Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food?

When I look at the damages that glyphosate does to the human gut biome, I ask folks: What’s worse: cancer or the destruction of your immune system?
There’s eighteen to twenty million people in America that have gluten intolerance. And really, they’re not gluten intolerant. What they’re intolerant to is the pesticide glyphosate that’s sprayed on wheat, oat and barley as a pre-harvest dessicating agent. Scientists have studied the gut microbiome – your stomach is your second brain. There’s a gut-brain axis, and glyphosate really significantly disrupts the microbiome in humans just like it disrupts the microbiome of the soil.
So the ironic thing is while farmers are spraying Roundup on their fields to kill weeds, they’re actually destroying their soil fertility over the long term. Scientists in the Midwest that have shown that Roundup and glyphosate are linked to serious crop diseases like sudden death syndrome in soybeans and also Goss’s wilt corn which can lead to a 40-70% loss of those farmers’ crops when it becomes widespread. The thing is, if it destroys the microbiome in the soil and it impacts those crops’ health, it’s also impacting the human gut microbiome of the folks who eat those crops.
A number of studies have come out since we last talked in 2016. One is by the Ramazzini Institute, which is a fairly famous cancer review agency in Italy. They just came out with a study linking EMFs in cell phone radiation to changes in human genes and being harmful to humans. Last fall they came out with a thirteen-week preliminary study that showed that in pregnant rats fed glyphosate, their rat pups’ microbiome is disrupted while they’re in the womb. For any mother whp’s pregnant right now or who’s eating food that’s not organic, that should be very concerning.
And that corresponds to a study that was published last year in Indiana where the scientists did a cohort review of a hundred pregnant women in Indiana. They found that women who had the highest levels of glyphosate in their urine also had the worst birth outcomes. So that means they had still-births, miscarriages, and low birth weights. And when we interviewed one of the doctors who had been part of that study, he was absolutely flabbergasted that the U.S. government is allowing this chemical to be used in such a widespread way that endangers human health.