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Major New Report Confirms Your Worst Fears About Roundup, America’s Food
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Monsanto’s Roundup, America’s most popular weed-killer, likely causes cancer. That’s the assessment of scientists at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research arm in a major new report.
Glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup – has been classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by experts at WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France.
Researchers at the agency also found there is “limited evidence” that glyphosate can cause one form of cancer – non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Glyphosate is now used in around 750 different herbicides and has been detected in air, food and water, IARC concluded in the British medical journal Lancet Oncology.
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The report has huge implications. About 90 percent of the soybean crops and 70 percent of the corn crops in the United States are “Roundup Ready,” which means they’re genetically modified (GMO) to resist the spray.
Some groups applauded the report, saying it would help pressure the US government and other countries around the world to re-evaluate the safety of glyphosate and to require the labeling of GMO foods.
“The widespread adoption of GMO corn and soybeans has led to an explosion in the use of glyphosate – a main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and Dow’s Enlist Duo,” Ken Cook, the president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, said in a press release.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/major-new-report-confirms-your-worst-fears-about-roundup-americas-food/
