the laboratory) at levels permitted in drinking water in Australia, a new study has found.

    This is the first study to examine the effects of glyphosate and Roundup on progesterone production by human female cells in an in vitro system that models key aspects of reproduction in women.

    Glyphosate alone was less toxic to human cells than glyphosate in a Roundup formulation; both glyphosate and Roundup caused cell death which resulted in decreased progesterone levels – a form of hormone/endocrine disruption. Endocrine disruption did not precede the toxicity to cells but occurred after it. The decreases in progesterone concentrations were caused by reduced numbers of viable cells.

    A 24h exposure to a concentration of glyphosate (in Roundup) similar to that recommended as an acceptable level for Australian drinking water caused significant cytotoxicity in vitro, which supports a call for long-term in vivo (in live animals) studies to characterise the toxicity of Roundup.

    The possibility that Roundup has endocrine disrupting activity independent of its ability to kill or disable cells needs further study.

    More at: gmoevidence(DOT)com/dr-young-roundup-herbicide-is-endocrine-disruptor-in-human-cells-at-drinking-water-levels/

  16. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Imagine if a country should try to stand up against a corporate giant like Monsanto/Bayer and institute a ban on importation of an agro-chemical like Roundup because of what is claimed to be negative environmental and human health impacts. When you hear the shout, the US would be issuing all sorts of warnings and threats about how this is restraint of trade, a concocted excuse to deny Monsanto legitimate sales; the US will impose their own trade sanctions against the offending country, take it before the WTO for breaching trade agreements etc. etc. And the trump card (no pun intended) would be that they will wave in our faces is that we must know the product has been proven to be safe beyond doubt by the USA’s own regulatary body, the EPA, which has concluded after rigourous investigation that the product is safe when used as advised by the manufacturer.

    Who could doubt the possibility that the EPA was not guided only by the most strict and impartial scientific research when studying whether a chemical concoction like Roundup or any of hundreds of other chemical products should be allowed on the market.

    Is the EPA really an environmental agency? Documents reveal their active agenda to suppress relevant science

    07/09/2018 / By Ethan Huff

    Many on the left are convinced that President Trump couldn’t care less about the environment because he’s spoken about restructuring and even scrapping certain elements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But evidence suggests that the EPA doesn’t really care about the environment, either, and that it actively suppresses relevant scientific information that threatens the status quo.

    Jonathan Latham, co-founder and executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project and editor of the Independent Science News website, is a well-known critic of corporate fascism and its influence on American politics, including at the EPA. He was recently interviewed by Truthout.org‘s Lorna Garano, during which he explained how science is routinely manipulated by corporate interests to push an agenda.

    At the EPA, this includes covering up pertinent data about chemical safety that benefits chemical corporations at the expense of public health. And the situation is so dire that Latham is actually writing a book about what he’s uncovered that focuses on where the problem lies, while offering suggestions on how to correct them.

    Latham is also working on a project known as Poison Papers, which represents a treasure trove of about two-and-a-half tons of now-uncovered regulatory and chemical industry documents, exposing the EPA as little more than a shell regulatory body that’s become completely beholden to chemical industry interests.

    http://glyphosate.news/2018-07-09-epa-really-environmental-agency-documents-reveal-agenda-to-suppress-science.html

  17. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Roundup is an endocrine disruptor and is toxic to human cells in vitro (tested in culture dishes in the laboratory) at levels permitted in drinking water in Australia, a new study has found.

    This is the first study to examine the effects of glyphosate and Roundup on progesterone production by human female cells in an in vitro system that models key aspects of reproduction in women.

    Glyphosate alone was less toxic to human cells than glyphosate in a Roundup formulation; both glyphosate and Roundup caused cell death which resulted in decreased progesterone levels – a form of hormone/endocrine disruption. Endocrine disruption did not precede the toxicity to cells but occurred after it. The decreases in progesterone concentrations were caused by reduced numbers of viable cells.

