{"id":337,"date":"2011-02-19T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/germans-document-glysophate-poisoning.html"},"modified":"2011-02-19T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:40:34","slug":"germans-document-glysophate-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/germans-document-glysophate-poisoning.html","title":{"rendered":"Germans document glysophate poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mqXId_-dTbw\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/mqXId_-dTbw\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe promise of Roundup:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;No tilling, just seed, spray, and harvest.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nAdriana Alvarez, who lives next door to an Argentinia GM soy field, says:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;They came from this side and sprayed the entire field.\nHere he turns, spraying all the time.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nThe farmer was wearing a mask.\nThat&#8217;s more than no-till farmers around here do.\n<p>\nInteresting statistic that in Argentina\nsoy production increased\n35-fold between\n1996 and 2003\nwhile Roundup use increased\n56 times.\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/10\/got-cotton-in-your-pigweed.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5069547662_5e7d95830c_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nAnd eventually it doesn&#8217;t work at all, because it breeds resistant weeds.\nIn Georgia it took only ten years to produce\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/10\/got-cotton-in-your-pigweed.html\">mutant pigweed<\/a>\nthat not just Roundup but not even paraquat can kill.\nMany farmers are realizing that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/pigweed-dont-let-it-come-up.html\">\nit&#8217;s cheaper, more effective, and more profitable to plow the weed under\nin the fall and plant a winter cover crop.<\/a>\nEven mutant weeds are not resistant to cold steel.\n<p>\nThe documentary points out many products in German stores that\ninclude GM soy.\nIn Argentina, it&#8217;s even worse, with increasing numbers of birth defects.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqXId_-dTbw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/glysophate-monsantos-roundup-causes-birth-defects-argentine-scientist.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.com\/images\/carrasco.jpg\"><\/a>\nThey interview\nProf. Andr&eacute;s Carrasco about his research on amphibians:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;The hemispheres do not separate, like you can see here.\nIf you look closely you can see one brain.\nGlyphosate can cause this kind of mechanisms, for it is an enzymatic toxin.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMonsanto refused an interview,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsanto.com.ar\/\">\nresponding in writing:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/we-couldnt-do-agriculture-in-argentina.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.monsanto.com.ar\/generic_content\/images\/logo_monsanto.jpg\"><\/a>\n&#8220;Monsanto is convinced of the safety and usefullness of its products\nand its contribution to efficacious agriculture.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nAs Dr. Carrasco\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/glysophate-monsantos-roundup-causes-birth-defects-argentine-scientist.html\">\nhas been known to say:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Son hip\u00f3critas, cipayos de las corporaciones, pero tienen miedo.\nSaben que no pueden tapar el sol con la mano.&#8221;\n<p>\n&#8220;They are hypocrites, those corporate lackeys, but they are afraid.\nThey know they can&#8217;t cover the sun with their hand.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture-environnement.fr\/spip.php?article692\">\n<img align=\"right\" border=0\nwidth=\"157\" height=\"119\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture-environnement.fr\/IMG\/jpg_serallini.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe documentarians interviewed\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/glysophate-effects-on-humans-international-studies.html\">\nGilles-Eric Seralini<\/a> in Caen, France.\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;To human cells glyphosate is already toxic in a very low dose.\nA farmer uses a much higher dose on the field.\nRoundup is even more toxic than glysophate,\nfor that is only one of the ingredients in Roundup.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nRoundup says none of this applies to humans and Roundup is safe.\nSeralini <a href=\"http:\/\/verdeando.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/dr-gilles-eric-seralini-experto-de-la.html\">\nsays:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Transgenics are toxic for human health.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/monsanto-made-fox-rewrite-80-times-about-rbgh-in-florida-cows.html\">\n<img align=\"right\" border=0\nwidth=\"54\" height=\"61\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.foxbghsuit.com\/akreonstand.jpg\"><\/a>\nThis is the same Monsanto that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/monsanto-made-fox-rewrite-80-times-about-rbgh-in-florida-cows.html\">\nmade Fox rewrite 80 times<\/a> about RBGH in Florida cows.\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/11\/france-rounds-up-monsanto.html\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=0 width=\"98\" height=\"40\" src=\"http:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/_img\/logo.gif\"><\/a>\nThe same Monsanto that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/11\/france-rounds-up-monsanto.html\">\nwas convicted by the French Supreme Court<\/a> of lying about leaving the soil clean.\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/monsanto-fined-25-million.html\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.epameetings.com\/images\/epa_logo.gif\"><\/a>\nThe same Monsanto that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/monsanto-fined-25-million.html\">\nwas fined $2.5 million by the U.S. EPA<\/a> for\nselling genetically modified cotton seeds without labeling them as such.\n<p>\nWho should you believe?\nA corporation repeatedly convicted of deception,\nor scientists who say that GM crops\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/03\/liver-and-kidney-damage-gm-crops.html\">\ncause liver and kidney damage in animals<\/a>,\naccording to research using Monsanto&#8217;s own data.\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-biotech-bully-of-st-louis-is-having-a-bad-year.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0\nwidth=\"160\" height=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/monsanto-skull-and-bones1-320x279.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe Roundup-spraying farmer said:\n<blockquote>\nRoundup, mas algo! mas algo!\n<p>\nRoundup, more and more!\n<\/blockquote>\nIt&#8217;s time to say:\n<blockquote>\nYa basta!\n<p>\nEnough already!\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Credits to <a href=\"http:\/\/gmwatch.org\/latest-listing\/1-news-items\/12890-german-tv-report-on-gm-toxic-soy-in-animal-feed\">\nthe German TV consumer series &#8216;plus minus&#8217;<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdr.de\/tv\/markt\/team\/detlef_flintz.jsp\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.wdr.de\/tv\/markt\/team\/img\/02_Flintz_Detlef-nah.jpg\"><\/a>\nBericht<br>\nD. Flintz<br>\nM. Rauck<br>\nKamera<br>\nJ. Fenske<br>\nC. K&uuml;lt&uuml;r<br>\nJ. Mid&uacute;<br>\nSchnitt<br>\nH. Bischoff<br>\nE. Elsner\n<\/blockquote>\nGM toxic soy in animal feed broadcast\n(\u00a9 WDR) by\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdr.de\/tv\/markt\/team\/detlef_flintz.jsp\">\nDetlef Flintz<\/a> and Mathias Rauck.\nTranslation and highlighting provided by TraceConsult.\nBroadcast Tue, 08 Feb. 2011 | 9:50 PM.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The promise of Roundup: &#8220;No tilling, just seed, spray, and harvest.&#8221; Adriana Alvarez, who lives next door to an Argentinia GM soy field, says: &#8220;They came from this side and sprayed the entire field. Here he turns, spraying all the time.&#8221; The farmer was wearing a mask. That&#8217;s more than no-till farmers around here do. 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