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"About 68% of the crops are engineered to resist an herbicide, about 19% produce their own pesticide and 13% do both. The zucchini, squash, and papaya, which together comprise less than 1% of the GM crop market, are each engineered with modified viral genes designed to resist infection from a single type of plant virus. There are six countries growing nearly all commercialized GM crops. The United States dominates production at 54%, followed by Argentina (18%), Brazil (11%), Canada (6%), India (4%), and China (3%)." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Wood preservative and herbicide; nonwood uses banned in 1987 Electrical transformers, plasticizers; banned in 1979 Plastic manufacturing; resins used in water treatment equipment Dry cleaning/industrial solvent Chemical manufacturing; gasoline additive; industrial solvent Primarily formed when surface water containing organic matter is treated with chlorine Insecticide/herbicide for cotton, soybeans; cancelled in 1982 herbicide on range-lands, sugar cane, golf courses; cancelled in 1983." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"This soybean is engineered to withstand the normally fatal effects of Monsanto's herbicide called Roundup®*. Using these herbicide-tolerant crops, a farmer can spray his or her field several times during the growing season, making weeding easier. Roundup, which is Monsanto's brand name for glyphosate, is the world's best-selling herbicide. Its patent was due to expire in 2000. To prevent a * Roundup Ready® and Roundup® are a registered trademarks of Monsanto Company. huge loss in market share, Monsanto introduced Roundup Ready crops." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.)

"Dog owners who use the herbicide 2, 4-D four or more times per season double their dog's chances of suffering lymphoma. And of the thirty-six most commonly used lawn pesticides, A Chemical-Free Garden and Garage >¦ Dispose of any herbicides, weed killers, insect sprays, and other noxious substances (responsibly of course), and replace them with more environmentally friendly products. þ To create more natural predators for the insects in your garden, leave a pile of logs in your garden so they can hibernate over winter." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, one of the chemicals featured as essentially harmless in a Monsanto TV spot, later withdrawn, was Vegadex (sulfallate), a herbicide reported by the National Cancer Institute in March 1978 to be carcinogenic to both rats and mice." In November 1979, I was invited by Congressman J. Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to assist in the drafting of legislation on White Collar Crime (HR 4973) and to testify in subsequent Congressional hearings." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"In addition, Monsanto's leading herbicide, Roundup, was reported to be losing the battle with some weeds that had evolved a resistance to it. The company's Roundup Ready corn and canola seeds, which were resistant to the herbicide, were the cornerstone of the company's food crop business. The new weeds were not "superweeds" in one biotech sense because they had not developed their resistance as a result of gene flow from a transgenic crop, but simply by evolution. But the lesson was clear—sameness can be a plague in agriculture whether it be mono-crops or mono-herbicides." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"By the time the Vietnam War was in full swing in the latter part of the 1960s, the serious nature of dioxin contamination from the herbicide 2,4,5,-T was well understood. Dioxin also turned out to be the same contaminant accounting for chloracne due to pentachlorophenol. The industrial manufacture of both pentachlorophenol and 2,4,5-T has a distinct propensity to be contaminated by dioxin as an unintended by-product. In the normal course of chemical engineering, such by-products are little more than an annoying negative value that must be factored into projected output yields." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"In the United States, most of our agriculture takes place on relatively lifeless soil, decimated from years of unnatural pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer use. So the plants grown in this soil and sold in our supermarkets lack B12. In addition, we live in such a sanitized world that we rarely come into direct contact with the soil-borne microorganisms that produce BJ2. At one point in our history, we got B12 from vegetables that hadn't been scoured of all soil." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"In areas where GMO crops have been used for several years, farmers have had to use multiple herbicide sprays to control weeds that one spray of Roundup was initially promised to control. This has greatly increased pesticide use and spraying costs as well as caused other problems. One problem caused by increased spraying of Roundup is that invasive weeds have shown significant resistance in Roundup Ready crops." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Explosions from using both sodium chlorate (the first herbicide) and carbon bisulfide caused deaths and serious injuries. Sodium and calcium chlorate caused explosions in spray rigs and crop dusters. Scientists and farmers discovered that sodium chlorate had to be mixed with another ingredient (usually urea synthetic fertilizer) to stabilize the chemical in the spray tank and prevent explosions.6 The application of pesticides from aircraft (crop dusting) began in 1921 but did not become widespread on commercial farms until the mid-1930s." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The Chlorella cell wall fragments' complex polysaccharide compounds, providing Fiber, combine with and then excrete, toxic heavy metals cadmium, mercury, lead, radioactive uranium, drugs, herbicide dioxin, chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides chlordecone (kepone), herbicide dioxin, PCBs, and air, water and food pollutions, for better Immunity." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"GENERAL WEED EXTERMINATOR' This spectacular new herbicide wn developed by years of exhaustive research in GenenI Petroleum Ubontoriej, ind has been thoroughly tested over the list two years on experimental farms. It ii simple to mix and easy ro apply with all sprayers hiving mechanical agitation. It it available ar your nearest G. P. plant. Convince yourselfl Prove the effectiveness of this product on your own ranch. . . . Ask your G. P. man for the new better General Weed Exterminator. wwf'^ypp-w m*ww*mM'rmimw«m?" - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Monsanto began to promise that farmers could limit their herbicide purchases to just one "safe" killer and control the weeds in one application. The ads claimed that this would provide economic savings to farmers at a time of substandard prices for all commodities. And they promised to make cotton the nation's first crop in which genetically altered varieties predominated.4 There were lots of promises from Monsanto and the other genetic manipulators, but very little transparency about their tests or about difficulties growers should anticipate." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The MPTP is actually the active component of a herbicide known as Cyperquat, which is used to kill nutsedge. Fortunately, the manufacturing division that was to make this herbicide closed down before it went to market. Chemically it is related to the dangerous herbicide Paraquat, which has been shown to kill cells by producing enormous amounts of free radicals, which consume all of the cell's antioxidants. MPP+ forms far fewer free radicals. What makes the MPTP story interesting is that there are many compounds found in nature that have a similar chemical structure." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

