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singular_me

17th January 2015, 05:51 AM

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In this April 1, 2013 photo, Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can’t explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina. Chemicals routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors and scientists is warning that their uncontrolled use could be responsible for the increasing number of health problems turning up in hospitals across the South American nation. In the heart of Argentina’s soybean business, house-to-house surveys of 65,000 people in farming communities found cancer rates two to four times higher than the national average, as well as higher rates of hypothyroidism and chronic respiratory illnesses. Associated Press photographer Natacha Pisarenko spent months documenting the issue in farming communities across Argentina.

Most provinces in Argentina forbid spraying pesticides and other agrochemicals next to homes and schools, with bans ranging in distance from 50 meters to as much as several kilometers from populated areas. The Associated Press found many cases of soybeans planted only a few feet from homes and schools, and of chemicals mixed and loaded onto tractors inside residential neighborhoods. In the last 20 years, agrochemical spraying has increased eightfold in Argentina- from 9 million gallons in 1990 to 84 million gallons today. Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Round Up products, is used roughly eight to ten times more per acre than in the United States. Yet Argentina doesn’t apply national standards for farm chemicals, leaving rule-making to the provinces and enforcement to the municipalities. The result is a hodgepodge of widely ignored regulations that leave people dangerously exposed.
via denverpost.com

BASAVILBASO, Argentina (AP) — Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.

Now, at 47, he’s a living skeleton, so weak he can hardly swallow or go to the bathroom on his own.

Schoolteacher Andrea Druetta lives in Santa Fe Province, the heart of Argentina’s soy country, where agrochemical spraying is banned within 500 meters (550 yards) of populated areas. But soy is planted just 30 meters (33 yards) from her back door. Her boys were showered in chemicals recently while swimming in the backyard pool.

After Sofia Gatica lost her newborn to kidney failure, she filed a complaint that led to Argentina’s first criminal convictions for illegal spraying. But last year’s verdict came too late for many of her 5,300 neighbors in Ituzaingo Annex. A government study there found alarming levels of agrochemical contamination in the soil and drinking water, and 80 percent of the children surveyed carried traces of pesticide in their blood.

American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields.

The Associated Press documented dozens of cases around the country where poisons are applied in ways unanticipated by regulatory science or specifically banned by existing law. The spray drifts into schools and homes and settles over water sources; farmworkers mix poisons with no protective gear; villagers store water in pesticide containers that should have been destroyed.

Now doctors are warning that uncontrolled pesticide applications could be the cause of growing health problems among the 12 million people who live in the South American nation’s vast farm belt.

In Santa Fe, cancer rates are two times to four times higher than the national average. In Chaco, birth defects quadrupled in the decade after biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina.

“The change in how agriculture is produced has brought, frankly, a change in the profile of diseases,” says Dr. Medardo Avila Vazquez, a pediatrician and neonatologist who co-founded Doctors of Fumigated Towns, part of a growing movement demanding enforcement of agricultural safety rules. “We’ve gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects, and illnesses seldom seen before.”

A nation once known for its grass-fed beef has undergone a remarkable transformation since 1996, when the St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. promised that adopting its patented seeds and chemicals would increase crop yields and lower pesticide use. Today, Argentina’s entire soy crop and nearly all its corn and cotton are genetically modified, with soy cultivation alone tripling to 47 million acres (19 million hectares).

Agrochemical use did decline at first, then it bounced back, increasing ninefold from 9 million gallons (34 million liters) in 1990 to more than 84 million gallons (317 million liters) today as farmers squeezed in more harvests and pests became resistant to the poisons. Overall, Argentine farmers apply an estimated 4.3 pounds of agrochemical concentrate per acre, more than twice what U.S. farmers use, according to an AP analysis of government and pesticide industry data.

