One of the more bizarre actions
in terms of the health and safety of EU citizens is the saga of Monsanto
and its toxic herbicide or weed-killer, Roundup, the most widely used
weed-killer on the planet. On October 25, 2017 the European-Union-Commission again announced that it lacked the necessary member state
votes to approve a ten year license extension for weed-killer
glyphosate. They will try again. Behind this seeming routine
announcement is one of the hottest battles over food and human health
the world has seen since the 1972 USA decision to ban spraying of deadly
DDT pesticides on crops. This time the stakes go far beyond the ban on
glyphosate. It affects the future of human fertility or lack of it.
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In June 2016 the EU Commission made a
rotten compromise to allow an 18 month extension of use in EU of
glyphosate-based weed killers, during which time more scientific studies
would supposedly clarify whether glyphosate was a carcinogen. It was
the same member- states deadlock over whether to grant the toxic
glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto Roundup herbicide, a license
renewal as we saw this October.
In March 2017 the European Chemicals
Agency (ECHA) of the EU, issued a report stating that “available
scientific evidence did not meet the criteria in the CLP Regulation to
classify glyphosate for specific target organ toxicity, or as a
carcinogen, as a mutagen or for reproductive toxicity.”
The ECHA, based in Hensinki is a body created only in 2007 and
established to monitor safe use of chemicals and to make information
available rather than conduct its own tests on safety of chemicals. It
made no independent study or tests to determine if glyphosate is or is
not a probable carcinogen, a fact which Brussels and the pesticide
industry slickly glosses over.
In March 2015, the WHO’s Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC), which has such research competence,
classified glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen.”
In October 2015 before the license
expiry deadline, some 47 environmental, health and cancer organizations,
scientists and doctors wrote an open letter to EU Health Commissioner
Vytenis Andriukaitis calling on the Commission to ban glyphosate pending
a full scientific assessment. The assessment that the EU Commission was
using was provided by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
(BfR), and was based on industry safety studies given to BfR by Monsanto
and other industry sources.
EU Corruption and human health
The determination of “non-carcinogenity”
for glyphosate by using the ECHA was an apparent political ploy by the
corrupt EU commission to get another “yes” body to back their
pro-glyphosate stance, a stance that benefits only Monsanto and other
agro-chemical producers at the expense of human life and health.
The source for both the EU’s European
Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency statements
that glyphosate was non-carcinogenic, in contradiction to the WHO
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is the German
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) responsible within the EU
for the evaluation of glyphosate for the EU.
According to stated EU regulations, a
substance is to be considered carcinogenic if two independently
conducted animal studies show an increased tumor incidence. In the case
of glyphosate, at least seven out of twelve such long-term studies found
an increased tumor incidence.
A report by German toxicologist Dr Peter
Clausing found that the EU bodies and the German body designated by the
EU to evaluate the safety of glyphosate, the German BfR ignored those
relevant studies. Clausing states, “BfR failed to recognize numerous
significant tumor incidences, due to its failure to apply the
appropriate statistical tests stipulated by the OECD and ECHA. BfR had
instead relied on statistical tests applied by industry…” And
the German BfR report was the basis for the later rubber-stamp
determinations of EFSA and now of ECHA, the EU bodies entrusted with
protecting the population from dangerous chemical toxins. Someone is
being played for fools by Brussels, but the stakes involve far more in
terms of human health and even human reproduction itself.
Sperm disruptor?
The dimensions of the human and animal
exposure to the enormous quantities of glyphosate-based weed-killers in
the world food chain are only dimly beginning to be appreciated. The
reason is the enormous clout of the agro-chemical industry lobby around
companies such as Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer AG, soon to be the owner
of Monsanto. They have so far managed to use their financial resources
and their legal resources to distort test results and to win regulatory
approval from the demonstrably corrupt Monsanto-influenced Washington Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.
From there it has spread to the EU
Commission and relevant agencies such as EFSA and European Chemicals
Agency, this despite the overwhelming popular rejection of GMO crops.
