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  • Second Jury Finds Monsanto Glyphosate Causes Cancer

    A second U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer. The case was only the second of some 11,200 Roundup lawsuits to go to trial in the United States. The jury from the first trial eight months ago issued a $289 million verdict. Johnson vs Monsanto.  

    The previous jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.  (see internal documents from Monsanto revealed during court proceedings)

    Monsanto Co. continues to refuse to warn consumers of the dangers of its multi-billion-dollar product Roundup despite the world’s foremost authority on cancer—the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—listing glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in 2015.

    Quick Stats on Glyphosate

    • Glyphosate has contaminated our planet, and is now found in our children’s urine, mother’s milk, our bloodstreams, and our food and water. 
    • In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization found that glyphosate “is a probable human carcinogen”.
    • In July of 2017 the California State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added glyphosate to its prop 65 list of known carcinogens.
    • In October of 2017, after over 1 million Europeans requested a ban, 72% of the Members of the European Parliament voted to BAN glyphosate and EU Member states have refused to renew the license.
    • Four countries have banned glyphosate: Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina. 
    • Many U.S. school districts and cities have already discontinued the use of glyphosate.

    Glyphosate has been found in VACCINES: (5) vaccines were sent out for testing and came back positive for #glyphosate 

    #influenza shot for FLU 

    #MMR. Combo shot for Measles, Mumps, Rubella

    #TDap. Combo shot for Tetanus, Diphtheria, & Pertussis 

    #HepB. For Hepatitis B

    #Pneumococcal for pneumonia

    New Study Shows Link between herbicide and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    The noose is tightening on Bayer/Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide (commonly sold as  Roundup), as yet another epidemiological study has found a link between exposure to the herbicide and a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). See the abstract and key points below.

    This study is published as the jurors in the Roundup cancer litigation in the US are deliberating their verdict.

    Pesticide use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoid malignancies in agricultural cohorts from France, Norway and the USA: a pooled analysis from the AGRICOH consortium
    https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyz017/5382278

    Contaminated Foods

    There is NO level of safe glyphosate -Because glyphosate has been shown to bioaccumulate, and has been shown in the parts per trillion, to increase the growth of breast cancer cells, regardless of what the EPA and Monsanto say is NO safe level. http://www.stopsprayingnb.ca/resources/42.pdf

    GOOD NEWS

    Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced legislation March 15, 2019 to dramatically limit American children’s exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, in food. The bill would not only ban pre-harvest spraying of glyphosate on oats but also require the federal government to test foods popular with children for the herbicide, which has been linked to cancer.

    Key provisions in DeLauro’s bill include:

    • Prohibiting the spraying of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent on oats.
    • Lowering by 300-fold the permissible level of glyphosate residues on oats, restoring the legally allowed level to just 0.1 parts per million, or ppm.
    • Requiring the Department of Agriculture to regularly test fruits, vegetables and other foods routinely fed to infants and children for glyphosate residues

    Read more on this legislation at Sustainablepulse.com

    MORE RESEARCH RESOURCES:

    Why we must detox from Glyphosate

    Organic Foods Contaminated with Glyphosate

    Petition against Glyphosate :Glyphosate use poses a significant threat to the health of our planet and the people on it..it’s high time that the EPA prohibits the pre-harvest use of glyphosate on every farm across the country”https://buff.ly/2ybW4Dm

    RoundUp Toxicity is NOT just the Glyphosate

  • Monsanto Glyphosate Medical Implications

    Glyphosate herbicide, more commonly known as Roundup, is the world’s most commonly used herbicide. It is sprayed on everything from homeowner’s lawns to gigantic fields of “Roundup-Ready” genetically modified crops. Though ubiquitous, many research studies suggest that this weed-killing chemical is far from benign.

    This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5f19QGvds&t=80s.

    Learn How to DETOX from Glyphosate.

  • Public Demands Transparency & Action on Glyphosate-Contaminated Food and Vaccines

    The high-stakes game continues for Bayer AG and its deeply troubled investment Monsanto as they struggle to regain public trust and marketshare. For those who entered this ongoing saga at any point in the timeline recently, a quickening of events can be witnessed. For years people have been demanding food transparency with respect to glyphosate contamination from producer to regulator to retailer only to be pushed aside and ignored. It appears the pressure has now hit a critical mass and is beginning to fracture the old paradigm at its most vulnerable points.