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JAN 2015

British Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has stated that genetically modified (GM) food should be grown in Britain because it is more ‘eco-friendly’. She adds that steps should be taken to speed up this development. Her statements come as little surprise to many because Truss’s predecessor, Owen Paterson, was also a staunch supporter of GM technology.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/genetically-modified-food-and-the-false-gmo-narrative-britains-corporate-political-parrots/5424955

General of Darkness

17th January 2015, 07:24 AM

Holy shit.

mick silver

17th January 2015, 07:27 AM

only the very rich can get away with doing shit like , making stuff that kills

singular_me

17th January 2015, 08:02 PM

bump, hoping that more will read about this gore event happening

Hatha Sunahara

17th January 2015, 10:02 PM

Mpnsanto is responible for serious environmental problems throughout the world. So where are the environmentlists? You know, the prople who are concerned with recycling and clean water and air? Does Monsanto have such good lawyers that can navigate their way through corrupt governments to make Monsanto unaccountable for whatever damage they cause? Are the environmentalists asleep because they are cowed by Monsanto's legal prowess, or are they so sick themselves that they don't have the energy to make a peep about what Monsanto does? I could never understand how people can be so apathetic when they see their friends and neighbors dying around them from man made environmental disasters. Do they think it won't come and bite them in the ass too? Does apathy come with a complementary attitude of immunity from danger? Why is nobody doing anything to keep people healthy? Do they fear that Monsanto will hire Blackwater to kill all the leaders of any organized resistance? Is the only valid response to this what we have from God?--Holy SHit?

