New study out of Buenes Aires shows Monsanto's Glyphosate causes Birth Defects

[truedelphi]

Full Article at:

http://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12491-groundbreaking-study-shows-roundup-link-to-birth-defects

The article not only shows how dangerous this glyphosate product is, but it also demonstrates the power that citizens in other countries can claim, power that we are currently denied.

Here is a key paragraph from the article about that here in bold:
The many people who have suffered from such spraying include Viviana Peralta, a housewife from San Jorge, Santa Fe, Argentina, who was hospitalized together with her baby after Roundup spraying from planes flying near her home. Peralta and other residents launched a lawsuit that resulted in a regional court ban on the spraying of Roundup and other agrochemicals near houses.

As we contrast our status as citizens in the USA with the status and respect offered to citizens in other countries, it is easy to surmise that we are a Banana Republic. Politically, citizens here are without any recourse to stopping the Big Pharmaceutical and Pesticde Industries from polluting our soil, air, watrer and food.

It seems to matter not at all if it is Dems or Republicans getting in bed with Monsanto. (Every President since Reagan has supported Monsanto overwhelmingly!) It is salt in our wounds to realize that the power that people in other nations hold, while our Political Class denies us this power for the sake of the campaign chests.

Yet we consider our nation a democracy. Yeah, right, we have the right to be guinea pigs for all the Corporate Rat Bastards and their endless experimentation upon us.

[truedelphi]

1. It is now considered "normal" for a baby born in the USA

To be born with jaundice. Seventy percent of all newborns in metro areas are now born with that condition.

Not to say that Glyohosate is responsible for everything, but I find it interesting that when confronted with the decline in our health due (most likely) to the intrusions of corporate-instilled products and behaviors, the health declines are now just rubber stamped as "normal."

You aren't sick - you are "normal." Your newborn's jaundice is "normal" also.

And on and on.

[DeSwiss]

2. Death by Monsanto....

- If we don't stop them, they will kill us all......

K&R

[truedelphi]

3. Thank you for the great (and scary) posters.

One of the researchers I am in contact with in China (he hails from the state of Indiana) says that a geneticist he knows states:

"We would have to have 100,000 generations of offspring before we could be assured of the genetic mutations necessary for our bodies to deal with GM food."

[KT2000]

4. we now must depend upon

research from other countries to understand what is happening to the health or our nation. Our research institutions know what will get them the grants and nailing Monsanto and Dow is bad for the financials. Of course we cannot do anything about it because the big corporations threaten to sue and keep it in the courts for decades.
The involuntary exposure of our citizens to known poisons with known health effects is reason enough to have single payer health care in this country. Insurance companies are in bed with the interests of the big corporations too. Get sick from their products? Get thrown overboard.

[truedelphi]

5. Yes those of us who get sick from the products are simply

Told that the illness is "all in our heads."

While meanwhile, other governments across the globe refuse to import the mold-contaminated foods that Monsanto is bringing to our dining tables. And that is about all there is now in the USA - seventy percent of all corn, for instance, that is grown here is GM corn.

And with the pollen contaminating the "organic" fields, that corn too may not really be organic.

There is not crop out there that Monsanto does not plan to GM for "our supposed benefit."

Right now one of the only grains that I trust as really being organic is millet. But I am sure within a few years, that too will be Frankenfood.

[KT2000]

9. Don't you love

how everyone becomes a psychiatrist when you mention chemicals and health??

:hi:

[truedelphi]

14. It doesn't help that the spouse is a semi

Psychiatrist. He has a master's degree in psychology, and I am his favorite patient.

So far his advanced testing has "proven" that I am deviant in several categories.

But both of us agree that Monsanto is one of the quads in the Quadrangle of Evil (Big Oil, Big Banks, Monsanto, And Big War Machine)

[bluerum]

6. glyphosphate - better know as Round Up. Bet you or your neighbors have it in your garage.

[truedelphi]

7. Thank you, bluerum, for pointing out that it is known as RoundUp

Glyphosate being one of the major ingredients inside RoundUp.

[KT2000]

8. Yes - it was promoted as the safe

herbicide. The only problem was - they did not test the product they produced with the "inerts" but just the glyphosate. When they tested the whole product, they dicovered big problems - but oh well. The important thing is that the corp. make their money.
Since their patent expired, the imitations are horrible.
Formaldehyde is the breakdown product of glyphosate.

[truedelphi]

12. I am not sure that formaldehyde occurs as the breakdown product or

Not. Any links you have to that would be appreciated.

However, one of the things I do know about glyphosate and this is information from a forensic witness and scientist on the East Coast (Dr Bob Simon) is that Monsanto ADDED formaldehyde to the glyphosate. They had to add it - without an aldehyde, the glyphosate would be in cake-like form and not be sprayable. So it wouldn't work as an herbicide.

So then, Monsanto "forgot" to mention the formaldehyde addition to the mixture when it told the EPA what was in its formula. What they told the EPA that RoundUp consisted of was 1) glyhphosate 2) polyoxyethalenamine and 3) water.

If the EPA of the early 1970's had known of the formaldehyde, Monsanto would not have gotten a license to sell RoundUp over the counter. It definitely could not be sold over the counter here in California as Prop 65 restrictions forbid any pesticide with formaldehyde to be sold to the casual, unlicensed user.

[KT2000]

15. Interesting

as I googled this I found referenecs to formaldehyde and Roundup - one was from a study by Lund in 1986 (only info)I found mention of it breaking down into formaldehyde and then other statements that said it did not. So at this point I don't know anymore.
Mindfully.org has a good info page on Roundup and they do not mention formaldehyde. They do however mention that this product was included in the fraudulent lab tests that were conducted in the 1970s.

[JohnyCanuck]

10. I guess we are supposed to be thankful

that at least they aren't giving us syphilis.

"....we have the right to be guinea pigs for all the Corporate Rat Bastards and their endless experimentation upon us."

[struggle4progress]

11. Here's the IRIS page

for glyphosate: http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0057.htm

Essentially all data seems to be from the 1980s. In the Bush era, EPA declined to investigate glyphosate further

Federal Register: February 9, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 26)
Notices
Page 5971-5976
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the IRIS 2004 agenda and requesting scientific information on health effects that may result from exposure to the chemical substances for which EPA is starting assessments this year ... EPA is deleting from the IRIS agenda a group of pesticides that will not be assessed through the IRIS process ... The following pesticides listed in the February 5, 2003 (68 FR 5870) Federal Register are therefore removed from the IRIS agenda for FY2004 ... Glyphosate ...
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/advanced.html

Wikipedia indicates fraud by some labs investigating glyphosate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

I couldn't find an ATSDR toxicological profile

[truedelphi]

13. This is excellent information. Thank you. Also,

Please see my response number twelve.