Pap and Seder: What Is Monsanto Hiding This Time?

[GoLeft TV]

Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss a Monsanto product called 'Roundup' that has been linked to a fatal kidney disease.

[KurtNYC]

1. Some research points to chronic dehydration among field workers

In a hot climate, performing physically intense labor, agricultural workers are probably facing dehydration, Turcios-Ruiz said. What's more, it's common for the workers to drink sugary soft drinks as they toil, which some mice studies suggest could be an exacerbating factor in kidney failure.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/health/kidney-disease-ckdu/

Glyphosate is used in many countries and is no longer under patent by Monsanto. Sugar cane growing in Florida and Louisiana is sprayed with glyphosate before harvest to speed up the ripening and to "make it sweeter." But the abundant use of glyphosate throughout farming without similar rates of kidney failure seems to indicate that something other than glyphosate is the trigger in El Salvador. Or a co-factor is the presence of heavy metals in local drinking water.

[arikara]

2. Sugary soft drinks

The usual ones here like coke and pepsi are made with corn syrup, which is of course GE and likely laced with glyphosates as well. I wonder if they have real cane sugar in those places, or if they are also using GE corn as sweetener.

Not that all that much cane sugar is healthy either, but it is preferable to GE crap.

[KurtNYC]

3. since they are working in sugar cane fields I would bet on real sugar being in the drinks

HFCS has been identified as a factor in weight gain, diabetes and kidney issues but HFCS is not a specific type of corn but rather an after harvest process that converts some of the starch in corn to fructose (fruit sugar).

People who keep their blood sugar at elevated levels may be in a diabetic condition and a common outcome of undiagnosed or untreated diabetes is kidney failure. One of the main ways that diabetes kills you is not the neuropathy and amputations but impairment of the kidneys.

The landmark UKPDS study found that one out of eight people diagnosed with diabetes already were leaking small amounts of protein into their urine. This symptom, called "microalbuminuria." is an early sign that kidneys have been damaged.
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2. High blood sugar. When normal glucose regulation fails, the kidneys must remove excess glucose from the blood, leading to high concentrations of glucose in the kidneys. These glucose molecules clog up tiny capillaries in the kidneys as they do those elsewhere in the body. Eventually this clogging destroys the glomeruli, the filtration units of the kidney.

An eleven year study of over 1800 people with diabetes found a straight line relationship between the risk of developing chronic kidney disease and the A1c. The risk began to increase significantly when the A1c rose over 6.0%.

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16351841.php

I see the list at the link also mentions the phosphoric acid which is in soft drinks.

[arikara]

4. It still may not be cane sugar though

I know coke and pepsi make their soda with different recipes in different parts of the world, I guess it depends on where they manufacture the pop they are supplying to those particular countries. But you're right, HFCS is worse than cane sugar irrespective of the GE issue.

[Enthusiast]

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