Three months ago, my friend asked me what I knew about glyphosate and I had to reply, “Not much, except that it's a problem”. There are hundreds of things a person could write about glyphosate ─ I am simply sharing some of the information I’ve learned since then.
We will not discuss whether it causes cancer ─ OF COURSE IT DOES! Anything which doesn’t have a sticker on its bum stating “Made by Mother Nature” causes cancer, when used in sufficient quantities.
G is a poison, so right there we’re off to a bad start:
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Perhaps you’ve read recently that glyphosate has been detected in over 90% of US residents’ urine. If you’ve ever wanted to use the word “ubiquitous” now is the time!
What put glyphosate into the Modern-Day-Problems Hall of Fame is its partnering with genetically modified crops which aren’t killed by it … maimed, yes, but not killed outright.
GLYPHOSATE (IUPAC name: N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) (pronounce like cliff-oh-skate) is a systemic organophosphate herbicide C3H8NO5P used to control herbaceous and woody weeds especially on croplands.
G was first synthesized in 1950 and then patented in 1964 as an industrial chelator for clearing pipes of unwanted metals accumulation, such as calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc.
In 1970 Monsanto discovered its effectiveness as an herbicide, patented its use to kill weeds, and brought it to market in 1974 under the brand name Roundup (keep in mind that Roundup has other active ingredients, with G the most important).
Unlike “Ortho Weed B Gon” not harming your lovely grass, Roundup is pretty much slash and burn. Think: Attila the Hun, with hemorrhoids.
Later, the chemists at Monsanto figured if you could make your food crop “immune” to the effects of G, you wouldn’t have to be careful where you spray it. Easy‑peasy!
In 1996, genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans resistant to Roundup became commercially available, followed by Roundup Ready corn in 1998. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn (maize), canola, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa. *Wikipedia
They’d like to do wheat too, but there are too many international markets which would reject GM wheat. Please note that the farmers using this system have to buy Monsanto’s patented seeds. Nice.
This post will quote three individuals several times: SENEFF, HUBER, GILLAM.
Carey Gillam wrote Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science (2017).
Don Huber, PhD is quoted from an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Stephanie Seneff wrote Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment (2021)
Stephanie Seneff Is probably the leading expert on glyphosate – AS AN OUTSIDER (i.e. not an evil scientist who’s signed a pact with the devil). Here is how she got interested in the topic:
It's really just been a decade of learning everything I could about glyphosate. I got very fascinated with the chemical very early on. When I first heard about it I just, basically, dropped everything else I was doing because I was so confident that I had found the answer to the autism epidemic. That was the thing I was looking for. And that was back in 2012, I guess, that I heard this two-hour lecture by Don Huber, Ph.D., and it just really changed my focus entirely. I already understood the symptoms of autism, a very complex disease, lots of gut problems and mineral issues and it all came together with his lecture. Overnight, I just started poring over all the papers I could find.
Shortly after that I found [Gilles-Éric] Séralini's paper, which had not yet been retracted at that time. But it was retracted and later republished, the paper by Séralini, a French toxicologist who had shown that very low doses of glyphosate over the lifespan of a rat could cause a lot of damage. And he pointed out that after three months everything looked good, so it's a slow kill. This is one thing I emphasize in my book. Glyphosate is subtle and that's really a huge problem. We have diabetes, obesity, autism, and Alzheimer's. It's a long, long list, all the gut problems. Tons and tons of papers coming out lately on the gut.
We didn't notice the gut back in the day because the gut was working fine. We didn't realize those microbes were so important for our health. The microbes are being very much disturbed by the chronic poisoning with glyphosate and then the gut becomes a central starting point for many, many diseases, including neurological diseases and arthritis. And so when you see that disruption of the gut and you realize glyphosate can cause exactly the things that we're seeing, and I have a whole chapter on the gut in my book.
“WE DIDN'T NOTICE THE GUT BACK IN THE DAY BECAUSE THE GUT WAS WORKING FINE.” Never forget this statement. Our natural digestive system, designed by the Great Author of Life, fed with unadulterated foods, worked just fine, for thousands of years.
Here is Don Huber’s trade review of her book:
“Anyone who wants to understand a root cause of the massive epidemics of chronic diseases we are experiencing―from autism to non-alcoholic fatty liver and 30+ other devastating diseases rampant in today’s society―can find the answers in Toxic Legacy. Dr. Seneff is to be complimented in her comprehensive, in-depth connection of the dots from glyphosate through the myriad biochemical and physiological processes altered, to the tragic consequences from the indiscriminate application of the Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides. The complex chemical perturbations are presented in an easily understood manner, and the systems are well documented. Her ‘relaxed’ writing style makes for easy reading and ready comprehension of this important information.” *Don M. Huber, professor emeritus, Purdue University and retired colonel, US Army, Medical Intel
Her book is gratifying both to the layperson and the expert – an admirable achievement.
HOW IT WORKS
The core reason G kills is by interfering with the Shikimate Pathway, a metabolic cascade of molecular events which produces various “ingredients of life”. This metabolic pathway does not occur in humans or complex animals, so the “scientists” declared it safe in this regard.
