UN: Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, is not a cancer risk to humans.

[singular_me]

Another evidence that the ship must be abandoned ASAP
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In the ongoing battle over whether or not Monsanto’s pesticides are a cancer risk to humans, the United Nations has found that glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, is not a cancer risk to humans.

Experts with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released a statement claiming that glyphosate is “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans” exposed to it through food. The World Health Organization (WHO) co-signed the statement with the FAO. The organizations also found that glyphosate is not likely to be genotoxic, destructive to cell’s genetic material, in humans. The groups met last week and published their conclusions on Monday.’


United Nations Review Claims Monsanto’s Glyphosate Not Carcinogenic
18 May 2016 GMT
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/united-nations-review-claims-monsantos-glyphosate-not-carcinogenic.html

UN CONCLUSION
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1




Genetically engineered crops safe for humans and environment: Report
18 May 2016 GMT

‘Genetically engineered (GE) crops are safe for human consumption and pose no danger to environment, an extensive study reveals.

The results of the research, presented in a 420-page report titled “Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects”, were published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Tuesday. It took two years for more than 50 researchers to thoroughly and systematically delve into two decades of hefty literature written on the subject and come up with their final conclusions.’

“While recognizing the inherent difficulty of detecting subtle or long-term effects on health or the environment, the study committee found no substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops, nor did it find conclusive cause-and-effect evidence of environmental problems from the GE crops,” read the report.



http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/05/18/466138/Genetically-engineered-crops-National-Academies-of-Sciences-Engineering-and-Medicine

report
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23395/genetically-engineered-crops-experiences-and-prospects

[mick silver]

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?89770-New-Evidence-About-the-Dangers-of-Monsanto’s-Roundup

[monty]

Monsanto's Roundup must be safe, the UN and EPA said so. More bs from them.

[mick silver]

Group of Farmers Files Lawsuit Against Monsanto Claiming Roundup Gave Them All Cancer (http://www.blacklistednews.com/Group_of_Farmers_Files_Lawsuit_Against_Monsanto_Cl aiming_Roundup_Gave_Them_All_Cancer/51234/0/38/38/Y/M.html)A group of Nebraska farmers diagnosed with cancer is suing Monsanto, maker of agricultural chemicals and GMO seed. The farmers allege that glyphosate, the popular Monsanto herbicide, caused them to develop cancer and that the company intentionally misled the public about the dangers of the world’s most widely used herbicide

[singular_me]

no surprise here, right
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Conflict of interest? Members of UN panel on glyphosate have Monsanto ties
18 May, 2016 20:09

Two people on the UN panel that just ruled the herbicide glyphosate “unlikely” to cause cancer in humans have ties to groups that have accepted over $1 million from Monsanto and another industry group representing agrochemical giants.

The people in question are Professor Alan Boobis, chairman of the UN panel investigating glyphosate – the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and other similar products – and Professor Angelo Moretto, the panel’s co-chair, the Guardian reported.

Boobis is the vice president of the International Life Science Institute (ILSI Europe). Moretto, meanwhile, is a board member of ILSI’s Health and Environmental Sciences Institute and of its Risk21 steering group. Notably, Boobis is a co-chair of Risk21.

ILSI Europe accepted a donation of $500,000 from Monsanto back in 2012, according to a document released by the US Right to Know campaign. The group also accepted donations from CropLife – which represents agriculture companies such as Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and Syngenta – totaling more than $528,000.
https://www.rt.com/usa/343485-un-who-glyphosate-cancer-risks/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

[ximmy]

Monsanto is good.

Snopes says so...

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Monsanto-developed corn contains toxins that protect against insects and are harmful to humans? Claim: Studies have demonstrated that Monsanto-developed corn contains toxins that cause organ failure in rats and adverse effects in pregnant women. ... Monsanto has released its first ...



Monsanto Protection Act : snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/monsanto-protection-act/)www.snopes.com › Fact Check › BusinessSnopes.com


Does the Monsanto Protection Act create a 'precedent-setting limitation on judicial review of genetically-engineered crops'?