Serpo

17th January 2015, 10:18 PM

Monsanto.............WMD

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-001.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this April 16, 2013, photo, Felix San Roman walks on his property in Rawson, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. San Roman says that when he complained about clouds of chemicals drifting into his yard, the sprayers beat him up, fracturing his spine and knocking out his teeth. “This is a small town where nobody confronts anyone, and the authorities look the other way,” San Roman said. “All I want is for them to follow the existing law, which says you can’t do this within 1,500 meters. Nobody follows this. How can you control it?” (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s popular Roundup brand of pesticides, is one of the world’s most widely used weed killers. It has been determined to be safe, if applied properly, by many regulatory agencies, including those of the United States and European Union.
On May 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency even raised the allowable levels of glyphosate residues in food, concluding that based on studies presented by Monsanto, “there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result to the general population or to infants and children from aggregate exposure.”
Argentina’s 23 provinces take the lead in regulating farming, and rules vary.
Spraying is banned within 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) of populated areas in some provinces and as little as 50 meters (55 yards) in others. About one-third of the provinces set no limits at all, and most lack detailed enforcement policies.
A federal environmental law requires applicators of toxic chemicals to suspend or cancel activities that threaten public health, “even when the link has not been scientifically proven,” and “no matter the costs or consequences,” but it has never been applied to farming, the auditor general found last year.
In response to soaring complaints, President Cristina Fernandez ordered a commission in 2009 to study the impact of agrochemical spraying on human health. Its initial report called for “systematic controls over concentrations of herbicides and their compounds … such as exhaustive laboratory and field studies involving formulations containing glyphosate as well as its interactions with other agrochemicals as they are actually used in our country.”
But the commission hasn’t met since 2010, the auditor general found.
Government officials insist the problem is not a lack of research, but misinformation that plays on people’s emotions.
“I’ve seen countless documents, surveys, videos, articles in the news and in universities, and really our citizens who read all this end up dizzy and confused,” Agriculture Secretary Lorenzo Basso said. “I think we have to publicize the commitment that Argentina has to being a food producer. Our model as an exporting nation has been called into question. We need to defend our model.”
In a written statement, Monsanto spokesman Thomas Helscher said the company “does not condone the misuse of pesticides or the violation of any pesticide law, regulation, or court ruling.”
“Monsanto takes the stewardship of products seriously and we communicate regularly with our customers regarding proper use of our products,” Helscher said.
http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-002.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 24, 2013, photo, a tractor known as a “mosquito” dusts a field near Parana, in the Entre Rios province, Argentina. Most provinces forbid spraying next to homes and schools, ranging in distance from 50 meters to as much as several kilometers from populated areas. But The Associated Press found many cases of soybeans planted only a few feet from homes and schools, and of chemicals mixed and loaded onto tractors inside residential neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina was among the earliest adopters of the new biotech farming model promoted by Monsanto and other U.S. agribusinesses.
Instead of turning the topsoil, spraying pesticides and then waiting until the poison dissipates before planting, farmers sow the seeds and spray afterward without harming crops genetically modified to tolerate specific chemicals.
This “no-till” method takes so much less time and money that farmers can reap more harvests and expand into land not worth the trouble before.
But pests develop resistance, even more so when the same chemicals are applied to genetically identical crops on a vast scale.
So while glyphosate is one of the world’s safest herbicides, farmers now use it in higher concentrates and mix in much more toxic poisons, such as 2,4,D, which the U.S. military used in “Agent Orange” to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War.
In 2006, a division of Argentina’s agriculture ministry recommended adding caution labels urging that mixtures of glyphosate and more toxic chemicals be limited to “farm areas far from homes and population centers.” The recommendation was ignored, according to the federal audit.
The government relies on industry research approved by the EPA, which said May 1 that “there is no indication that glyphosate is a neurotoxic chemical and there is no need for a developmental neurotoxicity study.”
Molecular biologist Dr. Andres Carrasco at the University of Buenos Aires says the burden from the chemical cocktails is worrisome, but even glyphosate alone could spell trouble for human health. He found that injecting a very low dose of glyphosate into embryos can change levels of retinoic acid, causing the same sort of spinal defects in frogs and chickens that doctors increasingly are registering in communities where farm chemicals are ubiquitous.
This acid, a form of vitamin A, is fundamental for keeping cancers in check and triggering genetic expression, the process by which embryonic cells develop into organs and limbs.
“If it’s possible to reproduce this in a laboratory, surely what is happening in the field is much worse,” Carrasco said. “And if it’s much worse, and we suspect that it is, what we have to do is put this under a magnifying glass.”
His findings, published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology in 2010, were rebutted by Monsanto, which said the results “are not surprising given their methodology and unrealistic exposure scenarios.”
Monsanto said in response to AP’s questions that chemical safety tests should only be done on live animals, and that injecting embryos is “less reliable and less relevant for human risk assessments.”
“Glyphosate is even less toxic than the repellent you put on your children’s skin,” said Pablo Vaquero, Monsanto’s corporate affairs director in Buenos Aires. “That said, there has to be a responsible and good use of these products because in no way would you put repellent in the mouths of children and no environmental applicator should spray fields with a tractor or a crop-duster without taking into account the environmental conditions and threats that stem from the use of the product.”
Out in the fields, warnings are widely ignored.
For three years, Tomasi was routinely exposed to chemicals as he pumped pesticides into the tanks of crop-dusters. Now he’s near death from polyneuropathy, a debilitating neurological disorder, which has left him wasted and shriveled.
“I prepared millions of liters of poison without any kind of protection, no gloves, masks or special clothing,” he said. “I didn’t know anything. I only learned later what it did to me, after contacting scientists.”
“The poison comes in liquid concentrates, in containers with lots of precautions to take when applying it,” Tomasi explained. “But nobody takes precautions.”
With soybeans selling for about $500 a ton, growers plant where they can, often disregarding Monsanto’s guidelines and provincial law by spraying with no advance warning, and even in windy conditions.
In Entre Rios, teachers reported that sprayers failed to respect 50-meter (55-yard) limits at 18 schools, dousing 11 during class. Five teachers filed police complaints this year.
READ MORE HERE (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/argentines-link-health-problems-agrochemicals)
http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-004.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this April 1, 2013 photo, Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can’t explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina. Chemicals routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-005.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this May 2, 2013 photo, empty agrochemical containers including Monsanto’s Round Up products lay discarded at a recycling center in Quimili, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina. Instead of a lighter chemical burden in Argentina, agrochemical spraying has increased eightfold, from 9 million gallons in 1990 to 84 million gallons today. Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Round Up products, is used roughly eight to ten times more per acre than in the United States. Yet Argentina doesn’t apply national standards for farm chemicals, leaving rule-making to the provinces and enforcement to the municipalities. The result is a hodgepodge of widely ignored regulations that leave people dangerously exposed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-006.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this April 1, 2013, photo, Silvia Alvarez leans against her red brick home while keeping an eye on her son, Ezequiel Moreno, who was born with hydrocephalus, in Gancedo, in Chaco province, Argentina. Alvarez blames continuous exposure to agrochemical spraying for two miscarriages and her son’s health problems. Chaco provincial birth reports show that congenital defects quadrupled in the decade after genetically modified crops and their related agrochemicals arrived. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) #

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-007.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this March 31, 2013, photo, Erika, right, and her twin sister Macarena, who suffer from chronic respiratory illness, stand inside their home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. The twins’ mother, Claudia Sariski, whose home has no running water, says she doesn’t let her children drink from the discarded pesticide containers she keeps in her dusty backyard. But her chickens do, and she has no other water to wash the family’s clothes with. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) #

