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Environmentally-Caused Disease Crisis? Pesticide Damage to DNA Found ‘Programmed’ Into Future Generations

September 7, 2018 By Allison Wilson

The EPA, chemical companies like Monsanto (now Bayer) and mainstream news media are ignoring research indicating pesticides (including the herbicides atrazine and glyphosate, the fungicide vinclozolin and many more) cause heritable disease by introducing epigenetic changes to DNA.

“A chemical (glyphosate) that didn’t come onto the scene until the 1970s has now managed to find its way into every single pregnant woman in the U.S, except seven percent of them. We thought that should be news. But in the current paradigm, which is definitely pro-business, the only thing companies have to prove is that it doesn’t kill you if you drink it or take a big dose of it.”

He [Winchester] sees a potentially catastrophic outcome resulting from the epigenetic damage caused by pesticides.

Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, published on EcoWatch, August 16 2018 at: https://www.ecowatch.com/generational-harm-of-pesticides-2596453994.html

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: atrazine, birth defects, Dr. Michael Skinner, Dr. Paul Winchester, EPA, Epigenetics, fungicide, Glyphosate, herbicide, heritable disease, Monsanto, pesticide, vinclozolin

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