Jeffrey Smith Broadcasts About Glyphosate

Jeffrey Smith's e-mail, from which the most salient paragraphs are copied below, ends with some claims that I'd want to check more closely. I'm not sure how he can claim that cancer patients switching to a glyphosate-free diet are seeing improvements...because I'm not sure how those patients can know that they are switching to a glyphosate-free diet! If it were possible to identify and avoid glyphosate-poisoned foods, I'd be doing it, and I wouldn't be flushing blood down the toilet...glyphosate triggers celiac sprue for celiacs, I'm a celiac, and I've seen blood in the toilet more days than not during the past month. And, does anything that lacerates the colon, producing visible blood in the toilet, promote cancer of the colon? Does the Pope claim to be a Catholic?!?! It's very hard to pinpoint a single cause of any kind of cancer, but glyphosate most definitely does not help anyone fight cancer.

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GMOs and Cancer

1. The very process of creating a GMO creates side effects that can promote cancer. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, for example, has higher levels of putrescine and cadaverine. These are not only linked to cancer and allergies, they produce the foul smell of rotting dead bodies.

2. Bt-toxin, which is manufactured by the altered DNA in every cell of genetically modified varieties of corn, cotton, and South American soy, pokes holes in cell walls. It may create “leaky gut,” which is linked to cancer and numerous other diseases.

3. Most GMOs are “Roundup Ready”—designed to be sprayed with Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. These include Soy, Corn, Cotton, Canola, Sugar Beets (for sugar), and Alfalfa. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is classified as a class 2A carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organization). They said it probably causes cancer in humans, does cause cancer in animals, does cause mutations in DNA that can lead to cancer, and where it is heavily sprayed, cancer rates are higher.

4. Roundup is also sprayed on numerous non-GMO crops just before harvest as a desiccant, to dry down the crop as it is killed by the herbicide. Some of these other crops include: Wheat, Oats, Flax, Peas, Lentils, Dry Beans, Sugar Cane, Rye, Triticale, Buckwheat, Millet, Potatoes and Sunflowers. Canola, Corn and Soybeans labeled non-GMO may also be sprayed with Roundup.

5. To avoid Roundup, eating non-GMO is not sufficient. It is better to choose organic, which does not allow the use of GMOs, Roundup, or other synthetic poisons. (Products labeled both Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified are even better, because the latter requires tests for possible inadvertent GMO contamination.) Since Roundup is sprayed on most US cotton, residues are found in cotton products including tampons. BUY ORGANIC!

6. Several cancer rates in the US are rising in parallel with increased use of glyphosate on GMO soy and corn fields. These include leukemia and cancers of the liver, kidney, bladder, thyroid, and breast.

7. In Argentina, the rate of cancer in communities living near Roundup Ready soybean fields has also skyrocketed, as have birth defects, thyroid conditions, lupus, and respiratory problems.

8. The following are just some of the health effects of glyphosate, all of which are known to increase cancer risk. Glyphosate:

a. Damages the DNA

b. Is an antibiotic

c. Promotes leaky gut

d. Chelates minerals, making them unavailable

e. Is toxic to the mitochondria

f. Interferes with key metabolic pathways

g. Causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

h. Degrades into Sarcosine and formaldehyde

9. The full Roundup formulation is up to 125 times more toxic than glyphosate alone. It also has a greater endocrine disruptive effect.

10. Thousands of people how were exposed to Roundup and are now suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma are suing Monsanto. The lawsuit forced Monsanto to make public secret documents, emails, and texts. These are smoking guns, providing clear evidence that Monsanto colludes with government regulators, bullies scientists, ghostwrites articles, pays off journal editors and scientists, and publicly denies evidence of harm that it privately admits to.

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