🚀 go-pugleaf

Fuck American citizenship.  If I was an illegal, I'd be hiring a 
lawyer and suing the fuck out of Monsanto for poisoning me as a 
farm worker.

April 25 (Reuters) - Heavy use of the world's most popular 
herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health 
problems and diseases, including Parkinson's, infertility and 
cancers, according to a new study.

The peer-reviewed report, published last week in the scientific 
journal Entropy, said evidence indicates that residues of 
"glyphosate," the chief ingredient in Roundup weed killer, which 
is sprayed over millions of acres of crops, has been found in 
food.

Those residues enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne 
chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt 
normal body functions and induce disease, according to the 
report, authored by Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a 
retired science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc. Samsel is 
a former private environmental government contractor as well as 
a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly 
over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout 
the body," the study says.

We "have hit upon something very important that needs to be 
taken seriously and further investigated," Seneff said.

Environmentalists, consumer groups and plant scientists from 
several countries have warned that heavy use of glyphosate is 
causing problems for plants, people and animals.

The EPA is conducting a standard registration review of 
glyphosate and has set a deadline of 2015 for determining if 
glyphosate use should be limited. The study is among many 
comments submitted to the agency.

Monsanto is the developer of both Roundup herbicide and a suite 
of crops that are genetically altered to withstand being sprayed 
with the Roundup weed killer.

These biotech crops, including corn, soybeans, canola and 
sugarbeets, are planted on millions of acres in the United 
States annually. Farmers like them because they can spray 
Roundup weed killer directly on the crops to kill weeds in the 
fields without harming the crops.

Roundup is also popularly used on lawns, gardens and golf 
courses.

Monsanto and other leading industry experts have said for years 
that glyphosate is proven safe, and has a less damaging impact 
on the environment than other commonly used chemicals.

Jerry Steiner, Monsanto's executive vice president of 
sustainability, reiterated that in a recent interview when 
questioned about the study.

"We are very confident in the long track record that glyphosate 
has. It has been very, very extensively studied," he said.

Of the more than two dozen top herbicides on the market, 
glyphosate is the most popular. In 2007, as much as 185 million 
pounds of glyphosate was used by U.S. farmers, double the amount 
used six years ago, according to Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) data.

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