Is Monsanto’s Roundup Linked to Autism?
In recent years, many of us have become very concerned about the amount of genetically-modified food being consumed by Americans, young and old. Many of us now only plant with non-hybrid, non-GMO seeds, but due to the lack of GMO labeling, we have probably eaten corn, soy and other products grown from GMO seeds.
One of the ways that GMO king Monsanto helps farmers “protect” their crops from diseases that can limit yield is with Roundup, the trade name for a herbicide used to kill weeds that can damage widely consumed commercial crops such as corn and soy.
The active ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate, which is the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. agricultural sector and the second most widely used herbicide in home gardens. The World Health Organization has said that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic in humans,” but that doesn’t stop the government from getting into bed with Monsanto.
So, is Roundup really dangerous, or are the levels of toxicity so low that it doesn’t matter? Well, Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., who has published more than 170 scholarly peer-reviewed articles and is now concentrating on the relationship between nutrition and health, has made a stunning statement. Here it is:
“At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.”
She bases her statement on the fact that the side effects of autism closely mimic those of glyphosate toxicity. Her data show a remarkably consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO seeds) with rising rates of autism. Children with autism have signs of excessive glyphosate, including zinc and iron deficiency, low serum sulfate, seizures, and mitochondrial disorder.
I’m not a scientist, so I can’t make the same claims that Seneff does. But just the fact that a scholar is suggesting this connection with autism is enough to reinforce my beliefs that we should not stick with genetically modified seeds and foods.
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This is good that you’re talking about this. It is more evil than you know. However, instead of “talking about it” why don’t you start a petition against Monsanto! Get a couple million signatures! DO SOMETHING!
I have been using Roundup since the 1st day on the market!! I am 86 years old and we had 4 children and they NEVER had s single illness other than tonsillitus! I still use it in my yard and garden!
It is a bunch of BUNK!!
Hi Norma,
If I may share some facts with you, there is written evidence glyphosate is a known cancer-causing ingredient. Please reconsider using Roundup if not for you than for the safety of your relatives and nearby neighbors who could get affected.
Here is an evil idea, sad but true. A company known for its herbicide has created a product that will poison the ground in such a way that only GMO plants that this company has designed to withstand the poison herbicide will survive. This means that over time, your ground is poisoned and you will need to purchase from this very same company the GMO plants that it has to offer that will survive in the poisoned ground for no other plants will grow there.
Now isn’t that just peachy? It is for this reason non-GMO plants are so important to the world. Why would you want something free and clear; something that you can do for yourself, when you can spend your hard earned money on plants that were designed to grow in poisoned ground? Just hand over your cash and watch this company grow by leaps and bounds. After all, this is the American dream, isn’t it?
I told you that this is sad, but, true. Oh sure, you spend only a few dollars for your garden each year. I guess you have the money to throw away be it $30.00, $50.00, or even $100.00. It adds up over time and you are adding to the profit margin of this company. So, I guess everybody is happy, or are they.
I like growing my own with what nature has given us. It is cheap, when I save the seeds and a real joy to watch something that I had a part in growing then eating. I don’t know about you, but, I use natural insects to act as my herbicide and soap and water wash to speed things up if need be. Also, I hate to spend money on a company that thinks that I’m stupid enough to poison my own ground only to purchase plants from them. What will you folks do?
Monsanto are not the only culprits, there is also Dow, DuPont, Bayer, and lets not forget the criminals over at the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) along with a whole host of others with their grubby hands in the middle of the poisoned, what is being called foods that are being rammed down the throats of people all over the world causing not only severe physical birth defects, but also others such as autism and other horrific maladies as well.
Any person that is of a mind that genetically modifying a plant or animal for that matter has in my opinion severe mental issues. In this instance the mental issue is GREED, there is a natural order of things, the way the world works so to speak, the way that God made things to work which does not include man genetically modifying anything God has made. Seems the nit wits called man are of a mind that they know better than the Creator. Well man’s opinion of himself is quite high however will never reach the height of our Creator.
Would it not be better to teach people to farm the lands of the world the proper way, rather than to allow corporate GREED to drive the equation? The lands of the world while a lot of the land is not farm-able, that, that is, if farmed properly would feed the peoples of the world quite sufficiently and with abundance.
