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Monsanto, RoundUp and Junk Science
Posted: 05/29/2015 10:48 pm EDT
Updated: 05/29/2015 10:59 pm EDT
Michael Hansen, Ph.D
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hansen-phd/
monsanto-roundup-and-junk-science_b_7473736.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nazhnw3
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There is good reason to be concerned with glyphosate and its widespread
use on GMO crops. When they were first being introduced in the early
1990s, biotech companies said GMO crops could do many things -- produce
more nutritious food, resist climatic stress, reduce pesticide use, and
confer many other benefits. But, in fact, the characteristic most widely
engineered into crops was the ability to withstand RoundUp. This was a
win-win for Monsanto -- they could sell the engineered seeds, and also
sell the weed killer the seeds were designed to withstand. Since this
greatly simplified weed control, farmers embraced the seeds and glyphosate
use. Today, 90 percent or more of the corn, soy, canola, sugar beets grown
on U.S. cropland are varieties that have been engineered to tolerate
glyphosate.
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Not surprisingly, glyphosate use has increased vastly. In the period
between 1996 and 2011, during which GMO crops were introduced into U.S.
agriculture, these crops increased herbicide use by 527 million pounds.
Use of glyphosate on just two crops, corn and soy, has increased almost
17-fold between 1996 and 2012, from roughly 12.5 million pounds to 210
million pounds.
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But studies to the contrary have gradually been accumulating, and in March
of this year, 17 experts from 11 countries meeting at the World Health
Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
unanimously agreed to re-classify glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to
humans" (e.g. Group 2A). The Chair of the IARC committee was Dr. Aaron
Blair, formerly the top scientist on pesticides and cancer at National
Cancer Institute.
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The response to IARC's findings in other parts of the world was immediate.
Colombia halted the spraying of glyphosate as part of their coca
eradication program. Bermuda and Sri Lanka banned imports of glyphosate
products, and Germany's state consumer protection ministers called for
"the supply to and use by private persons to be banned for precautionary
reasons."
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Health risks are not the only new concern. The vast increase in herbicide
use associated with GMO crops, virtually all due to glyphosate (RoundUp),
has also caused a substantial increase in glyphosate-tolerant weeds,
dubbed "super weeds" by some. A survey of farmers in 2012 found that
almost half of U.S. farmers had glyphosate resistant weeds on their farms,
up from 34% in 2011.
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Widespread use of glyphosate on engineered crops throughout the Corn Belt
also appears primarily responsible for a large decline in Monarch
butterfly populations because the herbicide eradicates milkweed, on which
the butterfly depends for food.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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