John Phillips, Barbadian biochemist who linked glyphosate to cancers back in 2014.
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | PR Watch
Who'da thought Donnie Bonespurs would pick up on it, like he has going back to mining coal, to try to make America cancerous again? This after we learned of an executive order trump issued Wednesday to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and carcinogen that has been the target of thousands of lawsuits, including one brought by RFK Jr.
The crass move stunned and infuriated the activists called MAHA Moms (after RFK Jr's Make America Healthy Again movement) who have now turned on Donnie Dotard. This after they abandoned the Democratic Party in droves in 2024 to vote for Trump - after he "promised" to remove environmental toxins.
As a NY Times piece yesterday put it:
"It now threatens to turn the brief MAHA mom-Trump marriage into a divorce."
Ah yes, and yet another demographic learns too late they were played. Bamboozled into voting a felon and traitor back into office - and unchecked power - as it turns out. Just like millions of Hispanics, youth voters, blacks and suburbanites who really believed Trump had become their salvation in the truth and affordability quest.
But the Dotard glyphosate E.O. really should be the last straw and not just for the MAHA moms but everyone in the nation. Indeed, in a 2014 blog post:
http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2014/03/alzheimers-epidemic-fro-eating-gmo.html
I quoted my friend and Bajan biochemist John Phillips:
"Among other toxins and other health-disrupting contaminants, GMO foods contain glyphosate, a horrifically destructive chemical that saps nutrients from foods and quite literally makes them toxic to consume."
Adding from a 2016 Food & Water Watch Bulletin:
"GMO ingredients are hidden in 70 percent of processed food in this country. This is only a 'best guess' because no one knows for sure as they are not labeled. Also, very little is known of the long term effects of what GMOs can do to your health because they've not been properly tested. But what facts we do have are alarming, i.e. real lab rats fed GMOs with glyphosate suffer kidney and liver damage, cancerous tumors and premature death.
Independent testing on an array of popular American food products by the San Francisco-based Anresco lab has since found many samples contained residue levels of the weed killer glyphosate far in excess of safe thresholds.
This led the nonprofit organization behind the testing to call for corporate and regulatory action to address consumer safety concerns. (Though the FDA routinely tests foods for other pesticide residues, it never tested for glyphosate until this year. The testing for glyphosate residues was recently suspended, however, under the orders of resident Trumpies committed to deregulation, i.e. removal of citizen protections.
To conduct its tests Anresco Lab used liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), a method widely considered by the scientific community and regulators as the most reliable for analyzing glyphosate residues. The findings were shocking and as Mr. Phillips told me in an email, ought to "scare the socks off any American that consumes them". Mainly because of possible liver and kidney issues, including cancers.The Anresco Lab tests were done on 29 foods commonly found on grocery store shelves. Excess glyphosate residues were found in General Mills’ Cheerios at 1,125.3 parts per billion (ppb), in Kashi soft-baked oatmeal dark chocolate cookies at 275.57 ppb, and in Ritz Crackers at 270.24 ppb, according to the report. Different levels were found in Kellogg’s Special K cereal, Triscuit Crackers (a Janice favorite) and several other products.
The nonprofit behind the report noted that concerns about glyphosate comes as research shows that Roundup can cause liver and kidney damage in rats at only 0.05 ppb, and additional studies have found that levels as low as 10 ppb can have toxic effects on the livers of fish. The groups criticized U.S. regulators for setting an acceptable daily intake (ADI) at for glyphosate at much higher levels than other countries consider safe. The United States has set the ADI for glyphosate at 1.75 milligrams per kilogram of bodyweight per day (mg/kg/bw/day) while the European Union has set it at 0.3 mg per kg/ bw/day.
Question: Why is the European threshold nearly SIX times lower than that set by the U.S.? Well, because European states care more about the health, welfare of their citizens! Thus they are more likely to adhere to the precautionary principle so that it is not anti-GMO activists who must prove the toxicity of the suspect culprit food, but rather the GMO producers (like Monsanto) to prove their products are safe.
Meanwhile, Monsanto has said repeatedly that there are no legitimate safety concerns regarding glyphosate when it is used as intended, and that toxicological studies in animals have demonstrated that glyphosate does not cause cancer, birth defects, DNA damage, nervous system effects etc. But let us make it clear here that a multinational corporation can say anything for PR sake. That does not meet the standard of proof.
Glyphosate was under particular scrutiny as recently as 2018 because a year earlier the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified it as a probable human carcinogen. Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide and is the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s branded Roundup. The trick mastered by the GMO crop producers has been to make them "Roundup ready" so that the pesticide and now its glyphosate component are integrated into the very crops and hence the cereals from which they are obtained. Further, these GMO crops can also be additionally treated, sprayed with the offending chemical making them even more toxic to humans.
- Research also indicates that glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor, which disrupts hormones and leads to reproductive problems, early onset puberty, obesity, diabetes, and some cancers. When it comes to endocrine disruptors, very small exposures are the most damaging, so “the dose makes the poison” mantra does not apply!
As Mr. Phillips put it at the time: Tell your readers they consume these foods at their own risk. If they don't wish to get kidney or liver cancer - such as struck down your youngest brother - they had best avoid them. NO matter what the FDA, the EPA or your government says.
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