The horrible truth about Monsanto’s Roundup finally revealed

Roundup isn’t just killing weeds.

Monsanto’s monster invention – now the most widely used weed killer in the world – may be slowly but surely killing us, too.

Researchers have sounded the alarm before. But now the big guns have come out – and they’re finally admitting what the science has said all along.

Glyphosate, aka Roundup, likely causes cancer in humans.

That comes from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a committee of top cancer experts organized by the World Health Organization.

And it comes at a time when millions of dollars are being spent to make sure you never know which of your foods may be laced with this cancer-causing chemical.

Heading for the last Roundup?

Monsanto says that it is outraged. It’s even trying to bully its way into an urgent meeting with the IARC to pressure the committee to back down.

But we’re the ones, the only ones, who have the right to be outraged.

The real issue here isn’t the billions in Roundup sales Monsanto stands to lose. It’s that Monsanto continues to bury its head in the sand and defend a product that’s threatening your health.

Monsanto has made a fortune selling Roundup for genetically modified (GM) crops – things like corn, soy, and canola that have been injected with DNA that helps them grow while Roundup kills everything else around them.

But two years ago French scientists reported that rats fed Monsanto’s GM corn suffered giant cancerous tumors and damage to their livers and kidneys. Other studies have shown how Roundup can disrupt your hormones – and it only takes a tiny change in hormone levels to cause permanent damage.

For a company that swears its product is safe, Monsanto has worked hand-in-hand with friendly politicians to keep you in the dark about which foods are GM and may have been treated with Roundup.

Monsanto has spent a king’s ransom fighting and defeating bills that would label GM foods. And just last year when the USDA analyzed food samples for harmful pesticide and herbicide residue, it never tested for Roundup.

Does that sound like an accident to you?

Monsanto doesn’t want you to ever know how much Roundup is in the food you eat. But researchers have found that Roundup levels in soy, an ingredient used in thousands of processed foods, are double what Monsanto called “extreme” 16 years ago.

Considering how Monsanto’s greed has contaminated the food supply, it may seem impossible to cut GM foods laced with Roundup out of your diet. But it can be done.

The good news is that organic food is still Roundup-free — and that includes corn and soy.

And remember — organic food isn’t some newfangled “fad,” but rather the kind of food that people ate in the “good old days” before chemical sprays and toxic additives. And before we all became lab rats in Monsanto’s giant experiment.

Of course, there are still GM ingredients in some surprising places. Like nuts cooked in cottonseed or canola oil, or “healthy” granola bars and veggie burgers made with nonorganic soy.

The Institute for Responsible Technology has put together a non-GMO shopping guide that will make it easier to shop and avoid Roundup. You can download the shopping guide here.

Sources:

“W.H.O. report links ingredient in Roundup to cancer” Reuters, March 20, 2015, The New York Times, nytimes.com

“Monsanto says it’s ‘outraged’ by WHO cancer risk report” Jack Kaskey, March 23, 2015, Bloomberg Business, Bloomberg.com