As researchers discovered and contemplated the means by which some few plants and simple organisms were unaffected by G ─ and as the technology became available ─ they began genetically altering food crop plants to also become unaffected, leading to the “Roundup Ready” crops. My kindergarten understanding is that they replaced a glycine amino acid with an alanine amino acid at a critical juncture in the architecture of an intermediate enzyme in the pathway cascade.
So, things are really humming along, and many bright people are feeling very clever indeed. Maybe a bit too good to be true? Full disclosure: Here’s my attitude toward genetic engineering:
Let’s read some excerpts from Dr. Mercola’s interview with Don Huber about the life dynamics of GM crops sprayed with Roundup:
HUBER INTERVIEW
Huber: What you have to do is realize what an herbicide is, or a pesticide. They are metal chelators, in other words they are able to immobilize specific nutrients. That’s how they perform their function as a pesticide, by immobilizing an essential nutrient that is required or kind of keyed for a specific enzyme.
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Huber: We have those herbicides and pesticides that are quite specific just for a particular essential micronutrient like copper, zinc, iron, or manganese.
Glyphosate is very unique and was first patented as a chelator by Stauffer Chemical Co. in 1964, because it could bind with ANY POSITIVELY CHARGED CATION. If you look at the essential minerals for plants, you see calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper, iron, manganese, zinc, and all of those other critical transition elements as well as structural components for some of them.
So, G interferes with the chemical behavior of numerous essential metals. Doesn’t sound very laser‑focused to me.
Huber: The glyphosate – even in that herbicide tolerant plant, that Roundup-ready plant – still has an impact on 25 or 26 other enzymes, because it’s also chelating or immobilizing critical micronutrients. Those cations that are required as the keys to turn on those physiologic engines that make that organism or plant really function.
In our genetic engineering technology, we do nothing to reduce the chelating ability. We only provide an alternative pathway for that plant to survive the application of this toxic chemical being applied to it.
More broad interference. Probably not in the promotional brochures.
Huber: Well, it is well documented that the nutritional efficiency – just having that foreign gene inserted – reduces the capability of that plant to take up nutrients and to translocate nutrients. Then when you apply the chemical, you have a further compounding effect in reducing the efficiency of the plants…
“Reduce the efficiency of plants…” Mein Gott in Himmel-!!!!!
Huber: It’s been demonstrated that you reduce the uptake and efficiency of iron by 50 percent; of manganese that’s critical for liver function and immune response by 80 percent. But then if you look at the translocation from roots to shoot, you also have a reduction in zinc and all three of those critical elements of 80 to 90 percent. Greatly compromised is the nutritional efficiency, as well as the ability of that plant to accumulate and to store those nutrients not only for its own use, but also for us and for our animals’ nutrition in that process.
Yeah, let’s ruin the nutritional benefits of our food supply so we don’t have to pick so many weeds anymore. (Oh, by the way, due to overuse of G leading to the development of superweeds, 90% of Georgia cotton is now hand-weeded).
Huber: That pesticide is still loaded in the plant. Not only are you getting a compromised plant from a nutritional quality perspective, but you are also getting toxic residues of the very herbicide that was used to provide a supposedly more efficient and more cost-effective plant. You’re compromising your own health.
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Huber: Glyphosate, of course, is very unique and it’s systemic in the plant, so it accumulates in most growth points.
Mercola: Oh, so it’s not just on the surface?
Huber: No. That’s going to be within the plant.
Um, yes, you’re eating this shit.
Huber: The quality of the food is almost always related to the quality of the soil. The most foundational, vital, critical components of the soil are the microorganisms that are thriving there…
We also have those microorganisms for legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, or any of the other legumes that can fix up to 75 percent of their actual nitrogen for protein in amino acid synthesis that actually comes from the air through the microorganisms in the soil.
Glyphosate is extremely toxic to all of those organisms. What we see with our continued use and abuse of this powerful pesticide, this powerful weed killer is it is also totally eliminating many of those organisms from the soil. We no longer have the same balance that we used to have.
Since we're destroying the plants, we might as well destroy the soil while we're at it.
Huber: This is where you have the Clostridium botulinum in the intestinal tract. It’s a common soil organism everywhere. But all of a sudden, we’re seeing cases now, especially in dairy and other situations, where the animals are dying and becoming impaired from the botulism toxin from the Clostridium in the intestinal tract, and rumen in the stomach. That normally didn’t occur before, because you have all of those organisms that provided the natural biological control.
Because, Mr. Scientist, Mother Nature is far more complex than swapping out glycine for alanine. Here is Monsanto being praised for diversity in its workforce. They should have been concentrating on diversity in the soil and gut microbes.
So, we end up degrading the nutritional quality of these food crops, in a MAJOR and FUNDAMENTAL way, plus we are now ingesting a POISON which is handy for removing zinc and magnesium (et al) from industrial pipes. Sidenote: one of the most effective means of avoiding Covid illness was/is supplementing with zinc.
Our foods are becoming simulacra of foods – they walk like a duck, they talk like a duck, but they ain’t no duck!
