Is your food tainted by this Monsanto poison?

What’s the best way not to find something?

How about not bothering to look for it in the first place?

Every year the USDA does a test of different kinds of foods to check for pesticide residues. It analyzes fresh and processed foods, even infant formula.

But not included in that annual look-see is any search for residues of glyphosate. That’s the active ingredient in Roundup – the most widely used herbicide in the world.

And it turns out the agency didn’t check for glyphosate last year, or the year before that.

The USDA’s explanation: it would be just too expensive to do so.

Detectable amounts of other pesticides were found in more than half the foods tested. Most of these, the agency claimed, were within the “tolerance” levels the Feds consider safe.

But as for Monsanto’s Roundup, the poison that’s used the most on crops – well, no one has any idea.

What we do know is that Roundup is now sprayed on most nonorganic soybeans, field corn (the kind used in processed food), canola and sugar beets.  These crops have to be grown from Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” GMO seeds to so that the herbicide doesn’t kill them.

And the list of those “approved” Roundup Ready crops has been growing and growing.

Research has shown that even small amounts of glyphosate can impact our immune systems. So I wonder if that’s the reason the USDA isn’t looking for it.

Because if they find it, the whole house of cards built by Monsanto and the federal government may well start to tumble.

So whether they test for it or not, we know that eating the weed-killing poison can’t be good for us. Which makes it critical to buy certified organic and non-GMO whenever you are buying processed foods.

Source:

“USDA report says pesticide residues in food nothing to fear” Carey Gillam, December 19, 2014, Reuters, reuters.com