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-008.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 24, 2013, photo, a tractor used for spraying agrochemicals is reflected in a car’s side view mirror on a road in Parana, in Entre Rios province, Argentina. Glyphosate represents two-thirds of all agrochemicals used in Argentina, but resistance to pesticides is forcing farmers to mix in other poisons such as 2,4,D, which the U.S. military used in

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-009.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this May 31, 2013 photo, girls use slingshots next to a biotech soybean plantation in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. The country’s entire soybean crop and nearly all its corn and cotton have become genetically modified in the 17 years since St. Louis-based Monsanto Company promised huge yields with fewer pesticides using its patented seeds and chemicals. Instead, the agriculture ministry says agrochemical spraying has increased ninefold, from 9 million gallons in 1990 to 84 million gallons today. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-010.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 24, 2013 photo, students play soccer during recess at a rural school near Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios province, Argentina. Teachers say the farm that abuts their school yard has been illegally sprayed with pesticides, even during class time. In Entre Rios, teachers reported that sprayers failed to respect legally required 50 meter setbacks outside 18 schools, and doused 11 of them while students were in session. Five teachers have since filed police complaints. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-012.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this April 16, 2013, photo, activist Oscar Alfredo Di Vincensi talks on a cell phone inside his tent during his one-man hunger strike demanding that agrochemical spraying not be allowed within 1,000 meters of homes, in the main square of Alberti, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Earlier this year, Di Vincensi stood in a field waving a court order barring spraying within 1,000 meters of homes in his town of Alberti; a tractor driver doused him in pesticide. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Serpo

17th January 2015, 10:26 PM

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-013.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 25, 2013, photo, cattle are corralled near the town of Berabevu, in Santa Fe province, Argentina. As Argentine ranchers turn to higher-profit soybeans, formerly grass-fed cattle are fattened on corn and soy meal in feedlots. Argentina’s entire soy crop and nearly all its corn have become genetically modified in the 17 years since St. Louis-based Monsanto Company promised huge yields with fewer pesticides using its patented seeds and chemicals. Soy cultivation alone has tripled to 47 million acres, transforming a nation once known for its grass-fed cattle into the world’s third largest soybean producer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-014.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this March 31, 2013, photo, Erika, left, and her twin sister Macarena, who suffer from chronic respiratory illness, play in their backyard near recycled agrochemical containers filled with water that is used for flushing their toilet, feeding their chickens and washing their clothes, near the town of Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. The twins’ mother, Claudia Sariski, whose home has no running water, says she doesn’t let her children drink the water from the discarded pesticide containers. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-015.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this March 31, 2013, photo, Camila Veron, 2, born with multiple organ problems and severely disabled, stands outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Doctors told Camila’s mother, Silvia Achaval that agrochemicals may be to blame. It’s nearly impossible to prove that exposure to a specific chemical caused an individual’s cancer or birth defect, but doctors say these cases merit a rigorous government investigation. “They told me that the water made this happen, because they spray a lot of poison here,” said Achaval. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-016.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this July 8, 2013 photo, Dr. Andres Carrasco, a molecular biologist at the University of Buenos Aires, pauses during an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Carrasco found that injecting very low doses of glyphosate, a weed-killer, into embryos can change levels of retinoic acid, causing the same sort of spinal defects in frogs and chickens that doctors are increasingly registering in communities where farm chemicals are ubiquitous. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-018.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 23, 2013, photo, empty pesticide containers ready for recycling are collected inside an enclosure by the farming business association in Gualeguaychu, in Entre Rios province, Argentina. Widely ignored Argentine health minister guidelines recommend perforating empty containers to prevent reuse by residents. The association says the containers will be recycled into plastic tubing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-017.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this May 3, 2013, photo, students stand outside their rural school in Pozo del Toba, in Santiago del Estero province, Argentina. Most Argentine provinces limit how close spraying can be done in populated areas, with setbacks ranging from as little as 50 meters to as much as several kilometers. But The Associated Press found many cases of soybeans planted only a few feet from homes and schools, and chemicals mixed and loaded onto tractors inside residential neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-019.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this May 3, 2013, photo, students ride a motorbike past a field of biotech corn on their way to school in Pozo del Toba, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina. American biotechnology has turned Argentina into a commodities powerhouse, but the chemicals required aren’t confined to the fields, they routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water. Now a growing chorus of doctors and scientists is warning that uncontrolled spraying could be causing the health problems turning up in hospitals across the South American nation. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-020.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this Sept. 26, 2013, photo, Sofia Gatica participates in a protest to block trucks from entering the site where Monsanto Company is building its largest Latin American seed production plant, in the town of Malvinas Argentinas, in Cordoba province, Argentina. The country’s entire soy crop and nearly all its corn and cotton have become genetically modified in the 17 years since the St. Louis-based company promised larger yields. Agrochemical spraying has increased eightfold. After Gatica’s newborn died of kidney failure, she filed a complaint in Cordoba province that led last year to Argentina’s first criminal convictions for illegal spraying. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-021.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this April 16, 2013 photo, soybeans ready for harvest are bathed in afternoon light near Rawson, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors and scientists is warning that their uncontrolled use could be responsible for the increasing number of health problems turning up in hospitals across the South American nation. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-022.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpgIn this March 9, 2013, photo, residents gather to speak with Dr. Damian Verzenassi on health concerns they have about agrochemicals in the main square of Alvear, in Santa Fe province, Argentina. In the heart of Argentina’s soybean business, house-to-house surveys of 65,000 people in farming communities found cancer rates two to four times higher than the national average, as well as higher rates of hypothyroidism and chronic respiratory illnesses. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Serpo

