[MedicalConspiracies] Scientists Reveal Glyphosate Poisons Crops and Soil

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Subject:	[MedicalConspiracies] Scientists Reveal Glyphosate Poisons Crops and Soil
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 05:55:28 +0200
From:	Ingrid Blank <enb1@telkomsa.net>
To:	<medicalconspiracies@googlegroups.com>

 Not to mention that it causes umbilical and placental cell death. Also: Study link between pesticides and ADHD and other neurological disorders/cancers, allergies, etc. http://www.laleva.org/eng/2010/05/study_link_between_pesticides_and_adhd_con firmed.html  Ingrid  Scientists Reveal Glyphosate Poisons Crops and Soil ######################################## GM Meltdown Continues  Scientists go public on devastating ecological impacts of Roundup Ready cropping systems while USDA keeps mum. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho  Dire consequences from the most widely used herbicide in the world  Glyphosate-tolerant (GT) crops have spread rapidly around the world since they were introduced in the US in 1996, and are now planted on 85 percent of the global area growing genetically modified (GM) crops [1]. Concomitantly, glyphosate (commercial formulation Roundup), promoted as safe for health and the environment, became the most widely used herbicide in the world.  But ecological and health impacts of the GT cropping system soon came to light, and have been worsening relentlessly over the years while regulators turn a blind eye (see [2, 3] Roundup Ready Sudden Death, Superweeds, Allergens..., SiS 28; Ban Glyphosate Herbicides Now, SiS 43).  Glyphosate binds with and inactivates EPSPS, the critical enzyme in the shikimate pathway required for the synthesis of aromatic plant metabolites including essential amino acids phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine, as well as downstream products such as plant growth promoter, indoylacetic acid and plant defence compounds, phytoalexins [4]. But glyphosate has multiple adverse effects that act synergistically on crop health and productivity that extends well beyond the plant into the soil ecosystem and the wider environment.  The GT trait depends on incorporating an EPSPS from the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens that is insensitive to glyphosate, hence glyphosate is taken up by GT plants and translocated to the growing parts of roots and shoots, and even exuded into the rhizosphere (soil surrounding the roots) so it can affect the soil community of microorganisms and also subsequent crops planted in the soil.  Two senior scientists in the US who have been investigating the ecological impacts of glyphosate and the Roundup Ready cropping system for decades are warning of "dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less nutritious."  Glyphosate the single most important factor predisposing plants to diseases and toxins  Don Huber, recently retired from Purdue University, and co-author G.S. Johal, at Purdue's Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, stated in a paper published in the October 2009 issue of European Journal of Agronomy that the widespread use of glyphosate in the US can "significantly increase the severity of various plants diseases, impair plant defense to pathogens and diseases, and immobilize soil and plant nutrients rendering them unavailable for plant use."  Further, glyphosate stimulates the growth of fungi and enhances the virulence of pathogens such as Fusarium, and "can have serious consequences for sustainable production of a wide range of susceptible crops." They warn that "Ignoring potential non-target detrimental side effects of any chemical, especially used as heavily as glyphosate, may have dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less  nutritious."  In an interview [5] with the Organic & Non-GMO Report, Huber said he has been researching glyphosate for 20 years, and began noticing problems when he saw a consistent increase in "take-all", a fungal disease of wheat, when glyphosate had been applied in a previous year to control weeds. He found glyphosate reduced manganese in plants, which is essential to many plant defence reactions against disease and environmental stress. Glyphosate can immobilize plant nutrients such as manganese, copper, potassium iron, magnesium, calcium, and zinc, so they are no longer nutritionally functional. Basically, glyphosate completely weakens the plant, making it susceptible to soil-borne fungal pathogens. "That is one reason why we see an increase in plant diseases," he said.  There has been a general increase in the number of plant diseases in the past 15 to 18 years. Four primary soil fungi,  Fusarium, Phythium, Rhizoccccctonia, and Phytophthora, have become more active with the use of glyphosate; and concomitantly, diseases caused by these fungi have increased, such as head scab in corn, or root rot in soybeans, crown rot in sugar beets. Fusarium head blight, which affects cereal crops, is a disease that produces a mycotoxin that could enter the food chain.  There are more than 40 diseases reported with the use of glyphosate, and the number keeps growing as people recognize the association, Huber said.  When asked if glyphosate is "environmentally benign" as claimed by proponents, he answered "Absolutely not. That's an outright mistaken notion. Glyphosate is the single most important agronomic factor predisposing some plants to both disease and toxins. These toxins can produce a serious impact on the health of animals and humans.  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