EPA gives Roundup a pass, leaving consumers in the lurch

EPA finally makes good on its promise to Monsanto!

Whenever a toxic ingredient shows up in a food product, regulators are forced to do one of two things:

B. Announce that the substance isn’t really toxic after all and say “case closed!”

You might think that A is seemingly the most logical choice — but unbelievably, the U.S. EPA just went for option B where the weed-killer glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is concerned!

In a Christmas present to Monsanto and all of its biotech friends, the agency announced that glyphosate is safe!

Of course, only a few years ago, experts at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found glyphosate to be a “probable carcinogen” — and that’s in people, not lab animals.

But while the EPA may have washed its hands of having to do anything to protect us from this poison, it looks like our job of keeping ourselves and our families safe is only just beginning.

Hear no evil, see no evil
So, what’s going on here? Are top-level officials at the EPA in a state of denial over the vast contamination of our food supply with this chemical?

The facts of the matter are that the EPA’s relationship with Monsanto is shady at best. Last year, I told you about some secret emails that were released telling how regulators there were asked by Monsanto to hit the “stop” button on their safety review of the chemical.

They even kept their corporate buddies fully updated on how that review was going along! And one EPA official had promised a Monsanto honcho that he would do his best to make sure that the review never took place!

Then, the actual — and unbelievable — statement that followed was that the EPA found that the chemical not only doesn’t cause cancer, but it has “no other meaningful risks to human health.”

The real surprise here regarding the EPA’s latest announcement on glyphosate “safety” is that it isn’t a surprise. Everything seems to be going along right as planned. One consumer group even dubbed the EPA the Monsanto Protection Agency!

But if a federal agency were to try to sweep away piles of evidence showing just how dangerous Roundup and its generic counterparts are, it had better have a gigantic broom.

Honestly, it was bad enough that Roundup was supposed to have been used only on Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” Frankencrops, such as soy, canola, and corn.

But then it turned out that many farm operations were also using it to dry out wheat, barley, and oats, after harvesting them.

All told, it is now applied to at least 70 crops used in food production!

So, it was practically a given last year when glyphosate was discovered in a whole host of non-GMO foods, including infant oat cereal. And you better believe that this is only the beginning of where Monsanto’s monster will be turning up.

But if only cancer has you worried where glyphosate is concerned, stop right now. Because that’s just one of the dangers this chemical brings to your table (literally).

Studies have linked it to liver and kidney damage, obesity, depression, autism, IBS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. And although we’re exposed to way too much of it already, things are bound to get worse now that the EPA has declared it to be so “safe.”

That’s why the time has truly come to do whatever it takes to boot this poison out of your life.

And you can start doing that by taking these three steps ASAP:

#1 For any food item that contains the big four GMO crops, which are soy, canola, corn, and sugar from sugar beets, you have two options — ones labeled GMO-Free or organic.

#2 Opt for organic when buying lentils, peas, dry beans, and potatoes, or anything containing wheat, flax, barley, and oats. Those are the top commodities most likely to be sprayed post-harvest.

#3 Never ever buy Roundup or any other glyphosate-containing weed killer for use around your home.

If you and I and scores of other consumers refuse to accept the use of this poison, we won’t need to rely on the feds to finally step up to the plate. We’ll simply do it for them.

“U.S. EPA says glyphosate not likely to be carcinogenic to people” Tom Polansek, December 20, 2017, Reuters, reuters.com