SENEFF BOOK
Here is Stephanie Seneff introducing herself in her book Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment:
I am a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, One of the most innovative research universities in the world. I have earned four degrees from MIT: a Bachelor of Science in biophysics, and a Master's, an Engineer's, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science. For over four decades I've worked at the intersection of human biology and computers. For my PhD thesis, I developed a computational model for the human auditory system. In my decades of research at MIT, I have published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles on everything from auditory modeling, conversational computer interfaces, and second language learning, to geophysics, gene structure prediction, toxicology, and human health and disease.
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Since 2008, I have brought my expertise in statistical analysis, computational modeling, and biology to investigate the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxicants on human health, including Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disorders, immune dysfunction, and neurological disorders. I have now published more than three dozen peer‑reviewed scientific papers on health‑related topics. I have been researching, writing about, and lecturing on glyphosate for nearly a decade. The book you hold in your hands is a culmination of that research.
We will now read some excerpts from her book.
Remember her earlier comment “we didn’t worry about the gut back then …”
In 2018, a team of scientists examined trends over time of the pH of the Infant gut, going back to the 1920s. The researchers' working hypothesis Was that something in the modern environment was causing Bifidobacteria to become less able to dominate the infant gut microbiome, particularly in wealthier countries. In 2021 scientists revealed that B. infantis strains with a complete capacity to metabolize milk oligosaccharides are now exceptionally rare in the guts of infants in the United States. In 1913, the infant gut was an "almost pure culture" of Bifidobacterium.
Glyphosate was introduced into the food chain in 1975, and genetically engineered Roundup Ready crops were introduced in the mid-1990s. Bifidobacteria are among the most sensitive to glyphosate of all microbes that have been studied … Loss of B. infantis in breastfed infants leads to chronic enteric inflammation during a critically important immunological training window … the increased use of antibiotics, as well as the increased practice of formula-feeding also contribute to the loss of Bifidobacteria.
Humans are caught in a vicious cycle. Most infant formula is contaminated with glyphosate … Feeding soy formula to an infant is a triple whammy: The soy itself is an endocrine disruptor, the formula does not contain breast milk's rich glycoproteins that maintain healthy mucins and support the growth of B. infantis, and the glyphosate in the soy disrupts the microbiome, further weakening its protective barrier.
Remember “soy” because we will discuss it later.
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So, good bacteria are debilitated by G. Now she mentions how some nasty bacteria have changed to accommodate its presence:
One factor that influences the balance and health of the microbiome is the degree to which different species of bacteria can protect themselves from glyphosate. Bacteria have developed several clever strategies for acquiring resistance to glyphosate. Some are naturally resistant. Their version of EPSP synthase is not adversely affected by glyphosate. For example, Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which has become a widespread problem in hospitals, possesses a form of EPSP synthase that is insensitive to glyphosate. Other species with a more sensitive version of EPSP synthase have evolved to vastly overproduce EPSP synthase in order to compensate for its low activity. Other bacteria are even able to break down glyphosate through specialized enzymes and use it as a source of nutrients.
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Other microbes have developed resistance by perfecting genes that can metabolize glyphosate. This is an "ideal" solution from the microbe's perspective, because it destroys the glyphosate in the process. For example, a strain of the infection-causing bacteria Pseudomonas is among the very few known species that can fully metabolize glyphosate. This could be a factor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa's emergence as a major problem in hospitals. On the other hand, a microbe that can metabolize glyphosate may well benefit its host by clearing glyphosate from the body. We simply don't know. We don't understand enough about the implications of tinkering with biological systems in this way.
“We simply don’t know.”
Dear reader, I put it to you – if Stephanie Seneff doesn’t know, NOBODY KNOWS. And, as per usual, so‑called scientists favored by the cabal don’t care!
Next:
In 2019, an international team of scientists discovered that antibiotics interfere with a signaling mechanism in the lungs that launches the first immune response to flu infection. Mice given antibiotics have a worse outcome when infected with the influenza virus. However, and this is significant, a fecal transplant from a mouse that has not been exposed to antibiotics restores gut health and increases lung resilience against the flu in a mouse that has been infected with the influenza virus … Chronic exposure to glyphosate, an antibiotic, may make humans more susceptible to the flu and other respiratory infections, including COVID-19.
In 2010 G was patented as a limited use antibiotic (Monsanto). It’s complicated, but let’s just remember what antibiotic means: anti – against … biotic – life. This is why I put the definition of poison at the beginning. This is big pharma’s mentality. Cancer is a good example: either poison, cut or burn. Not nurture, love, and avoid toxins to begin with.
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More “behind the scenes” with G:
The human gut and the Earth's soil have so much in common. Both depend on diverse species of microorganisms to function properly. The rhizosphere teems with bacteria, fungi, and other organisms too small to see without a microscope. Just like gut microbes, some soil microbes are keenly sensitive to glyphosate.
… A 2017 study on genetically modified glyphosate-resistant soy plants demonstrated that glyphosate reduced nitrogen-fixing capacity in the root nodules. And glyphosate's toxicity to soil bacteria makes it harder for Roundup Ready plants to take up manganese, even when manganese is plentiful in the soil. The roots of glyphosate-resistant soybean and corn treated with glyphosate can also become heavily colonized by a pathogenic fungus, Fusarium, compared to controls.
