If you wouldn't drink round-up then common sense tells us not to feed it to the environment. Though someone told me they once witnessed a $ale$ rep did a demo 2 show how ahem.. 'safe' it was and drank it.....yeah right, I doubt an unsealed bottle off the shelf....more like a prop 4 all the gullible pa$$er$by.... (I won't mention the home improvement store since I love that place, LOL!)
When You Know Better, You Do Better. ;) Now, how do I get rid of the rest of mine? the solid waste authority? What do they do with it?
As if the health hazards of genetically altered food crops weren't bad enough, glyphosate, the active ingredient in
Roundup,
has also been deemed a major health hazard both to the environment, and to animal and human health. It is toxic to human cells, and according to a French research team, it is also
carcinogenic. The team has studied the herbicide extensively, and published at least five articles on glysphosate's potential for wide-ranging environmental and human harm
i. Their research shows that glyphosate:
- Causes cell cycle dysregulation, which is a hallmark of tumor cells and human cancers
- Inhibits DNA synthesis in certain parts of the cell cycle—the process by which cells reproduce that underlies the growth and development of all living organisms
- Impedes the hatchings of sea urchins. (Sea urchins were used because they constitute an appropriate model for the identification of undesirable cellular and molecular targets of pollutants.) The delay was found to be dose dependent on the concentration of Roundup. The surfactant polyoxyethylene amine (POEA), another major component of Roundup, was also found to be highly toxic to the embryos when tested alone, and could therefore be a contributing factor
It doesn't matter that the
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health recently published "research" to the contrary
ii, the French team says―
the world needs to know the truth about who did that "safety-finding" research. It was
funded by none other than Monsanto itself! Is it any wonder they came to the conclusion that:
"[T]he available literature shows no solid evidence linking glyphosate exposure to adverse developmental or reproductive effects at environmentally realistic exposure concentrations."
The new Monsanto-funded safety research actually used the French team's original research to debunk the evidence that Roundup could have human or environmental safety issues. And that didn't sit well with the French team, which was so angered they wrote a detailed response to Monsanto's article, accusing the researchers of minimalizing the French group's work and publishing misleading information.