    NOW TELL US WHAT HAPPENS IN VIVO?
    WILL THE POWERFUL METABOLISM SYSTEM IN THE HEPATOCYTES DESTROY THIS MONSTER DRUG DURING THE FIRST BY PASS? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

    RE Many on the left are convinced that President Trump couldn’t care less about the environment because he’s spoken about restructuring and even scrapping certain elements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But evidence suggests that the EPA doesn’t really care about the environment, either, and that it actively suppresses relevant scientific information that threatens the status quo.

    WHAT IS THE PROOF?

  18. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    GP writes:
    “But evidence suggests that the EPA doesn’t really care about the environment, either, and that it actively suppresses relevant scientific information that threatens the status quo.

    WHAT IS THE PROOF?”

    Below is a two paragraph snip from the article I posted just above (Is the EPA really an environmental agency? Documents reveal their active agenda to suppress relevant science) which states, in so many words, that the EPA is a bogus, industry dominated, fake regulatory agency:

    Latham is also working on a project known as Poison Papers, which represents a treasure trove of about two-and-a-half tons of now-uncovered regulatory and chemical industry documents, exposing the EPA as little more than a shell regulatory body that’s become completely beholden to chemical industry interests.

    “[These documents] were obtained mainly by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and through court orders, and consists of internal reports and studies, meeting minutes, correspondence, unsealed court documents, and so forth,” Latham explained during the interview. “They primarily cover the 1960s to the 1990s.”
    For more information about Poison Papers and to view the uncovered documents for yourself, visit PoisonPapers.org.

    https//PoisonPapers.org CLICK HERE

  19. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Sorry Link did not show up as clickable in my post (it is in the original), here it is again: https://www.poisonpapers.org

  20. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    At the following link is a video posted of an interview with MIT scientists and researcher Dr. Sefanie Seneff. Dr Seneff claims that one of her fellow researchers investigating autism and working, like her, on the angle that glyphosate can cause autism found that measured doses of Chlorinie Dioxide (not the same as Chlorine bleach) can neutralize glyphosate residues in the body and her interviewer makes the claim that 400+ autism victims have been cured of autism after being treated with the said Chlorine Dioxide. In the video Dr. Steneff explains how she understands the bio-chemistry behind the whole process.

    (Page down to see the video)
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-19-the-link-between-glyphosate-exposure-and-autism.html

  21. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    re In the video Dr. Steneff explains how she understands the bio-chemistry behind the whole process.

    HOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE BIOCHEMISTRY?

    DOES THE BELOW REALLY MAKE SENSE TO YOU? OR DO YOU JUST BELIEVE ANY BULL SHIT THAT SEEMS TO SUPPORT YOUR THESIS

    r. Sefanie Seneff. Dr Seneff claims that one of her fellow researchers investigating autism and working, like her, on the angle that glyphosate can cause autism found that measured doses of Chlorinie Dioxide (not the same as Chlorine bleach) can neutralize glyphosate residues in the body and her interviewer makes the claim that 400+ autism victims have been cured of autism after being treated with the said Chlorine Dioxide.

    Q did they give glyphosate to normal folk who then became autistic?
    Q did they then give these persons Chlorinie Dioxide and see a reversal of the autism?
    Q have you ever heard of, or do you and these jokers understand the scientific method?
    Q do you have any thoughts of your own or do you only rely on the bullshit that you google up?
    man let me go and watch some cricket with real real googles do.

  22. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    Dr. Georgie Porgie Have you seen this Battle on the Home-front, this Plague that seeks to Engulf our tiny nation?

    https://barbadosunderground.net/2018/08/16/when-will-bajans-purge-ourselves-of-white-supremacy/

  23. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    YES I HAVE

    BUT I CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY FOLK ARE STILL HARPING ABOUT SLAVERY, AND WHY IN A NATION OF 90% BLACKS, WHY THERE SHOULD BE STILL WHITE SUPREMACY

    NOR CAN I UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH A DISCUSSION GOT AROUND TO TRUMP

    NOR CAN I UNDERSTAND THE CONTINUOUS UNECESSARY HATRED OF TRUMP

    HE HAS NOT YET BROKEN ANY LAWS, OR GONE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.
    HE IS NOT A MUGABE OR IDI AMIN

    THE RUBBISH THAT IS BEING SPOUTED IS JUST AMAZING

    SOMETIMES I JUST LET THE JACKASSES BRAY, AND THE DOGS BARK

  24. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    Check In Please GP.

