We’re the ‘Weeds’ for Monsanto Roundup Weed Killer
“Just
because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to kill you.” Such
a comment might be applied to the most widely used weed-killers on
Earth–Monsanto’s patented Roundup based on the systemic herbicide,
Glyphosate. Earlier this year the authoritative International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World health Organisation (WHO)
declared that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans. Scientific
studies have confirmed it. Now a new, peer-reviewed scientific study
over a two-year life span of test rats, clearly demonstrates that
consumption of even tiny amounts of Roundup or other
glyphosate-containing weed killers produces severe liver and kidney
damage and in some cases premature death.
The well-meaning
faceless bureaucrats over at the supra-national EU Commission in
Brussels refuse to even seriously consider such studies and classify as
“secret” a German government report from this past January because it
likely would show Monsanto’s dirty paw prints. All this does is once
more show the criminal conspiracy by Monsanto, the world’s leading
purveyor of Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO plants to use myths,
lies and any sort of corruption of science to ram their poisons down the
throats of our food animals and of us human beings.
Shocking new Study
On August 25, the international scientific journal, Environmental Health, published
the peer-reviewed results of a two-year study by a team led by Michael
N. Antoniou of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s
College London. He conceived the study together with Prof. Gilles-Eric
Seralini of the Institute of Biology, University of Caen, in France.
Under strictest
conditions the different groups of rats were given micro-diluted
concentrations of glyphosate and its adjuvants as found in Roundup from
Monsanto. The glyphosate equivalent dose of Roundup administered in this
study was half that permitted in drinking water in the European Union and Australia, and 14,000 times lower than that permitted in drinking water in the USA.
Moreover, the amount of
glyphosate-equivalent Roundup consumed by the animals on a daily basis
was many thousands of times below the regulatory set safety limits of
glyphosate alone in all regions around the world.
This is the most
extensive and only known long-term study of the potential toxic effects
of glyphosate-based herbicides such as Monsanto’s Roundup, even though
Roundup with glyphosate was discovered by Monsanto in 1970.
Glyphosate-based
herbicides (GBH) such as Roundup are the major pesticides used worldwide
and are currently applied on at least 24 % of the total global
cropland. They are also used extensively in domestic and urban
environments. Residues of GBH are routinely detected in foodstuffs and
drinking water contaminated via rain, surface runoff and leaching into
groundwater. In short it’s almost everywhere.
What the scientists
discovered should set alarm bells ringing around the world. Have you
heard even so much as a jingle bell so far?
They discovered that
male animals suffered from pathological liver and kidney damage
resulting in an increased rate of premature deaths. Further, significant
alteration in the pattern of gene function was found in both the liver
and kidneys of the Roundup group of rats compared with the control
group. The alterations in gene function were consistent with fibrosis
(scarring), necrosis (areas of dead tissue), phospholipidosis (disturbed
fat metabolism) and damage to mitochondria (the centres of respiration in cells).
I want to underscore
the seriousness of what Antoniou and his colleagues are describing. The
liver is a vital organ. It has some 500 functions in the body including
detoxification of various metabolites, protein synthesis, and the
production of biochemicals necessary for digestion. This gland plays a
major role in metabolism. It regulates a variety of essential reactions,
including the synthesis and breakdown of small and complex molecules
which are necessary for normal vital functions. In short, the liver
supports almost every organ in the body and is vital for survival.
And we should also be
clear on the role of other glyphosate-damaged organ, the kidneys, which
are essential for the body’s removal of waste products of metabolism.
Kidneys are essential to the urinary system and also the regulation of
electrolytes, maintenance of acid–base balance, and regulation of blood
pressure by maintaining the salt and water balance. They are the body’s
natural filter of the blood, and remove water-soluble wastes which are diverted to the bladder. If both kidneys and liver are damaged seriously, we are in bad trouble, or even dead.
To sum up the Antoniou
and Seralini team’s rat research results, rats fed ultra-low
concentrations of glyphosate-based Roundup over the two year life-span
period showed that, “twice the number of biochemical parameters was
disturbed in kidney than what can be expected by chance. Furthermore, a
testosterone/estrogen imbalance was evident with testosterone serum
levels significantly increased by 97 % by comparison to controls, while
estradiol serum levels were decreased by 26 %. These observations
together with pituitary gland disturbances suggest endocrine disrupting
effects.” Estradiol is a steroid and
estrogen sex hormone, and the primary female sex hormone. It is
essential for the development and maintenance of female reproductive
tissues but also has important effects in many other tissues including
bone. Estrogens have essential functions in men as well.
The scientists
continue their conclusions: “Overall, toxicity process analysis revealed
gene expression disturbances associated with apoptosis, necrosis,
phospholipidosis, mitochondrial membrane dysfunction and ischemia. Thus
the alteration…in this study correlates with the observed increased
signs of anatomical and functional pathology of the liver and kidneys.”
