The
USDA has just approved a new generation of GMOs for use with more
deadly herbicides than the toxic glyphosate that currently taints farms
across America.
You won’t hear about this on the mainstream though – it was all done very quietly in the hopes that no one would notice.
Bayer has developed a soybean that can withstand applications of the toxin isoxaflutole (IFT).
That’s
right – they KNOW that it causes cancer and they created a plant with
which they can use it anyway. A plant that is meant to feed us or feed
our livestock. They’re going to douse the fields with it and allow it
to leach into groundwater and contaminate soil.
The EPA knows this. Read
the data sheet
about this – you won’t believe your eyes when you see the assessment of
this chemical that will soon be sprayed all over fields across America.
Based
upon a battery of acute toxicity studies, Balance Herbicide is
classified as Toxicity Category III. Isoxaflutole demonstrates
developmental toxicity and has been classified as a Group B2 carcinogen
(probable human carcinogen). The data available at this time indicate
that isoxaflutole is very phytotoxic. Isoxaflutole is persistent and
mobile, and may leach and accumulate in groundwater and through surface
water. (source)
They KNOW and they are allowing it anyway.
Since
glyphosate wasn’t ruining the world fast enough, Bayer decided to up
the ante. Herbicide tolerant weeds have adapted to the pesticide and
now to continue growing the GMO scourge, more toxic methods have to be
used.
“Bayer’s new GE soybeans represent the next wave
in agricultural biotechnology—crops that dramatically increase farmers’
use of and dependence on toxic herbicides,” said Bill Freese, science
policy analyst at Center for Food Safety.
Dubbed FG72, these GE soybeans were developed by Bayer CropScience, the second-largest agrichemicals firm in the world.
The
EPA has designated IFT as a “probable human carcinogen” based on animal
tests in which it triggered liver and thyroid tumors in rats. IFT and
its major breakdown product persist in surface waters, and despite its
limited use, at present is frequently detected in tests. It is also
toxic to aquatic organisms, wild plants and important crops (e.g.
vegetables.). IFT is so toxic that three states—Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota—rejected the Bayer-EPA label for this herbicide as
insufficiently protective of human health, the environment and
neighboring crops.
First generation GE crops, like Monsanto’s
Roundup Ready (RR) varieties, are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate.
Skyrocketing use of glyphosate with RR crops has wiped out biological
diversity in our fields, for instance nearly wiping out milkweed and
thereby contributing to a dramatic decline in Monarch butterfly populations. Glyphosate use has also triggered an epidemic of glyphosate-resistant weeds that now infest roughly half of farmers’ fields.
“Bayer
and other biotech companies are now poised to introduce a host of
‘next-generation’ GE crops resistant to more toxic herbicides as a false
‘solution’ to massive weed resistance,” said Freese. “But their effect
will be to generate still more intractable weeds resistant to multiple
herbicides.” (source)
Also
hopping on the second-generation GMO train are the ever-evil Monsanto,
with new varieties of corn and cotton, as well as Dow, with new
varieties of corn and soybeans.
The EPA and the USDA are supposed
to be our safety net – they are supposed to be agencies of protection.
Instead, they allow the big biotech companies to set their own rules and
policies. There is absolutely no excuse for approving the use of a
toxin that is a
probable human carcinogen and yet the agencies established to protect us did it anyway.
We
are already in the midst of a cancer epidemic in this country. Nearly
half of the population will deal with cancer at some point in their
lives.
The President’s Cancer Panel,
a three-person panel that reports to the U.S. president on the National
Cancer Program calculated that 41% of Americans will be diagnosed with
cancer during their lifetimes. If you’re male, the chances are 1 in 2
that you will be diagnosed with some type of cancer, and women have a 1
in 3 chance of the dreaded diagnosis.
A Global Cancer Statistics for 2011 study names cancer as the #1 killer in the western world and #2 in developing countries. (source)
With this new USDA approval, I’d say the odds of getting cancer just got a whole lot higher.
No
longer is just avoiding GMOs and eating organic enough. Our water
supply is tainted. Our land is contaminated. Even the air we breathe is
subject to pesticide drift. You need only to look at the
petri dish that is the Hawaiin island of Molokai
to see what happens to a population that is subjected to these types of
farming techniques and that occurred with the LESS TOXIC glyphosate.
(“Less toxic glyphosate” are words I never thought I would type!)
Do
you still think I’m overreacting about GMOs? Only through the
development of genetically modified plants that can withstand these
deadly poisons would the
probable human carcinogens be able to be used.
IFT is a chemical weapon and the fields of America are the warzones.
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