FALSE: Hillary Clinton Sat on Monsanto's Board : snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-sat-monsanto-board/)www.snopes.com › Fact Check › PoliticsSnopes.com


Feb 8, 2016 - Hillary Clinton never sat on Monsanto's board of directors, nor does she maintain any known fundraising ties with the agribusiness giant.



Zika Microcephaly Outbreak Caused by Monsanto Pesticide? - Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/zika-microcephaly-outbreak-pesticide/)www.snopes.com › Fact CheckSnopes.com


Feb 17, 2016 - An unsubstantiated theory suggesting a Monsanto pesticide caused an uptick in microcephaly births in Brazil reached a tipping point when it ...



Glyphosate Herbicide will Cause Half of All Children to Have ... - Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/glyphosate.asp)www.snopes.com › Fact Check › Medical › Toxin Du Jour




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The overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide on our food is causing glyphosate toxicity and it is now being considered as the single most important factor in ...



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Feb 18, 2016 - Archive of posts by tag: Monsanto. ... An unsubstantiated theory suggesting a Monsanto pesticide caused an uptick in microcephaly births in ...



Zika Virus Caused by GMO Mosquitos? : snopes.com (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiovayMsufMAhVq7IMKHZunACsQFgg_MAY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Fzika-virus-gmo-mosquitoes%2F&usg=AFQjCNEChJJBDslpbmsaGtt84xy6rx-7gQ)www.snopes.com › Fact Check




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Jan 29, 2016 - A number of speculative articles suggested without any proof that the Zika virus was transmitted by genetically modified mosquitoes.

[Neuro]

The ending of this video is phenomenal, the rest is just excellent...


http://youtu.be/vYhNryOPSJ0

[singular_me]

‘In yet one more example of how Monsanto will stop at nothing to achieve total domination of the food supply, the major agricultural corporation is now attempting to use its toxic product as leverage against the Argentinian government.

After a dispute between Monsanto and Argentina regarding the inspection of genetically modified soybeans, Monsanto has now announced that it intends to suspend future soybean technologies in Argentina. Monsanto’s move will leave many Argentine farmers who used the company’s biotech products without the new Xtend technology scheduled to be deployed in Argentina allegedly aimed at increasing soy yields as well as controlling glyphosate-resistant, broad-leaf weeds, another problem created by Monsanto itself.

The dispute centered around the fact that Monsanto was demanding that private exporting companies act as inspectors to ensure that agricultural products trademarked to the company (although even this is disputed by farmers) were not being sold. The Argentine government ruled that only the government had the authority to act as a food inspector.’
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/05/monsanto-threatens-argentina-over-recent-food-inspection-decision.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-tuT6a3Dk

[mick silver]

MONSANTO’S 50 YEARS OF DEATH FROM ABOVE AND BELOW IS ABOUT TO ENDSource: Who What Why (http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/05/20/monsantos-50-years-death-end/)

For over 20 years, Monsanto has exercised almost dictatorial control over American agriculture. But many people now believe the company is contaminating our food supply and destroying the environment–and public opinion has increasingly turned against the company.
Now, for the first time in those two decades, the number of acres planted with genetically modified (GMO) crops is down. Efforts to label GMO foods are gaining momentum. Family and community farms are taking off. Nearly 40 countries have banned GMO crops and use of Monsanto’s keystone product, Roundup (glyphosate), may not be re-approved by the Food and Drug Administration, while the European Union has done so on a restricted basis.
In marches across the world Saturday, May 21, critics plan to draw even more attention to the agriculture giant and its practices.
In this podcast, one of the leaders of the March Against Monsanto, Ronnie Cummins, speaks with WhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman about the company’s rise and potential fall. Cummins discusses these developments in the context of the social justice movement; the conversion to organic agriculture; and an end to factory farming that opponents contend both threatens public health and exacerbates global climate change.