They observed “more than 4000 genes whose expression was altered in both
the liver and kidneys within the Roundup treatment group.”
Monsanto and corrupt scientists
Professor Gilles-Eric
Seralini designed this newest study with his colleagues as a follow-up
to a sensational 2012 study. The new study was specifically on the
impact, not of feeding Roundup-sprayed GMO corn from Monsanto, but
solely the isolated impact of Roundup, the glyphosate-based Roundup
weed-killer used in all GMO crops today. In September 2012 Food and Chemical Toxicology,
published Seralini’s first ever-long-term two year study of the impact
of Monsanto GMO corn sprayed, as Monsanto requires, with Monsanto’s
Roundup weed-killer.
That 2012 Seralini
report described the world’s first feeding study of the effects on more
than 200 rats of a diet of GMO corn over a period of a full two years at
a cost of €3 million. The
study found alarming instances of cancer tumors in rats fed GMO corn
treated with Monsanto Roundup with Glyphosate. World media coverage
forced the EU Commission to cover its pro-GMO tracks.
More than one year later, in 2013, in an unprecedented and entirely unethical move, the Food and Chemical Toxicology editors
retracted the Seralini 2012 article. It was later discovered that a
former senior Monsanto employee, Richard Goodman, had been named by the
journal to their Editorial Board shortly before the Seralini study was
retracted. A year after that blatantly corrupt action, Goodman along
with Editor-in-chief A. Wallace Hayes were themselves both “removed” by
the publisher.
But the corruption doesn’t stop with the attempts to ostracise the Seralini rat studies.
EU Declares German Monsanto study “Secret”
In the latest twist
in this criminal drama of lies and intrigues the EU Commission has just
declared a German government study “secret” and unavailable for
examination by independent scientific experts.
The EU Commission is
refusing to let independent experts have access to the recent report
prepared by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on
the risk assessment of glyphosate.
On August 10, 2015 the EU Commission wrote to Testbiotech.org, an industry-independent group
of experts registered as a non-profit organization to promote
independent research and public debate on the impacts of biotechnology, a
euphemism for GMO.
The EU Commission wrote that it had denied a request by Testbiotech to examine the
documents made available to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
by the German government. The EU insisted, bizarrely, that the documents
“are protected in their entirety” as confidential. The EU Commission
can see “no overriding public interest” that would justify access. The
letter was signed by Ladislav Miko, Acting Director-General of the EU
Commission’s Food Safety Directorate (the name of the EU office even
sounds like 1984). Miko is another of those Brussels faceless
bureaucrats with immense responsibility and no transparency.
At issue is a report
sent to the EU Commission’s Monsanto-linked EFSA, (European Food Safety
Authority), this spring by the German Federal Institute for Risk
Assessment (BfR) on the safety of glyphosate. The German assessment was
made following widespread publicity about the WHO assessment that
glyphosate was a likely cancer causing chemical. Surprisingly, the BfR
came to the opposite conclusion, namely that there is no
risk of cancer from glyphosates. Theirs was in a hasty study that
apparently relied on an equally hasty study provided to the German government by…you guessed it–Monsanto scientists. That
Monsanto study that formed the basis of the cheery German BfR report is
what the scientific experts of Testbiotech.org wish to put under the
microscope. To avoid that potential embarrassment, the EU Commission has
labeled the German study “secret and confidential.” The German
government has also kept their report secret.
The criminal melodrama gets even more remarkable though.
In a 2013 court
ruling made by the European Court of Justice, (Case T 545/11), judges
ruled that data relevant for the risk assessment of herbicides have to
be made public. The EU Commission as well as the German government are
in contempt of that ruling.
Whatever Monsanto
touches seems to ooze with corruption and fraud. It’s interesting and
extraordinary in its pervasiveness, and suggests the company has a
deeper agenda than mere corporate profit. I would posit that the deeper
Monsanto agenda has something to do with the company’s long history with
the pro-eugenics Rockefeller family and more recently with eugenicist
advocate, Bill Gates of Microsoft.
Is the entire GMO
project, a project financed and brought to commercialization primarily
by the Rockefeller Foundation, a hidden eugenics project to gradually
reduce world population of what Rockefeller and his kind would call
“useless eaters” or human “weeds”? It’s beginning to look more and more
just like that. What an elegant way to get hundreds of millions or even a
few billions of people to have them slowly eat themselves to death by
consuming GMO and glyphosates they don’t even notice until it’s too
late. Especially Asians, Africans, all non-Anglo-Saxons. But that is
really ridiculous now, isn’t it?“Just
because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to kill you.”
F. William Engdahl is
strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics
from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and
geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/06/we-re-the-weeds-for-monsanto-roundup-weed-killer/
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/06/we-re-the-weeds-for-monsanto-roundup-weed-killer/
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