Disrupting the shikimate pathway in plants can also diminish their capacity to fix carbon and reduce nutrient density … Many of the complex molecules that are derived from the shikimate pathway are important for plant defense against stressors. These molecules, such as the polyphenols and flavonoids present in colorful fruits and vegetables, are also important antioxidant defenses that benefit both the plants and the humans who consume them … Research has shown that glyphosate significantly alters the content of foods derived from exposed plants … Plant photosynthesis is also affected negatively by glyphosate. Roundup Ready soybeans experience yellowing (chlorosis) from glyphosate, caused by impaired photosynthesis because glyphosate disrupts the synthesis of chlorophyll.
“… impaired photosynthesis”?????? Are you kidding me? If anything could qualify as manna from heaven, it would be photosynthesis, whereby the light from the sun creates nutritional substances. So now we’re going to improve agriculture by impairing photosynthesis? I’m going to back to bed; I’ll see you tomorrow.
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Now she mentions CRISPR and the glycine-alanine switcheroo. Please read this carefully, through to the punchline:
CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a powerful new gene editing technology that allows scientists to easily and precisely edit the DNA of any genome. For the development of CRISPR, Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
… CRISPR is a powerful tool, but we don't yet understand exactly how it works, or what unintentional consequences it might provoke in a cell. Many bioethical issues are also associated with its use.
In 2018, researchers from DowDuPont applied CRISPR to develop crop resistance to glyphosate. The DowDuPont team of 12 researchers first examined the genetic sequence of several different versions of EPSP synthase drawn from a variety of glyphosate resistant weeds and microbes. They observed that the second glycine in the LGNAG peptide sequence plays a crucial role in glyphosate susceptibility. Namely, anytime that second glycine is replaced with something else, the enzyme is protected. The researchers then made tweaks to the DNA code to produce seven different EPSP variants of maize. In all seven variants they started by substituting alanine for the second glycine in the sequence.
To fully succeed, the team had to make other modifications to the enzyme in order to increase the size of the PEP binding site, which had shrunk because of alanine's extra methyl group. They found various ways to accomplish this, modeled after successful glyphosate-resistant mutant weeds. What this means in terms of seed development is disturbing: Chemical companies can use CRISPR technology to create designer variants of the plant's original EPSP synthase in order to produce patentable glyphosate-resistant seeds that will not be considered GMO crops by regulators (because there was no insertion of a gene from a foreign species into the plant's genome). Unless we do something to prevent this, we can expect to see even more glyphosate used on our food crops in the future.
So, our beloved FDA (2022 budget $6.5 billion) will not declare GM crops to be GM crops because … because … oh, just mind your own business!
Over 90% of the populace always desires the labeling of GM crops/foods, when asked (asked disingenuously, of course). I’m getting a whiff of why some folks consider government to be a criminal enterprise.
Again, this is quite science-y, but I think you’ll recognize the acronym in parentheses:
A version of EPSP synthase where leucine, an essential amino acid, replaces proline at residue 101 was discovered by scientists in 2005. These researchers found it hard to explain how this alteration worked to suppress glyphosate, because it did not really disrupt the site where PEP binds to EPSP synthase. However, the researchers realized that leucine, unlike the original proline residue, crowded the glycine at residue 96. They suggested that somehow that might impact glyphosate more than PEP, without appreciating that the real reason is that glyphosate displaces glycine, not PEP. Ominously, this version of EPSP synthase is the natural one produced by the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which, as mentioned before, has become a major problem in hospitals due to its multiple antibiotic resistance. This staph bacteria's natural resistance to glyphosate affords it an advantage that allows it to flourish in the presence of glyphosate that kills off other bacteria.
MRSA!!!!! This is an in-your-face example of how an imbalance in microorganisms typically leads to a flourishing of the BAD varieties.
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More absolute horror:
We have been led to believe that glyphosate passes through the body quickly and is rapidly excreted in feces and urine, without accumulating in our tissues … In 1989, Monsanto researchers exposed bluegill sunfish to glyphosate and then used carbon radiolabeling to identify how much was present in the animals' tissues. At first, only 17 to 20 percent of the radiolabel could be identified as glyphosate. After the researchers used a digestive enzyme to break down the proteins into amino acids, 70 percent of the radiolabel could be tagged as glyphosate. The researchers concluded that the glyphosate was initially hidden because it "was tightly associated with or incorporated into protein".
This conclusion should send a chill down your spine. The glyphosate had been taken into the tissue of the bluegill and become part of it. The implication is that glyphosate becomes part of the tissues of all the species of animals and plants that are exposed to it. Although the incriminating results of this research were never made available to the public, my colleague, Anthony Samsel, obtained a copy of the unpublished study from the Environmental Protection Agency via a Freedom of Information Act request.
DuPont researchers have also conducted experiments with radiolabeled glyphosate involving chickens and goats. Scientists found glyphosate in tissue samples of both animals, as well as in the chickens' eggs. As with the bluegills, much of the glyphosate was at first hidden because it was incorporated into the animals' own proteins at the molecular level. It showed up only after the proteins had been broken down into their component amino acids, freeing up glyphosate as a separate molecule that could now be detected by the technology. Glyphosate wasn't a free molecule circulating in the tissue. It was an integral part of "Frankenstein" proteins that had replaced the animals' own.
