I grew up on a farm. I never trusted it.
This is why. Unlike a normal week killer, glyphosate is used in combination with genetic modification of soybeans (as well as other crops now).
The plants are made "roundup resistant".In other words you spray it on the beans and the plants take it into their systems but it does not kill the plant. So the end product (the soybeans, for example) has the glyphosate in it. When you eat the beans or bean products (such as Tofu, for example, or any soy based proteins or oils), you are also eating glyphosate. Quite frankly, it did not make a lot of sense to me that I should be eating weed killer.
Monsanto always claimed the weed killer would not hurt a human, but I always figured that was a lot of BS. How could they know? They never ran any long term studies on it. What they did know is that using this product in combination with genetically modified beans increased yields so they were able to sell the idea to a lot of farmers. They did not just sell the weed killer, but they also were able to sell their roundup ready genetically modified seed beans
Once they got the beans into the environment, they then set out to more or less force all farmers to buy them because the genetics were in the bio-system and they used heavy handed tactics of suing farmers who did not buy their seed beans from them. They would send geneticists out to the fields to collect samples and if they could find the genetics in a crop where the seed beans had not been purchased from them they sued the farmer for patent violations In short, they were an evil bunch to say the least. .I could give you example after example of things they did all over the world which were not kosher.
Now, here is the second problem.
Some farmers in Scotland started using it as a late spray on non-gmo crops to allow for earlier harvests. Once this happened many farmers all over the world started doing it.
Read this article. It explains it well.
healthimpactnews.com
The above reasons are why the damn weed killer is in almost everything we eat. Its almost impossible to avoid it completely.
Russia did some studies back in the 1990s and came to the conclusion that roundup ready soybeans used with roundup resulted in high increases of cancer in rats and mice and they since been against the use of glyphosate on their human food crops. .
Now, I have never thought we should be eating soy anyway. When I was a youngster, we were taught that soy was for animal consumption only. That it was not fit for human consumption.
First of all, when males eat soy, it increases the production of estrogen in their bodies (same with women). Is it any wonder that so many young males are now growing up thinking they are a woman trapped in a man's body? .Soy is now fed to babies in formula and is in the food chain to a very large degree. In Asia, where the consumption of soy is huge, there is an explosion of this occurring. In Japan, there is now a problem of males being uninterested in mating with females. There have been many articles written about this, but no one seems to be bright enough to realize why. Or they do realize it, and no one is talking?
At the same time they tell menopausal females to eat more soy to help with estrogen production, they completely ignore that the fact that males are eating this as well. So you now have effeminate "soy boys" all over Asia and the world and the sociologists are trying to tell us this is normal behavior. Maybe it is to an ignorant dumbed down population, but it isn't to anyone to learned agriculture during my generation. We knew this back in the 1950s and 1960s. |
