This article first appeared in New Dawn issue 161 March - April 2017. © Brett Lothian.
Poisoned Fields; What Glyphosate is
doing to us and our environment.
I want to start out this article by saying that this is a
very sensitive subject for myself personally. I grew up on the land, dairy
farming predominately but also growing crops and raising animals for food
production. I used to be a part of the problem, perhaps the most serious
problem we today as humans face. I realize that is a big statement, but it is all
too true. I have been intimately involved in almost every stage of our food
production throughout the years, from growing up on farms, to owning and
operating my own market garden, supplying the major super markets with
vegetables and even working for a time as a chef and managing restaurants. I
thought I knew the problems of the industry inside and out, but it wasn’t until
I began researching for this article that I discovered just how far the problems
go, that it literally affects every single one of us in so many different ways,
and will continue to do so until we as consumers demand better from our primary
producers, our scientists and our governments who are allowing this to continue.
In short, we are slowly but surely being culled for profit, and destroying the
very environment that sustains us.
In defense of our hard working primary producers, we just
didn’t know any better. We believed what we were told by the industry experts,
the scientists, by our regulatory bodies and by our governments. We were told
by the experts that substances such as Monsanto’s Roundup and the active
ingredient Glyphosate, were perfectly safe if used according to the
specifications outlined. I remember undertaking an officially approved chemical
handler’s course many years ago, that only reinforced that these types of
products are safe if used correctly. Sadly, that is just not the case, not
anywhere near it. I guarantee you that if our primary producers knew what these
types of products are doing to us and to our soil, they would be the first ones
up in arms and demanding change. No farmer wants to be a part of the problem,
we take great pride in providing high quality food for the masses, but I and my
fellow primary producers have been led down the garden path by our industry
scientists, our regulatory bodies and by our corrupt governments for decades.
You may say that ignorance is no excuse, but is it really ignorance when we
have been lied to? I don’t think so, we were simply misinformed. The blame lies
with Monsanto, the supposed experts, the regulatory bodies and the governments
who told us all the lies and allowed this to happen, lies that are killing all
of us for profit and the New World Order depopulation agenda.
I must give all credit where credit is due though, if there
was an opposite of the Nobel Prize, perhaps a Pol Pot or Hitler Prize, then
certainly the nefarious and purely evil people behind all of this would win it,
hands down. In its own way it is ingenious, Glyphosate literally is the perfect
depopulation tool and the associated health issues it causes have created a
multi trillion dollar industry. No wonder such luminaries as the admitted
eugenicist Bill Gates are so heavily invested in Monsanto. The really scary thing for me is that I have
no doubt these people honestly believe they are doing the right thing, but then
again so did the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. They will not be judged
well by history, unless they get their way and are the only ones left to write
the new history books. This, we must not allow. We simply must take back
control of our food production if we are to survive, and we as the consumers
are the ones with the real power of just what sells and what does not in the
market place. With informed consumers, the poisoning of our foods and soil can
be abated and even reversed. We can regain our health and prosperity, our
fertility and abundance, when we are educated about healthy and safe food
production and make informed choices with our money.
So just what is Monsanto, Roundup and Glyphosate doing to us
unsuspecting consumers? Well, it’s more like what isn’t it doing to us. Almost
every major health epidemic at the moment can be directly linked back to
Roundup, Glyphosate and their associated Genetically Engineered Crops. According
to a study published in the Journal of Organic Systems in 2014, Genetically
Engineered Crops, Glyphosate and the Deterioration of Health in the United
States of America by Nancy L. Swanson, Andre Leu, Jon Abrahamson and Bradley
Wallet, within the last 20 years there has been an alarming increase in serious
illnesses in the United States, along with a marked decrease in life
expectancy. The US leads the world in the increase in deaths due to
neurological diseases, there have been similar findings for obesity, asthma,
behavior and learning problems, and chronic disease in children and young
adults. Type II diabetes in youth is being called an epidemic. The rate of
chronic disease in the entire US population has been dramatically increasing
with an estimated 25% of the US population suffering from multiple chronic
diseases. These findings suggest environmental triggers rather than genetic or
age related causes. During this same time period, there has been an exponential
increase in the amount of glyphosate applied to food crops and in the
percentage of genetically engineered food crops planted.