    Almost a month out from the $289M San Francisco Roundup-cancer verdict and further lawsuits are continuing to pile on. As thousands line-up

    throughout the US seeking compensation and justice for their cancer allegedly being triggered by Roundup, a new legal angle has emerged and activated. It was last week the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) released their study promptly picked up by major media outlets globally. The group, having a long history of spotlighting the dangers of glyphosate, discovered amounts of the widely used herbicide in thirty-one out of 45 tested products. The glyphosate levels, found in popular oats, granolas and snack bars, have levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children. Shortly after EWG’s study findings were released, Reuters reported, “General Mills Inc has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit claiming the company failed to warn consumers about traces of the weedkiller glyphosate in its Cheerios cereals.”
    For a few years semi-regular reports have been published alerting consumers about concerning levels of glyphosate found in not only food products but within the vaccine supply given to infants and children. In the past the mainstream media has been silent, however it appears they no longer can be. Will media outlets have the courage to go further and report on how widespread glyphosate contamination has become? Will they begin to spotlight the numerous studies that do show glyphosate causes harm within the human body? 
    Source: EWG, from tests by Eurofin Analytical Laboratories

    New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s office posted a press release pressuring the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update the public on their two yeas of hidden testing surrounding glyphosate in everyday foods.

    Schumer stated, “I am making it known today that the federal government is in fact investigating this chemical, and I am here today to ask them to provide us all with an update on their work so that concerned parents and consumers can get the answers they seek.”

    The press release goes on to state, “…according to reports on Freedom of Information requests to the FDA and their own submission, that the agency has been testing food samples for the weed killer chemical glyphosate, but that the agency has not released any official update or final report to Congress or the public. In 2016, an FDA spokesman also confirmed the agency study of the chemical to media, but Schumer says he and others are still waiting on results.”

    Maybe Schumer has been a subscriber and reader of the weekly reports from Moms Across America who, in 2016, was demanding for multiagency transparency from US regulators as well as politicians after finding widespread glyphosate contamination in the vaccine supply. Nearly two years ago, MOM wrote,

    “Moms Across America has sent a letter on September 1, 2016 to the FDA, CDC, EPA, NIH, California Department of Health, and Senator Boxer requesting that they make it a priority to test vaccines for glyphosate, recall contaminated vaccines and for the EPA to revoke the license of glyphosate to prevent further contamination. “And in the meantime we call upon our lawmakers to rescind the mandate which forces parents to vaccinate their child in order to attend school, in light of extraordinary new evidence.”

    After not addressing MOM’s original request, a Freedom of Information Act request was sent
    for any and all information the FDA and CDC have exchanged or filed regarding glyphosate in vaccines. The agency’s responses contained redactions on approximately fifty percent of the pages from the FDA while many others were completely blank.

    How has Bayer AG-Monsanto navigated the controversy after their historic trial loss? Monsanto has continually went on record giving press statements defending their untested Roundup product. The company is holding the line claiming their product isn’t cancer-causing despite their internal emails and documents showing they have not done the proper testing. There are numerous studies showing glyphosate does cause harm. In addition,  a lab has done some of the first tests on the entire, synergistic Roundup formulation and reported their findings in early 2018. The researchers found that exposing plants and human cells to the components of Roundup formulations, both mixed and separately, showed “measured toxicity and human cellular endocrine disruption below the direct toxicity experimentally measured threshold.”

    Will Bayer AG simply try to erase all traces of Monsanto as the company’s reputation and failed agricultural technology goes up in smoke? Fox 2 Now St. Louis recently reported that during Bayer’s “Day One” transition of their newly acquire Monsanto division, their priority was to replace the “Monsanto” company signs with “Bayer: Crop Science Division.” 

    In the age of information, it may take more than a change a window dressing for generations of families to forget the growing evidence of Big-Tobacco-level underhandedness that led to illness, diseases and environmental poisoning at the hands of Monsanto. The bottom line is that Bayer AG, at the very least, must now immediately begin to start warning people that their Roundup formulations can cause cancer.

    For years people have been demanding food transparency with respect to glyphosate contamination from producer to regulator to retailer only to

    be pushed aside and ignored. It appears the pressure has now hit a critical mass and is beginning to fracture the old paradigm at its most vulnerable points. If the General Mills lawsuit is viable, will that open another avenue of legal flood gates to sue all other food producers with glyphosate-containing products? Why didn’t food producers proactively implement internal controls to detect and eliminate glyphosate in their products. Why didn’t the FDA do more to regulate the amount of glyphosate in the US food chain when it appeared to have multiple years of data? Where are the other politicians demanding the US regulatory agencies release their unredacted glyphosate testing results from common food products and vaccines.

