We need to
address what has been happening to the farmers who apply these herbicides. Farmers may be properly instructed on the
safe application but the fact is that serious exposure is almost impossible to
avoid. Worse the chemical likely lodges
in the body fat first and then slowly get released through the kidney. This sets the stage for accumulative buildup
in the body of the chemical. We cannot
count on it flushing right away.
The fact that
the general stats are rising significantly tells me that the four percent who
are actually exposed are been hugely impacted but that it is also showing up as
a wide range of cancers as well. After
all, a person may have an unidentified tumor in the kidney that metastases into
several other oddities which do show up for diagnosis.
My sense is that
something bad is happening out there among farmers themselves who were
seriously exposed. It needs to be
carefully investigated and you may be sure that Monsanto has ax It needs to be carefully investigated and you
may be sure that Monsanto has serious lack of curiosity.
Dramatic
Increase in Kidney Disease in the US and Abroad Linked To Roundup (Glyphosate)
‘Weedkiller’
March 19, 2014
Last month, we reported on a mysterious global
epidemic of fatal kidney disease, focusing on a study published in
the International Journal of Environmental Research and
Public Health1 that laid down evidence showing the herbicide Roundup
(glyphosate) is responsible for an epidemic of kidney-related deaths in a rural
farming region of Northern Sri Lanka, as well as other rural regions around the
world, including Costa Rica and Nicaragua. You can review the report
here: Roundup Weedkiller Linked To
Global Epidemic of Fatal Kidney Disease.
This information, while shocking to many who still
consider glyphosate herbicide and the GM food produced with it to be relatively
non-toxic, is not surprising to those who have been tracking the published
research on glyphosate’s wide ranging harmful effects, and which now shows a link between glyphosate and
several dozen health conditions. You can view the first-hand toxicological
citations here: Adverse Health Effects of
Glyphosate Formulations.
Only days ago, The Center for Public Integrity
released a report titled, “Sri Lanka bans Monsanto herbicide
citing potential link to deadly kidney disease,” citing Sri Lankan President Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s March 13th decision to impose an outright ban on glyphosate. This
decision follows a decision by the legislature in El Salvador last September
to approve a ban on glyphosate, but the proposal has not yet been signed into law.
Now that the world seems to be paying closer
attention to the fact that the primary agrichemical used in the farming of
genetically modified crops has deleterius, if not deadly, consequences to
exposed populations, including kidney harm, it is only logical to ask the
question if the US, which has the highest amount of glyphosate usage in the
world, is also experiencing kidney harm as a result of widespread daily
exposure.
A series of graphs based on data from the USDA,
National Cancer Institutes, Centers for Disease Control, have recently
surfaced, depicting at steep rise in the rates of kidney disease in the US from
the time of the introduction of glyphosate and GM food, reveals that the US
may also be suffering from an epidemic of glyphosate-linked kidney damage.
The first graph below depicts the ‘Age Adjusted
Acute Renal Failure Deaths’ in the US from 1981 to 2009 plotted against the
percentage of GE soy and corn planted, and the tonnage of glyphosate applied to
corn and soy, showing death rates more than doubling over the past 30 years.
The second graph depicts the ‘Number of
Hospitalizations for Acute Kidney Injury’ in the US plotted against glyphosate
applied to corn and soy, between years 1990-2010. Within a single decade (1996-2006), hospitalizations due to acute
kidney injury had more than tripled.
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The third graph depicts ‘Kidney and Renal Pelvis
Cancer Incidence’ in the US, plotted against the percentage of GE soy and corn
planted, and the tonnage of glyphosate applied to corn and soy, showing death
rates increasing by 50% between 1998 and 2008.
The implications of this data are highly concerning.
The steady increase in acute and chronic kidney disease in the US population
dovetails so closely with the increased use (and therefore human exposure) to
glyphosate and glyphosate contaminated food, that it is hard to write off the
correlation as coincidence.
In previous articles, we have examined the evidence
showing that glyphosate is accumulating in our air, rain, groundwater, soil, food, and even persists in the seawater where it may be killing
our coral reefs. Far from the
‘highly biodegradable,’ ‘virtually non toxic’ chemical it was once marketed to
be by its creator Monsanto, it is now known to persist in a way that makes
daily exposure inevitable, and which accumulates with time, as its use
increases each year.
In fact, the entire basis for arguing for the substantial equivalence of GMO
and non-GMO foods is that
glyphosate possesses negligible toxicity. The GMO biosafety debate normally
revolves around whether the novel transgenes inserted into the plants produce
problematic proteins or insecticidal compounds that have adverse, non-target
adverse health effects on humans. If glyphosate is toxic in extremely low
concentrations (as low as the parts per trillion range), then any food produced using glyphosate (and
which is therefore contaminated with it, or its equally toxic metabolites, such
as AMPA) will not be equivalent in safety to the
non-GMO/conventional/organic food which is free of such residues.
As the increasingly educated world comes to
understand the inherent and extreme dangers of glyphosate formulations
like Roundup, there will be increasing momentum for the consumer
to move supplicating the ‘powers that be’ for lapdog like permission to have
GM-containing products accurately labeled, to recognizing the underlying
infrastructure of GMO agriculture is slowing altering (via GMO transgene
biopollution) and killing the biosphere via wide-ranging agrichemical
destruction. In other words, the rallying cry now is to ‘Ban Glyphosate and
GMOs!’
REFERENCE:
1
Channa
Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake, Priyantha Senanayake
Glyphosate, Hard Water and Nephrotoxic Metals: Are They the Culprits Behind the
Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka?Int. J.
Environ. Res. Public Health 2014, 11(2), 2125-2147; doi:10.3390/ijerph110202125
About the Author
Sayer Ji is the founder of GreenMedInfo.com, an
author, researcher, lecturer, and an advisory board member of the National
Health Federation. Google Plus Profile. His writings have been published and referenced
widely in print and online, including, Truthout, Mercola.com, New York Times
online, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, New York Times and The Well
Being Journal.
He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to
provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural
and integrative modalities. It is widely recognized as the most widely
referenced health resource of its kind.
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