Monsanto's Glyphosate Found in California Wines, Even Wines Made With Organic Grapes
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/35998-monsantos-glyphosate-found-in-california-wines-even-wines-made-with-organic-grapesShortly after the release of a report showing 14 beers testing positive for glyphosate in Germany, a concerned supporter of Moms Across America approached me at a convention with disturbing news. He said he had test results from Microbe Inotech Lab of St.Louis showing 10 different wines, from large and small vineyards, contained the chemical glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, including wine made with organic grapes.
The contamination of conventional wine was 28 times higher than organic wine, with levels ranging from 0.659 ppb in organic to 18.74 ppb in conventional wine.
The wines tested came from Napa Valley, Sonoma and Mendocino counties in California. The brand names of the wines were not revealed, and frankly, the brands are not the issue. The real issue is the widespread contamination of glyphosate based herbicides in consumer products.
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Nearly 2 billion adults worldwide are estimated to consume alcoholic beverages regularly, with an average daily consumption of 13 g of ethanol (about one drink). Alcohol consumption has already been shown to cause cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, colorectum, liver and female breast; there is now also some evidence for cancer of the pancreas. The relative risk of breast cancer increases with increasing alcohol intake by about 10% per 10g/day.(3)
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2009/pdfs/pr196_E.pdf
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Just at first glance -
Ascorbic acid? That's vitamin C, you know.
Tannin? A very normal part of the grape that gives many wines their dry taste.
Activated charcoal? Used to purify drinking water and frequently taken by people with digestive problems.
Citric acid? The weak acid found in citrus fruits that gives them their sour tang.
I'd suggest looking up each item on that list to find out what it really is.
Not every food additive is a dangerous chemical, you know, and the Europeans are light years ahead of us in their caution. 
If you drank 8 million glasses of wine, you would still have a lower dosage of glyphosate than the alcohol in a single glass of wine.
On a more realistic scale, if you drink just one glass of wine a day (that's supposed to be good for you right?), your arsenic levels will be 20 to 30 percent higher than those of people who didn't drink.
OOOOooooo
While we're on the topic of "unimportant things to be scared of", lets check out the pesticides you eat every day.
...estimated that on average Americans ingest roughly 5,000 to 10,000 different natural pesticides and their breakdown products. Americans eat about 1,500 mg of natural pesticides per person per day, which is about 10,000 times more than the 0.09 mg they consume of synthetic pesticide residues.
Even though only a small proportion of natural pesticides have been tested for carcinogenicity, 37 of the 71 tested are rodent carcinogens. Naturally occurring pesticides that are rodent carcinogens are ubiquitous in fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices.
Cooking foods produces about 2000 mg/person/day of burnt material that contains many rodent carcinogens and many mutagens. By contrast, the residues of 200 synthetic chemicals measured by FDA, primarily synthetic pesticides, thought to be of greatest importance, average only about 0.09 mg/person/day. In a single cup of coffee, the natural chemicals that are known rodent carcinogens are about equal in weight to a year’s worth of synthetic pesticide residues that are rodent carcinogens, even though only 3% of the natural chemicals in roasted coffee have been adequately tested for carcinogenicity. This does not mean that coffee or natural pesticides are dangerous, rather, it makes assumptions about high- dose animal cancer tests for assessing human risk at low doses need reexamination. No diet can be free of natural chemicals that are rodent carcinogens.
http://potency.berkeley.edu/pdfs/Paracelsus.pdf
‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins... H.L. Mencken’
