Re: Organic versus conventional...Roundup/GMO

[Guest guest]

This is a great article exposing the dangers of Roundup and GMOs. This stuff

is passing through your animals and contaminating your soil, tying up vital

micro nutrients. What is it doing to the animal?

Even small grains grown on contaminated ground are surely pulling up the

Roundup, so even that isn't necessarily a safe way to avoid toxins. Look at the

picture of the sickly wheat in the article. Find organic grain, or a local

farmer that will follow organic practices to grow it. It will be well worth it.

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664

This is one shocking part of the article.

" Imagine the shock of farmers who spread chicken manure in their fields to add

nutrients, but instead found that the glyphosate in the manure tied up nutrients

in the soil, promoted plant disease, and killed off weeds or crops. Test results

of the manure showed glyphosate/AMPA concentrations at a whopping 0.36-0.75

parts per million (ppm). The normal herbicidal rate of glyphosate is about 0.5

ppm/acre.

Manure from other animals may also be spreading the herbicide, since US

livestock consume copious amounts of glyphosate—which accumulates in corn

kernels and soybeans. If it isn't found in livestock manure (or urine), that may

be even worse. If glyphosate is not exiting the animal, it must be accumulating

with every meal, ending up in our meat and possibly milk.

Add this threat to the already high glyphosate residues inside our own diets due

to corn and soybeans, and we have yet another serious problem threatening our

health. Glyphosate has been linked to sterility, hormone disruption, abnormal

and lower sperm counts, miscarriages, placental cell death, birth defects, and

cancer, to name a few. (See resource list on glyphosate health effects.) "

Cheyenne