FDA finds glyphosate weedkiller residues in nearly all grocery foods, but has spent years hiding test results from the public
Big Brother is looking out for you...NOT!
The KEY point here is all this exposure is Cumulative!..meaning if you start out eating one food with 6.5ppm (1.5ppm over allowable limits-wonder who figured that one out) and the other 2 foods have it too! you have tripled your exposure. Now, times that 3 times a day...365.?? days a year. It would seem, we could now plant YOU in the fields and no self respecting weed would go near you!
"The FDA insists that though it has discovered glyphosate residues on so many of the foods tested, these levels are low and are therefore not cause for concern. As such, they feel it is not in the public’s best interest to make their findings known."
"Tracey Woodruff, a professor at the University of California San Francisco’s School of Medicine, disagrees."
"“People care about what contaminants are in their food. If there is scientific information about these residues in the food, the FDA should release it,” she told The Guardian. “It helps people make informed decisions. Taxpayers paid for the government to do this work, they should get to see the information.”"
"Linda Birnbaum, toxicologist and director of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), warns that even low-level exposure to glyphosate can be very dangerous because we are exposed to many different sources of this chemical and its effects are cumulative."
"Many natural health advocates have spoken out about the FDA’s cover-up of its test findings and the fact that it took 40 years for them to start testing for glyphosate residue in the first place. (Related: Discover where glyphosate might be lurking at Glyphosate.news.)"
"These types of findings reinforce the need for us all to take responsibility for our own health and limit our exposure to glyphosate by purchasing or growing our own organic, pesticide-free fresh produce.""
The KEY point here is all this exposure is Cumulative!..meaning if you start out eating one food with 6.5ppm (1.5ppm over allowable limits-wonder who figured that one out) and the other 2 foods have it too! you have tripled your exposure. Now, times that 3 times a day...365.?? days a year. It would seem, we could now plant YOU in the fields and no self respecting weed would go near you!
"The FDA insists that though it has discovered glyphosate residues on so many of the foods tested, these levels are low and are therefore not cause for concern. As such, they feel it is not in the public’s best interest to make their findings known."
"Tracey Woodruff, a professor at the University of California San Francisco’s School of Medicine, disagrees."
"“People care about what contaminants are in their food. If there is scientific information about these residues in the food, the FDA should release it,” she told The Guardian. “It helps people make informed decisions. Taxpayers paid for the government to do this work, they should get to see the information.”"
"Linda Birnbaum, toxicologist and director of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), warns that even low-level exposure to glyphosate can be very dangerous because we are exposed to many different sources of this chemical and its effects are cumulative."
"Many natural health advocates have spoken out about the FDA’s cover-up of its test findings and the fact that it took 40 years for them to start testing for glyphosate residue in the first place. (Related: Discover where glyphosate might be lurking at Glyphosate.news.)"
"These types of findings reinforce the need for us all to take responsibility for our own health and limit our exposure to glyphosate by purchasing or growing our own organic, pesticide-free fresh produce.""
Previous comments... You are currently on page 2.
The plants pick up what ever is in the soil and it ends up "in" the fruits and vegetables.
Yes, the FDA should show the public their results and not treat us like Stupid Little People. No, glycophosphates are not particularly toxic. Yes, you should always was your produce.
from Matt Ridley's site:
"Yet almost everybody agrees that glyphosate is safe: the European Food Safety Authority, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the World Health Organisation, our government. Even at absurdly high concentrations, lab tests show it is only one-tenth as carcinogenic as coffee – and you ingest coffee, which you don’t roundup.
Just one rogue study, driven by an environmental activist working for a body called the International Agency for Research on Cancer, disagreed, but on the basis of cherry-picked data and elementary errors of interpretation. Yet these days, it’s not the evidence but the headline, or the tweet, that counts. By the time the rogue study’s flaws were known, activists had got to politicians."
Ironically, Monstanto, which invented glyphosate, may not mind much if roundup is banned. It is off-patent, so not very profitable. This may explain why the company has been curiously absent from the debate."
Jan
Your...
Vegetables.
This is a standard food preparation principle, people. Doesn't matter whether or not your food comes from an organic place or not.
(Please note that I am not excusing any lack of transparency, just that I get a little tired of all the food scares that are 99.9% eliminated by proper meal prep.)
What I have again searched for and yet again failed to find is a Bayer TV commercial that I only saw one time during the mid-70s.
It was obviously pulled due to complaints and perhaps Bayer had all the copies burned.
The commercial shows a bunch of kids on bicycles peddling toward the camera all singing~
"Here we go to school today,
To school today,
To school today!
Here we go to school today~
With medicines from Bayer!"
The camera then slowly sweeps over a whole bunch of different pills on a flat surface while a narrator speaks of how wonderful medicines from Bayer are.
I recall sitting agape before the TV while having a hard time believing what I was seeing.
Bayer Factor VIII - HIV - AIDS Genocide Plan
Bayer released HIV / AIDS tainted products to Europe for hemophiliac children after they knew it was tainted!
Drugs company Bayer realised their product had been contaminated with AIDS, so what did they do, they still sold it because they didn't want to lose money, and when the US officials found out, they knew they couldn't continue, so they sold it to the Europeans, with full knowledge of US officials.
Now another drugs company, Baxter got caught shipping vaccines with live bird-flu virus in them to 18 countries, and when caught out were calling it an 'accident' !!!
Side note my daughter contracted Hep C from Baxters Gammagard when she was Ten and fighting an acute case of AIHA autoimmune hemolytic anemia contracted from a strep throat drug 1 in 100000 risk. See received $65,000 in a class action suit the money was then wasted at Kansas University being indoctrinated to the left. She is a well intentioned young woman working in the school system.
They got some splaining to do in Europe.
Bayer AG merges.
All these chemicals that are applied to everything we touch, breath, or eat IS cumulative. Everything does not get automatically washed out of the body.
I found last year that by adding back minerals (mygrowminerals.com)(I think), I had less weeds and bugs. I never weeded the garden and still got a nice crop. With the wackie weather and a late planting I was still harvesting in November.
Hopping to do the same this year.