{"id":34216,"date":"2013-06-09T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=34216"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:47:40","slug":"article_27692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_27692\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horrific Truth About Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup Herbicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/gelink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genetic Engineering page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/monsanto\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millions Against Monsanto page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Issues page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"271\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_AHLDXF5aw?feature=player_embedded\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, we&#8217;ve learned some very disturbing truths about glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto&#8217;s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, which is generously doused on genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready crops.<\/p>\n<p>GE crops are typically far more contaminated with glyphosate than conventional crops, courtesy of the fact that they&#8217;re engineered to withstand extremely high levels of Roundup without perishing along with the weed.<\/p>\n<p>A new peer-reviewed report authored by Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant, and a long time contributor to the Mercola.com Vital Votes Forum, and\u00a0 Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reveals how glyphosate wrecks human health.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview above, Dr. Seneff summarizes the two key problems caused by glyphosate in the diet:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Nutritional deficiencies\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022Systemic toxicity<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Horrific Truth about Roundup<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, a French court found <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/11\/21\/France-Finds-Monsanto-Guilty-of-Lying.aspx\">Monsanto guilty of lying<\/a>; falsely advertising its <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/01\/15\/dr-don-huber-interview-part-2.aspx\">Roundup<\/a> herbicide as &#8220;biodegradable,&#8221; &#8220;environmentally friendly&#8221; and claiming it &#8220;left the soil clean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mounting evidence now tells us just how false such statements are. I don&#8217;t believe that Monsanto is one of the most evil companies on the planet for nothing. The company has done absolutely nothing to improve their worldwide influence on human and environmental health.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, we&#8217;ve learned some very disturbing truths about glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto&#8217;s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, which is generously doused on genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7,8,24],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Horrific Truth About Monsanto&#039;s Roundup Herbicide - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_27692\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Horrific Truth About Monsanto&#039;s Roundup Herbicide - 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