{"id":42035,"date":"2014-04-28T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:35:05","slug":"extreme-levels-of-monsantos-roundup-herbicide-found-in-soy-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/04\/extreme-levels-of-monsantos-roundup-herbicide-found-in-soy-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extreme Levels\u2019 of Monsanto\u2019s Roundup Herbicide Found in Soy Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The study, coming out in June\u2019s [2014] issue of Food Chemistry<\/em> and available\u00a0online<\/a>, looked at 31 different soybean plants on Iowa farms and compared the accumulation of pesticides and herbicides on plants in three categories: GE \u201cRoundup Ready\u201d soy, conventionally produced (not GE) soy, and soy cultivated using organic practices. They found high levels of Roundup on 70 percent of GE soy plants.<\/p>\n

Crop scientists have genetically engineered soy to survive blasts of Roundup so farmers can spray this chemical near crops to get rid of weeds. But some so-called \u201csuper weeds\u201d resistant to Roundup<\/a> have developed. In turn, some farmers use yet more Roundup to try to kill those hardy weeds. This leads to more Roundup chemicals being found on soybeans and ultimately in the food supply.<\/p>\n

Who says when Roundup contamination can be considered \u201cextreme?\u201d Monsanto itself<\/a>. In 1999, the chemical giant defined an \u201cextreme level\u201d of the herbicide as 5.6 milligrams per kilogram of plant weight.<\/p>\n

Astonishingly, the Norwegian scientists found a whopping nine milligrams of Roundup per kilogram, on average. What it boils down to is this: every time we eat GE soy we are taking a dose of Roundup with it. This is alarming, because Roundup has been found to be hazardous to human health<\/a> and sometimes\u00a0kills human cells<\/a>. The authors conclude:<\/p>\n

This study demonstrated that Roundup Ready [GE]-soy may have high residue levels of glyphosate [\u2026] and also that different agricultural practices may result in a markedly different nutritional composition of soybeans [\u2026] Lack of data on pesticide residues in major crop plants is a serious gap of knowledge with potential consequences for human and animal health.<\/p>\n

Other research has detected Roundup residues in animals and people.<\/p>\n

A study led by German researchers found high concentrations of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, in the urine of dairy cows and humans. This\u00a0study<\/a>, published in January in the journal Environmental & Analytical Toxicology<\/em>, concluded that \u201cthe presence of glyphosate residues in both humans and animals could haul the entire population towards numerous health hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big Ag wants us to believe that there is no difference between GE and conventional crops, but mounting research tells us that just isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 ecowatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The study, coming out in June\u2019s [2014] issue of Food Chemistry and available online, looked at 31 different soybean plants on Iowa farms and compared the accumulation of pesticides and herbicides on plants in three categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic-gmo-genetic-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}