Articles
The nutritional status of GMOs
Article number
1124_14
Pages
97 – 100
Language
English
Abstract
The great majority of engineered crops in agriculture and in our food supply are Roundup Ready.
Roundup Ready crops are engineered to be sprayed with the herbicide Roundup and this technology has become so successful that Roundup has become a major pollutant.
The active ingredient of the herbicide Roundup is glyphosate, a molecule created in 1960 to clean industrial pipes and boilers of mineral scales (i.e., mineral deposits). Glyphosate was initially patented as a powerful and broad-spectrum descaling agent.
It binds indiscriminately and does a great job at dissolving and preventing minerals from being bioavailable.
We have plenty of evidence that this chemical property also makes this molecule a biocide.
Glyphosate kills bacteria at 1 ppm and is an endocrine disruptor in animals at 0.5 ppm.
Glyphosate depletes minerals in soil, in plants and in animals that eat the plants.
Roundup Ready crops are engineered to be sprayed with the herbicide Roundup and this technology has become so successful that Roundup has become a major pollutant.
The active ingredient of the herbicide Roundup is glyphosate, a molecule created in 1960 to clean industrial pipes and boilers of mineral scales (i.e., mineral deposits). Glyphosate was initially patented as a powerful and broad-spectrum descaling agent.
It binds indiscriminately and does a great job at dissolving and preventing minerals from being bioavailable.
We have plenty of evidence that this chemical property also makes this molecule a biocide.
Glyphosate kills bacteria at 1 ppm and is an endocrine disruptor in animals at 0.5 ppm.
Glyphosate depletes minerals in soil, in plants and in animals that eat the plants.
Authors
T.C. Vrain
Keywords
antibiotic, chelator, glyphosate, microbiome, Roundup Ready
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