Monsanto created glyphosate and put it on the market for sale under the name Roundup in 1974. Roundup took off in the late 1990s because they introduced genetically modified seeds that could withstand the high levels of Roundup. Now, farmers can control weeds easier on their crops.
In order to sell more, Monsanto also inspired farmers to utilize the herbicide as a desiccant, to wither out their crops to harvest them quicker. Roundup is commonly showered on a variety of non genetically modified crops; and this includes barley, canola, wheat, lentils, flax, dry beans, soybeans, sugar cane, and peas.
Monsanto has also lied about data researched on the safety of Roundup and advertised it to consumers and park departments claiming it was suitable for the environment and biodegradable so people would use the herbicide on playgrounds, roadsides, schoolyards, golf courses, home gardens, and lawns. A court in French has determined Monsanto’s marketing assertions to be false advertising.
For the past twenty years, scientists have been researching the health impacts of glyphosate in our food, Roundup, air, where children play, and the water everyone drinks. There have been several lawsuits filed against Roundup for causing the following and more health issues.
1.AUTISM
Glyphosate has several acknowledged biological impacts that correlate with recognized genetics linked to autism. In 2015, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence reported that half of the children in America would be born on the autism spectrum within the next decade.
For example, glyphosate could transport to breast milk and create adverse health effects for both the mother and the baby. Research has found higher levels of glyphosate in 3 out of ten breast milk samples. This points to the chemical being used on GMO crops and eventually increases in human tissue over a while.
Also, our stomach bacteria supplies our body with essential amino acids. Roundup wipes out the necessary bacteria and enables germs to multiply. This hinders the fusion of amino acids, including methionine, and that can point to deficiencies in important neurotransmitters and folate. Roundup can also kill essential minerals including cobalt, iron, and manganese. These signs and symptoms are generally found in autistic children, zinc and iron shortages and seizures also suggest excessive risk to glyphosate.
2.BIRTH DEFECTS
The glyphosate in Roundup can confuse the Vitamin A indicative route, which is extremely important for typical fetal development. A study from Paraguay shows babies of females that live within a kilometer of farmlands showered with glyphosate are more than double the chance of having congenital disabilities. Ingrained defects quadrupled ten years after crops sprayed with Roundup Ready came to Chaco, an Argentinian province where glyphosate is applied around eight to ten times more per unit of area than in the United States.
The in-depth research of an American farming family showed higher levels of congenital disabilities and glyphosate in children; this includes growth hormone shortages, an imperforate anus, a micropenis, hypospadias, and a heart flaw.
3.CANCER
Surveys from 65,000 Argentine people in rural areas where Roundup is sprayed, almost known as fumigated towns, detected cancer rates are two to four times elevated than the public average, including boosts in prostate, lung, and breast cancers. They compared two villages; in the town where Roundup was used, 31% of tenants reported having a family with cancer. In the town where Roundup was not used, only 3% of tenants reported having a family member with cancer.
Research has shown that glyphosate has a recognized ability to activate DNA corruption, and this is why those exposed to the chemical have higher cancer rates.
4.CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
Elevations in glyphosate use can clarify the recent wave of agricultural farmers in India, Central America, and Sri Lanka reporting kidney failure. Farmers exposed to glyphosate are five times more likely to get chronic kidney disease as opposed to those that were not. Over 20,000 people in the past twenty years, including men as young as in their early twenties, have died from this form of fatal kidney malady.
Scientists have determined that glyphosate alone is not the reason for the widespread disease, but it does kill the renal flesh of thousands of workers when it fashions compounds with nephrotoxic metals and hard water. However, one victim interviewed by NPR claims that it was the chemicals because he feels like he is burning, has low blood pressure, and gets dizzy often.
5.PARKINSON’S DISEASE
The brain-damaging impacts of glyphosate have been acknowledged to be the primary environmental cause connected to neurodegenerative complications, which includes Parkinson’s disease. Exposure to glyphosate resulting in onset Parkinson’s has been thoroughly researched and lab tests point to the chemical leading to the cell death trait of the disease.