While there is nothing wrong with capitalism there is something terribly wrong with GREED, “for the love of money is the root of all evil” and Monsanto along with Dow, DuPont, Bayer and countless others including the paid off criminals over at the alphabet soup agencies of the tyrannical United States Corporation aka the United States government are all contributors to this growing issue of birth defects and maladies suffered by people all over the world.
Want to fix this problem? well reel in all of the above mentioned companies as well as the many others including the criminals of the governments of the world and this could be fixed, however since man in all of his infinite stupidity will not do this, there is one that will, and He is not a man, He is the Creator of man and He will fix all of this in the not so distant future. Wait and see……………
There are two things going on here, first the GMO thing is gets everyone going and they forget the herbicide piece. There is probably no seed that has not been modified in some way, the question is how. The crux here is the fact that the herbicide has become a necessary part of the puzzle to make the GMO work and cannot be removed and makes its way all the way to the food table inside the products. The GMO is a separate debate if the deeds do not need the impregnated herbicide to thrive. This is far different from killing a few weeds on you patio and sidewalk with Roundup where the rain takes it away and it goes nowhere near your food. This is sounding like the reverse of the DDT debacle where a faux journalist and a non-scientific lawyer in the Nixon administration got it banned and between 600,000 and a million people have died of malaria because it is not around and no one has ever attributed a human death to it, the real culprit was DTT. TheUn has been trying for years to get someone to start producing it again to stem the tide of malaria,but no chemical company will touch it. So much for lawyers and phony journalists.
Wouldn’t it that be an easy, to find that roundup is the problem to Society’s Ill’s!
I’ve been using roundup, ever sense it came on the market, and never had any health issue’s because of it, in my family, or any other family’s, in the local neighborhood!
I’ll have to read the final report from the FDA that may indicate that the Monsanto’s the cupric, to all of Society’s Ill’s!
This seems like hysteria to me. After reading all of these blogs, I don’t have a sense that either group really knows the answers. It is obvious we need more testing performed and scientific conclusions made from the research. Problem is we are exposed to so many chemicals in the air that it is very difficult to pinpoint these problems. Testing usually involves so much product ingested into a small subject like a mouse that some get the desired results intentionally. We need long term testing. I haven’t personally heard of any pathological testing that shows the long term effects of these chemicals. Pathological testing of deceased humans should give us much more data which would show long term effects of chemicals in our bodies.
I spent over 40 years as a pharmacist and can say with out a doubt that GMOS have had an affect on all people. I use to be serves peanut butter and honey sandwiches at my grade school. Peanut allergies were not common and attention disorders were due to not paying attention! Now half the population dof adults is taking Adderall along with the kids. Lab tests on mice and rats have shown that these moified foods are not recognized by the body as being corn ornoats or wheat. Thus the body goes into protective mode , causes inflammation, and tries its best to get rid on the intruder. Sounds like something you might try? I purchase non GMO products and I AM VERY CONCERNED WITH ALL NATURAL PRODUCTS , which says nothing about the seeds used or what the cattle were fed . THE FDA HAS A REVOLVING DOOR POLICY IN HIRING. Monsanto wants its product approved so one of their people get hired on in a position with the FDA to influence its passage. Once done. they go back to work for Monsanto!!!!!!
Roundup, or any other chemical substance, may well be declared relatively safe by the government when tested in a controlled environment. The problem is that we are not being exposed only to Roundup, but we are being bombarded on a daily basis by a toxic cocktail of small amounts of hundreds of poisons in our food, water, and air that our ancestors never had to deal with. The cumulative effect cannot help but cause disease. Some are more difficult to avoid than others, and babies and small children are more susceptible than adults to harm from them. As for me, I will choose organic, non-GMO food grown by myself whenever possible.
Frank –
I’m NOT buying into the GMO scare – at least, not on a full-spectrum level. After all, if you take a GOOD LOOK at it, we’ve been genetically-modifying food sources for centuries! Ever heard of cross-pollination? How about Hybrid corn, or apples, or peaches, or pears, or – wait for it! SEEDLESS GRAPES?
Frank, MOST of our fruits and vegetables that are more bountiful and productive are HYBRIDS; they are NOT naturally-produced, but the result of some farmer or scientist (oooh, there’s that SCARY word – SCIENTIST!) who took a look at a plant and decided to see if he or she could get a food plant to produce more and BETTER crops. And guess what? It worked! I could refer you to George Washington Carver as a prime example.