Dr. Swanson states, “Prevalence and incidence data show
correlations between diseases of the organs and the increase in Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the food supply, along with the increase in Glyphosate
based herbicide applications. More and more studies have revealed carcinogenic
and endocrine disrupting effects of Roundup at lower doses than those
authorized for residues found in Genetically Modified Organisms. The endocrine
disrupting properties of Glyphosate can lead to reproductive problems:
infertility, miscarriage, birth defects, and sexual development. Fetuses,
infants and children are especially susceptible because they are continually
experiencing growth and hormonal changes. For optimal growth and development,
it is crucial that their hormonal system is functioning properly. The endocrine
disrupting properties also lead to neurological disorders (learning
disabilities (LD), attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), autism,
dementia, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Those most
susceptible are children and the elderly.”
While Monsanto insists that Roundup is safe, a peer-reviewed
report authored by Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant, and a long
time contributor to the Mercola.com Vital Votes Forum, and Dr. Stephanie
Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), reveals how Glyphosate wrecks human health. They argue that Glyphosate
residues, found in most commonly consumed foods in the Western diet courtesy of
GM sugar, corn, soy, and wheat, “enhance the damaging effects of other
food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal
body functions and induce disease.” Interestingly, your gut bacteria are a key
component of Glyphosate’s primary mechanism of harm. Monsanto has steadfastly
claimed that Roundup is harmless to animals and humans because the mechanism of
action it uses (which allows it to kill weeds), called the shikimate pathway,
is absent in all animals. However, the shikimate pathway IS present in
bacteria, and that’s the key to understanding how it causes such widespread
systemic harm in both humans and animals. The bacteria in your body outnumber your
cells by 10 to one. For every cell in your body, you have 10 microbes of
various kinds, and all of them have the shikimate pathway, so they will all respond
to the presence of Glyphosate! Glyphosate causes extreme disruption of the
microbe’s function and lifecycle. What’s worse, Glyphosate preferentially
affects beneficial bacteria, allowing pathogens to overgrow and take
over, including the highly toxic Clostridium botulinum. It has been
estimated that only 1 kilogram would be enough to kill the entire human
population. At that point, your body also has to contend with the toxins
produced by the pathogens. Once the chronic inflammation sets in, you’re well
on your way toward chronic and potentially debilitating diseases.
Dr Seneff raised plenty of eyebrows recently with a bold
proclamation on autism at a special panel in Massachusetts about genetically
modified organisms and other topics. “At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two
children will be autistic,” Seneff said at an event sponsored by the
holistic-focused Groton Wellness organization. Seneff presented slides showing
a remarkably consistent correlation between the rising use of Roundup (with its
active ingredient Glyphosate) on crops and the rising rates of autism in the US.
The slide notes presented by Dr Seneff show that the heaviest use of Roundup,
Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, began in 1990 and continued to rise since.
Meanwhile, the number of kids with autism has gone from 1 in 5,000 in 1975 to 1 in 68 today, a puzzling and frustrating
stat that shows no signs of slowing down and one that correlates strongly with
the rise in Glyphosate use. The rise in autism rates cannot be a result of
genetics. These children have been poisoned. Genetic mutations sometimes occur
over the course of one generation, but more often, the process of genetic
variation occurs over multiple generations; for humans, this would be thousands
of years. The most dramatic rise in autism has been in the past 30-35 years. Since
our genome has been driven by reproduction over multiple generations (which
works in a way that favors the higher order), the elimination of faulty genes
that produce mutations that are not advantageous to the organism is one of the
highest goals of the organism. Faulty genes are a major reason for miscarriage,
with the fetus being not viable, the body will terminate the pregnancy. Many
people want to believe that autism is genetic, but the rate at which autism has
risen over the last 30 years cannot, and never will be explained by genetics.