Now we have the FDA’s also-ugly stepsister ─ the EPA (annual budget about $9.5 billion) – sitting on vital health information pertaining to what’s in the food we eat.
So, we’ve got the big G messin’ with plants, the soil, the good microbes, our digestive systems, certain of our bodily proteins, and Lord knows what else … Stephanie now comments on how it might damage brain function ─ you know, that thing which enables you to read this post:
So how is exposure to glyphosate affecting the brains of humans and other animals? There are three mechanisms for how glyphosate formulations and glyphosate itself could cause neuroexcitotoxicity in the hippocampus: by chelating manganese, making it unavailable as a catalyst for glutamine synthetase; by incorporating into glutamine synthetase in place of glycine at the ATP binding site; and by substituting for glycine as a neurotransmitter and overstimulating the NMDA receptors, causing the cell to take up excess glutamate. What's more, glyphosate also appears to suppress activity of acetylcholinesterase, operating in a way that is parallel to the neuronal damaging effects of organophosphate insecticides. While we still have a lot to learn about the exact mechanisms, it is clear from a growing body of scientific evidence that glyphosate harms the brain.
Well, don’t that just fry your grits!
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The following is one of the most succinct and heartfelt outlines of our society’s deranged relationship with the maintenance of health. Please share these four paragraphs ─ beautifully written and terrifying ─ far and wide. And please consider reading this outstanding book covering this complex topic:
I receive emails and letters from people around the world, every day. They write to share their stories with me. Some have so many food sensitivities and allergies that they struggle to find anything they can eat. Others describe strange and debilitating health conditions that have flummoxed their doctors for years. Parents of children with autism and other neurological disorders share their despondency and ask for my advice.
I am grateful for these letters. I'm heartened by the dogged determination people have to understand what's making them sick; by their eagerness to dive into complex science they never learned in school; and by the humility and openness it takes to change eating and lifestyle habits they may have had for decades. You're doing better than you think. Even your willingness to ask questions, and to read a book like this, is a step in the right direction. We are up against Goliath. Because the truth is that there are powerful forces at play that profit, enormously, from making people, including children, very sick. Glyphosate is a global threat, and we cannot be satisfied until it is banned worldwide. The agrichemical industry's persistent deniability of harm is nothing short of criminal. Manufacturing plants where glyphosate is being synthesized need to be shut down. Research dollars need to be spent on projects that investigate how to get glyphosate out of drinking water, out of rivers and oceans, out of soil, and out of our bodies. Once glyphosate is gone for good and its residues are no longer detected in our soil, food, water supply, and urine, we will know that we have won. It's time to change. We need solutions for producing food using renewable agriculture, practices that improve the soil year by year instead of contaminating it. We must never make the mistake we made with DDT and simply substitute glyphosate for other toxic herbicides.
I believe that glyphosate is the most dangerous environmental chemical we face today due to its unique mechanism of toxicity, careless application, and pervasive presence. But other toxicants are destroying our health and poisoning our planet, as well. These include aluminum, arsenic, bisphenols like BPA, fluoride, lead, mercury, phthalates, polyvinyl chloride, polyurethane, Teflon, styrene, and many others. And of course, there are other toxic herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides that are commonly used in agriculture As I've explained throughout this book, many of these chemicals work synergistically in a way that amplifies their toxicity. Sometimes the burden to the body is so great it results in infertility. Even when it doesn't, later generations can be harmed by exposures their parents or even their grandparents experienced when they themselves were young.
If you're like me, it's hard to fathom that entire industries, or even whole sectors of the economy, could be predicated on human sickness. It's simply hard to believe. Perhaps the most dissonant realization we must confront is that the health care sector is predicated on making and keeping people sick. When you follow the money, you realize that the pharmaceutical industry, and most of the medical establishment, make the bulk of their profits from treating symptoms of chronic illness. The pharmaceutical industry has experienced tremendous growth in the past 20 years; the research, production, and distribution of medication is so lucrative that it generates $1.25 trillion in revenue in a single year. Autoimmunity alone is a $108 billion industry. There is little incentive to identify and correct the root causes of chronic disease or empower people to keep from getting sick in the first place when there's so much profit to be made. Quite the opposite, in fact. The pharmaceutical industry thrives when America is unhealthy. Vibrant good health harms its bottom line.
Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment by Stephanie Seneff
THE OTHER BOOK
The other book I read is Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam (2017)
Carey wrote for the lay public, and I think you’ll enjoy her broad and thorough coverage (251 pages of text, with 39 pages of references).
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I will now paraphrase some of the points which especially impacted me, citing the pages on which they occurred (and adding some comments).
5 – The FDA and USDA generate annual reports about pesticide residues in our foods. They DO NOT test for glyphosate, declaring that everyone knows it’s safe. Yeah.
You’ve heard George Orwell’s quip, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them”.
I propose this quip: “Some ideas are so criminally insane that only a corrupt bureaucrat could support them”.
