While most people seem to know about how Round Up affects plants and other agricultural impact, often they are not so aware of how it affects people, and of course wild life.
Here is a new report linking the chemical to birth defects.
UPDATE: 31 August 2010:
"ROUNDUP READY POISONS CROPS & SOIL"
85% of all GM crops are genetically modified to tolerate Monsanto's "Roundup Ready (RR) herbicide. Promoted as being safe, it is now the world's most widely used herbicide.
2 senior US plant scientists now warn that RR poses a major threat to US food production:
Roundup Ready (RR) renders soil infertile.
It strips minerals & beneficial metals from plants, making them more prone to disease & less nutritious.
It promotes the growth of 4 soil fungi: Fusarium, Phythium, Rhizoctonia & Phytophthora, which can cause plant death.
It is toxic to good soil bacteria like rhiozbia, which fixes nitrogen.
It increases toxins in plants - a serious health risk for animals & humans. The toxins in straw from RR- exposed crops can be high enough to make cattle & pigs infertile.
Roundup also threatens all natural non-GM crops exposed to RR on the wind, or grown on soils sprayed with RR in previous years.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Institute of Science in Society 19.5.10
"Green HealthWatch" mag from www.greenhealthwatch.com
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May 14, 2010
Is Roundup based on petroleum? Perhaps Monsanto bought the raw materials from BP, the same company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that is causing huge amounts of oil to spread in the Gulf of Mexico. ...
Sep 23, 2009
US District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco found the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated environmental law by failing to take a "hard look" at whether "Roundup Ready" sugar beets ...
Dec 27, 2009
Since many genetically engineered crops were modified so that farmers could spray Roundup, or Glyphosate, to kill the weeds in their fields but not the crops themselves, the expectation was that less herbicide would be required. ...
Dec 01, 2007
According to this year's findings, GM canola found near to an oil extraction factory in Chiba prefecture was tolerant to both Roundup and Basta. As there is no GM canola variety currently available which has transgenes for both types of ...
May 29, 2007
Just like his Monsanto buddies that urge you to use RoundUp. All that does is increase your risk of cancer and give you bigger weeds to kill with more and more RoundUp. I'm packing some big guns here and you don't cross my corner. ...