They were not born that way. They have been brain damaged. Parents of autistic
children often report that the child was healthy, developing normally and
regressed after some environmental exposure; most often vaccination, or
pesticides such as Glyphosate.
To get a bit more in depth on just one of the chronic
diseases highlighted by Dr. Seneff, consider the reports showing that
glyphosate may stimulate hormone-dependent cancers even at extremely low
“environmentally relevant” amounts. In a study published last year, researchers
concluded that glyphosate is a xenoestrogen that is functionally similar to
estradiol, the most potent human estrogen, and concentrations in the
parts-per-trillion range had carcinogenic effects. Adding insult to injury, in
light of the fact that more than 90 percent of soybeans grown in the US are
genetically modified, they also found that the phytoestrogen genistein,
naturally found in soybeans, heightened the estrogenic effects when combined
with Glyphosate. According to the authors: “This study implied that the
additive effect of Glyphosate and genistein in postmenopausal women may induce
cancer cell growth. In this present in vitro study, they showed an estrogenicity
of pure Glyphosate. Furthermore, this study demonstrated the additive
estrogenic effects of Glyphosate and genistein which implied that the use of Glyphosate
contaminated soybean products as dietary supplements may pose a risk of breast
cancer because of their potential additive estrogenicity." The
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) the World Health Organization’s
cancer agency, said in 2015 that glyphosate was “classified as probably
carcinogenic to humans”.
This wasn’t the first time this pesticide has been linked to
cancer. In 2012, the first ever lifetime feeding study evaluating the health
risks of GM foods was published. It found that rats fed a type of GM corn that
is prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive mammary
tumors, kidney, and liver damage, and other serious health problems. According
to the authors: "The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant genetically
modified maize (from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup, and
Roundup alone (from 0.1ppb in water), were studied for 2 years in rats, this
level of Roundup is permitted in drinking water and GE crops in the US. In
females, all treated groups died 2-3 times more than controls, and more
rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs. All results
were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable.
Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before
controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal
balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments. In treated males, liver
congestions and necrosis were 2.5-5.5 times higher. Marked and severe kidney
nephropathies were also generally 1.3-2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more
large palpable tumors than controls, which occurred up to 600 days earlier.
Biochemistry data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for
all treatments and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney
related. These results can be explained by the non-linear endocrine disrupting
effects of Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO
and its metabolic consequences." They really are not exaggerating when they
say it caused massive tumors, some of the tumors weighed in at 25 percent of
the rat's total body weight. In fact, the researchers had to euthanize some of
them due to the profound pain and suffering these tumorous animals were
observed to be experiencing.
The research was considered so "hot" that the work
was done under strict secrecy. According to a French article in Le Nouvel
Observateur, the researchers used encrypted emails, phone conversations were
banned, and they even launched a decoy study to prevent sabotage. The findings
were a nail in the coffin for the pesticide/biotech industry, but then the
journal began to receive Letters to the Editor alleging fraud and calling upon
the editors to retract the paper. After what the journal described as a
“thorough and time-consuming analysis” of the study, they said they found “no
evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data.” All they could
find “wrong” with the research was that it used a low number of animals for the
study, even though it was the same number of animals Monsanto used in their
study, so they quite outrageously, retracted this important paper. Even the
retraction statement admits that the results presented are “not incorrect” but
rather may be “inconclusive”! If every paper that could be considered
inconclusive were retracted, there would scarcely be a published paper left! As
reported by the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS): “the unsettling results
of the Séralini study almost certainly lie behind its notorious retraction by
the journal editor a year after it was published.” The most damning revelation
of this debacle was that a former Monsanto employee, Richard E. Goodman, early
in 2013, was appointed “Associate Editor for biotechnology” for the journal
that retracted the study. The obvious question is, was Monsanto and their money
behind the retraction?
According to another study published by Dr Seneff and her
colleague Anthony Samsel, named Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II:
Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance; celiac disease, and more generally, gluten
intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America
and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it.
Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, skin rashes, macrocytic anemia and
depression. It is a multifactorial disease associated with numerous nutritional
deficiencies as well as reproductive issues and increased risk to thyroid
disease, kidney failure and cancer. They propose that Glyphosate, the active
ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup, is the most important causal factor in this
epidemic. Fish exposed to Glyphosate develop digestive problems that are
reminiscent of celiac disease. Celiac disease is associated with imbalances in
gut bacteria that can be fully explained by the known effects of Glyphosate on
gut bacteria. Characteristics of celiac disease point to impairment in many
cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are involved with detoxifying environmental
toxins, activating vitamin D3, catabolizing vitamin A, and maintaining bile
acid production and sulfate supplies to the gut. Glyphosate is known to inhibit
cytochrome P450 enzymes. Deficiencies in iron, cobalt, molybdenum, copper and
other rare metals associated with celiac disease can be attributed to Glyphosate's
strong ability to chelate these elements. Deficiencies in tryptophan, tyrosine,
methionine and selenomethionine associated with celiac disease match Glyphosate's
known depletion of these amino acids. Celiac disease patients have an increased
risk to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which has also been implicated in Glyphosate
exposure. Reproductive issues associated with celiac disease, such as
infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects, can also be explained by Glyphosate.
Glyphosate residues in wheat and other crops are likely increasing recently due
to the growing practice of crop desiccation just prior to the harvest. They
argue that the practice of “ripening” sugar cane with Glyphosate may explain
the recent surge in kidney failure among agricultural workers in Central
America.
“Producing more, conserving more, improving farmers lives.”
These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of
smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate
attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’
suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply,
95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto. Control over
seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life.
When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of
farmers. Monsanto’s concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well
as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides
in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the
US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair
collection of royalty. Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life
Lord” of our planet, collecting rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the
original breeders. Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic
gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are
seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and
life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it
pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed
the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to
the emergence of super-pests and super-weeds.
The entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made
possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring the
Government of India to deregulate the seed sector. Five things changed with
Monsanto’s entry: First, Indian companies were locked into joint-ventures and
licensing arrangements, and concentration over the seed sector increased.
Second, seed which had been the farmers’ common resource became the
“intellectual property” of Monsanto, for which it started collecting royalties,
thus raising the costs of seed. Third, open pollinated cotton seeds were
displaced by hybrids, including GMO hybrids. A renewable resource became a
non-renewable, patented commodity. Fourth, cotton which had earlier been grown
as a mixture with food crops now had to be grown as a monoculture, with higher
vulnerability to pests, disease, drought and crop failure. Fifth, Monsanto
started to subvert India’s regulatory processes and, in fact, started to use
public resources to push its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs through so-called
public-private partnerships. Monsanto’s seed monopolies, the destruction of
alternatives, the collection of super-profits in the form of royalties, and the
increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt,
suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the farmers’ suicide epidemic
in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. That is
why most suicides are in the cotton belt. An internal advisory by the
agricultural ministry of India in January 2012 had this to say to the
cotton-growing states in India — “Cotton farmers are in a deep crisis since
shifting to Bt cotton. The spate of farmer suicides in 2011-12 has been
particularly severe among Bt cotton farmers.” A Monsanto representative
admitted that they were “the patient’s diagnostician, and physician all in one”
in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the
TRIPS’ agreement of the World Trade Organization. Stopping farmers from saving
seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective.
Glyphosate use has been associated with the increased
incidence and/or severity of many plant diseases and the overall deterioration
of plant functions such as water and nutrient uptake. Glyphosate causes the
systemic chelation of metals, including manganese, magnesium, iron, nickel,
zinc and calcium, many of which are important micronutrients. They act as
co-factors for many plant enzymes including those involved in the plants’
immune system. While non-transgenic varieties are killed by Glyphosate,
Glyphosate tolerant crops do not die; but their physiology can be compromised.
