lets talk about the preharvest application of glyphosate to wheat, how much glyphosate is in our food, and how it affects us.
Article on NBC News site by Danica Jefferies. It includes an analysis of 2019 USGS agricultural glyphosate usage data with a bunch of great infographics and charts. It really illustrates the amount of glyphosate being used in different areas of the US and its historic growth since 1992.
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CNN SAYS: Researchers from the University of Washington evaluated existing studies into the chemical — found in weed killers including Monsanto’s popular Roundup — and concluded that it significantly increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the immune system. THE NEW META REPORT SAYS: Using the highest exposure groups when available in each study, we report the […]
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Gil Shochat of the CBC has written about Health Canada reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate. Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada’s most popular herbicide, Roundup. These have never been publicly available AND its […]
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Interesting post on Gizmodo about a study from Andrew Chan from Harvard Medical School on health impacts of removing gluten from your diet. I cant find the study itself, but found some similar ones over at Eureka Science News. From the Gizmodo article: more gluten consumption was associated with a lower risk of heart disease—possibly because people weren’t getting the […]
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The Nature of Things episode titled “it Takes Guts” about the gut biome is good science, but its a little “light”. Its a TV show, what do you expect? Some of Dr. Seneff’s previous experiments have been torn apart, but to a layperson like me, her video walking us through the molecular activity in your body seems legit. I would be […]
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I think we have all seen the recent spate of articles about the study linking glyphosate to liver disease in rats. Yes, worrisome, but we have seen scary study results before. But this study is uniquely scary in a few ways. This Daily Mail article brought them to my attention. Consider these worrisome quotes from the article: Dr Robin Mesnage, […]
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