Monsanto’s Roundup and Other Glyphosate-Based
Herbicides Directly Linked to Chronic Disease Spike
By Christina Sarich
Global Research, November 17, 2014
Natural Society 13 November 2014

A new correlation study published in the Journal of Organic
Systems has linked glyphosate, the primary ingredient in
Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, Roundup, to an
enormous increase in chronic diseases across the United
States.
Supporting countless studies before it, this new report is a
detailed analysis proving an undeniable link between
glyphosate-based herbicides and the rates of chronic
disease all over the country.
Dr. Nancy Swanson and the President of the International
Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM),
Andre Leu, led the research team which proved – once
again – that glyphosate and Roundup are lethal, even in
small amounts.
The chemical is prevalently used on crops across the nation
and world. Friends of the Earth Europe, says that more than
650,000 tonnes of glyphosate products were used over five
years ago, with the amount being used increasing each
year.
This increase in use is contributing to the development of
diseases such as diabetes, obesity, lipoprotein metabolism
disorder, Alzheimer’s, senile dementia, Parkinson’s,
multiple sclerosis, autism, and cancer. The report details
how there is a direct correlation between the incidence of
these diseases and glyphosate use.
It isn’t as if the toxicity levels of glyphosate are not already
known by its makers. Monsanto was refusing to release to
the public lab tests conducted in St. Louis, Missouri, which
gave them authority to use glyphosate in China.
This is the company that is responsible for making PCBs,
DD.T and Agent Orange as well, all of which caused
irreparable health damage ignored by regulators for
decades.
Glyphosate-based herbicides have been identified as the
next widely used chemical on a list of chemicals consumers
should be aware of.
Read: 7 Nasty Effects of Pesticides
The world’s number one weed killer, Glyphosate, or N-
(phosphonomethyl)glycine, is posing serious harm to
humans and the environment, yet the poison developed by
John E. Franz of the Monsanto Company has been allowed
on the US market since the 1970s.
It isn’t just Monsanto who sells glyphosate, though. There
are now over 100 different manufacturers of the product
throughout the world. You can find it in other products with
names such as Clearout 41.
Although glyphosate is used primarily in agricultural
settings, it is also sprayed by public authorities on roads
and pavements. Even managers of golf courses and home
gardeners still use the toxic chemicals to control weeds.
According to the new study:
“Within the last 20 years there has been an alarming
increase in serious illnesses in the US, along with a
marked decrease in life expectancy (Bezruchka, 2012).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
estimates that the cost of diabetes and diabetes-related
treatment was approximately $116 billion dollars in
2007.
Estimated costs related to obesity were $147 billion in
2008 and cardiovascular diseases and stroke were $
475.3 billion in 2009. Health care expenditures in the
US totaled 2.2 trillion dollars in 2007 (CDC, 2013a).
The onset of serious illness is appearing in increasingly
younger cohorts. The US leads the world in the
increase in deaths due to neurological diseases
between 1979-81 and 2004-06 for the 55-65 age group
(Pritchard et al., 2013).”
The study points out that, “these findings suggest
environmental triggers rather than genetic or age-related
causes,” especially since chronic diseases are showing up
in younger and younger individuals.
“During this same time period, there has been an
exponential increase in the amount of glyphosate
applied to food crops and in the percentage of GE food
crops planted (Benbrook, 2012). We undertook a study
to see if correlations existed between the rise of GE
crops, the associated glyphosate use and the rise in
chronic disease in the US.”
The bottom line?
“The significance and strength of the correlations show
that the effects of glyphosate and GE crops on human
health should be further investigated.”

This particular Roundup and Other Glyphosate-Based
Herbicides Are heavily used in Northern Nigeria , the rate of Organ failures(kidney, liver,pancreas ) in Nigeria has been growing steadily since 1999， the number of deaths by Cancer has also been steadily increasing since 2002.

Nigerians should be made aware of these dangers.

thoth:
This particular Roundup and Other Glyphosate-Based
Herbicides Are heavily used in Northern Nigeria , the rate of Organ failures(kidney, liver,pancreas ) in Nigeria has been growing steadily since 1999， the number of deaths by Cancer has also been steadily increasing since 2002.

Nigerians should be made aware of these dangers.

This is astonishing news. To learn that despite such horrible and deadly side-effects of these nasty chemicals, they are STILL on sale both in the West and in Africa. That company Monsanto must have greased a lot of palms to have been able to keep supplying those toxic compounds to farmers for decades.

PapiWata:


This is astonishing news. To learn that despite such horrible and deadly side-effects of these nasty chemicals, they are STILL on sale both in the West and in Africa. That company Monsanto must have greased a lot of palms to have been able to keep supplying those toxic compounds to farmers for decades.

A Nigerian friend and a medical Doctor since 1982 after reading this told me that it now very common to see a diabetic patient under 16 years old, children with liver problems with inexplicable causes and the likes.

What i learnt from my friend was that they usually bring in their company into the unsuspecting countries and groom their managers for the government post which directly overseers the implementation of their plans the when the said candidate is ready they get him into the desired post either through bribery or intimidation and once he is in his job will be to make the introduction of those toxins smooth.

check out whom your minister for Agriculture worked for before he took that post, check out whom your finance minister worked with before taking her post and many other ministers in Nigeria and tell me how they can work FOR THE PEOPLE with such glaring conflict of interest.

thoth:


A Nigerian friend and a medical Doctor since 1982 after reading this told me that it now very common to see a diabetic patient under 16 years old, children with liver problems with inexplicable causes and the likes.

What i learnt from my friend was that they usually bring in their company into the unsuspecting countries and groom their managers for the government post which directly overseers the implementation of their plans the when the said candidate is ready they get him into the desired post either through bribery or intimidation and once he is in his job will be to make the introduction of those toxins smooth.

check out whom your minister for Agriculture worked for before he took that post, check out whom your finance minister worked with before taking her post and many other ministers in Nigeria and tell me how they can work FOR THE PEOPLE with such glaring conflict of interest.

Chemical giant Monsanto's deliberate introduction of highly poisonous chemicals into countries around the world, in the manner you have described here, amounts to nothing short of systematic, delayed-action genocide. Let us hope SOMEONE in Nigeria puts a stop to this madness that is being propelled by pure greed in its most evil form.