Monday, June 24, 2013

Glyphosate and Roundup’s Implications on Modern Diseases

guest post from permacultural farmer Ibra Faal
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people ask what is the alternative to glyphosate, and its really a point of priority. is your priority health or some unnatural, chemically enforced and toxic aesthetic ideal that you are willing to poison and kill for? is it worth supporting an evil empire corporation right out of a science fiction movie bent on cornering the world's food supply and soft killing the population for money? these pesticides effect DNA, are linked to cancer, autism, bee die offs, nearly half of the killing off aquatic life, create super weeds, kill healthy soil creating a wasteland where only weeds can grow. the situation of opportunist invasives, much like the gangsters who rule the world's march towards globalism employ the same strategies of the race to the bottom. they overwhelm local plants with a thousand tactics from releasing their own chemicals to playing a numbers game by saturating the landscape with their seeds. They mine out the soil, and if they are sprayed it will simply just deplete the soil down to a level that only the most superficial weeds can grow, and as plants develop immunity (and they will) then some even more deadly poison will have to be employed. the alternative to these are weed controlling strategies that we will address in future posts, but on some philosophical level, the alternative is to weigh the cost verses the benefits. our personal alternative to using herbicides are sharp tools, sweat, cardboard, mulch, dense plantings, agricultural vinegar,  remineralization and soil amendment, compost, diligence and staying on top of seeding and spreading invasives by topping them before they can keep going to seed. It is also about conceding that a few weeds is far less concern than the health and environmental effects and dollar support of evil corporations.  Barkei Cheikh! Djerejef Serigne Touba

An interview with Stephanie Seneff, PhD: Co-author of “Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases.”



What was the motivation to perform such an exhaustive study on glyphosate?
I have been studying autism for many years, trying to understand the underlying physiological dysfunction that causes it and trying to identify potential environmental factors that could be causative. It’s clear to me that autism has environmental causes, because genetic factors would not increase at such an alarming rate. The rate of autism in the US was one in 10,000 in 1970. Today it is one in fifty. And I anticipate that it will get much higher in the next ten years if we stay the course. I can’t even begin to think about how that will impact our society.
Last September, I had the privilege to hear Prof. Don Huber, a retired professor from Purdue University who is an expert on plant physiology, give a two-hour lecture on glyphosate and Roundup, and I nearly fell out of my chair, because it became clear to me that the factors I was seeing in association with autism could all be explained by the known physiological effects of glyphosate. I was lucky to hook up with Anthony Samsel, who is an expert on environmental toxins, and he taught me much more about glyphosate. We were able to synthesize a plausible story for how glyphosate exposure in both the mom and the child could lead to autism. But, in addition, we realized that it could also explain a host of other problems that are reaching epidemic proportions in this country, such as obesity, depression, gastrointestinal distress, and Alzheimer’s disease.

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