Monsanto's Roundup disaster

[OPO]

Monsanto is playing with our future,so stop them!!
Thats why I fight against TTIP+CETA ;-)
Better change all agricultural to 100% organic Terra-Preta-"No till style"

 

[corky1968]

Farmers Say Monsanto’s Roundup Gave Them Cancer

 

[Bongstar420]

Hmmm...that must be why farmers don't do it.

...or are they all brainwashed into beliveing they are making more money spraying glyphosate?

Nice read although not a peer reviewed source, looking at the author I think we can assume it is accurate. A lesson for all growers is that mono culture doesn't work.

 

[StRa]

Glyphosate Causes Changes to DNA Resulting in Chronic Disease, According to Study

Glyphosate Causes Changes to DNA Resulting in Chronic Disease, According to Study

(Beyond Pesticides July 18, 2016) A review of the scientific literature links glyphosate, one of the most popular weed killers in the U.S. and the active ingredient in Roundup, to a wide range of diseases through a mechanism that modifies DNA functioning, adding a new even more troubling dimension to the herbicide’s cancer classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. According to the most recent review, Glyphosate pathways to modern disease V: Amino acid analogue of glycine in diverse proteins, conducted by independent scientists Anthony Samsel, Ph.D. and Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), glyphosate acts as a glycine analogue that incorporates into peptides during protein synthesis. In thus process, it alters a number of proteins that depend on conserved glycine for proper function. According to the authors, glyphosate substitution for glycine correlates with several diseases, including diabetes, obesity, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease, among others.DNA

Glycine, the smallest amino acid commonly found in proteins, has unique properties that support flexibility and the ability to anchor to the plasma membrane or the cytoskeleton. This new direct biological evidence, taken together with correlational data, make a compelling case that glyphosate action as a glycine analogue accounts for much of glyphosate’s toxicity, according to the study. The authors find that glyphosate as an amino acid analogue of glycine, may be incorporated into polypeptide chains during protein synthesis. In doing so, it has an impact on the structure and function of the proteins. Proteins fold up, and glycine is a small molecule that is often found at the folding places. Since glyphosate is much larger, it prevents the protein molecule from folding properly, leading to the disruption of function of many proteins with essential roles in metabolism and regulatory processes

The article cites a number of ways that this affects humans and other organisms. According to the study, the consequences of this action can lead to impaired fatty acid release leading to obesity, impaired insulin receptor response leading to diabetes, impaired one-carbon metabolism leading to neural tube defects and autism, impaired cell cycle control during DNA synthesis, and disregulated phosphorylation cascades leading to cancer, lung disorders, and autoimmune diseases.

Stephen Frantz, Ph.D., a pathobiologist research scientist who led the research team explains it like this: “When a cell is trying to form proteins, it may grab glyphosate instead of glycine to form a damaged, mis-folded protein. After that it’s medical chaos. Where glyphosate replaces glycine, the cell can no longer conduct business as usual causing unpredicted consequences with many diseases and disorders as a result.”

The release of this study comes on the heels of several other discussions and actions on glyphosate that have taken place over the past few weeks. Last month at a Congressional briefing sponsored by U.S Representative Ted Lieu, a delegation of independent scientists including this study’s authors who presented their findings, urged lawmakers to call on the EPA to ban RoundUp, Monsanto’s flagship herbicide. Beyond Pesticides participated on the panel, providing testimony on the impact of glyphosate on soil systems, as well as the unreasonable risk it poses to humans, animals, and the environment. Following the congressional briefing, scientists spoke at a closed meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), explaining the physiological reasons why exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is linked to autism, Alzheimer’s, cancer, birth defects, obesity, gluten intolerance, among other health issues. EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs’ Deputy Director along with his staff met with the panelists and provided an overview of EPA’s registration process for glyphosate. EPA staff had some interest in the information presented, which was forwarded to relevant staffers. However, EPA indicated that much of the information provided may not impact their current risk assessment for glyphosate, which is expected sometime in 2017.

