Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Discovered in All Urine Samples Tested

[mia]

A recent study* conducted by a German university found very high concentrations of Glyphosate, a carcinogenic chemical found in herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup, in all urine samples tested. The amount of glyphosate found in the urine was staggering, with each sample containing concentrations at 5 to 20-fold the limit established for drinking water. This is just one more piece of evidence that herbicides are, at the very least, being sprayed out of control.

This news comes only one month after it was found that glyphosate, contained in Monsanto’s Roundup, is contaminating the groundwater in the areas in which it is used. What does this mean? It means that toxic glyphosate is now polluting the world’s drinking water through the widespread contamination of aquifers, wells and springs. The recent reports of glyphosate showing up in all urine samples only enhances these past findings.

Monsanto continues to make the claim that their Roundup products are completely safe for both animals and humans. However many environmentalists, scientists, activists, and even doctors say otherwise. Glyphosate radically affects the metabolism of plants in a negative way. It is a systemic poison preventing the formation of essential amino acids, leading to weakened plants which ultimately die from it.

A formula seems to have been made to not only ruin the agricultural system, but also compromise the health of millions of people worldwide. With the invent of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, resistant superweeds are taking over farmland and public health is being attacked. As it turns out, glyphosate is also leaving behind its residue on Roundup Ready crops, causing further potential concern for public health. Glyphosate is even contributing to escalating rates of mental illness and obesity through the depletion of beneficial gut flora that directly regulates these functions. But it certainly doesn’t stop there....

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/01/29/monsanto%e2%80%99s-infertility-linked-roundup-discovered-in-all-urine-samples-tested/

Could this be about population control?

[Botany]

1. Roundup causes plants to die?

It is a systemic poison preventing the formation of essential amino acids,
leading to weakened plants which ultimately die from it.


OMG that is shocking!

Call the army, navy, marines, and DU too.

It is a herbicide that is supposed to kill plants.

The link is to a bull crap article .... nobody applies round up from crop dusters on farm
fields ..... picture in article

Mental Illness and obesity too

[ananda]

2. Pure evil.

Considering that what Monsanto is doing is pure evil, I don't think
sarcastic ridicule of the proper horror at it is warranted.

[Botany]

3. Complaining that a herbicide kills plants is not a good argument

It is supposed to kill plants.

A much greater danger to the supportive capacity of the planet
is the introduction of non native invasive species .... not round up

BTW I have been working in the field of ecological restoration for years.

[mia]

4. Roundup causes plants to die? It was designed to kill weeds - maybe way back then.

My experience with Round-Up was to kill the weeds that surrounded avocado seedlings in a South Florida grove in the mid-eighties.
So, Botany, just how much do you know or care about plants?

[Botany]

6. I have a b.s. in botany/ecology

.... a life long passion for the environment, and 20+ years doing ecological
restoration projects.

I get 2 gallon jug of glyphosate concentrate every 2 years and do the
environment a lot of good with small targeted doses of that chemical.

I only use it where I can be sure of protecting other plants and the
environment. It chelates to clay ..... aka soil and breaks down
with in days.

As per my plant knowledge I "know my stuff."

the source of the article has zero scientific validity

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http://wakeup-world.com/

[mitchtv]

5. it is used at a very high strength in Colombia

like 19 times stronger than permitted in the US if my memory serves me. Sounds dangerous.

[mia]

8. Colombians have been among the many victims of Monsanto.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2883297

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38205

TORONTO, Jun 16 (Tierramérica) - U.S.-funded aerial spraying of coca plantations in Colombia near the Ecuador border has severely damaged the DNA of local residents, a new study has found.

Blood samples from 24 Ecuadorians living within three kilometres of the northern border had 600 to 800 percent more damage to their chromosomes than people living 80 km away, found scientists from the Pontificia Catholic University in Quito, Ecuador.

The border residents who were tested had been exposed to the common herbicide glyphosate -- sold by the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto under the brand Roundup --during a series of aerial sprayings by the Colombian government begun in 2000, part of the anti-drugs and counterinsurgency Plan Colombia, financed by Washington.

The Ecuadorians suffered a variety of ailments immediately following the spraying, including intestinal pain and vomiting, diarrhoea, headaches, dizziness, numbness, burning of eyes or skin, blurred vision, difficulty in breathing and rashes, says the study, which is to be published in the journal Genetics and Molecular Biology.

[Blue Owl]

10. Roundup is inside all of us -- kinda like Reagan...

n/t

[librechik]

11. 28 associated Human Health affects, including liver cancer

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate

[Snake Alchemist]

12. For those worried about glyphosate

Glyphosate is rated least dangerous in comparison to other herbicides and pesticides, such as those from the organochlorine family.[37] Roundup has a United States Environmental Protection Agency? (EPA) Toxicity Class of III (on a I to IV scale, where IV is least dangerous) for oral and inhalation exposure.[38] It does not bioaccumulate, and breaks down rapidly in the environment.[39]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency? (EPA) considers glyphosate to be relatively low in toxicity, and without carcinogenic effects.[40] The EPA considered a "worst case" dietary risk model of an individual eating a lifetime of food entirely from glyphosate-sprayed fields, and with residue levels remaining at their maximum levels, and concluded no adverse effects would exist under these conditions[40] In 2007, the EPA selected glyphosate for further screening for endocrinal disruptor effects, not because of suspected effects, but because glyphosate is a widely-used herbicide (the EPA has stated selection for screening does not itself imply risk).[41][42]



Now the other chemicals added to glyphosate may be problem.