The following is a list of the pesticide residues tracked and reported on for infant formulas ─ just one food type:
24,25 – G disrupts the EPSP synthase enzyme, thus depriving a plant of essential building blocks. Since this metabolic process does not occur in mammals and birds, it is deemed safe. Furthermore, G affected both annual and perennial weeds, a sought-after characteristic.
51 – In 2008 the USDA (annual budget about $200 billion) ended its public reporting of pesticide and herbicide use, a program which had cost only $8 million a year.
52 – If you think you can avoid G by avoiding GM crops, I have some bad news for you. The ever‑clever “scientists” at Monsanto have convinced farmers to spray various non‑GM crops shortly before harvest for two purposes: To get a head start on killing weeds for the next season and also to kill the food crop itself to induce more uniform drying, to facilitate harvesting. This notably includes oats, barley, peas, lentils, dry beans, almonds, and more.
This violent mentality is diametrically opposed to the traditional nurturing attitude of the small farmer, who loved his land, loved his animals, and loved feeding his neighbors.
Gillam repeats the point found on page 5, and this time I quote directly:
64 ─ … it has long been the responsibility of the US government to track pesticide levels in food and, importantly, to determine whether residues, if present, are below danger levels. Both the USDA and the FDA have spent decades regularly surveying samples of the American food supply to look at levels of pesticide residues.
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With all that in mind ─ and considering that glyphosate has been the most widely used herbicide on the planet, and that it has been the top agrochemical in the United States over several years, and that it is commonly used in food production, and that it is sprayed directly onto many types of food crops ─ one might expect that it would be the priority in these residue sampling programs. After all, regulators routinely have looked for residues of other chemicals used far less in food production.
And yet the truth is this US regulators have spent decades not testing for glyphosate residues. Glyphosate stands out as the one key pesticide that regulators do not look for.
In my opinion, this is a marker of the cabal at work. This is a gigantic issue, involving gigantic bureaucracies, and the appropriate behavior is 100% stonewalled. Only the cabal can maneuver events to this degree. Even a cave man can see …
66 – Continuing this topic, the USDA balks at testing crops and foods for G because “it’s safe” and would be a waste of time. Monsanto chimes in, noting that to do so would be a “misuse of valuable resources”. Yet, a USDA division ─ the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) ─ tests for G in crops headed for foreign nations who insist on such standards! GIPSA was formed in 1994 and dissolved in 2017, the year Gillam’s book was published. Coincidence?
Even the US Government Accountability Office has chastised USDA for not testing for G. There is an ongoing tug of war over this. Again, the cabal has keen eyes on protecting this valuable poison which is making us all steady pharma customers.
71 – Quoting an environmental health professor and MD, Phillippe Grandjean, we learn that regulators determine safe pesticide levels by animal testing, one pesticide at a time. We are not animals, and we are exposed to hundreds of pesticides in combination. This is reminiscent of vaccine trials/tests: one at a time. Vaccines have NEVER been tested in combination.
77 – Gillam quotes molecular geneticist Michael Antoniou: “With increasing evidence from laboratory studies showing that glyphosate-based herbicides can result in a wide range of chronic illnesses through multiple mechanisms, it has become imperative to ascertain the levels of glyphosate in food and in as large a section of the human population as possible.”
“… multiple mechanisms” … a real Swiss army knife of death and destruction.
96, 97 – In March 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that G is a probable human carcinogen. Monsanto’s chairman said in protest, “glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides are among the most thoroughly tested and evaluated pesticide products in the world. Their 40-year history of safe use is supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health, crop residue and environmental databases ever compiled on any pesticide.”
“…residue … databases” … I’m guessing this includes the non-existent USDA database mentioned on pages 5 and 66.
I can’t help but hearing these words uttered in the hypnotic cadence of Frank Sinatra in the 1962 movie Manchurian Candidate:
169, 170 ─ In June 2016 the EU Parliament was preparing to authorize the use of G for another 15-year period (Why 15 years? Did I mention that bureaucrats are criminally insane?) Public disapproval was high, and they compromised, setting a 7-year sunset, prohibiting its use in public spaces (parks and such) and prohibiting its use for crop ripening.
(Yeah, the crop ripening decision required the brains God gave a goldfish).
190 – Gillam now writes about the “superweeds” which have developed resistance to G. Monsanto, of course, said this would never happen. One of the worst, Palmer amaranth, aka pigweed, can grow to 8 feet tall and has a stem so thick it can damage farm machinery.
190-192 – She explains how US farmers for many years had rotated crops religiously, to replenish the soil and discourage weed growth (the replenishing crops were less profitable). Herbicides were used with careful timing. With the advent of Roundup Ready crops, many got lazy and greedy, because you could just repeat the most profitable crop year after year, spraying it with G. (Not all “real” farmers have done this … we must not forget the rise in corporate farming … between 1935 and 2012 farm units fell from 6 million to 2 million, with total US acreage relatively stable). The depletion of soil issue has been kicked down the road and is not spoken of in polite company.
192 – Superweeds infested 33 million acres by 2010 and 70 million acres by 2016.
