Glyphosate
 Glyphosate    | |
|---|---|
| Type | chemical |
| Start | 1970 |
| Interest of | • William Engdahl • Monsanto • Stephanie Seneff |
| A pesticide heavily promoted by Monsanto. | |
Contents
Official narrative
Wikipedia's page prominently reports the impressively referenced remark that Glyphosate "has been called by experts in herbicides 'virtually ideal' due to its broad spectrum and low toxicity to animal life compared with other herbicides"[1]. As one of the most widely used herbicides[2], it is perhaps hardly surprising that the Wikipedia page is subject to particularly close monitoring. The page history exemplifies Wikipedia's censorship in action; a large number of primary studies have recently been done, pointing out different health risks of glyphosate[3]. These are not permissible under Wikipedia's 'reliability policy', so mention of them is removed from the article (usually within minutes).
Legal cases
False advertising
The New York Times reported that in 1996, "Dennis C. Vacco, the Attorney General of New York, ordered the company to pull ads that said Roundup was "safer than table salt" and "practically nontoxic" to mammals, birds and fish. The company withdrew the spots, but also said that the phrase in question was permissible under EPA guidelines."[4]
Scientific fraud
On two occasions, the United States EPA has caught scientists deliberately falsifying test results at research laboratories hired by Monsanto to study glyphosate.[5] The first incident involved Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). The United States Justice Department closed the laboratory in 1978, and its leadership was found guilty in 1983 of charges of falsifying statements, falsifying scientific data submitted to the government, and mail fraud."#cite_note-urlPlanetWaves.net_" contains a listed "#" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid. In 1991, Don Craven, the owner of Craven Laboratories and three employees were indicted on 20 felony counts. Craven, along with fourteen employees were found guilty of similar crimes.[7]
Monsanto has stated the Craven Labs investigation was started by the EPA after a pesticide industry task force discovered irregularities, that the studies have been repeated, and that Roundup's EPA certification does not now use any studies from Craven Labs or IBT.[5]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big chemical | “It's the pesticide merchants and GMO companies....they are the real decision makers. They use lobbyist to shape national policy by almost buying politicians. It's this corruption that subverts the EPA. I am not a prophet, but I can see a very dark future if we fail to ban glyphosate and all other neurotoxins and carcinogens in or food and natural world.” | Evaggelos Vallinatos long time EPA scientist | 2017 |
| Big chemical | “We are convinced there are more than ample science to raise serious concerns over rising herbicide use and exposure, yet not nearly enough is being done to either dismiss such concerns or study them in a meaningful way. People think global warming is the biggest threat, but it's not. This is.” | Paul Winchester - medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Franciscan St. Francis Health Care in Indianapolis | 2017 |
| Vandana Shiva | “When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns.” | Vandana Shiva | |
| Vandana Shiva | “If you look at the graph of the growth of G.M.O.s, the growth of application of glyphosate and autism, it’s literally a one-to-one correspondence. And you could make that graph for kidney failure, you could make that graph for diabetes, you could make that graph even for Alzheimer’s.” | Vandana Shiva |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Glyphosate - Pathway to Modern Diseases.Pdf | paper | 18 April 2013 | Anthony Samsel Stephanie Seneff | An in depth technical appraisal of the severe adverse effects on human health of the burgeoning use of Monsanto's Roundup, implicating it as a major factor in most of the so-called 'Western diet diseases'. |
| File:Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine Engdahl.pdf | article | 27 April 2019 | William Engdahl | This article summarizes some recent developments about Glyphosate (Bayer/Monsanto). |
| File:Toxicity of Roundup and Roundup-tolerant GM maize.pdf | paper | 2 August 2012 | Gilles-Eric Séralini Emilie Clair Robin Mesnage Steeve Gress Nicolas Defarge Manuela Malatesta Didier Hennequin Joël Spiroux de Vendômois | In this study researchers led by Gilles-Eric Seralini from CRIIGEN have found that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 Roundup tolerant GM maize or given water containing Roundup, at levels permitted in drinking water and GM crops in the US, developed cancers faster and died earlier than rats fed on a standard diet. They suffered breast cancer and severe liver and kidney damage. |
References
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glyphosate&oldid=641970930
- ↑ http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/glyphotech.html
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- ↑ Charry T (1997-05-29). "Monsanto recruits the horticulturist of the San Diego Zoo to pitch its popular herbicide". Business Day. New York Times.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ a b "Testing Fraud: IBT and Craven Labs" (PDF). Backgrounder. Monsanto Company. June 2005.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- "#cite_ref-urlPlanetWaves.net_" contains a listed "#" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid. Schneider K (Spring 1983). "Faking it The Case against Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories". The Amicus Journal. PlanetWaves.net: 14–26.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "EPA FY1994 Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Accomplishments Report" (PDF). United States Environmental Protection Agency.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