The big difference here, and probably the one you’re MOST concerned about – because I honestly believe YOU, at least, have a BRAIN between those ears you hang on each side of your head, is artificially-induced MUTANT STRAINS of ANIMAL foodstocks; meat, fish, and poultry sources that, in your opinion, or that of other, perhaps less-informed persons, have not been fully studied to determine long-term effects on humans.
Am I right or wrong? PLEASE tell me I’m right – because if you’re just crying doom-and-gloom, then I really don’t want to hear it. I want VERIFIED RESEARCH from someone who has NO AX to grind; someone who honestly is interested ONLY in facts, not ‘climate change is mankind’s fault’ hype, not ‘big gummint is gonna come and get all of us’ baloney (whether they are or not is irrelevant to GMO dangers: either GMO food is dangerous or it isn’t; WHO did it doesn’t matter).
Science is FACTS, not OPINIONS. Get the FACTS – we’ll nail the SOBs who DID IT after we KNOW there’s something to BLAME someone FOR.
Let’s be scientific about our Forensics.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear what you are saying, but consider this: These GMOs are different. They have been soaked with ROUND UP and the newest chemical, AGENT ORANGE!! You can’t wash it off, it is grown into the food, not to mention polluting our soil and ground water!!! I know a guy who worked for Monsanto. He told me that the BIG WIGS of the company don’t eat the food!!! They know it’s poison!! Go ahead, eat it to your heart’s content! I’ll pass.
“probably carcinogenic in humans,”?
” suggesting this connection”?
I think I’ll wait for scientific proof before giving an opinion about this. It might be just another Alar scare which has never been proven to be a real threat to health.
From Wikipedia, “There remains disagreement and controversy about the safety of Alar and the appropriateness of the response to it. Daminozide remains classified as a probable (why is it always “probable”?) human carcinogen by the EPA and is listed as a known carcinogen under California’s Prop 65.[10]
(is there anything that is not a carcinogen in California?) Its breakdown product UDMH is also listed as a Prop 65 carcinogen, IARC classifies it as “possible” carcinogen, and EPA classifies it as a “probable” carcinogen.[11]
The degree of exposure to Alar necessary for it to be dangerous may be extremely high.[12] The lab tests that prompted the scare required an amount of Alar equal to over 5,000 gallons (20,000 L) of apple juice per day.[8] Consumers Union ran its own studies and estimated the human lifetime cancer risk to be 5 per million, as compared to the previously-reported figure of 50 cases per million. Generally, EPA considers lifetime cancer risks in excess of 1 per million to be cause for action.[13]
Among those who think the Alar response was overblown, the term “Alar scare” has been used as shorthand for an irrational, emotional public scare based on propaganda rather than facts.
“There remains disagreement and controversy about the safety of Alar and the appropriateness of the response to it. Daminozide remains classified as a probable human carcinogen by the EPA and is listed as a known carcinogen under California’s Prop 65.[10] Its breakdown product UDMH is also listed as a Prop 65 carcinogen, IARC classifies it as “possible” carcinogen, and EPA classifies it as a “probable” carcinogen.[11]
And what about DDT? There still isn’t clear evidence that it was so terrible although not using DDT did cause deaths from starvation and malaria. To suddenly stop using Roundup would reduce crop yields significantly meaning less food for most countries and most likely double or triple food prices.
I think we should wait for actual scientific proof and not be subject to more knee jerk reactions.
Oh, I don’t have a dog in the fight, one way or the other, but sellers of seeds do.
Autism has increase substantially and scientists are hiding why. Genetically modified foods are destuctive on every level and must be stopped. Someday someone who is very brave will come forth and expose it all but that may be too late. Eat organic as much as possible and DO NOT feed GMOs to your kids! Education is the key. I watch clueless shoppers load their carts with poisonous foods because they are cheap. This is genecide and it must stop! We can’t trust our tap water or the oceans as they are poisoned as well. Look up! At the sky and see the numerous chem trails virtually everywhere! What’s in all of those?! More poisons! Our government is poisoning the population for depopulation and it must stop. We will find out the truth one day and just praying that day is not too late. Don’t go out in the rain, the poisons are coming down upon all of us! Test your tap water and use a filter. Wifi is radiating everyone as well and now its in the cars too. This is genecide. There’s no other word for it. Only one, and that is treason.