Glyphosate, created by Monsanto, is touted as a “low toxicity” chemical and “safer” than other chemicals by industry. But glyphosate has been shown to have detrimental impacts on humans and the environment. Given its widespread use on residential and agricultural sites, its toxicity is of increasing concern. In early 2015, glyphosate was classified by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of as a “probable human carcinogen.” Just a few months later, a study published in Environmental Health News found that chronic, low-dose exposure to glyphosate led to adverse effects on liver and kidney health. Roundup formulations can also induce a dose-dependent formation of DNA adducts (altered forms of DNA linked to chemical exposure, playing a key role in chemical carcinogenesis) in the kidneys and liver of mice. Human cell endocrine disruption on the androgen receptor, inhibition of transcriptional activities on estrogen receptors on HepG2, DNA damage and cytotoxic effects occurring at concentrations well below “acceptable” residues have all been observed.

Roundup also harms crops’ ability to capture carbon from the air, an important factor in fighting climate change. “Glyphosate negatively affects the soil microbiome,” said Frantz. “It is destroying the ability of soil to be a nutritive medium for producing crops. Organic or biological regenerative agriculture is the solution for the sustainable agricultural sector and will conserve soil, air and water quality, and sequester carbon that helps to mitigate the climate crisis. We call for a ban on glyphosate.”

Beyond Pesticides urges individuals concerned about glyphosate exposure to support organic systems that do not rely on hazardous carcinogenic pesticides. In agriculture, concerned consumers can buy food with the certified organic label, which not only disallows synthetic pesticides like glyphosate, but also the use of sewage sludge and genetically engineered ingredients. Beyond Pesticides also urges the adoption of organic lawn and landscape programs.

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.

Source: Research Gate, Huffington Post

http://beyondpesticides.org/dailyne...causes-changes-dna-resulting-chronic-disease/

 

[tree dawg]

yes grass killer sprayed every year in same spot after a few years nothin will grow

 

[BrainSellz]

Most people that eat a conventional diet are eating roundup every day at every meal. From what I've gathered it seems to be a loophole as one would think there should be a warning on the label. I Believe since this is done before its harvested they don't have to doc it in the processing part but I don't know. Definitely not healthy for the mind or body.


http://www.ecowatch.com/why-is-glyphosate-sprayed-on-crops-right-before-harvest-1882187755.html

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/

 

[LostTribe]

Screw Monsanto every which way up down and sideways those people are responsible for engineering the end of humanity!

 

[StRa]

Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops

Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops

A good article about GMO failure from NYTIMES


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html?_r=1

LONDON — The controversy over genetically modified crops has long focused on largely unsubstantiated fears that they are unsafe to eat.

But an extensive examination by The New York Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem — genetic modification in the United States and Canada has not accelerated increases in crop yields or led to an overall reduction in the use of chemical pesticides.

The promise of genetic modification was twofold: By making crops immune to the effects of weedkillers and inherently resistant to many pests, they would grow so robustly that they would become indispensable to feeding the world’s growing population, while also requiring fewer applications of sprayed pesticides.

Twenty years ago, Europe largely rejected genetic modification at the same time the United States and Canada were embracing it. Comparing results on the two continents, using independent data as well as academic and industry research, shows how the technology has fallen short of the promise.......

 

[Gry]

The outfit that can make evil look good.

 

[StRa]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/24/bayer-109bn-settlement-monsanto-weedkiller-roundup

Bayer agrees to $10.9bn settlement over Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup
Numerous lawsuits have been brought against the pharmaceutical subsidiary over claims the chemical causes cancer

Guardian staff and agencies

Wed 24 Jun 2020 20.07


Bayer has reached a $10.9bn settlement over Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller.

German pharmaceutical company Bayer says it’s paying up to $10.9bn to settle a lawsuit over subsidiary Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, which has faced numerous lawsuits over claims it causes cancer.

Bayer said it was also paying up $1.22bn to settle two further cases, one involving polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in water.

Bayer said the Roundup settlement would “bring closure to approximately 75%” of the current 125,000 filed and unfiled claims. The resolution also puts in place a mechanism to resolve potential future claims, the company said.


“First and foremost, the Roundup settlement is the right action at the right time for Bayer to bring a long period of uncertainty to an end,” said Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer, in a statement on Wednesday.

Bayer said the agreement is subject to approval by Judge Vince Chhabria of the US district court for the northern district of California.

Three Roundup cases that have gone to trial in recent years are not covered by the settlement and will continue through the appeals process, Bayer said.


A California jury ordered Monsanto in May 2019 to pay more than $2bn to Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a couple that got cancer after using Roundup.

