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Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state owned rail operator, is the country’s largest user of the toxic weedkiller glyphosate. Earlier this month, in a move that is great news, they announced they will STOP USING GLYPHOSATE and look instead for environmentally friendly alternative such as UV lights, hot water or electric shock. Deutsche Bahn typically purchases around 65 tons of the herbicide annually. Classified as most likely carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, Germany’s Environmental Minister Svenja Schulze was pleased upon hearing the news, telling WirtschaftsWoche: “Glyphosate kills insects which is why we are going to ban it in Germany.“1 RELATED STORY: […]
[…]Grain Problem Since commercial wheat and other grains today are NOT GMO plants, a direct spraying of an herbicide containing glyphosate would kill them. So how are these grains ending up with glyphosate residues in them? Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, explains why: There are two reasons that a farmer wants to [use glyphosate on non-GMO crops]. It is for late season weed control in situations where he has patches of green weeds in the field that came up late. [This is commonly done with wheat and barley.] It is a little slower to harvest […]
[…]Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, in food.”1Cur Although the bill would only ban late-harvest spraying of glyphosate on oats and require the federal government to test popular kids foods for the herbicide that’s been linked to cancer, it’s a start in the right direction. And it’s about time. Key provisions in DeLauro’s bill include:1 Prohibiting the spraying of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent on oats. Lowering by 300-fold the permissible level of glyphosate residues on oats, restoring the legally allowed level to just 0.1 parts per million, or ppm. Requiring the Department of Agriculture to regularly test fruits, vegetables and other […]
[…]Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, 46, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma after years of spraying school grounds in Benicia with a concentrated brand of the same herbicide. A judge later reduced Johnson’s damages to $78.5 million. Monsanto is appealing. Unlike Johnson, whose doctors have described his illness as terminal, Hardeman’s cancer is in remission. He testified that he sprayed Roundup for nearly 30 years to kill poison oak on his 56-acre tract in Forestville, often feeling the liquid on his hands or inhaling it.”1 A shame no one clued him in that this causes cancer. We’ve been writing about this for years. […]
[…]of drinking the highest amounts of the poison, and eating it in food, and living near a farm or spraying it in your yard- it adds up. And this is not math you want to contend with. Some of the companies tested told USA TODAY that the presence of the herbicide in “trace amounts” was beyond their control. (Others contested the accuracy of the study.) “Organic winery Frey Vineyards noted that, while no herbicides ‘have ever been used’ in its farming practices, ‘glyphosate in trace amounts is now found in rainwater because of its application to conventionally farmed agricultural land. […]
[…]and Virginia. RELATED STORY: CNN: Bees can be taught to add and subtract Speaking about the spraying, Nathan Donley, a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity said it was “beyond the pale”1 that during “a time of global insect decline”1 that this would take place. He went on to say, “The EPA is routinely misusing the ’emergency’ process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it’s too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews. The EPA is far too eager to find loopholes to approve harmful pesticides when it should be focusing on keeping people and wildlife safe from those pesticides. […]
[…]of dirty black water washes over it. RELATED STORY: NBC: Florida Fish & Wildlife to stop spraying Roundup Statewide Sadly, that actually happened and was filmed by a resident at West Avenue and Sixth Street in Miami. And it shows just how much of a problem exists; “during former Mayor Philip Levine’s tenure, the city installed stormwater pumps capable of sucking streets dry and preventing flooding. But critics — and scientists — say the pumps also deposit dirt, debris, oil runoff, dog excrement, and pesticides into Biscayne Bay.”1 Disgusting. How this is allowed to go on boggles the mind. How […]
[…]and environmentalists are rightly ecstatic. After all, FWC has been spraying more than a dozen classes of herbicide, including Roundup, to kill plants in our waterways1 for a long time. RELATED STORY: Reuters: Bayer asks California judge to suppress evidence in another Roundup cancer trial According to environmentalists, the spraying may be contributing to the state’s algae problem and fueling the red tide. However, at Lake Okeechobee, anglers say there’s another issue: the fish. RELATED STORY: Florida man does stunning rap about red tide and big sugar. Must watch. FWC says it will hold several public meetings so officials can gather […]
[…]grocery stores is like going on a field trip to the pharmacist, but another concern is how this spraying will “affect bees, which pollinate citrus flowers, as well as small mammals like rabbits. In the environment, antibiotics can change the chemistry of soil and water, knocking ecosystems out of balance.”5 RELATED STORY: How dirt could save humanity from an infectious apocalypse In the hopes of combating that issue, agricultural officials and growers will cycle between different antibiotics. But Keep Antibiotics Working says there’s no good science to show that would work and according to Donley, these drugs are nothing more than “a really […]
[…]we can stop it, make your voice heard. This very compelling 20-second time-lapse video of aerosol spraying in Yosemite National Park was taken on December 12th, 2018. Video footage credit: Chris Falkenstein RELATED STORY: Could Northern California’s “Wildfires” Be Directly Related To Geoengineering? *Article originally appeared at Geoengineering Watch. Reposted with […]