A recent study published by the Journal
of Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology–a study given no visibility
in mainstream media–sounds the alarm over the effects of long-term
human exposure to glyphosate for the healthy production of human sperm,
an issue that is beginning to be cause of great alarm across the western
countries where chemical herbicides and pesticides are used in massive
doses by agro-industry producers.
The study, which definitely warrants
major follow-up studies, found effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide
after an 8-day exposure of adult rats, including
“a significant and differential
expression of aromatase in testis.” Aromatase is an enzyme responsible
for a key step in the biosynthesis of estrogens according to Wikipedia,
found among other locations of the body in the brain and in the gonads,
and is an important factor in sexual development. The authors concluded
that, “The repetition of exposures of this herbicide could alter the
mammalian reproduction.”
Ample tests now exist, independent of
Monsanto and other corrupt industry sources demonstrating to an alarming
degree that the exposure of human and animal species to
glyphosate-based herbicides or weed-killers can cause cancer tumors but
can also be damaging to human sexual reproduction, that is, as in the
future of the human species.
Other tests have revealed presence of
significant amounts of glyphosate from spraying of weed-killers in major
portions of the population in the United States where Monsanto Roundup
and other glyphosate-based weed-killers are used in massive doses in
agriculture as well as in home gardens. A study of urine samples of
willing volunteers seeking to know if they had glyphosate exposure by
the University of California at San Francisco found glyphosate in 93% of
the urine samples tested at an average level of 3.096 parts per billion
(PPB). Children had the highest levels with an average of 3.586 PPB.
The highest levels of glyphosate were found in the American West and
Midwest, the heart of US agribusiness farming.
The US-based Detox Project which published the study notes that
“Glyphosate has never been studied by regulators or the chemical
industry at levels that the human population in the U.S. is being
exposed to–under 3 mg/kg body weight/day. This is a huge hole in the
risk assessment process for glyphosate, as evidence suggests that low
levels of the chemical may hack hormones even more than high levels…many
toxic chemicals have as much or even more of an influence on our health
at low doses– these chemicals are known as hormone hackers or endocrine
disruptors. “
Isn’t that what eugenics advocates such
as Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett, the Rockefeller family and
more recently Britain’s Prince William are cheering for? Culling of the
human herd so that the wealthy have more wildlife species? vii
Frederick Osborn, first President of
John D. Rockefeller III’s Population Council, and a founding member of
the American Eugenics Society, formulated the problem the eugenics
advocates around Rockefeller, people who financed Nazi eugenics research
in Berlin, faced after the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps was
uncovered and their inhuman experiments in eugenics of killing off
inferior human beings as defined by the Third Reich.
In a 1956 article in the
Rockefeller-financed Eugenics Review, “The very word eugenics is in
disrepute in some quarters…. We must ask ourselves, what have we done
wrong? We have all but killed the eugenic movement.” Osborn had a ready
answer: people for some reason refused to accept that they were “second
rate” compared to Osborn, Rockefeller, Sanger and their “superior
class.” As Osborn put it, “We have failed to take into account a trait
which is almost universal and is very deep in human nature. People are
simply not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which
their character was formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the
next generation…. They won’t accept the idea that they are in general
second rate….”
The refusal of Monsanto, a company
founded in World War I as part of the Rockefeller network of war
chemicals makers, and which numbered a Rockefeller on its board until
recently, to remove glyphosate-based Roundup, or even to allow
independent testing of its “trade secret” adjuvants that by some
estimates make the glyphosate 2000% more toxic, has more to do with that
long-standing Rockefeller eugenics agenda of killing off or “culling”
the human herd than with corporate profit. Prince William’s grandfather,
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in an interview in 1988 with a German
press agency declared, “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would
like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to
solve overpopulation.” Hmmmmm…
F. William Engdahl is
strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics
from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and
geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
https://journal-neo.org/2017/11/09/killing-us-softly-glyphosate-herbicide-or-genocide/

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