  25. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David, yesterday I visited a hardware store in Christ Church and Roundup is displayed in large quantities on open shelves , no lock and key here. Roundup is under lock and key at other establishments for the same reason that Brandy and other big mout drinks are similarly stored ,they are expensive,attractive and come mainly in handy containers that could easily be secreted.
    Over the last couple of months we have seen many product- recalls, and advisories. Romaine lettuce,one of these recalls is still on the shelves,so is Johnson’s Baby powder.
    Most hardware stores in Barbados still stock items, mainly from the United States ,which carry warnings that they are carcinogenic in nature and banned in some states in the USA. Some copper pipe fittings ,now banned for uses with potable water, are still readily available in Barbados.
    I do hope the the authorities will not treat these recent concerns in the same manner in which they have treated the Corn Beef crisis a year ago,where they caved in after the local agency cried that they were loosing precious dollars.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Colonel Buggy

    This is the fear, who will protect the no so vigilant consumer. The BNSI does not seem to be delivering on its mandate.

  27. A. Dullard Avatar
    A. Dullard

    @ GP
    “BUT I CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY FOLK ARE STILL HARPING ABOUT SLAVERY, AND WHY IN A NATION OF 90% BLACKS, WHY THERE SHOULD BE STILL WHITE SUPREMACY”

    What is it you don’t understand?

    Maybe if we ignore it and it will go away, right?!

  28. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    dummy

    read what i said again
    I clearly said what it is that I dont understand and I did so in perfect English

    re Maybe if we ignore it and it will go away, right?!

    AND HARPING ABOUT IT ONLY WILL CHANGE THE PAST………OR THE FUTURE, right?!

  29. A. Dullard Avatar
    A. Dullard

    ” I clearly said what it is that I dont understand and I did so in perfect English”

    Cool. So now that has been established can we agree that perhaps you are not as intelligent as you like to pretend?

    “AND HARPING ABOUT IT ONLY WILL CHANGE THE PAST………OR THE FUTURE, right?!”
    Nonsense! It is not a binary scenario. But nice try with the straw man.

  30. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    How non-scientist U.S. President George H. W. Bush made GMOs safe by executive order.

    At least some of the USA Food and Drug Administration’s own scientists had been proclaiming a need for extensive testing of GMO crops before unleashing them on US consumers. However, after President Bush declared by executive order that GMO crops were substantially equivelant to non-GMO crops then, it was deemed by FDA rules that there was no need for any special testing and the crops could be released and put on the market. That substantial equivalent ruling also enable the USA to arm twist European countries into allowing in GMOs without the testing they thought was necessary. See below:

    From 2006:

    WTO, GMO and Total Spectrum Dominance
    by William Engdahl

    A strategic Washington matter

    The case first came before the World Trade Organization in a filing made by the Bush Administration in May 2003, just as the military occupation of Iraq was entering a new phase. The US President held a rare press conference to tell the world that the US was formally charging the EU, accusing the EU ‘moratorium’ on GMO approval of being a cause of starvation in Africa. Their twisted logic argued that so long as a major industrialized region such as the EU resisted planting GMO crops domestically, it caused sceptical African governments to harden their resistance to US food aid in the form of GMO crops. That, Bush charged, was causing unnecessary ‘starvation’ in Africa because some countries refused USDA food aid in form of GMO crop surpluses.

    The issue of breaking resistance barriers in the European Union to the proliferation of GMO crops has been a matter of the highest strategic priority for those controlling policy in Washington since 1992 when then-President George H.W. Bush, the father of the current President, issued an Executive Order proclaiming GMO plants such as soybeans or GMO corn to be ‘substantially equivalent’ to ordinary corn or soybeans, and, therefore, not needing any special health safety study or testing.

    That ‘substantial equivalence’ ruling by President Bush in 1992 opened the floodgates to the unregulated spread of GMO across the American agriculture landscape. As basis for its 2003 WTO filing against the EU, Washington, on behalf of agribusiness interests including Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and others, charged the EU with violation of the American ‘substantial equivalence’ doctrine!