"At the same time humans are taking precautions around this herbicide, cats and dogs can walk across the lawn sprayed with this chemical, unprotected. At the present time 2,4,-D "is under special review by the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States because of concerns about chronic health and environmental effects."3 In addition to being a toxic threat to animals and humans, chemical fertilizers and pesticides on lawns weaken the grass and destroy the natural balance of microbes and beneficial insect predators, thus, in the end promoting weed and insect proliferation." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"The Chlorella cell wall fragments' complex polysaccharide compounds, providing Fiber, combine with and then excrete, toxic heavy metals cadmium, mercury, lead, radioactive uranium, drugs, herbicide dioxin, chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides chlordecone (kepone), herbicide dioxin, PCBs, and air, water and food pollutions, for better Immunity." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"And researchers have identified weeds that have acquired the engineered genes for herbicide resistance, thereby undermining the effectiveness of the herbicide used to treat the herbicide-resistant crops.21 The very recombinant nature of genetic modification makes some scientists worry that the engineered genes are very likely to spread. "If you design genetically modified DNA to jump into genomes and to overcome species barriers," says geneticist Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, "then there is a chance that this DNA can . . . get into other unrelated species ... to make new combinations." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War. After leaving MIT and taking a faculty position at Virginia Tech, I began coordinating technical assistance for a nationwide project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. Part of the project became an investigation of the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer, usually an adult disease, in Filipino children." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Increased herbicide residues associated with GM crops might cause endocrine disruption or toxic effects in fetal development. (See section 6.) • One of the few intergenerational studies reported more than a sixfold increase (55.6% vs 9%) in offspring mortality within three weeks. (See section 1.14.) The vulnerability of the unborn and the lack of regulatory safeguards were highlighted in a January 2006 report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Inspector General." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Environmental toxins: Among the poisonous chemicals which appear to create their damage through free radical mechanisms are carbon tetrachloride (used in fire extinguishers and as an industrial solvent; it breaks down into the free radical carbon trichloride to cause severe liver damage), paraquat (a herbicide known to destroy the DNA in plant cells; it causes severe lung damage through cross-Unking of proteins),36 and adriamycin (an anti-cancer drug that can cause fatal heart damage)." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"Eighty-nine percent of soybeans have been genetically engineered, most of them with Monsanto's Roundup Ready modified gene, rendering them resistant to Monsanto's own herbicide Roundup.10 Increasing percentages of wheat, canola, and other crops are being grown with genetically engineered ingredients. Indeed, genetically engineered ingredients are everywhere in U.S. supermarkets—in processed corn syrup, in soft drinks, cereals, canned vegetables, candy. They are now an omnipresent, though hidden, presence in America's food." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"They question the wisdom of planting vast areas of land with crops modified to resist herbicides or insects: will such plants transfer herbicide resistance to unwanted weeds, or toxin resistance to harmful insects? Government regulations do not require agricultural biotechnology companies either to answer such questions in much detail or to do very much to identify the potential consequences of releasing transgenic foods into the environment (consequences such as those that occurred with StarLink corn)." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Both breast cancer and prostate cancer have been strongly linked to pesticide exposure, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been strongly linked to herbicide exposure. Thus, it would seem much more likely that pesticides and herbicides are bigger contributors to these types of cancers than genetic inheritance. Moreover, all cancer incidence rates have risen over just a few generations. This sort of rise in all types of cancer would not be happening if cancer were primarily genetically caused. Dr." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"The GM protein that makes Roundup Ready soy resistant to herbicide does not have a history of safe use in the human diet and may be an allergen. In fact, sections of its amino acid sequence are identical with known allergens7 (section 3.2). 2. A portion of the transgene from GM soybeans is transferred into human gut bacteria. The transferred genetic material included the promoter, which turns on the transgene. In addition, the gut bacteria survived doses of Roundup's active ingredient glyphosate." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "A goat study also confirmed that some of the herbicide regenerated from NAG ended up in the kidneys, liver, muscle, fat, and milk.11 [More information about the impact of this conversion is probably in documentation submitted to European regulators by AgrEvo (now Bayer CropScience), but public access was blocked by the company's threats of legal action." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the active ingredients in Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, are also known to be cancer causing; in fact, although 2,4,5-T was banned from further use in the United States in the early 1980s, the herbicide 2,4-D continues to be widely used both in commercial agriculture and on lawns. It is widely known to cause human cancer, according to a host of epidemiological studies. I reported on the hearings held in Oregon in the late 1970s in which the EPA tried to ban 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D from further use." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

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