17th January 2015, 10:31 PM

Obviously governments only care about the bucks and not the people so........................

Argentina should be taped off and people with hazmat suits go in.............

Twisted Titan

18th January 2015, 05:38 AM

The peple need machetes and get to f@#$ king lopping of heads MS -13 style

There is a genocide against the babies

I would start with those who are complicit at the local level and work my way UP

singular_me

28th March 2015, 03:52 AM

You're a complete jerk, interjects the lobbyist

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Lobbyist claims Monsanto weed killer is safe to drink, then bolts when TV host offers him a glass
David Edwards
26 Mar 2015 at 14:06 ET

‘Controversial lobbyist who claimed that the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer was safe for humans refused to drink his own words when a French television journalist offered him a glass.

In a preview of an upcoming documentary on French TV, Dr. Patrick Moore tells a Canal+ interviewer that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, was not increasing the rate of cancer in Argentina.

“You can drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you,” Moore insists. “You want to drink some?” the interviewer asks. “We have some here.”’

video
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/lobbyist-claims-monsanto-weed-killer-is-safe-to-drink-then-bolts-when-tv-host-offers-him-a-glass/

Ponce

28th March 2015, 07:52 AM

woodman

28th March 2015, 08:18 PM

People will do to you only what you allowed them to do to you, fight them for as long as you can and one of this days they will have to stop it...........burn the Monsanto fields, they cannot patrol them and guard them for ever.

V

Action is required. When the machinery of government has been usurped and it is no longer a protector of the people, the people need to act for their own preservation.

mick silver

28th March 2015, 09:16 PM

I will buy a gallon and fill a glass for the ass hat

singular_me

20th April 2015, 03:40 PM

the good news is that they are finally reacting... the bad news is the harm done that may never be undone completely

the evidence that health professionals and monsanto PhDs are part of the problem.

Monsanto chief admits ‘hubris’ is to blame for public fears over GM
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/monsanto-chief-admits-hubris-is-to-blame-for-public-fears-over-gm-10128951.html

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Argentina: 30,000 doctors and health professionals demand ban on glyphosate

on 16 April 2015.

Union demands debate on the restructuring of agriculture around safe production methods

Following on from the conclusion of the International Agency for Research on Cancer that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen, Argentina’s union of doctors and health professionals, FESPROSA, has issued a statement throwing the support of its 30,000 members behind the decision:

“The organisation [IARC] has just released the results of a study that overturns the agribusiness model. Thus the complaints that affected residents and scientists outside the orbit of corporations have been making for years have gained renewed momentum,” FESPROSA said in the statement

FESPROSA explained:

"In our country glyphosate is applied on more than 28 million hectares. Each year, the soil is sprayed with more than 320 million litres, which means that 13 million people are at risk of being affected, according to the Physicians Network of Sprayed Peoples (RMPF). Soy is not the only crop addicted to glyphosate: the herbicide is also used for transgenic maize and other crops. Where glyphosate falls, only GMOs can grow. Everything else dies."

