Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper in California, among other claimants, due to failing to warn consumers that glyphosate in its weed-killing products was a known carcinogen. The jury found that Monsanto knew the chemical was dangerous and failed to warn consumers properly. Monsanto, recently purchased by Bayer AG, now faces increasing class action lawsuits against its products due to exposures and subsequent illnesses.
In other words, creating genetically altered food GMOs with glyphosate leads us to measure the risks differently than the way it was measured when food was sprayed with chemicals. These findings show that the use of glyphosate could be a public health concern. Now granted, Mr. However, with chemicals, what affects one person one way, can affect another in a completely different way. We know this because not everyone who was exposed to Agent Orange got cancer and diabetes, but enough more did that it showed the link scientifically.
In , approximately 27, people were known to have had a celiac incidence. The rate of use of glyphosate was less than per lbs. By , the USDA and the CDC show that the rates of Celiac incidences increased to 77, compared to an increase of glyphosate to almost 16, x 1, lbs.
Hopefully, nothing. Here is the important link: chronic inflammatory conditions can cause DNA damage, which can lead to cancers. For example, ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease have increased risks of colon cancer. Monsanto has not just developed the herbicide for removing unwanted vegetation, it has used glyphosate to engineer crops that are resistant to herbicides, allowing farmers to spray fields with RoundUp and not kill the food crops being grown for human consumption.
This process basically kills the food on the stalk, in effect drying it out so that when it is harvested, there is less moisture allowing for less wear and tear on harvesting equipment. We are sorry that this post was not as useful for you!
This webinar has already aired. Then the sprayers would move in and douse an area with the chemical. American soldiers were told the chemicals were safe.
They were also effective. Marine who served in Vietnam between and , in an oral history. As the jungle died, so did crops. Famine, malnourishment and starvation set in. By the end of the war, over 3. So had millions of Vietnamese people.
Though estimates vary, the government of Vietnam says that 4 million were exposed to the chemicals, 3 million of whom now suffer from health consequences. American soldiers had also been exposed to the herbicides, reassured by their superiors that they presented no risk.
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