Manganese is a co-factor for 25 known enzymes involved in processes including
photosynthesis, chlorophyll synthesis and nitrate assimilation, and enzymes of
the shikimate pathway. The shikimate pathway is responsible for plant responses
to stress and the synthesis of defence molecules against pathogens, such as
amino acids, lignins, hormones, phytoalexins, flavenoids and phenols. The
virulence mechanism of some pathogens, including Gaeumannomyces and Magnaporthe
(which lead to ‘take-all’ and root rot respectively) involves the oxidisation
of manganese at the site of infection, compromising the plant’s defence against
it. Glyphosate tolerant crops were found to have reduced mineral content,
confirming glyphosates’ metal chelating activity.
Various plant diseases have reached epidemic proportions in
the US, now in its fourth year of epidemics of Goss’ wilt and sudden death
syndrome and eighteenth year of epidemic of Fusarium fungal colonization
resulting in root rot and Fusarium wilt.
Not only does Glyphosate affect disease susceptibility, there is also
evidence of increased disease severity. Examples include Take All, Corynespora
root rot in soybean, Fusarium spp diseases, including those caused by Fusarium
species that are ordinarily non-pathogenic. Head-scab caused by Fusarium spp of
cereals increases following glyphosate application is now prevalent also in
cooler climates when previously it was limited to warmer climates. Nine plant
pathogens have been suggested to increase in severity as a result of Glyphosate
treatment of crops, while some 40 diseases are known to be increased in weed
control programs with glyphosate and the list is growing, affecting a wide
range of species: apples, bananas, barley, bean, canola, citrus, cotton, grape,
melon, soybean, sugar beet, sugarcane, tomato and wheat.
USDA scientist Professor Emeritus Don Huber presented
detailed to the UK Parliament that Glyphosate tolerant crops are less healthy
and yield less. They have a compromised immune system and require extra water,
which are major problems as climate change is likely to increase infectious
diseases and exacerbate water scarcity. As consistent with previous findings,
GM crops are suffering heavy yield losses in the drought-stricken US in 2012. A
farmer who has grown both GM and non-GM varieties of corn and soybean side by
side reported an average of 100-120 bushels per acre harvested from non-GM corn
compared to 8-12 bushels to 30-50 bushels per acre from GM corn. According to a
recent report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, GM crops have
certainly not succeeded in increasing yields; but there is as yet no
comprehensive peer-reviewed study on GM crop yields. As with animal species,
endocrine dysfunction has been suggested in plants exposed to Glyphosate,
potentially affecting health as well as crop yields. Inhibition of auxins
involved in plant growth and development, as well as reduced methionine levels
have been observed; methionine is a principle substrate for fruit, flower opening
and shedding of leaves.
Soil fertility is fundamental in maintaining plant health
and yields. However, along with the rise in industrial agrochemical farming
practices, there has been a general increase in the number of plant diseases in
the past 15 to 18 years. Glyphosate has been shown to stimulate the growth of
fungi and increase the virulence of soil pathogens such as Xylella fastidiosa
which causes citrus variegated chlorosis, while also decreasing the presence of
beneficial soil organisms. Four primary soil fungi, Fusarium, Phythium,
Rhizoccccctonia, and Phytophthora, have become more active with the use of
glyphosate; and concomitantly diseases caused by these fungi have increased,
such as head scab in corn, or root rot in soybeans, crown rot in sugar beets.
Fusarium head blight, which affects cereal crops, is a disease that produces a
mycotoxin that could enter the food chain. Beneficial micro- and
macro-organisms damaged by Glyphosate include earthworms, microbes producing
indole-acetic acid (a growth-promoting auxin), mycorrhizae associations,
phosphorus & zinc uptake, microbes such as Pseudomonads and Bacillus that
convert insoluble soil oxides to plant-available forms of manganese and iron,
nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium, Rhizobium, and organisms involved in
the biological control of soil-borne diseases that reduce root uptake of
nutrients.
