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The widely-used herbicide glyphosate, now classified as probably carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been found in a number of items, including honey, breast milk and infant formula, according to media reports.
When chemical agriculture blankets millions of acres of genetically engineered corn and soybean fields with hundreds of millions of pounds of glyphosate, its not a surprise babies are now consuming Monsantos signature chemical with breast milk and infant formula, said Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group. The primary reason millions of Americans, including infants, are now exposed to this probable carcinogen is due to the explosion of genetically engineered crops that now dominate farmland across the U.S.
Through their purchasing power, the American consumer is fueling this surge in GMO crops and the glyphosate exposure that comes with it, added Cook. Its time the federal FDA require foods made with GMOs be labeled as such so the public can decide for themselves if they want to send their dollars to the biotech industry that cares more about profits than public health.
According to a report by Carey Gillam of Reuters, laboratories are receiving a surge in requests to have everything from food to urine samples tested for glyphosate in the aftermath of last months announcement by the WHOs International Agency for Research on Cancer that the weed-killer is probably carcinogenic to humans.
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http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/10/glyphosate-breast-milk-infant-formula/
marym625
(17,997 posts)That's just so frightening
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)in Europe now.
DustyJoe
(849 posts)Now the populace will probably get the same thing VN vets with a multitude of cancers
from Agent Orange exposure. Denial after denial of the chemicals toxicity, the fact you
would need to drink a gallon a day to even think about cancer, it only killed lab mice after
they lived on a diet of the chemical. And the ever popular if you didn't come in physical
contact with the concentrated form there's no way it would affect you.
But, maybe just maybe since it isn't veterans getting zapped by the new Agent Orange,
but the general population. Maybe they won't have decades of denial like the vets had.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)> But, maybe just maybe since it isn't veterans getting zapped by the new Agent Orange,
> but the general population. Maybe they won't have decades of denial like the vets had.
As it is present in (and absorbed from) an ever-widening range of products, it affects
more & more of the general population and so is harder to focus epidemiological studies
in order to assign blame to any particular cause.
This directly fuels the propanda arm of the industry - with a quick wave to the resident
cheerleaders here! - apparently reinforcing their position (in the eyes of the gullible)
whilst enabling the greater penetration of this health hazard across the human (and animal)
population.
Win-win for the short-term profit merchants.
Lose-lose for the ecosphere (including humans).
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)screaming like hell about glyphosate in infant formula.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)There is a reason why the GMO industry (and its many employed "supporters" fight
tooth & nail against any form of honest labelling regulation - in every country around
the world - and why they use every deceitful trick in the book to bully & force the
weak to accept *their* way (TPP, lawsuits against "unfair trade restrictions", et al).
As if to reinforce the above behaviour, consider that even if labelling were enforced
globally, a huge amount of the consumers for infant formula are illiterate in the
languages that would be used (e.g., US product exported to the Third World famine
areas ... and that's without going into debates on the literacy & ignorance in the
areas of the nominal First World where hanging plastic testicles on the back of
one's vehicle is viewed as "Cool" ...).
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Enough said about literacy & ignorance