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Monsanto's Roundup Devastating Gut Health, Contributing to Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteriaby Lisa Garber at Nation of Change
http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-s-roundup-devastating-gut-health-contributing-overgrowth-deadly-bacteria-1355762604
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Much of the public forgets the gut when it comes to warding off the flu and other more threatening diseases, but the gutand its army of beneficial bacteriaare essential in protecting us from harm. Thats why eating genetically modified and/or conventionally farmed food could be a direct assault on your own health. Most recently, research has shown that Monsantos herbicide, known as Roundup, is destroying gut health, threatening overall health of animals, people, and the planet significantly.
The journal Current Microbiology recently published a study that caught Monsantos Roundup herbicides active ingredient, glyphosate, suppressing beneficial bacteria in poultry specimens. Given that gut health is directly linked to chronic illnesses and overall health, this isnt exactly welcome news for people who cant always afford or who lack access to organic, locally grown food.
But it gets worse. While good bacteria died, highly pathogenic bacteria were unaffected by glyphosate. These pathogens include several strains of Salmonella and the class Colstridia, anaerobic bacteria known to be some of the deadliest known to us, including C. tetani (tetanus) and C. botulinum (botulin). Although botulin is used to ease overactive muscles and in Botox, Americas most popular cosmetic procedure, it takes but 75 billionths of a gram to kill someone weighing 75 kg (165 lbs).
A reduction of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract microiota by ingestion of glyphosate could disturb the normal gut bacterial community, the authors of the study wrote. Glyphosate, they added, could be a significant predisposing factor that is associated with the increase in Clostridia botulinum-mediated diseases by suppressing the antagonistic effect of these [good] bacteria on clostridia.
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"Monsanto's Roundup Devastating Gut Health, Contributing to Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria" (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2012
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. more from the link re: glyphosate
This is hardly the first time eyebrows have been raised over glyphosate. The toxic ingredient is also known for causing sterility in men, obesity, and Parkinsons and related diseases.
Finally, the researchers also noted that glyphosate can cause bacteria to genetically mutate with chronic exposure. And the food we eat, the animals we eat, and we ourselves are already victims of chronic exposure, which is partially why concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are today known for being hotbeds of botulism and other pathogens.
(Cattle in Ireland have already been victims of botulism thanks to contaminated poultry litter.)