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"The roundup resistant soybean seed can now be heavily sprayed with roundup to kill weeds, but without causing damage to the soybean. No more problems with weeds suffocating the soybean plants, but bigger problems for the consumer! The new soybean is heavily contaminated with the toxic herbicide, roundup. Today, these genetically modified soybean products, which comprise about 80 percent of the beans available, have been found in most baby formulas including Carnation, Similac, Enfamil, Isomil, and Neocare as well as Doritos, Fritos, vegetable oils, soybean oil, margarine, and much more." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "The unsuspecting farmers would only welcome such a miracle plant, unless of course they see the risk involved. The roundup resistant soybean seed can now be heavily sprayed with roundup to kill weeds, but without causing damage to the soybean. No more problems with weeds suffocating the soybean plants, but bigger problems for the consumer! The new soybean is heavily contaminated with the toxic herbicide, roundup." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Monsanto, which also produced the poisonous sweetener aspartame, is inserting genes from plants of unrelated species into the soybean plant to make it resistant to the potent herbicide roundup (glyphosate). The unsuspecting farmers would only welcome such a miracle plant, unless of course they see the risk involved. The roundup resistant soybean seed can now be heavily sprayed with roundup to kill weeds, but without causing damage to the soybean. No more problems with weeds suffocating the soybean plants, but bigger problems for the consumer!" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Indeed, in May of 2000, Monsanto announced that they found two rogue DNA fragments in the roundup Ready soybean, in addition to the one gene the FDA approved. These unapproved genes are in every roundup Ready soybean Monsanto has ever produced. While Monsanto claims there are no reports of harm from these genes, it is clear that results are unpredictable. Research is showing that viral DNA in GMO crops causes a higher than expected ability to induce unexpected viral recombination." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (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.)

"The organic movement valued a time and place where animals were not fed growth hormones and steroids and antibiotics and where crops were left to fend off the elements with their own protective antioxidants and anthocyanins, rather than chemical pesticides and carcinogens, and where "Roundup Ready," genetically modified plants (GMOs) were unknown." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Case Study: roundup Ready Soybeans A combination of human error and the unpredictable effects of genetic engineering was revealed in May of 2000. Monsanto's roundup Ready soybeans had already been on the market for seven years. The company thoughtthey had inserted only a single foreign gene (along with its CaMV promoter). The gene, derived from bacteria, allowed the soy plant to survive high concentrations of Monsanto's herbicide called roundup. To the company's surprise, they discovered that there were two additional gene fragments that had been inserted into the soy DNA accidentally." - 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.)

"Consider the implications if Bt genes, like roundup Ready genes, were to transfer to gut bacteria. That could turn our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories. The Human Interaction with GMO Food The odds are high that humans will face super-strains of viruses which develop their new powers from interacting with GMO food. There are now trillions of cells in crops around the world that contain viral promoter genes which may interact with a virus and dramatically strengthen it. Viral recombination is part of the random chance of nature." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Glyphosates are non- selective systemic chemicals found in the popular weed killers roundup, EAZY WEEDER, AND SLAM. They kill weeds and grains, so are only suitable in yards. What Appears To Be The Best Solution For The Many Problems Of Water? My initial reaction was to suggest the use of distilled water. However, further investigation has disclosed that while better, this is not completely safe. Distilled water absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, making the water acidic." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"The new soybean is heavily contaminated with the toxic herbicide, roundup. Today, these genetically modified soybean products, which comprise about 80 percent of the beans available, have been found in most baby formulas including Carnation, Similac, Enfamil, Isomil, and Neocare as well as Doritos, Fritos, vegetable oils, soybean oil, margarine, and much more. With soy now being an ingredient of thousands of common food products, the masses are systematically poisoned with harmful herbicides." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The whole purpose for growing roundup Ready soybeans is so that farmers can spray their fields with roundup herbicide, killing weeds but not killing the crop. In fact, studies show that farmers spray two to five times more herbicide on their GM soybeans compared to farmers who grow conventional beans.19 The government actually increased the level of roundup residue allowed on beans by three-fold to facilitate the sale of the herbicide-tolerant GM 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.)

"Irina Ermakova added flour from a GM soya bean - produced by Monsanto to be resistant to its pesticide, roundup - to the food of female rats, starting two weeks before they conceived, continuing through pregnancy, birth and nursing. Others were given non-GM soya and a third group was given no soya at all. She found that 36% of the young of the rats fed the modified soya were severely underweight, compared to 6 per cent of the offspring of the other groups. More alarmingly, a staggering 55." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

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"For example, Monsanto created roundup Ready (RR) soy, corn, and cotton specifically so that farmers would continue to buy roundup, the company's best-selling chemical weed killer, which is sold with RR seeds. Instead of reducing pesticide use, one study of more than eight thousand university-based field trials indicated that farmers who plant RR soy use two to five times more herbicide than farmers who use traditional weed control methods. Our View ofGM Foods We are concerned about the development of GM foods for several reasons." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

