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Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday.
Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds
Seeded on Wed Jun 8, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
Article Source: The Huffington Post
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I am not surprised at this at all. It only works as an herbicide each time your spray it, you must re-use it every year and those chemicals just build up then eventually show up in our water supply. Just like DDT, crap that kills us eventually.
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#3 - Wed Jun 8, 2011 4:09 PM EDTDon't forget that thing called bio-magnification, the closer you are to the top of the food chain, the more accumulation... God sometimes I hate all the information that is cramed into my head!
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Far from the first time a product has been released that was already proven to be hazardous to our health.
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#4 - Wed Jun 8, 2011 4:16 PM EDTI am positive that health departments that have clusters of cancer patients will find that most of these cases are in areas of high chemical spraying...they are like the tobacco industry polluters that need to stop
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#6 - Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:00 AM EDTMy physician (occupational/environmental physician UCSF) is also engaged with Cal state public health. Having been sprayed in the face with Round-up and Oxyflourfen, and already suffering with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity... during my consult, he zeroed in on pesticide application in rural communities and resulting injuries. He agrees ... more attention needs to be paid to the deleterious health effects caused by Monsanto and their deadly untested chemical combinations.
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My sister developed breast cancer after handling her husbands clothes before putting them in the washing machines. You almost needed a mask in order to do the laundry. He was a custom sprayer using these same chemicals.
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We need to explore ways of protecting ourselves and share information providing education for ourselves and others.
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