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

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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

Mongabay Series: Amazon Agribusiness, Cerrado Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

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Written by by and published on 27 August 2018 in Mongabay: News and Inspiration from Nature’s Frontline.

 

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Vietnam demands Monsanto pays compensation for Agent Orange victims

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“Toxic defoliant has been linked to birth defects, cancers and other deadly diseases from which millions suffer to this day.”

“Vietnam has demanded Monsanto pay compensation to the victims of Agent Orange, which the company supplied to the US military during the Vietnam War.

It came in response to the firm being ordered to pay $289m (£226m) to a school groundsman who claims his use of its Roundup weedkiller contributed to his terminal cancer.”

Read the full story, written by Samuel Osborn and published in The Independent on 25 August 2018, at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/vietnam-agent-orange-monsanto-victims-compensation-a8508271.html

We hope the lawyers for the Vietnamese victims will read and utilize the data in The Poison Papers — they will find ample evidence that the companies knew of the extreme toxicity of the dioxins in their products long before the US Military sprayed agent orange in Vietnam.

 

“Poison Papers” and Major Monsanto Document Release Exposes Toxicity and Collusion

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Published in The Maui Independent on August 2, 2017 by Jon Wood house and Jonathan Greenberg

Historic Disclosures Prove That Safety of FDA and EPA-Approved Chemicals Were Based on Tobacco Industry-like Collusion Promoting Demonstrably Faked Science.

More than 100,000 pages of documents exposing how the chemical industry and government regulators knew about the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products, yet worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press, were made publicly available last week through a remarkable project called the Poison Papers.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  explained, “Monsanto has been spinning its lethal yarn to everybody for years and suborning various perjuries from regulators and scientists who have all been lying in concert to American farmers, landscapers and consumers. These new revelations are commiserate with the documents that brought down big tobacco.”

Read the full article at: https://mauiindependent.org/poison-papers-major-monsanto-document-release-exposes-toxicity-collusion/

How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted Science) To Keep Glyphosate on the Market

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 On November 1, 2017, In These Times published “How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted Science) To Keep Glyphosate on the Market”. The article was written by Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman, with illustrations by Jean-Luc Bonifay.

“Since 1973, Monsanto has cited dubious science, like tests on the uteri of male mice, and the EPA has let much of it slide.” For example, when EPA scientists expressed concerns about the carcinogenicity of glyphosate revealed by a mouse study, “their interpretation was subsequently reversed by EPA upper management and advisory boards, apparently under pressure from Monsanto.” The collusion continues to this day.

Read the original story at:

http://inthesetimes.com/features/monsanto_epa_glyphosate_roundup_investigation.html