    SNIP

    Further, there is no rule that the judges of WTO respect any national laws of any country. The three judges meet in secret without revealing the time or location. All court documents are confidential and are not published unless one party releases it. It is a modern version of the Spanish Inquisition, but with far more power.

    The EU banned the import of US beef treated with growth and other hormones, and the US lodged a formal WTO complaint. There was a long report from independent scientists showing that the hormones added to US beef were ‘cancer-causing’. The WTO three judge panel ruled that the EU did not present a ‘valid’ scientific case to refuse import, and the EU was forced to pay $150 million annually for lost US profits. (4).

    The powerful private interests who control WTO agriculture policy prefer to remain in the background as little-publicized NGO’s. One of the most influential in creating the WTO is a little-publicized organization called the IPC– the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, shortened to International Policy Council.
    The IPC was created in 1987 to lobby for the GATT agriculture rules of WTO at the Uruguay GATT talks. The IPC demanded removal of ‘high tariff’ barriers in developing countries, remaining silent on the massive government subsidy to agribusiness in the USA.

    A look at the IPC membership explains what interests it represents. The IPC Chairman is Robert Thompson, former Assistant Secretary US Department of Agriculture and former Presidential economic adviser. Also included in the IPC are Bernard Auxenfans, Chief Operating Officer, Monsanto Global Agricultural Company and Past Chairman of Monsanto Europe S.A.; Allen Andreas of ADM/Toepfer; Andrew Burke of Bunge (US); Dale Hathaway former USDA official and head IFPRI (US).

    https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/archive/2006/6600-wto-gmo-and-total-spectrum-dominance-242006

  31. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE So now that has been established can we agree that perhaps you are not as intelligent as you like to pretend?
    I DONT PRETEND TO BE INTELLIGENT OR TO BE ANYTHING
    BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY FOLK ARE STILL HARPING ABOUT SLAVERY, AND WHY IN A NATION OF 90% BLACKS, WHY THERE SHOULD BE STILL WHITE SUPREMACY”

    YOU SO INTELLIGENT WHY CANT YOU FIX IT?
    WHY HAVENT YA FIXED IT?
    TALK TALK TALK DAY IN DAY OUT YEAR IN YEAR OUT
    TALK AINT GONNA FIX IT

  32. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Monsanto and the FDA: Two crime families working a trillion-dollar hustle

    When you cut through the verbiage that surrounded the introduction of GMO food into America, you arrive at two key statements. One from Monsanto and one from the FDA, the agency responsible for overseeing, licensing, and certifying new food varieties as safe.

    Quoted in the New York Times Magazine (October 25, 1998, “Playing God in the Garden”), Philip Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications, famously stated: “Monsanto shouldn’t have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.”

    From the Federal Register, Volume 57, No.104, “Statement of [FDA] Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties,” here is what the FDA had to say on this matter: “Ultimately, it is the food producer who is responsible for assuring safety.”

    The direct and irreconcilable clash of these two statements is no accident. It’s not a sign of incompetence or sloppy work or a mistake or a miscommunication. It’s a clear signal that the fix was in.

    Passing the buck back and forth was the chilling and arrogant strategy through which Pandora’s box was pried opened and GMO food was let into the US food supply.

    In order for this titanic scam to work, the media had to cooperate. Reporters had to be a) idiots and b)sell-outs.

    With few exceptions, reporters and their editors let the story rest there, as a “he said-he said” issue. No sane principled journalist would have cut bait at that point, but who said mainstream reporters are sane or principled?

    Underneath the Monsanto-FDA buck-passing act, there was a conscious deal to give a free pass to GMO crops. This had nothing to do with science or health or “feeding the world.” It was about profits. It was also about establishing a new monopoly on food.

    More: https://www.naturalnews.com/039315_Monsanto_FDA_crime_families.html

  33. David Avatar
    David

    https://youtu.be/mP-6Gp5RbjQ

  34. song boat Avatar
    song boat

    I don’t know if it causes cancer or not, yet. I know it causes severe skin conditions. Chemical warfare https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18mtF3_4WB2u3mEe1OoSb2QpwlgvI25ulAS5BheCPq4Q/edit?usp=sharing

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