[…]the entire food system. But it doesn’t stop there for Bayer-Monsanto. The widespread practice of spraying glyphosate on wheat pre-harvest, is causing mass contamination of many food products like children’s breakfast cereals. So now, the companies using grain contaminated with glyphosate are being taken to court too. General Mill’s was the first in a multitude of this type of class action lawsuit for allowing glyphosate into products like Cheerios.”2 As we have said (and done- always gotta lead by example) many times over the last couple of years, we have the power to change our world and sometimes it’s as […]
[…]sewage contaminates our food supply As part of the 503 rule, the EPA allows for “the spreading, spraying, injection, or incorporation of sewage sludge” on cropland, including in areas where children play, even though it contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, various mutagenic and neurotoxic chemicals, and even pharmaceutical drug residues, all of which are classified by the EPA as “primary pollutants.” EPA tries to destroy Dr. Lewis for telling the ugly truth about biosludge Even so, the EPA has declared all of these primary pollutants to be “safe,” so long as they’re bound within the biosludge that’s being […]
[…]Medical Journal Nature.com read by millions per day worldwide!) which promotes the idea of spraying the stratosphere to “dim” the sun and is sick enough to state that it’s “only going to cost us just under ten BILLION dollars per year). WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR THE TRUTH! Zhen Dai, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her colleagues are currently testing whether or not calcium carbonate could potentially help our fight against global warming caused by greenhouse gas pollution. “The idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by […]
[…]and in various parts of Europe including Italy, France, Belgium, and Berlin. Precision pesticide-spraying—‘holistic’ and ‘sustainable’? Bayer describes its ForwardFarming project as “an initiative that works with independent farms around the world to help advance sustainable agriculture.” So, what is it exactly that Bayer is doing that’s sustainable? Promoting GPS technology that helps farmers spray pesticides with precision, glyphosate included. According to Bayer’s website, “digital farming techniques, such as GPS informed precision spraying . . . are all demonstrated on the fam.” These tools allow farmers “to take a holistic approach to sustainable farming.” Holistic approach? Don’t be fooled by […]
[…]levels, suggesting the origin is plant-based. ‘We know that glyphosate is only certified for spraying on crops, and it does not bio-accumulate in animals, so we would not expect it to come from feed animals that are the main protein sources in some of the products,’ Dr Hay said. ‘Our evidence suggests that it’s coming from plant material.’ The researchers said they were surprised that glyphosate was detected in the one GMO-free product tested. While the US Department of Agriculture requires that companies meet a common standard for meat and poultry that claims to be ‘Non-GMO’, the same is not […]
[…]Kitahata wrote. ). RELATED STORY: ‘Safer than table salt,’ Except it’s carcinogenic After spraying Roundup and a similar product at his job- for years- Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42. While many government regulators have rejected a link between the weed killer’s active ingredient glyphosate and cancer, the chemical was labeled as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the IARC in March of […]
[…]He’s taken almost $700,000 from Publix and he demanded mayors keep quiet about the spraying of Naled in our state, he’s a bad man.) Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been pointing out the part that Big Sugar has played in what’s happening to the ecosystem in Florida. And so have many others. In fact, you would think that politicians would be smarter about taking money from them. But no. At least not this guy. “This campaign season, only one person running for governor is still taking sugar’s money: Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. So far sugar companies and their affiliates have […]
[…]Francisco Bay Area school district, Johnson often used Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro, spraying “large quantities from a 50-gallon tank attached to a truck, and during gusty winds, the product would cover his face.” And at one point, when a hose broke, the poisonous weed killer soaked his entire body. Another time Johnson developed a rash and contacted the company but was never warned it could cause cancer. RELATED STORY: Day 6: Monsanto’s Head of Consumer Safety explains why he never returned plaintiff’s phone calls Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42. Something George […]
[…]new places and to stay alive for longer periods of time. We don’t want to have to resort to spraying potentially harmful pesticides over large swaths of land to kill mosquitoes, or quarantining people who enter the country from certain parts of the world, or exposing our children to vaccines that haven’t been tested thoroughly.” The combination of higher risks of flooding with an early spring, milder temperatures, growing populations of ticks and Lyme infected mice and more people being more active outdoors, may increase the number of people infected with Lyme disease. RELATED STORY: Professor and her students may […]
[…]noticed pustulating lesions sprouting on the patches of his skin that were exposed while he was spraying Roundup on a school playground, our Plaintiff, the naively trusting Dewayne Johnson, reached out, not to the EPA, but to Monsanto to find out if there was any possible connection between Roundup and his skin rash. Goldstein ignored the call. He testified that under normal circumstances, his “custom and practice… would be to try and contact the patient myself.” He elected however to stonewall Johnson. A year later when Johnson left another message reporting his cancer diagnosis, Goldstein continued to ignore the calls. Goldstein […]