211, 212 – Florida citrus growers have been experiencing “citrus greening” since 2005, a crop ruining phenomenon whereby an imbalance of soil bacteria lets flourish a selection of harmful bacteria which interfere with nutrient uptake. We have already discussed such derangements. Florida’s 2004 orange production was 242 million boxes, but that of 2016 was only 81 million boxes, mostly due to “greening”.
The federal government has spent $200 million trying to solve the problem (as of 2017) all the while denying that G damages the soil. I’m just a city boy, but may I suggest … not spraying glyphosate??!!! (Did I mention that bureaucrats are criminally insane?)
224 – Jonathan Lundgren, a top USDA scientist, honored by President Obama in 2011, became embroiled in controversial findings about harms from another pesticide. His words are chilling:
There is a lot of fear in government scientists. If they don't fall into line, their science is torn apart and their personal lives are discredited. In my case, everyone that I cared about was either directly or indirectly attacked by the chain of command. Rules are selectively enforced to make the rogue scientist out to be a miscreant. Threats of criminal accusations are levied. These scientists are made an example of.
Of course, such ugly truths are much easier to believe since the vicious censorship and oppression of the Coronahoax Plandemic.
229, 230 – The EPA oversees the approval and use of over 16,000 pesticides. In 2013 a watchdog group discovered that most of these have been approved under “conditional” registration, an emergency fast-tracking which is meant to be used only rarely. The status includes promises of following up later with all the proper and required testing and studies. Of course, this is never done.
During this watchdog investigation it was learned that the head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, was communicating in large volume through a secret email account under the false name of Richard Windsor. She resigned. We don’t know if any of the other asshole DC bureaucrats who do the same thing have mended their ways.
232 – In 2016 the EPA was proposing to evaluate various formulations of glyphosate products, under the concern that other product constituents beside glyphosate were harmful, and especially, ingredients in combination. CropLife International, a trade association of agrochemical companies (lobbyists for the poison companies) were livid. How dare they! The EPA had always considered toxic substances singly – why start looking for adverse synergies now? Here is the full letter – dense with legalese and chemistry – but containing the logic of a two-year-old who doesn’t want to put on his shoes.
I can certainly recommend Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science (2017). By Carey Gillam
THE SOIL
We have discovered how G affects the soil and our alimentary canal – two critical universes that work unseen to nearly all of us. Here are some recent comments from Patrick Jordan at his Vaccine Fraud Substack about soil. Along with his multifaceted background, Patrick has farmed all his life, and lives on a farm neighbored by farms.
With no electronics available, and limited time working outside because it is Harvest season with probably a million parts per million of GMO grain dust, poisoned dirt dust, and unique pathogen spores adapted to each, I did what I haven’t done since I was in my 30’s ─ read more than one book at the same time.
There it is – “pathogens adapted to GMOs”. This is the derangement, the imbalance.
Here is part of a conversation with a farming neighbor (click to enlarge, full post here).
As with the Coleridge phrase “Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink” we’ve still got plenty of dirt, and always will – what we are gradually destroying and losing is fertile soil.
BANS
Here is a list of nations which have banned G (some are partial bans) followed by the source site, which gives more detail:
Argentina * Austria * Bahrain * Barbados * Belgium * Bermuda * Brazil * 8 Canada provinces * Colombia * Costa Rica * Czech Republic * Denmark * El Salvador * Fiji * France * Germany * Greece * India * Italy * Kuwait * Luxembourg * Malawi * Malta * Mexico * Netherlands * New Zealand * Oman * Portugal * Qatar * St. Vincent and the Grenadines * Saudi Arabia * Scotland * Slovenia * Spain * Sri Lanka * Sweden * Switzerland * Thailand * United Arab Emirates * United Kingdom * Vietnam
https://www.wisnerbaum.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/where-is-glyphosate-banned-/
Are they sissies? Are they just fusspots? Are they missing out on a good thing? Or are we in the US idiots being murdered by the cabal?
Here are two lists – a few nations with literacy rates higher than the US, and a few nations with lower infant mortality (US is 86 and 5.7):
Well, that’s awkward!
CORN AND SOY
As mentioned toward the beginning, what really made glyphosate a mega‑issue was its partnering with G‑resistant genetically modified crops, and corn and soybeans lead the category handily.
Also note that soybeans were not used for human consumption on a large scale until quite recently. It is continually sold as an important staple in Asia, but that is really not so.
Soybeans are an Asian plant used for centuries as a soil replenisher in crop rotation. Consumption was limited, and limited to whole bean ferments.
Soy. It is found in seemingly every prepared and processed food item available on the market. Whether it is soy protein, soybean oil, or soy lecithin, soy derivatives have become an almost universal additive in American food products. Commonly thought to be a healthy, protein-dense food, the soybean has been touted as a wonder victual capable of feeding the planet and stopping world hunger. Truth is, unfermented soy is one of the most harmful, toxic substances to ever become so predominant in the food chain. *Ethan Huff
Corn and soy are fed to farm cattle, and ever increasingly to the serfscattlegoy – you and me. Here are some of the many manifestations:
These are the infamous processed foods which overcrowd our grocery store shelves today. Cows, pigs, and squirrels will intuitively choose non‑GM over modified corn or soy, but we are not so perceptive. The obesity epidemic is not caused by watching television – it’s part of the war on humanity by the cabal. Here’s a quick example:
Posting link here.
