Monsanto, and its German owner Bayer, maintain that glyphosate does not pose a health risk, and government officials say that residues of glyphosate and other pesticides found in food products are almost always so low that they are not considered harmful.
But international scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization have classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans, and recent studies out of Europe have found glyphosate herbicides pose not just cancer, but other health risks.
You can find the results on Healthy Florida First
It’s in literally all processed foods.
It’s in the flour, its on the veggies too
Ya, it’s in basically everything. Anything with wheat, oats, beans, soy etc etc etc. If you don’t eat organic items, you are eating glyphosate.
Yes, plus, organic farms near non-organics can have the chemicals, too.
To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.
And organics have residues of the “natural” pesticides they use, which are often just as bad if not worse.
What’s an example of worse?
Presumably copper
Rotenone, nicotine, copper sulfate, and pyrethrin/pyrethrum (broad spectrum insecticide that harms beneficial insects) come immediately to mind. Copper sulfate’s big issue is it breaks down quickly and needs to be frequently reapplied, leading to copper accumulation in the soil.
Organic foods can still have synthetic pesticide used.
most of them are grown right beside non organic fields and winds blow.
This is a big contributor to why cancer rates are elevated in Iowa. Lots of farm land means lots of chemicals sprayed. Fortunately our fearless governor, Kim Reynolds, and her band of merry assholes are trying to protect Monsanto from legal liability by making it illegal to sue them. It passed in the Senate but failed to get back through the house… So far. Not for lack of trying from Beyer and the aformentioned conservative ill running the state.
This is a big contributor to why cancer rates are elevated in Iowa.
Map of US cancer rates: Iowa about average.
Map of US obesity rates:
“Thing found” is very different from “dangerous levels of thing found”.
Yeah - I know you think that “there is no safe level” but that’s not true.
Also - “probably carcinogenic” is a pretty low bar for the WHO. See also “cooked meat” for things that are “probably carcinogenic”.
The supposed HFF website does not state their exact findings, nor have a scientific paper regarding their findings, nor have any sort of transparency like who’s even operating and funding the website.
There is a link to a form supposedly allowing anyone to report about “bad” food, but that’s suspicious.
Domain name is about 34 days old. https://whois.domaintools.com/exposingfoodtoxins.com
Very sketchy.
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As far as I am aware, this is a new initiative from Florida’s government, see:
Governor Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced new food safety findings under the Healthy Florida First initiative, with the release of bread product testing results conducted by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to increase transparency for Florida families and reinforce accountability for everyday food products.
Those are definitely valid criticism that should have been addressed on their website
They spend lots of time and money on worrying about ingredients; they could as well sell bags of chia seeds or space protein goo in jars.
Unless they provide more information, it feels like there’s a profit motive in what appears to be meaningful activism against supposedly “harmful” food. Knowing DeSantis being a clone copy of Mussolini, I’d consider following the money.
Florida Man for the win?
I doubt it’s just Florida buddy
Oh for sure. I was just pleasantly surprised that the news was from there. Thanks Florida Man!
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