Glyphosate (Round Up) - A Review of it's Effects

[nosmokes]

this is no surprise, just a confirmation of other studies. of course, it does make me wonder what monsanto is still saying about their crap in other countries.
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Glyphosate -A review of its health and environmental effects

By Andre Leu

Glyphosate is the active ingredient of some of the most common herbicides used in farming and gardening. These products have been promoted as quickly biodegradable and non toxic. People believe that they are so safe that you can drink a cup of these herbicides without any ill effect.

Consequently, it is sprayed on roadsides while people are driving, on footpaths when people are shopping and in schoolyards and sports fields, exposing children to drift and residues. People buy it from supermarkets or garden shops and use it without any protective clothing because it is deemed 'safe'. It is sprayed in national parks and other environmentally sensitive areas in the belief that it is not toxic and or residual.

I continuously hear Primary Industries officers and other agricultural specialists telling farmers that it is not necessary to wear any protective clothing because it is harmless.

Unfortunately, the facts show that this is not the case. While pure Glyphosate has a low acute toxicity (the amount needed to cause death), when it is sold as a commercial herbicide it is combined with surfactants and other ingredients to make it more effective at killing plants. Studies show that the commercial products, such as Round Up, can be three times more toxic than pure glyphosate.

Health Problems - so safe that you can drink it.

Japanese researchers analysing suicides have found that drinking 3/4 of a cup (200 millilitres) of commercial glyphosate products is fatal.

Survivors (those who consumed less than 3/4 of a cup) suffered a range of severe health problems. These problems included intestinal pain, vomiting, erosion of the gastrointestinal tract, excess fluid in the lungs, pneumonia, lung dysfunction, clouding of consciousness, destruction of red blood cells, abnormal electrocardiograms, low blood pressure, kidney damage and damage to the larynx. It is important to note that damage to the kidneys and the lungs is usually permanent. These body tissues do not repair themselves, instead forming scar tissue that does not function to help filter toxins from the blood or breathe oxygen.
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complete article here

[Redstone]

1. If Monsanto says it, you can be SURE it's a lie. God, those fuckers are pure evil.

I cannot for the life of me understand how ANY executive or manager at Monsanto can look at himself in the mirror in the morning.

Redstone

[LisaM]

2. Unsafe for pets, too

The jerk next store sprayed it all over his plants and I wouldn't let my dogs near them for a few days.

[whistle]

3. Guess who makes RoundUp?

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Roundup is an herbicide and all herbicides are pesticides. The EPA definition of a pesticide includes all forms of –cides. Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate, are made by Monsanto. <MORE>

http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2003/Roundup-El-Diablo25may03.htm

These fuckers just keep poisoning the environment, killing people and lying about it!

[fasttense]

4. I bought it because it was suppose to easily break down

in the environment. Luckily I only sprayed it where my wildflower garden was going to be. But damn, these lying, cheating SOB should be sued for false advertisement.


I'm so sick of these "free market" repercussions. Every time I turn around, some food is polluted or infected, the price of something else goes sky high or I'm being lied to about some product or other. When are regulations going to be enforced again? When will we be able to trust our government or business again? Have these idiotic free market economists finished with destroying America? God help us all.

[KT2000]

6. Formaldehyde is the

breakdown product of glyphosate is what I heard.

[KT2000]

5. Thank you so much for posting this

They have gotten away with murder with this stuff.
People believe it is safe but as you have pointed out - subsequent research has not proven that out.

Now that the patent is up on Roundup, I have noticed the "cheaper" versions are just awful. I am a human chemical detector and it gives me the shakes and nausea when I am around it.

[Kat45]

7. I've known this stuff was toxic since my environmental biology class in the seventies

[Kat45]

8. Roundups' inventor was inducted into Nat'l Inventors Hall of Fame

alongside folks like Eli Whitney and George Washington Carver! Here's a link, but I'll warn you that it's the Monsanto web site, which I held my breath and ventured onto.

http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/featured/j_franz.asp

I would think a Worldwide Hall of Shame would be the place where he belongs.