The victory for the Pilliods was the latest in a series of trial wins taking on Monsanto over Roundup. Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper with terminal cancer, won a $289m victory in a California court in 2018, and Edwin Hardeman, who sprayed Roundup on his properties, was awarded $80m in the first federal trial in 2019.

Bayer has appealed all three rulings.

Bayer said it would also pay up to $400m to settle cases involving the weedkiller dicamba having drifted onto plants that weren’t bred to resist it, killing them.

A further payment of up to $820m will be made to settle “most” claims for exposure to PCB, a highly carcinogenic substance, that Monsanto produced until 1977 and which has been found in US waters.

Bayer said it would start making payments this year and these would be financed from existing liquidity, future income, proceeds from the sale of its animal health business and the issuance of additional bonds.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled last year that it was false to say glyphosate, the herbicide marketed as Roundup, caused cancer, and recently issued a report concluding the product did not cause risks to human health when used correctly. Advocates have long criticized the EPA’s continued approval of Roundup in the face of research linking the herbicide to cancer.

“Even Bayer’s billions can’t magically make glyphosate’s well-documented links to cancer disappear,” Nathan Donley, senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “Bayer only settled after three multi-million-dollar verdicts over the past year from jurors who, unlike the EPA, wisely put more trust in the safety assessments of independent scientists than in Monsanto/Bayer’s confidential reviews of its own product.”

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[DenverJim]

THe guy who did the research on rats saying roundup was just convicted of trying to extort another company out of big bucks. he will probably end up in the slammer.
on the other hand the Dept of agrculture looked at workers who applied round up on farms in N Carolina and Iowa. They said it didn't cause cancer... Round up is a plant hormone. Why would a company create a product that could be harmful to themselves. the wackos are out to make a quick buck.... This just shows the failure of our education system to teach science.

 

[aridbud]

yes grass killer sprayed every year in same spot after a few years nothin will grow

Salt will do the same thing....and far less toxic!!!!

 

[Gry]

What we see with Monsanto is now only a fragment.
More to their agenda than hustling weed killer.
Monsanto + Vandana Shiva in a search
engine, will provide amazing content.

 

[mexcurandero420]

Monsanto has a very nice history of chemicals invented and produced and later discontinued because of heavy toxic effects on the environment, which even today still having troubles with.

When we take a look to Roundup like PCB or plastic it's everywhere, even your beer is contaminated with residues of Roundup.Future will tell if it is bad thing or not to worry about.If residues build up in the body till you reached levels of toxicity and at what level will be.

 

[funkyhorse]

When I was a kid, soil was brown, food was tasty and no gliphosate was used
Today land is grey and the fields next to the schools are being sprayed with gliphosate

It is becoming increasingly difficult to have real organic food, everybody is being poisoned with agrotoxics
This article is not about what happens at a lab in a highly regarded posh university but the consequences in real life of this trade in a third world country:
https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/agriculture/como-el-glifosato-envenena-la-pampa-humeda-5382816


And this one is about health on kids:
https://www.xlsemanal.com/conocer/2...migacion-agroquimicos-cultivos-argentina.html

 

[DenverJim]

How many have even had a biology or chemistry course. There are dumb people who will down grade advancement in science because they believe con men and lawyers who are trying to make a buck on your ignorance.
People wouldn’t live in the south before DDT because of the prevalence of yellow feaver and malaria. Even in the city of Philadelphia the rich left town in the summer get away from the mosquitoes tar carried these diseases
Go live in the woods without power or gasoline. Words are cheap just like signs. Sorting trash Is not recycling. Everyone knows that China and Asia are the ones responcible for the plastic in the oceans. Plastic straws here in the US end up in land fills as does most garbage.
All our rules and regulations are designed to make it harder to build houses because the politicans and the wealthy don’t give a shit about the average person.
The real issues are the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are getting the shaft. What about teenage suicide or suicide in general. What about the insane and drug addicted left to rot on the street because the government can’t collect taxes from them. The American people have gotten lazy from the top down.
Scientific papers are now written by Chinese and Indians. Blame the whitE man for your failings is the mantra of the day.
Competition is out because someone’s feelings could be hurt. Loosing makes you tough. Instead the people hide rather than face it that a turd could fall out of an airliner and kill you.How many people do you personally that have died from COVID? Are we headed for 40 years in the wilderness? I’ll be dead in the near future so it’s not my problem. My generation fucked up the world. The victim attitude will just turn you all into peasants and serfs so the ruling clas can view you are an amusement park.