(We both just learned a new Substacker to follow). Substack has the best writing on the internet nowadays, and good information is so vital to our survival. To research any topic using Substack’s store of knowledge enter:
site:https://substack.com/ (topic)
Also, use Yandex.com rather than the oh-so-evil Google.
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So, high fructose corn syrup is a horrible poison, used everywhere in our crap food supply. Soy is a horrible poison and hormone disruptor, used everywhere. Sugar is a horrible poison and now over half the US supply is from GM sugar beets. Are we seeing a pattern? Glyphosate poisoning is intimately tied to food poisoning, which is tied to the cabal’s project of debilitating the common citizen. Here’s a grid showing the massive increase in GM corn and soy (billions of dollars):
The increase in corn is importantly attributable to something other than food however: ethanol fuel used as a gasoline additive; and this is the last topic in this long post.
ETHANOL
We are told that ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is being made from corn in an effort to have a more sustainable fuel supply for our automobiles. Everyone knows this is idiotic. Nevertheless, more than ONE THIRD of our corn crops are devoted to this purpose. It’s this simple:
Pimentel does make another point. At the time of processing, he noted it takes 131,000 British Thermal Units (BTUs) to produce a gallon of ethanol. That is compared with approximately 77,000 BTUs that a gallon of ethanol can produce. Thus, Pimentel argues there is a substantial energy loss. *Ken Black 2023
Whilst researching this paper, I stumbled across a fascinating post, by another Substacker.
KNOCKING
Briefly stated: Internal combustion engines (ICE) are a dandy invention, but their fuel – gasoline ─ has a problem arising from quality issues: knocking.
In 1921 tetraethyl lead was discovered as an anti-knocking agent, and was then used for years, causing widespread lead poisoning. The industry LIED about these harms as long as they could, and you know the rest.
About 1979, the industry started using MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) to limit knocking. After two decades, its poisoning of water supplies could no longer be ignored.
There are two other known anti-knock agents. One is ETBE, but it’s expensive. The other is … wait for it … ETHANOL. In 2003 California was the first state to substitute ethanol for MTBE.
And, by the way, one more solution to knocking ─ known from the beginning ─ is to refine a higher grade gasoline (higher octane), but that also is considered too expensive by the criminal cabal who have owned the oil companies since old man Rockefeller was passing out dimes to street waifs.
I now assert that the whole “ethanol for a more sustainable fuel supply” is a grand fraud, whereby the oil companies have got the US government to subsidize their anti‑knock additive to save them money. I know little about cars and gasoline, but I know a lot about LIARS and LYING, and this scenario sounds about right.
Here’s the full post:
CORN AGAIN
Corn subsidies in the United States totaled $113.9 billion from 1995–2019. After the ethanol scam, probably the biggest corn scam is HFCS:
Regular cane sugar (sucrose) is made of two-sugar molecules bound tightly together – glucose and fructose in equal amounts. The enzymes in your digestive tract must break down the sucrose into glucose and fructose, which are then absorbed into the body.
HFCS also consists of glucose and fructose, not in a 50-50 ratio, but a 55-45 fructose to glucose ratio in an unbound form. Fructose is sweeter than glucose. And HCFS is cheaper than sugar because of the government farm bill corn subsidies. Products with HFCS are sweeter and cheaper than products made with cane sugar. This allowed for the average soda size to balloon from 8 ounces to 20 ounces with little financial costs to manufacturers but great human costs of increased obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.
Now back to biochemistry. Since there is there is no chemical bond between them, no digestion is required so they are more rapidly absorbed into your blood stream. Fructose goes right to the liver and triggers lipogenesis (the production of fats like triglycerides and cholesterol) this is why it is the major cause of liver damage in this country and causes a condition called “fatty liver” which affects 70 million people. The rapidly absorbed glucose triggers big spikes in insulin – our body’s major fat storage hormone. Both these features of HFCS lead to increased metabolic disturbances that drive increases in appetite, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia and more. *Mark Hyman, MD
Now that every day is Opposite Day in the US, we should amend the famous quote by Hippocrates to read, “Let food be thy poison, and let poison be thy food”.
PROTECTED
Recall, the USDAFDAEPA, or whatever their damn name is, refuse to report on the presence of the poison glyphosate. The same federal mandarins subsidize and promote the health‑ruining poison HFCS, along with the anti‑nutritious soy. These are interrelated phenomena. G is protected, because genetically modified corn and soy are firmly entrenched, and the “spray the crap out of everything” system is entrenched, and the unhealthy character of GM foods has big pharma all in a swoon, and there are piles of $$$ to be made, and … well, you get the idea.
Thank you for stopping by – I know this was long. God bless you and good luck in your own research and quest for the truth.
Final tidbit: You can probably help yourself by taking a tablespoon or two of glycine each day. I have begun this practice. It looks and tastes like granular sugar, so it’s not difficult to do.
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I'm one of those new glyphosate resistant humans. I drink it straight from the fridge and my housemates don't get upset.