    More Resources:

    Toxicity of Roundup/Glyphosate in Breakfast Foods

    Glyphosate in Vaccines

    Sign the Petitions Stop Roundup Sold and Sprayed

    Glyphosate Detox

  • Monsanto Knew the Toxicity of Roundup. Sign the Petitions to Eliminate Glyphosate.

    A jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.

    Monsanto Co. continues to refuse to warn consumers of the dangers of its multi-billion-dollar product Roundup despite the world’s foremost authority on cancer—the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—listing glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in 2015.

    For years Monsanto has claimed that there is no evidence that Roundup causes cancer, yet a mountain of testimony and documents was admitted during the trial. Johnson’s attorneys proved through testimony from Monsanto’s witnesses that company employees “ghostwrote” scientific articles and paid outside scientists to publish the articles in their name.

    Glyphosate + Surfactants = Cell Penetration and Damage, Including Cancerous Tumor Growth

    Internal documents revealed that a scientific adviser hired by Monsanto told the company that past testing for Roundup was insufficient because glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, was tested in isolation without the other chemical ingredients that make up the Roundup formulation. It’s not just glyphosate that makes Roundup so toxic.

    “Many of these confidential Monsanto documents were unsealed for the first time,” co-lead counsel David Dickens said. “They show that Monsanto knew that its testing was insufficient and that there was a synergistic effect when glyphosate is combined with surfactants which help the glyphosate penetrate both plant and animal cell walls.”

    More Than 4,000 Lawsuits Are Pending

    Lee Johnson is one of more than 4,000 people from across the country to file suit against Monsanto in state and federal courts based on allegations linking Roundup to cancer.The next Roundup cancer trial against Monsanto is also a state case and is scheduled to occur in October in St. Louis, Missouri. 

    Now that the judge in the federal multi-district litigation (based in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco), has accepted several of the plaintiffs’ experts to testify, trial dates for the federal bellwether cases should be announced in the next couple of months.

    Quick Stats on Glyphosate

    • Glyphosate has contaminated our planet, and is now found in our children’s urine, mother’s milk, our bloodstreams, and our food and water. 
    • In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization found that glyphosate “is a probable human carcinogen”.
    • In July of 2017 the California State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added glyphosate to its prop 65 list of known carcinogens.
    • In October of 2017, after over 1 million Europeans requested a ban, 72% of the Members of the European Parliament voted to BAN glyphosate and EU Member states have refused to renew the license.
    • Four countries have banned glyphosate: Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina. 
    • Many U.S. school districts and cities have already discontinued the use of glyphosate.

    Do you want to take ACTION and help create healthy families and communities? Sign these three petitions initiated by separate organizations that are fighting for the same mission to make our communities safer.

    -> Learn More about the Trial:  https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-trial-verdict

    -> WATCH the video of statements by Dewayne Johnson and his lawyers: https://www.facebook.com/abc7news/videos/10157005064847079/

    -> Learn More About Monsanto’s cover-up: https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/time-ban-monsantos-roundup-weedkiller-will-epa-act

  • How a courageous woman took on the chemical industry and raised important questions about humankind’s impact on nature.

    How a courageous woman took on the chemical industry and raised important questions about humankind’s impact on nature.

    Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity’s faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.

    Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or FWS, was uniquely equipped to create so startling and inflammatory a book. A native of rural Pennsylvania, she had grown up with an enthusiasm for nature matched only by her love of writing and poetry. The educational brochures she wrote for FWS, as well as her published books and magazine articles, were characterized by meticulous research and a poetic evocation of her subject.

    DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed nature’s vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, whose effectiveness is limited to destroying one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once. Developed in 1939, it first distinguished itself during World War II, clearing South Pacific islands of malaria-causing insects for U.S. troops while being used as an effective delousing powder in Europe. Its inventor was awarded the Nobel Prize.

    …

    Silent Spring

    Silent Spring took Carson four years to complete.The book’s most haunting and famous chapter, “A Fable for Tomorrow,” depicted a nameless American town where all life—from fish to birds to apple blossoms to human children—had been “silenced” by the insidious effects of DDT. It meticulously described how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage. A single application on a crop, she wrote, killed insects for weeks and months—not only the targeted insects but countless more—and remained toxic in the environment even after it was diluted by rainwater. Carson concluded that DDT and other pesticides had irrevocably harmed animals and had contaminated the world’s food supply.

