A new study, published in the Journal of Organic Systems, concludes (not for the first time, we might add), that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is likely to have something to do with the fact that over the past 20 years, we’ve seen “an alarming” increase in serious illnesses in the U.S. Not to mention a marked decrease in life expectancy.

The authors of the study, who include Andre Leu, president of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), point out the direct correlation between the introduction of Roundup and increases in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, strokes, neurological diseases,  obesity, asthma, behavior and learning problems, and chronic disease in children and young adults.

Coincidence? The scientists are clear that correlation does not necessarily equate with causation. But at the very least, they say, we should be taking a long, hard look at whether or not Roundup is making us sick.

Why isn’t that happening, despite this new study and the many that have come before it?

One reporter summed it up this way: “And as a scientist unconnected with Dr Swanson and her co-authors told GMWatch, if the issue of GM crops and their associated pesticides were not such a political and economic 'hot potato', such a rapid escalation in disease in a population would be investigated as an emergency priority.”

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