In addition to soil microorganisms, Roundup but not Glyphosate
alone, kills three beneficial food microrganisms (Geotrichum candidum,
Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp.
bulgaricus) widely used as starter cultures in the dairy industry. This may
explain the loss of microbiodiversity in raw milk observed in recent years. It
has been assumed that glyphosate is short-lived, degrading in two weeks, and
has low accumulation and drift. However, this conventional view may only be
applicable, if at all, in certain environments. Studies in northern regions of
the globe have demonstrated that Glyphosate and its main metabolite AMPA can
remain in the soil even years after the last spraying. That means the herbicide
and its residues can remain active and accumulate in soils with increasingly
devastating effects on soil ecology.
Glyphosate use impacts animal biodiversity and health either
directly or indirectly through destruction of habitats. It is considered to be
particularly toxic to aquatic and amphibian species, due to its high water
solubility. Amphibians are considered the most endangered animal class on
Earth. Recent studies have highlighted glyphosate’s toxicity to frog species,
with exposure killing 78 % of animals in laboratory conditions. A 2012 study
found enlarged tails in exposed tadpoles, similar to the adaptive changes seen
in response to the presence of predators. Tadpoles adapt their body shape to
suit environmental conditions, so any changes not suited to the environment
could put the animals at a distinct disadvantage. Currently unpublished data
from The Department of Herpetology at the Society of Sciences, Aranzad, Spain
suggests that glyphosate concentrations below agricultural levels are
sufficient to kill 10 species of amphibians in the Basque region of Spain. As mentioned earlier, birth defects in frogs
have also been detailed in laboratory conditions.
Various aquatic species including microalgae, protozoa and crustaceans
are susceptible to Glyphosate, but more so to the surfactant POEA in Roundup
formulations. Studies in aquatic microcosms and mesocosms found that Roundup at
8 mg glyphosate/L inhibited the growth of green algae at the expense of toxic
bloom-forming cyanobacteria, with potentially drastic impacts on freshwater
aquatic ecosystems. It also accelerates the deterioration of water quality, which
is already jeopardizing global water supply. With all the described toxic
effects of glyphosate, it becomes imperative to assess the level of
contamination of the water supplies, our source of drinking water. Recent
research in Catalonia, Spain, revealed widespread contamination of their
groundwater. In the US, Glyphosate has been detected in rain and air samples. Research
recently performed in Germany detected glyphosate in the urine of all tested
Berlin city residents, including one person who had been eating organic food
for over 10 years. Levels reached 5-20 times the established permitted level in
drinking water in the EU. Even those who live away from farming areas are not
protected. Glyphosate was previously found in urine samples of farm workers at
concentrations shown to have caused endocrine disruption.
But it is not all doom and gloom, we can reverse the damage
being done to ourselves and the environment. Firstly, we need to stop using all
Monsanto products and put these murderers out of business. Secondly we must
avoid all foods that have been exposed to Glyphosate. Thirdly, we need to
repair our soil fertility through abandoning Glyphosate and mono culture
agriculture, which only exacerbates soil sterility. Our farmers need to be
educated about permaculture principles which have been shown to repair damaged
soils and produce greater harvests without the need for herbicides and pesticides,
through companion planting and crop rotation. In the meantime, we need to
become more self-sufficient and grow our own food as much as is possible, it is
the only way to ensure they have been grown chemical free, as “organic” does
not necessarily mean the food does not contain poisons. A USDA study recently
discovered that 43% of “organic” foods contained pesticides at levels higher
than permitted by the EPA. Perhaps most importantly, we need to remove our
corrupt politicians and the corruption from our regulatory bodies and
scientific institutions, before they kill us all and the environment that
sustains us. We simply must rise up now, today and take back control of our
food production, our health, and our future, before it is too late.
About the author: Brett Lothian is an Australian author,
professional arborist, market gardener and ethnobotanist. He is the author of
the Tricho Serious Ethnobotany blog and creator of The Trichocereus Cacti
Appreciation, Peyote Appreciation and Ethnobotany Appreciation Society groups
on facebook.
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