{"id":71336,"date":"2016-04-04T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=71336"},"modified":"2016-04-02T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:34:13","slug":"monsantos-glyphosate-found-in-california-wines-even-wines-made-with-organic-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/04\/monsantos-glyphosate-found-in-california-wines-even-wines-made-with-organic-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto’s Glyphosate Found in California Wines, Even Wines Made with Organic Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 Mar 2016 – <\/em>Shortly after the release of a report showing 14 beers testing positive<\/a> for glyphosate<\/a> in Germany, a concerned supporter of Moms Across America<\/a>\u00a0approached me at a convention with disturbing news. He said he had test results<\/a> from Microbe Inotech Lab of St.Louis showing 10 different wines, from large and small vineyards, contained\u00a0the chemical glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s\u00a0Roundup<\/a> weedkiller, including wine made with organic grapes.<\/p>\n

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Test results from Microbe Inotech Lab show 10 different wines contained glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup weedkiller, including wine made with organic grapes.<\/p><\/div>\n

The contamination of conventional wine was 28 times higher than organic wine, with levels ranging from 0.659 ppb in organic to 18.74 ppb in conventional wine.<\/p>\n

The wines tested came from Napa Valley, Sonoma and Mendocino counties in\u00a0California.\u00a0The brand names of the wines were not revealed, and frankly, the brands are not the issue. The real issue is the widespread contamination of glyphosate based herbicides in consumer products.<\/p>\n

\"grapes<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are my five\u00a0reasons why Roundup\/glyphosate should never be sprayed on any\u00a0crops, including vineyards:<\/p>\n

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  1. According to farmers,<\/strong> glyphosate based herbicides are likely present in manure\/fertilizer from animals fed genetically modified<\/a>grains. Glyphosate residues have been detected in many foods<\/a>,\u00a0beers and wines.<\/li>\n
  2. Wine growers of conventional farms<\/strong> report that their family businesses use to be able to harvest from their vines for 100 years. Today, with chemical farming, vines are lasting 10-12 years. Glyphosate is a chelator, which makes the vital nutrients and minerals of any living thing it touches unavailable. Taking the risk of depleting the vitality of important crops is not a good long term decision for farmers of any\u00a0kind. Instead,\u00a0Regenerative agriculture<\/a>enriches the soil, supports \u00a0longevity of the farm and does not use toxic chemicals.<\/li>\n
  3. Glyphosate has been deemed a\u00a0probable carcinogen<\/a><\/strong> by the World Health Organization. Even the small amount of 0.1ppt of glyphosate has been shown to stimulate the growth <\/a>of breast cancer cells<\/a>. According to the California Department of Health, breast cancer rates in the Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties are 10 to 20 percent higher than the national average.\u00a0There are many pending lawsuits<\/a>against Monsanto for the connection between non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and Roundup.<\/li>\n
  4. The pig\u00a0study<\/a> by Pedersen and Krueger showed<\/strong> a repeated 30 percent increase of birth defects and stillborn with the introduction of glyphosate-sprayed grains. The infertility and sterility in America is exactly correlated to the pig study results, at 30 percent, the highest in recorded U.S. history.<\/li>\n
  5. French scientist Gilles-\u00c9ric Seralini<\/a> and his team have discovered<\/strong> that the co-formulants of Roundup are 1,000 times more toxic<\/a> than glyphosate and are hormone disruptors<\/a>, which can lead to breast cancer<\/a>, miscarriages, birth defects and many other health issues.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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