Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Glyphosate Awareness Newsletter 0420: The Rest of the Facts

This month's Glyphosate Awareness Newsletter began with pretty nature pictures of jewel-colored damselflies. (Scroll down to see that section here.) Here's the rest of it:



2. CANCER STUDIES LIST

Thanks to James @ethalises for posting this list of glyphosate cancer studies on Twitter:


English: “2018: G. Andreotti et al. found 100% increase of myeloid leukemia in farmers exposed to glyphosate. 2019: M. Leon et al. found 36 percent increase in large B-cell lymphoma...L. Zhang et al. found 40% increase in non-Hodgkins lymphoma.” Credits to scientific journals not translated.

3. MEANWHILE BAYER TRIES TO SHORTCHANGE CANCER PATIENTS

If your browser can handle Bloomberg, you can find the full articles. Bayer blames the coronavirus, first for stalling on offering payments to cancer patients, then for scanting.

Bayer Effort to Settle Roundup Cancer Cases Slowed by Covid-19 – Bloomberg ”

Here’s the latest list of brands to boycott. These dastards don’t deserve a penny of your money!


4. INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE TECHNOLOGY OFFERS UNPRECEDENTEDLY WEAK PETITION

Why is this petition still only 2% of the way to its goal? Possibly because it’s so feeble. “Follow the lead of Kellogg’s and commit to phasing out the use of glyphosate as a desiccant”? Kellogg’s wants to keep selling you cereals and granola bars that have had glyphosate sprayed right on the fruits, nuts, and grain, right before they were picked and baked...and advertising this poison as gluten-free and full of vitamins! We need to tell farmers to certify their crops spray-free, this summer, before we’ll handle their alleged “food”—much less eat any. Here’s the petition, if you want to sign it, but...personally, I want farmers and food packers to go waaay beyond Kellogg’s puny non-solution. I want to know that this year’s corn is fit for human consumption. Otherwise, since I don’t enjoy being sick, I’ll just have to live through another year without touching any corn. Or tomatoes. Or apples. Or beans. Or anything else that’s not CERTIFIED GLYPHOSATE-FREE.

https://responsibletechnology.salsalabs.org/demandtheendofroundupasadryingagentoncrop/index.html

5. WHY SOY IS BAD

It’s not that soybeans, which are nutritious food for humans and animals and even good for the soil, is even causing most of the “soy allergy” reactions and various non-fun facts gathered by those who’ve begun to wonder whether “unfermented” soy products are even safe for humans to eat. Soybeans do contain phytoestrogens but they weren’t a problem before glyphosate. And the EPA recently allowed use of another poison on genetically modified soybeans...


If you’re gluten-free, you should not need to be soy-free as well...but, currently, you do. Again, the EPA is not helping. It’s up to food shoppers to tell food packers: “If you use soy products, make sure they’re certified and tested 100% GMO and glyphosate-free, unsprayed, and organically grown...Or you can just sit on sacks of them until the Judgment Day!” Big Government is proving to be a Big Boondoggle, but if farmers learn that they can’t sell poisoned “food,” they will stop spraying.

6. GLYPHOSATE CONTAMINATION MAPPED

No points for guessing: Places with a lot of soy and corn fields (or tacky, outdated, Astroturf-looking “lawns”) are places with a lot of glyphosate contamination. Though this Australian Broadcasting news story tries too hard to be nice to the sprayers, it’s worth reading for the sound bite at the end:


"Once you detect the weed you can electrocute it, steam it, or pull it out, so there are other ways of dealing with this problem."

7. HOW GLYPHOSATE HARMS OR KILLS FETAL ANIMALS (OR HUMANS)

Many thanks to @KlausRiede for this...sneak preview. The article’s not actually been published yet in the June 2020 journal, but you can see the summary of how Yahfoufi et al. found that glyphosate interferes with the use of zinc and oxygen in fetal mice:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0300483X20301050

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