If the amount of Roundup that goes over my counter at the Depot is any judge then the 200 plus million tons of the stuff sprayed in the U.S. every year is a serious underestimate. It’s surely amazing that the regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect us continue to allow these millions tons of
Monsanto’s Roundup and copy cats, to be sprayed on food crops ignoring mounting evidence that the herbicide’s key ingredient, glycophosphate, causes birth
defects, endocrine disruption and myriad other health problems.
There is a a
new study out that indicates that the most widely used herbicide in the world is even more
toxic than previously thought. Not surprisingly when you consider we are dealing with Monsanto but Roundup contains “confidential” –
and unlabeled – ingredients that affect all living cells, including
human cells, according to the scientific journal,
Toxicology. Most of the regulatory decisions around these herbicides are based on the toxicology studies done for glycophosphate instead of looking at Roundup’s full
formulation, which includes the secret added ingredients.
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