Posted on 11/16/2016 11:08:47 AM PST by B4Ranch
I am frankly shocked this information is not making front page news right now. Monsanto will do anything to bury this story… and as of right now, it’s working. Not a single mainstream media outlet has covered this appalling new report that shows millions of people being poisoned by a chemical that does not belong in our food. This chemical is ending up in processed foods like Cheerios, Ritz Crackers, and Oreos and being consumed by humans across the world. The health of millions of people is on the line and this news must go mainstream! That’s why I’m calling on every single one of you who reads this post to share this breaking story now. The only way this injustice will be corrected is if enough of us stand up and demand that something be done to stop the poisoning of our food supply.
A FDA-registered food safety laboratory tested iconic American food for residues of the weed killer glyphosate (aka Monsanto’s Roundup) and found ALARMING amounts.
Just to give you an idea of how outrageous these amounts are, independent research shows that probable harm to human health begins at really low levels of exposure – at only 0.1 ppb of glyphosate. Many foods were found to have over 1,000 times this amount! Well above what regulators throughout the world consider “safe”.
“No, as I first pointed out, not naming that organization or how it’s identified is your lack of justification.”
The organization is named right in the article, if you are too lazy to read the article, it’s your failing, not mine.
Hyperbolic drivel. Exposed to the elements, if I remember right, Roundup has a shelf life of less than a week. There’s no way it would survive the harvesting, shipping, milling, processing, packaging, and pallet time of a processed food.
Since Roundup is a non-discriminating herbicide, no farmer withan ounce of sense if going to spray it on a growing field. It is used as a pre-emerge to kill anything growing before the field is seeded. If it decays to harmless byproducts in a week and the crops take 4 to 6 months to mature, it is long gone before the seed even breaks the soil.
This is nothing more than enviro-nazi alarmism.
Yeah, I hardly bother even washing my hands after spraying the pre-diluted form of it.
Trace amounts of chemicals in our food means it's unhealthy? Maybe you should rethink how you define "healthy." Potatoes contain arsenic. Benzene is found in butter, coffee and roasted meats. Cooking bacon crispy will create one of the most carcinogenic compounds known to man. Carrots contain aniline and caffeic acid. Acetaldehyde is found in apples and tomatoes. Nuts are loaded with aflatoxin. Lima beans contain cyanide. Drinking orange juice means you're also drinking the active ingredient found in paint stripper, and the list goes on.
People without knowledge find dangerous chemicals everywhere and never seem to realize that it's the dosage that makes the poison.
So regular Cheerios has twice as much Roundup as honey nut Cheerios? Not making sense to me.
That’s what she told me also if you caught us. lolol
Instant dirt nap !
Goodbye child.
The FDA should ban “other women”!!!
That’s how all agriculture works. Weeds are killed either by chemicals or by cultivation. Round-Up isn’t perfect, but it beats the Hell out of 2,4-D or triazene herbicides which it largely replaced.
Yep. I’ve worked in Agriculture since I left the Army in 1993. I know ALL about Glyphosate and GMO crops. Pro and Con.
I just don’t think trace amounts of Glyphosate is something to PANIC over. Now trace amounts of rat poop or hairs? THAT is something to PANIC over! ;)
That said, people can do their own research and make their own choices. As for me and mine, we grow the bulk of our veggies and raise our own meat critters, buy local eggs from a neighbor (I am laying hen deprived right now!) and we hunt and fish. We rarely, if ever, eat any of the junk food that’s daily consumed by The Unwashed Masses.
Would you rather have one of my home made, from scratch, Chocolate Chip Cookies or a package of Oreos? Blech!
I’m not saying our diet is perfect, but it’s perfect for us. The closer you can eat to the dirt, the field or the stream the better, IMHO. :)
P.S. And the whiter the bread, the sooner you’re dead! ;)
I wholeheartedly agree
When I was trained by Cornell Cooperative Extension as a Master Gardener in the early '80's, we were instructed that glyphosate became inert once it made contact with the soil.
That "RoundUP was an "on contact" herbicide that then was absorbed into the weed plant, and killed even the roots of the greatest spreading farm nemesis weed : "Quack Grass".
About a decade later, it was learned that glyphosate was showing up in farm and stream run off, and having an adverse reaction on amphibians and fishery.
Apparently, there is still much more to learn about the chemicals and commonly used insecticides and herbicides, especially when used in tandem and the inter-reactions.
If this were so it would seem to me that the average life expectancy in the U.S. would be plummeting. Since it’s really high and as far as I know, increasing, I don’t think this is true.
I know we are lower than SOME industrialized nations, but, sadly, taking the African American out of the equation and we are quite high.
I am not sure why the AA pop has such a lower life expectancy (poverty? crime? some genetic or cultural problem, like, lack of adherence to health care regimen? I don’t know).
Anyway, this chemical is obviously not making us all drop dead.
Prior to the use of chemicals in our food, which is a conglomeration of chemicals anyway, there were all kinds of nutritional deficiencies. Rickets, worms, bloated bellies, etc.
With the advent of chemical usage after WW2 in growing as well as processing the crop failures became almost nonexistent and the food became more nutricious.
This is utter hooey, ranking right up there with Meryl Streep’s impassioned testimony about the harmless substance ALAR. “They’re killing our children!!!”
No, they’re not. ALAR was harmless.
So is glyphosate.
The only reason this woman and eco-nuts are shrieking about it is because it is the active ingredient in Roundup weed poison. The most effective and harmless weed poison ever invented.
Which brings us up to the credibility of the “food babe”.
She is a fraud who pushes pseudo-science.
She has gone on record as saying, “There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.”
In a recent blog post, Hari accused several of her detractors of having nefarious ties to sinister organizations. These evildoers included Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the director for Science and Society at McGill University, Dr. Steve Novella, a Yale-educated neurologist and contributor to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, and Dr. Kevin Folta, the horticultural chair at the University of Florida. Why? Because these highly credentialed scientists had the nerve to use facts against Hari. Dr. Schwarcz speaks out regularly about her tactics. Dr. Novella debunked some wild claims of hers about the science of microwaves. And Dr. Folta said “she found that a popular social media site was more powerful than science itself, more powerful than reason, more powerful than actually knowing what you’re talking about.”
I like my food without ingredients that aren’t already in my kitchen cupboards, can’t pronounce well, and not sure what they are.... Sounds as though we pretty much agree.
I learned how to make bread when I was around 11 or 12 and pretty much kept at it ever since.
Straw man. Naturally occurring substances aka “chemicals” found in food are not equivalent to industrially manufactured substances aka as “chemicals” added to foods for various reasons.
Silly strawman, at that.
FYI the FoodBabe is an alarmist kook.
She has zero credibility
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