"Our trade union, the Federation of Health Professionals of Argentina (FESPROSA), which represents more than 30,000 doctors and health professionals in our country, includes the Social Health Collective of Andrés Carrasco. Andrés Carrasco was a researcher at [Argentine government research institute] CONICET, who died a year ago, and showed the damage caused by glyphosate to embryos. For disseminating his research, he was attacked by the industry and the authorities at CONICET. Today, WHO vindicates him.”

"Glyphosate not only causes cancer. It is also associated with increased spontaneous abortions, birth defects, skin diseases, and respiratory and neurological disease.”

"Health authorities, including the National Ministry of Health and the political powers, can no longer look away. Agribusiness cannot keep growing at the expense of the health of the Argentine people. The 30,000 health professionals in Argentina in the FESPROSA ask that glyphosate is now prohibited in our country and that a debate on the necessary restructuring of agribusiness is opened, focusing on the application of technologies that do not endanger human life.
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2015-articles/16084-argentina-30-000-doctors-and-health-professionals-demand-ban-on-glyphosate7

ximmy

20th April 2015, 04:06 PM

Monsanto chief admits ‘hubris’ is to blame for public fears over GM
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-10128951.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/monsanto-chief-admits-hubris-is-to-blame-for-public-fears-over-gm-10128951.html)

Hubris: "Monsanto, significantly farther advanced in humanitarian technology, well beyond the capacity for normal human understanding, should have realized it would take years for ordinary folks to accept our magnificent accomplishments"

mick silver

20th April 2015, 05:19 PM

my offer still stands
I will buy a gallon and fill a glass for the ass hat

singular_me

21st April 2015, 03:46 AM

as to wonder what colleges really teach the wannabe scientists.
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Monsanto Roundup is An Endocrine Disruptor in Human Cells at Levels allowed in Drinking Water. Study
Tuesday 21st April 2015

Roundup is an endocrine disruptor and is toxic to human cells in vitro (tested in culture dishes in the laboratory) at levels permitted in drinking water in Australia, a new study has found.

This is the first study to examine the effects of glyphosate and Roundup on progesterone production by human female cells in an in vitro system that models key aspects of reproduction in women.

Glyphosate alone was less toxic to human cells than glyphosate in a Roundup formulation; both glyphosate and Roundup caused cell death which resulted in decreased progesterone levels – a form of hormone/endocrine disruption. Endocrine disruption did not precede the toxicity to cells but occurred after it. The decreases in progesterone concentrations were caused by reduced numbers of viable cells.’

http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2015-articles/16013-roundup-is-endocrine-disruptor-in-human-cells-at-levels-allowed-in-drinking-water

singular_me

5th May 2015, 10:58 AM

since the western higher and middle classes have fallen asleep at the wheel... maybe will the change be initiated by the poor and low IQs first... that would HIGHLY ironic.

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Thousands of Farmers in India Rise up Against Monsanto: Biotech Giant Known for Causing Suicides
Tuesday 5th May 2015

‘Some have said that India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, arrived at the nation’s pro-GMO position with the help of generous campaign funding from a GMO lobby, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of Indian farmers from demonstrating against Monsanto and their biotech cronies in a massive grassroots movement that shuns anti-farmer practices and genetically modified crop farming.’

http://naturalsociety.com/thousands-of-farmers-in-india-rise-up-against-monsanto/

ximmy

5th May 2015, 01:16 PM

monty

5th May 2015, 05:48 PM

Cancer cases have increased up to 130% in South America in the past 2 decades

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7538&stc=1

http://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World/Nation/20150323/colombia-drug-debate-revived-over-herbicide

Colombia drug debate revived over herbicide.

Home (http://gold-silver.us/forum/safari-reader://www.capitalpress.com/) » Nation/World (http://gold-silver.us/forum/safari-reader://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World) » Nation (http://gold-silver.us/forum/safari-reader://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World/Nation)By JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press

Published: March 23, 2015 8:09AM

In Colombia a fierce debate has raged over a program that has sprayed more than 4 million acres with glyphosate in the past two decades to kill coca plants.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The new labeling of the world’s most-popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that is the cornerstone of the U.S.-backed war on drugs.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a French-based research arm of the World Health Organization, has reclassified the herbicide glyphosate as a result of what it said is convincing evidence the chemical produces cancer in lab animals and more limited findings it causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans.

