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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:44 PM Jun 2014

New Study Finds Roundup Herbicide To Be 125X More Toxic Than Regulators Claim

A new report has actually found that Roundup, manufactured by Monsanto, is way more poisonous than ever thought. Many countries have banned this toxic cocktail – why not the US?

Roundup is one of the biggest selling herbicides sold around the world. Many studies in the past (i) have reported links to a range of diseases such as cancer, kidney disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, birth defects and many more. It is also blamed for the catastrophic loss to the bee population.

Its main ingredient is glyphosate and many countries have banned its use. Russia have recently gone one step further and actually taken moves to classify using such products to damage the population as ‘acts of terrorism’. The US still allows it to be sold and used in vast quantities.

However, a new study published in the journal Biomedical Research International (ii) states that Roundup herbicide is 125 times more toxic than its active ingredient glyphosate studied in isolation. This is shocking.


http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2014/05/new-study-finds-roundup-herbicide-125x-toxic-regulators-claim.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955666/

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New Study Finds Roundup Herbicide To Be 125X More Toxic Than Regulators Claim (Original Post) MindMover Jun 2014 OP
Since it's a study the paid posters will disagree with, expect to be "wooed" villager Jun 2014 #1
Of course, the hubris around here is astounding .... MindMover Jun 2014 #2
That shit is nuclear war in a bottle on plant and animal life. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #3
Be careful not to agree too much with me ... MindMover Jun 2014 #4
What you say! truedelphi Jun 2014 #5
Careful truedelphi ... you could be banned for this statement...nt MindMover Jun 2014 #6
May I just say, Duh. nt WhiteTara Jun 2014 #7

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
2. Of course, the hubris around here is astounding ....
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:48 PM
Jun 2014

that is why I included a link to the government study

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
5. What you say!
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:08 PM
Jun 2014

RoundUp was discovered in investigations by Don Huber to destroy the nutritional value of the soils. It is after all, a chelating agent.

It zaps the soils of many different vitamins and minerals.

The Monsanto apologists are able to say with a straight face that then all the farmer needs to do is to augment their soil with fertilizers to restore the value to the soil.

But the whole point of RoundUp was that it would make things simpler for the farmer, not harder.

the other way the farmer loses is that once the soil is destroyed, then vomitoxin, fusarium and other nasty molds and fungal materials descend on the crop.

Then the farmer finds out that he or she is not able to sell the crop for a decent price.

And the ability to export his crop is also lost,as foreign officials care a lot about their populace, and they do not want this American crap in their countries.

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