    First serialized in The New Yorker in June 1962, the book alarmed readers across America and, not surprisingly, brought a howl of indignation from the chemical industry. “If man were to faithfully follow the teachings of Miss Carson,” complained an executive of the American Cyanamid Company, “we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth.” Monsanto published and distributed 5,000 copies of a brochure parodying Silent Spring entitled “The Desolate Year,” relating the devastation and inconvenience of a world where famine, disease, and insects ran amok because chemical pesticides had been banned. Some of the attacks were more personal, questioning Carson’s integrity and even her sanity.

    …
    Vindication

    Her careful preparation, however, had paid off. Anticipating the reaction of the chemical industry, she had compiled Silent Spring as one would a lawyer’s brief, with no fewer than 55 pages of notes and a list of experts who had read and approved the manuscript. Many eminent scientists rose to her defense, and when President John F. Kennedy ordered the President’s Science Advisory Committee to examine the issues the book raised, its report thoroughly vindicated both Silent Spring and its author. As a result, DDT came under much closer government supervision and was eventually banned. The public debate moved quickly from whether pesticides were dangerous to which ones were dangerous, and the burden of proof shifted from the opponents of unrestrained pesticide use to the manufacturers.

    The most important legacy of Silent Spring, though, was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Carson had made a radical proposal: that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed.

    One of the landmark books of the 20th century, Silent Spring’s message resonates loudly today, even several decades after its publication. And equally inspiring is the example of Rachel Carson herself. Against overwhelming difficulties and adversity, but motivated by her unabashed love of nature, she rose like a gladiator in its defense.

  • Action Alert: Tell the EPA “NO” more 2,4-D and glyphosate

    Action Alert: Tell the EPA “NO” more 2,4-D and glyphosate

    ACTION ALERT! Add your name to the petition here. 
    Excerpt of the proposal from the Center for Food Safety: 

    The EPA is proposing a dramatic expansion of the use of the toxic pesticide Enlist Duo. Enlist Duo is a mixture of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup®) and the even more toxic 2,4-D (part of the chemical mixture Agent Orange). If approved the pesticide cocktail could be used on corn, soy, and cotton in 34 states — up from 15 states where the product was previously approved for just corn and soy.

    The rush to expand the use of Dow AgroSciences’ toxic chemical concoction of glyphosate and 2,4-D for use on the next generation of genetically engineered crops comes only one year after the EPA asked a court to revoke its previous approval due to the unknown risks it posed, and now EPA suddenly wants to more than double the number of states where the pesticide can be used.

    …Major news outlets are saying these crops are a serious cause for concern. According to the Los Angeles Times: “Just as the nation must stop overusing antibiotics if it hopes to slow the emergence of resistant infections, it must do the same with herbicides and genetically modified crops. The way to deal with so-called superweeds isn’t by escalating the arms race against them.”

    This GE crop system ensures a toxic spiral of ever-increasing chemical use on our land and food and poses a grave threat to our health. 2,4-D has been linked to major health problems including cancer, Parkinson’s disease, endocrine disruption, and reproductive problems. This approval would trigger millions of more pounds of toxic herbicides dumped onto our land. Even USDA admitted it could be as much as 176 million pounds per year!

    Tell the EPA to reject this massive expansion in the use of Enlist Duo!

  • Aspartame now being marketed as natural sweetener, name changed to ‘AminoSweet’

    Aspartame now being marketed as natural sweetener, name changed to ‘AminoSweet’

    The world’s most toxic artificial sweetener is undergoing a major identity overhaul in an effort by its manufacturer to cover up the chemical’s sordid history, as well as to keep people buying it. “AminoSweet,” in case you see it on food labels, is really just plain-old aspartame, the same synthetic sweetening agent that’s repeatedly been linked to causing seizures and organ damage, among other physical harm.

    Since acquiring ownership of the aspartame business from Monsanto in 2000, Japanese drug company Ajinomoto has been working hard to rebrand and recreate aspartame in order to boost its acceptance by the public. One of these is renaming it to sound more “natural,” even though it’s still the same old chemical that’s also sold under names like “NutraSweet” and “Equal.”

    While sugar has its own health drawbacks, it’s nowhere near the level of aspartame’s threat. The list of aspartame’s health effects is lengthy, including serious damaging effects like brain lesions, lymphoma, leukemia, and other forms of cancer, not to mention fetal deformities and even weight gain – that’s right, consuming aspartame instead of sugar can still make you fat. Just remember this: buyer beware.

    Sources:

    OrganicAndHealthy.org

    JanetHull.com

    NIH.gov

    NIH.gov