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Monsanto Threatens Argentina Over Recent Food Inspection Decision
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By Brandon Turbeville (http://www.naturalblaze.com/tag/brandon-turbeville)http://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/monsanto_argentina.png
In yet one more example of how Monsanto will stop at nothing (http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/05/monsanto-ceo-has-feels-hurt-by-gmo-debate.html) to achieve total domination of the food supply, the major agricultural corporation is now attempting to use its toxic product as leverage against the Argentinian government.
After a dispute between Monsanto and Argentina regarding the inspection of genetically modified soybeans, Monsanto has now announced (http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/monsanto-soybean-argentina/) that it intends to suspend future soybean technologies in Argentina. Monsanto’s move will leave many Argentine farmers who used the company’s biotech products without the new Xtend technology scheduled to be deployed in Argentina allegedly aimed at increasing soy yields as well as controlling glyphosate-resistant, broad-leaf weeds, another problem created by Monsanto itself. The dispute centered around (http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/04/argentina-government-shows-signs-of-siding-with-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto.html) the fact that Monsanto was demanding that private exporting companies act as inspectors to ensure that agricultural products trademarked to the company (although even this is disputed by farmers) were not being sold. The Argentine government ruled that only the government (http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/04/monsanto-set-to-fight-argentina-over-royalties-owed-by-farmers.html) had the authority to act as a food inspector.
Monsanto said it was “disappointed” in the manner in which the direction the dispute has taken and that “the company plans to take measures to protect its current assets and will suspend launching any future soybean technologies in the country.”
Soybeans are Argentina’s main cash crop and the country is the number one exporter of soy mill livestock feed. Unfortunately Argentina farmers now rely heavily on Monsanto to produce those soybeans. Thus, the move by the corporation has sent many Argentinian farmers into panic mode.
Ultimately, Monsanto is one corporation who would be doing the world a favor by taking its ball and going home. Decades of environmental destruction, chronic health conditions and death – all direct results of Monsanto and its products – have left the company in a situation where it is hard-pressed to show one positive thing it has ever done for mankind. Indeed, it seems almost impossible for Monsanto to show one product that was at least not harmful.
Clearly, if the Argentine government does not back down from the multi-national bully, and does not take immediate and radical action, Monsanto will continue to hold its technology over the head of both the government and the people. Yet buckling to Monsanto and accepting the company’s required tribute as well as the preponderance of GMO food in Argentina should not be an option.
Regardless of the consequences of resisting Monsanto in the short term, they will far outweigh the consequences of knuckling under in the long term. As the world’s third largest exporter of raw soybeans, Argentina must respond by informing Monsanto that the corporation is in no position to bargain. The Argentine government must immediately prepare a program to rescue small farmers and deal accordingly with larger ones. Argentina must then begin to move forward on the transition from a GM-dependent form of agriculture to traditional production complete with a ban on open-air GMO cultivation for non-scientific purposes.
The Argentinian government must begin to use all of its resources to initiate a transitioning process from Monsanto’s GM soybeans to traditional methods of production. If Monsanto resists it should be reminded that it is the prerogative of national governments to seize foreign entities when national security is at stake. Certainly, the Argentinian food supply and its number one agricultural food export would fall under this category. It is time for Argentina to reassert its national sovereignty and provide its people and the rest of the world with what they both truly desire: clean food that is not beholden to vulturistic corporations.




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[palani]

Roundup is toxic because

1) it leads to production of genetically modified species that are immune or resistant to it

2) it leads to farmers able to purchase large machines to commit commerce on huge tracts of land to the exclusion of other individuals. Lazy farmers use chemicals and become cash cows. Farmers who don't use chemicals are limited to the amount of land they can mechanically cultivate. The economic scale shifts from many small farmers to a very few large farmers.

3) the cancer connection is that lazy farmers don't walk their fields. They ride. They don't manually hoe (sweat equity). They spray. They don't get exercise. They write checks.

[mick silver]

Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell Column: Economics (http://journal-neo.org/category/columns/economics/)
Region: USA in the World (http://journal-neo.org/category/locations/usa-in-the-world/)



