{"id":5206,"date":"2016-05-25T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/blog\/wake-and-smell-poison\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:12:00","slug":"wake-and-smell-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/wake-and-smell-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up and Smell the Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched<\/a> last year by The Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed.<\/p>\n

A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results<\/a>, announced yesterday (May 25, 2016).<\/p>\n

What makes that figure even more alarming is that many of you who sent in urine samples for testing probably eat more organic than non-organic food. Which suggests that either your organic food has been contaminated and\/or you\u2019re being exposed to glyphosate via unknown sources.<\/p>\n

Worse yet? Children had the highest levels.<\/p>\n

The testing, carried out by a laboratory at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), was the first-ever comprehensive and validated LC\/MS\/MS testing project<\/a> to be carried out across America. According to the results, people who live in the west and mid-west tested higher than those living in other regions of the country.<\/p>\n

It’s way past time for the world to wake up and smell the poison.<\/p>\n

Even before glyphosate, the most-used herbicide<\/a> in the world, was labeled a \u2018probable human carcinogen<\/a>\u2019 by the World Health Organization\u2019s cancer agency IARC in 2015, the chemical, prevalent in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup herbicide, was under fire from scientists who say the chemical makes us sick<\/a>. Internal documents reveal<\/a> that Monsanto has known this all along.<\/p>\n

Despite the warnings, in 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA), under pressure from Monsanto, raised the allowed limits for glyphosate residue on fruits and vegetables. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), claiming pesticide residues are \u201csafe,\u201d doesn\u2019t test<\/a> for glyphosate residue on food.<\/p>\n

Only recently has the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) said<\/a> it will begin testing human food for glyphosate. The FDA is a bit late to the testing party. Independent testing has already found glyphosate in many foods<\/a>. It\u2019s also been found in breast milk<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

The endocrine-disrupting<\/a> (and more) chemical is even in your beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there are glimmers of hope that at least some parts of the world are waking up<\/a> to the obvious dangers associated with poisoning our food, our ecosystem and ourselves. The European Commission has so far rejected<\/a> Monsanto\u2019s bid to renew its licensing of glyphosate in the EU.<\/p>\n

Glyphosate is also up for renewal in the U.S. The EPA, amid controversy<\/a> and under pressure<\/a>, is stalling.<\/p>\n

What progress has been made so far, in exposing the dangers of Roundup and glyphosate and taking steps to ban it, have resulted from people power. In October, we\u2019ll take that people power to the next level, when we expose Monsanto\u2019s crimes at the Monsanto Tribunal<\/a>, a citizen\u2019s tribunal that will be held October 15-16 in The Hague, Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Read the Detox Project glyphosate testing press release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA: Don\u2019t Re-Up Roundup!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Support the Monsanto Tribunal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Katherine Paul is associate director of the Organic Consumers Association<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by The Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed.
 
A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced yesterday (May 25, 2016).
 
What makes that figure even more alarming is that many of you who sent in urine samples for testing probably eat more organic than non-organic food. Which suggests that either your organic food has been contaminated and\/or you\u2019re being exposed to glyphosate via unknown sources.
 
Worse yet? Children had the highest levels.
 
The testing, carried out by a laboratory at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), was the first-ever comprehensive and validated LC\/MS\/MS testing project to be carried out across America. According to the results, people who live in the west and mid-west tested higher than those living in other regions of the country.
 
It’s way past time for the world to wake up and smell the poison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1026],"tags":[7,8],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[160],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWake Up and Smell the Poison - 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\/wake-and-smell-poison\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wake Up and Smell the Poison - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by The Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed. A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced yesterday (May 25, 2016). What makes that figure even more alarming is that many of you who sent in urine samples for testing probably eat more organic than non-organic food. 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