The ruling on Thursday is likely to send shockwaves around the globe, where the glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup is a mainstay of industrial agriculture.

In Colombia, there is an added political dimension stemming from the fierce debate that has raged over a program that has sprayed more than 4 million acres in the past two decades to kill coca plants, whose leaves are used to produce cocaine.
The fumigation program, which is financed by the U.S. and partly carried out by American contractors, has long been an irritant to Colombia’s left, which likens it to the U.S. military’s use of the Agent Orange herbicide during the Vietnam War. Ending Colombia’s spraying program has also been a demand of leftist rebels negotiating with the government on an accord to end the country’s half-century armed conflict.

Daniel Mejia, a Bogota-based economist who is chairman of an expert panel advising the Colombian government on its drug strategy, said the new report is by far the most authoritative and could end up burying the fumigation program.
“Nobody can accuse the WHO of being ideologically biased,” Mejia said, noting that questions already had been raised about the effectiveness of the spraying strategy and its potential health risks. A paper he published last year, based on a study of medical records between 2003 and 2007, found a higher incidence of skin problems and miscarriages in districts targeted by aerial spraying.

But Mejia cautioned that while he favors ending aerial spraying, there hasn’t been a consensus for that move on the advisory panel he leads.

Mejia’s concerns were echoed by Colombia’s ombudsman office, which said it would request the suspension of the spraying program if the WHO results are convincing.

The U.S. government, which has seen American pilots shot down on the drug flights, says damage to the environment and health risks from production of cocaine far outweigh the adverse effects of aerial eradication. It’s a position Colombia shares.
“Without a doubt this reopens the debate on fumigation and causes us to worry,” Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria told The Associated Press on Saturday. “But these are interests here that transcend” science.

Monsanto and other manufacturers of glyphosate-containing products strongly rejected the new WHO ruling, pointing to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling from 2012 determining the herbicide is safe.

Colombia has already been scaling back fumigation in favor of manual eradication efforts amid mounting criticism spraying generates ill-will among farmers that the state is trying to protect from armed groups.

Aerial spraying last year was around 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres), down from a peak of 172,000 hectares (425,000 acres) in 2006. And even opponents of the program say the government has made strides improving safety, such as not spraying in strong winds to avoid chemical drift and installing GPS devices on fumigation planes so farmers’ claims of injury can be promptly investigated.

In 2013, Colombia agreed to pay Ecuador $15 million to settle a lawsuit over economic and human damage tied to spraying along the countries’ border.

Gen. Ricardo Restrepo, head of the anti-narcotics police, said that he had not yet seen WHO’s new warning and that the spraying program is operating as usual.
“My job is to carry out the strategy,” he said.

osoab

5th May 2015, 06:46 PM

Cancer cases have increased up to 130% in South America in the past 2 decades

Could the increase come from just eating more of a "Western" diet? This includes HFS.

osoab

5th May 2015, 06:50 PM

http://overgrowthesystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/argentina-agrochemicals-004.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG_.jpg

Looks similar to this girl.

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monty

5th May 2015, 07:17 PM

Could the increase come from just eating more of a "Western" diet? This includes HFS.

I would say say that is highly likely.

singular_me

6th May 2015, 04:32 PM

Monsanto gets sued for falsely advertising glyphosate as non-toxic to humans
Wednesday 6th May 2015

‘A class action lawsuit coming out of California could deal another hard blow to the infamous Monsanto Corporation. The lawsuit is pointing out what – that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is killing not only plants but also targeting specific enzymes in the microbiome of the human gut.

The more we apply glyphosate in agriculture and on lawns, the greater its residue in food products. Ultimately glyphosate residue makes its way into our gut and kills important species of bacteria that we depend on to stay healthy. The good bacteria colonies are responsible for regulating our immune system and helping it respond to invading pathogens. These bacteria help the body break down nutrients and also protect the gut wall from being penetrated by other toxins.’
http://www.naturalnews.com/049609_Monsanto_false_advertising_glyphosate.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/monsanto-sued-los-angeles-county-for-false-advertising
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416

singular_me

26th June 2016, 11:51 AM

Rise In Animal Deformities Linked To Monsanto’s Glyphosate, The World’s Top-Selling Pesticide
26 June 2016 GMT

‘In rural northeast Argentina, the number of animals born with strange deformities has skyrocketed. According to locals, a supernatural spirit is responsible for the recent flux of deformities. However, experts discovered a correlation between the rise in deformities and the increased use of glyphosate.