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"Five major weeds develop resistance to roundup herbicide. Arsenic, paraquat, and 2, 4-D are recommended to control resistant weeds. 2004 ?Seventy-six percent of cotton, 45 percent of corn, and 85 percent of soybean acreage in the United States is planted with genetically modified crops. Many farmers have few options for obtaining other seed, since Monsanto and the other corporate conglomerates refuse to provide anything but genetically manipulated seed. 2005 ?More than 9,000 farmers are accused by Monsanto of violating its patent rules. Most settle out of court." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The liver cells of mice fed roundup Ready soybeans showed significant changes. 2. Irregularly shaped nuclei and nucleoli, an increased number of nuclear pores and other changes, all suggest higher metabolism and altered patterns of gene expression. 3. The changes may be in response to a toxin. 4. Most of the effects disappeared when GM soy was removed from the diet." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"But LIBERTY Herbicide also takes oat weeds resistant or tolerant to Roundup'thanks to its unique, non-selective chemistry. So you get a hue alternative for managing weeds and resistance. Get aSHB40(wfieiT you use UBIRTY herbicide on UbertyUnk hybrids from i participating seed companies. www.8aytirGrowiitgStniig.com A Bayer CropScience ad from Farm Journal, September 2007. $0.45 range until 2002. Even with $0." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "This led to a profusion of competitors for Roundup's customers, as the 2007 advertisement from Bayer at bottom right shows. Resistance problems have also plagued Bollgard cotton, which has Bt {Bacillus thuringensis) shot into it. The EPA and the corporations blame these resistance problems on the failure of farmers to adhere to the refuge requirements with Bollgard cotton, but the real issue is probably overuse of Bollgard seed in areas where worms are periodically a serious problem." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"These unapproved genes are in every roundup Ready soybean Monsanto has ever produced. While Monsanto claims there are no reports of harm from these genes, it is clear that results are unpredictable. Research is showing that viral DNA in GMO crops causes a higher than expected ability to induce unexpected viral recombination. CaMV may damage other DNA chains (like firing a shotgun at a small target), inducing potential viral recombination that was not expected. Major concerns include the following: 1. An existing viral infection in a person may be enhanced when a person eats GMO food 2." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Monsanto and Delta and Pine Land get federal permission to grow genetically modified roundup Ready cotton. 1995-98 More than 100 square miles of the Antarctic ice shelf drop into the ocean due to the warming of the seas. The resultant sea-level rises are already becoming catastrophic for island nations. 1996 Congress unanimously passes the Food Quality Protection Act. It repeals the Delaney Clause in exchange for a provision forcing the EPA to evaluate the combined toxic effects of all pesticide exposures, including those from water and food." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"It is widely used in crops such as the roundup Ready (RR) Soy of Monsanto, the Bt-Maize of Novartis, GE cotton and various varieties of GE Canola grown mostly in Canada. It is important to understand that this is a highly infectious viral gene. It is used because it is far more effective than any other strategy to promote the uptake of the foreign DNA fragment into the DNA of food. We are inserting into every cell of GMO food the major weapon that a virus uses to replicate." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Whatever diversity existed among regional heirloom canola varieties in Canada is being rapidly homogenized by the roundup Ready gene. Rene Van Acker of the University of Manitoba has found canola with roundup Ready genes in ditches, schoolyards, and city lots; she found that even the purest, certified non-genetically engineered canola now contains up to 4.9 percent roundup Ready material.20 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." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"It is a standard that the regulators may have gotten used to, as this critique by the Public Health Association of Australia on Monsanto's roundup Ready corn demonstrates. "The composition of the glyphosate-tolerant GE corn was compared to control plants that consisted of'the population of non-transgenic negative segregants (that is, plants lacking the mEPSPS gene addition) present in untreated plots of transgenic GA21 corn." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Regarding roundup Ready corn: "We contend that the compositional analyses require much larger sample sizes than n=5." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Public Health Association of Australia Regarding roundup Ready canola: "It is clear that the sample sizes are most inadequate to find statistical significance. For example, n=2 in the glyphosate-tolerant canola fine____With such low numbers it is almost a foregone conclusion that a statistically significant difference will NOT be found between the GE food and the non-GE food for most analyses, even if one exists in nature. In fact, if a statistically-significant difference is found with such small numbers it indicates that the difference may be substantial indeed." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"They had not been treated with herbicide, although no one grows an)- roundup Ready variety without using roundup on the fields. When an independent testing firm reconducted the study, genetically altered soybeans grown under real world conditions and sprayed with the herbicide were found to have a 12 to 14 percent reduction in phytoestrogens—nutrients that help protect against heart disease, osteoporosis, and breast cancer.5' Suzanne Wuerthele is a toxicologist who has worked for the EPA for 13 years." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.) "In 2001, the Los Angeles Times published an expose: revealing that Monsanto's own research had raised many questions about the safety of their roundup Ready soybeans.25 Remarkably, the FDA did not call for more testing before allowing these soybeans to flood the marketplace. Since half the soybeans grown in the United States are now Monsanto's roundup Ready variety, and because soy is contained in such a wide array of processed foods, tens of millions of people are unknowingly eating these experimental foods daily." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.) "In 1997, Monsanto was forced to remove advertisements that billed roundup as "totally safe" and "environmentally friendly" after the New York attornev general's office complained about the toxicity of Roundup's supposedly inert ingredients, one of which had been cited as the cause of toxicity in nine deaths/1 As well, studies have linked exposure to glyphosate to an increased risk for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a serious cancer that affects young people, and the third fastest-growing cancer in the United States." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (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.)

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