http://journal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/journ.e.mondiale.contre.monsanto.and_.co_-300x225.jpg (http://journal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/journ.e.mondiale.contre.monsanto.and_.co_.jpg)In a world infected with a plethora of immoral multinational corporations, it is hard to think of two corporations who have more nefarious histories than Bayer AG and Monsanto. Considering this, it is a harrowing prospect that the two corporations could potentially strike a deal in the near future.As Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-12/bayer-said-to-explore-bid-for-40-billion-seed-company-monsanto) reported earlier this month, Bayer AG – the German pharmaceutical and chemical corporation – is reportedly considering a bid for the agrochemical and biotechnology corporation, Monsanto. This comes two months after Monsanto showed some interest (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayercropscience-m-a-monsanto-idUSKCN0WN1DH) in acquiring Bayer Crop Sciences, a branch of Bayer AG.Founded in 1863, Bayer may be familiar to many readers as the first company to widely sell and trademark Aspirin in the late nineteenth century. But there is a far more sinister history to this company that is often omitted.
The Inception of Chemical WarfareApril 22nd, 1915 is widely considered to be the first successful large-scale use of poison gas in warfare, when the Germany army deployed chlorine gas against the French lines at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres. In January of that year, German forces had released gas against Russian forces, yet the cold conditions inhibited the main agents in the weapon from having the desired impact.Even as far back as the First World War, Bayer was playing a major role in the development of Germany’s chemical weapons apparatus. Along with other German chemical giants at the time, Bayer (http://www.globalresearch.ca/poison-gas-during-world-war-i-bayer-still-refuses-to-take-responsibility/5445360) was a key player in producing and supplying the German army with chemical weapons during WWI (it should be noted that other powers were developing and deploying chemical weapons during the Great War, not just Germany).
Bayer and the Nazi War MachineFast-forward a decade or so, and Bayer was playing an integral part in amalgamating numerous chemical companies into one. The merger resulted in the creation of the most infamous chemical company in modern history – I.G. Farben. As the late Anthony C. Sutton – a former Economics Professor at California State University and Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution – wrote in his book, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler:“The Farben cartel dated from 1925, when organizing genius Hermann Schmitz (with Wall Street financial assistance) created the super-giant chemical enterprise out of six already giant German chemical companies – Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Weiler-ter-Meer and Griesheim-Elektron. There companies were merged to become I.G. Farben. Twenty years later the same Hermann Schmitz was put on trial at Nuremburg for war crimes committed by the I.G. cartel. Other I.G. Farben directors were placed on trial but the American affiliates of I.G. Farben and the American directors of I.G. itself were quietly forgotten; the truth was buried in the archives… Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II.”In more modern times, a division of Bayer was accused of ‘knowingly (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg)’ selling HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, and has paid millions in damages in legal settlements.
Brothers in DeathDuring the Vietnam War, Monsanto was contracted to produce and supply the US government with a malevolent chemical for military application. Along with other chemical corporations at the time such as Dow Chemical, Monsanto produced the military herbicide Agent Orange (http://www.globalresearch.ca/agent-orange-continues-to-poison-vietnam/13974) which contained high quantities of the deadly chemical Dioxin. Between 1961 and 1971, the US Army sprayed between 50 and 80 million litres of Agent Orange across Vietnamese jungles, forests and strategically advantageous positions.It was deployed in order to destroy forests and fertile lands which provided cover and food for the opposing troops. The fallout was devastating (http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/agent-orange), with Vietnam estimating that 400,000 people died or were maimed due to Agent Orange, as well as 500,000 children born with birth defects and up to two million people suffered from cancer and other diseases. Millions of US veterans were also exposed and many have developed similar illnesses. The consequences are still felt today, and will continue to be felt for decades to come; with cancer rates, birth defects and other diseases (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCqok_UvwY0#t=15) still causing devastation to the victims and their families.And today, Monsanto is still involved in producing chemical poison. Last year, the World Health Organisations (WHO) cancer agency – the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – conducted a study on glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most widely used weedkiller in the world, Monsanto’s Roundup – which is heavily sprayed on GMO crops. The IARC study revealed that glyphosate was “classified as probablycarcinogenic to humans (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/roundup-weed-killer-can-probably-cause-cancer-warns-who-10124812.html)”.Given the history of these corporations and the atrocities they have been complicit in, the last sector they should be involved in is the agricultural industry.Steven MacMillan is an independent writer, researcher, geopolitical analyst and editor of The Analyst Report (http://www.theanalystreport.net/), especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/).
http://journal-neo.org/2016/05/21/bayer-and-monsanto-a-marriage-made-in-hell/