“It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defenses by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in feed, which in turn can cause animal disorders,” wrote Don Huber, an emeritus professor of plant pathology at Purdue University.

In one case, a piglet born with skin so thin, allowed the farmer to see the piglet’s blood pumping. In a nearby village, a black puppy was born with a mini trunk protruding from its nose.’

“There is sufficient scientific evidence in Argentina and the rest of the world that proves with absolute certainty the damage the herbicide does to our eco-system and to the health of humans and animals when used intensively in the production of food,” Silvana Bujan, Director of Environmentalist NGO Bios Argentina, told the MailOnline. “There is evidence that the change from pasture goods to genetically-modified soya, as well as the traces in the air, water and grasses that they ingest, could well be one of the decisive factors in the hormonal and genetic changes of the animals.”

The future of glyphosate within the EU is currently uncertain. At this moment in time, EU member states are currently in disagreement over the relicensing of the chemical. Expectations of a 15-year licence extension didn’t follow the licence expiring on June 30. A postponed vote occurred for a second time after officials decided that a binding decision was unlikely...
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/06/rise-in-animal-deformities-linked-to-monsantos-glyphosate-the-worlds-top-selling-pesticide.html

A goat with two heads, eight-legged pigs and a puppy born with a TRUNK: Shock photos of the mutant beasts with bizarre deformities 'caused by GM pesticides'

A skinless pig, puppy born with a trunk and two headed calf
A series of mutated animals have been found in rural northeast Argentina
Farmers blame harsh chemical Glyphosate for causing the mutations
Argentina is the world's largest user of the pesticide which faces EU ban

By Lisa-maria Goertz For Mailonline

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3600831/A-goat-two-heads-eight-legged-pigs-puppy-born-TRUNK-Shock-photos-mutant-beasts-bizarre-deformities-caused-GM-pesticides.html#ixzz4CiG5DX48

Freaky: In a startling case, this mutant goat was born with with two snouts, no eyes, no ears, without a tail and hairless in Las Arrias, Cordoba, Argentina
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/20/15/346B669400000578-3600831-image-a-27_1463756200678.jpg

singular_me

12th August 2016, 11:36 AM

an update from argentina....

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‘Monte Maíz, a city in Argentina, has five times the rates of miscarriages and cancer than among half the world’s population – all eyes are on glyphosate. Here’s the scary part – they only have a population of around 8,500 people. Furthermore, lung cancer accounts for 40% of the deaths there, and Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide is said to be the direct cause.

Glyphosate is an active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup, but also makes an appearance in other companies’ pesticides since the patent expired. Roundup is heavily used – legally – both here in the States and in Argentina especially because genetically modified crops are engineered to allow incredible amounts of Roundup to be sprayed without killing the crops themselves.’

How bad is the glyphosate problem in Monte Maíz?

In Monte Maíz, dubbed “the city of death,” tucked within, are 22 hangars with equipment for spraying pesticides. Herbicide spray vehicles apparently drive through the city streets polluting the city air. Argentine pharmacist, Carlos Vicente, described the spraying saying “this is the worst…” and called for the removal of the hangars and reconsideration of this toxicity.

How bad is the glyphosate problem in Monte Maíz?

In Monte Maíz, dubbed “the city of death,” tucked within, are 22 hangars with equipment for spraying pesticides. Herbicide spray vehicles apparently drive through the city streets polluting the city air. Argentine pharmacist, Carlos Vicente, described the spraying saying “this is the worst…” and called for the removal of the hangars and reconsideration of this toxicity.
As of 2014, cancer deaths had doubled in Argentine agro-cities. It looks like Monsanto has gone much too far in Argentina, since reports of death are now visible after profuse spraying – meaning that the retort of “correlation doesn’t equal causation” simply won’t cut it here...................

Argentina Has a “City of Death” Thanks to Monsanto
Posted on August 10, 2016
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/08/argentina-city-death-monsanto.html