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Reading the Labels
Are You Eating
Glyphosate?
“Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide Why should glyphosate concern us?
that controls broadleaf weeds and Glyphosate has been labelled as a
grasses. It has been registered as a probable carcinogen by the World
pesticide in the U.S. since 1974” – Health Organization’s International
according to EPA. Glyphosate is the main Agency for Research on Cancer.
ingredient in the weed-killer Roundup® According to Bloomberg, “Bayer, the
and is the most widely used chemical pharmaceutical company that bought
herbicide in history. Monsanto (original manufacturer of
Roundup) for $ 66 billion in 2016, is
Since the late 1970s the use of currently facing litigation by more
glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) has than 9,500 plaintiffs in the U.S., mostly
increased approximately 100-fold (by farmers, who blame exposure to
volume); some estimates put it at a 300- glyphosate for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
fold increase.
Studies published in 2009 confirmed
Chances are high, this chemical is in at least that glyphosate-based herbicides are
some of the food we eat today, even if that toxic and endocrine disruptors in
food is organic, non-GMO, and “all-natural.” human cell lines.
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