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> > > EPA to American People: 'Let Them Eat Monsanto's Roundup Ready Cake' > > > > >
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> > > The EPA, whose mission is to "to protect human health and the
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> > > has approved Monsanto's request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) > >
> > > contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been
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> > > carcinogenic.
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> > > If you haven't already heard, it's now official. Monsanto's request to
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> > > the EPA raise allowable levels of its herbicide glyphosate in food you > > > may
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> > > soon be eating has been approved [see Final Rule]. Public commenting is
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> > > now closed, not that it was anything but a formality to begin with. > > > > >
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> > > Here is the original registration application, lest detractors claim it
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> > > not Monsanto behind this bold move to legalize what an increasingly
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> > > public considers a form of institutionalized mass poisoning: > > > > >
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> > > 1. EPA Registration Numbers: 524-421, 524-475, and 524-537. Docket ID
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> > > EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0132. Applicant: Monsanto Company, 1300 I Street NW.,
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> > > 450 East, Washington, DC 20005. Active ingredient: Glyphosate. Product
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> > > Herbicide. Proposed Uses: Add wiper applicator use over the top to carrot
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> > > sweet potato, add preharvest use to oilseed crop group 20, add the use
> > > Teff
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> > > (forage and hay), and conversion of the following old crop groups to the > >
> > > following new crop groups: Vegetable, bulb, group 3 to vegetable, bulb,
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> > > 3-07; vegetable, fruiting, group 8 to vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10;
> > > fruit,
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> > > citrus, group 10 to fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, pome, group 11 to > >
> > > fruit, pome, group 11-10; and berry group 13 to berry and small fruit,
> > > group
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> > > 13-07. Contact: Erik Kraft, (703) 308-9358, email address: > >
> > > snipped-for-privacy@epa.gov. [emphasis added]
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> > > Notice above, the proposal includes "Add wiper applicator use over the
> > > top to
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> > > carrot and sweet potato," revealing that one reason why Monsanto wants > >
> > > tolerances on glyphosate raised is because this chemical will be applied > >
> > > directly not just to Roundup Ready plants but to non-GMO crops as well, > >
> > > virtually guaranteeing that unless you eat 100% USDA organic
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> > > of grave concern will end up in your food and body.
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> > > How grave? The Food Poisoning Bulletin describes the new tolerances as > >
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> > > Under the new regulation, forage and hay teff can contain up to 100 ppm > >
> > > (100,000 ppb) glyphosate; oilseed crops can contain up to 40 ppm (40,000
> > > ppb)
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> > > glyphosate, and root crops such as potatoes and beets can contain 6000 > > > ppb
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> > > glyphosate. Fruits can have concentrations from 200 ppb to 500 ppb > >
> > > glyphosate. These numbers are magnitudes higher than the levels some > >
> > > scientists believe are carcinogenic. [emphasis added] ...(cont) > > > >
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> > This may be difficult . If you look up the MSDS for Roundup, written by > >
> > Monsanto, of course, the stuff looks kinda innocuous.
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> > The scientists Gilles-Eric Sralini, and Andres Carrasco who ran > >
> > separate studies on Roundup have been hammered by critics. See: > > > >
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> > To the Editor: The letter to the editor sent by representatives of > >
> > Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dow Chemicals (among others) to Chem. Res. > >
> > Toxicol. regarding our paper (Paganelli et al., published July 23, 2010) > >
> > and the tone used in their criticism about other research papers > >
> > studying glyphosate effects should come as no surprise considering the > >
> > obvious conflicts of interest inherent in this work when the companies > >
> > selling a product are also solely responsible for testing its safety. > >
> > - Andres E. Carrasco
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> > Previous references of the toxicity of glyphosate to humans in Wikipedia > >
> > have also been withdrawn. However, remarks on Monsanto's "false > >
> > advertising", and "scientific fraud" persist.
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> > Jeffery M. Smith may suffer from his partisanship against GMOs (Good for > >
> > him), and his lack of a scientific background or expertise.
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> > The struggle hasn't ended however.
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> > There is still Professor Emeritus Don Huber, Purdue University > > > > >
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> > New Study Links Monsantos Roundup To Autism, Parkinsons and Alzheimers > >
> What does Monsanto and its supporters say about Professor Don Huber's
> studies? Are they attacked like the other studies are?
With Reuters and other major news organizations finally pushing forward on our Feb. 16 story about Hubers letter to the USDA that warned of spontaneous miscarriage possibly linked to Roundup, the manufacturer Monsanto has posted a rebuttal on its website: In a January 17, 2011 letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, retired Purdue University professor Don Huber proclaims discovery of a plant pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. The letter also alleges this pathogen is more prevalent on herbicide-tolerant genetically modified (GM) crops. No data was provided nor cited, and no collaborators were identified . . .
In the next paragraph, Monsanto follows up by acknowledging what a pesky thorn Huber has been, ever since they hired him to research their genetically modified products more than two decades ago.
Huber has previously made allegations related to micronutrient uptake and diseases in connection with GM crops and glyphosate products, said the statement. Independent field studies and lab tests by multiple U.S. universities and by Monsanto prior to, and in response to, these allegations do not corroborate his claims. . . .
The statement in Monsantos letter of response is disingenuous, said Dr. James E. Rahe, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The published research from my lab done during the 1980s and 1990s showed that glyphosate (Roundup) causes increased susceptibility of dicot species to infection by root rot fungi such as pythium and fusarium.
Rahe is retired now to life as a row-crop farmer and has less at stake than his younger counterparts who still toil in laboratories that depend, largely, on funding from Monsanto and its brethren to conduct their work. He said he is inclined to accept Hubers letter and inherent warnings to the USDA.
On reading the letter, my impression is that it was sent in good faith, said Rahe, who said he still uses Roundup on a limited basis on his farm. The claims made in Hubers letter concerning a novel micro-fungal-like organism appear to be based on a substantial amount of unpublished research by several individuals in distinct scientific disciplines. If so, and now that the cat is out of the bag, it will be interesting to see what information appears in the domain of the scientific community in the near future with regard to the nature of this organism and its relationship to certain plant diseases and animal reproductive failure. . . .
If youre a practicing researcher dependent on a certain level of funding, it can be very, very damaging to come forward with any information that is considered detrimental to the GM industry, said Vlieger. It can literally ruin careers.
Making research involving genetically modified crops even more difficult is Monsantos overt squelching of any research by independent labs. The company wont make seeds available and will take scientists to court for attempting to take any independent research public. Farmers, by contract, are not allowed to share even a handful of seed with a lab.
Agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers . . . Only studies that the seed companies have approved ever see the light of a peer-reviewed journal, said an article in the August 2009 issue of Scientific American.
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> > Monsantos Roundup Weedkiller Found to Damage Integrity of Raw, > >
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> > Just railing agains Monsanto and Roundup is hopeless. Monsanto has too > >
> > much money = power. They are slick. All we can do is present those > >
> > studies that question the safety of Roundup. But is is depressing that > >
> > when products like GMOs are fraught with danger, the government doesn't > >
> > even ask Monsanto to do life long feeding trials. What politicians won't > >
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> > Welcome to the New America.
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