Main Roundup Ingredient Is Unsafe At Nearly ALL Levels

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A new study has been released showing that Glyphosate – the main ingredient of Monsanto’s Round Up – is NOT safe, even at the levels that the EPA tells us ARE safe. In fact, there may actually be NO SAFE level of exposure to this toxic chemical. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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A new study's been released showing glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup is not safe, even at levels that the EPA are telling us are safe. In fact, there may be no safe level of exposure to this toxic chemical that makes up most of the herbicide Roundup that's produced by Monsanto. You know, Farron, the troublesome thing about this development is Monsanto has known this now for decades. As you know, I've just finished taking a whole round of depositions in this case but this study's saying, look, it's not just cancer that we're concerned about, where it comes to exposure to Roundup, you know, every 30 minutes it seems like there's a Roundup commercial with some cat out there spraying Roundup in short sleeves, in shorts where it's absorbed through the skin. The company knows it's wrong to do that. Their own in-house scientists said we can't allow that to go on but we now see that it has to do with geno-toxicity, intestinal bacteria that are causing all types of gastrointestinal issues and sexual dysfunction. I mean, that's just the short list.

Farron Cousins: It really is and, again, these are at levels that the EPA tells us, totally safe, you have nothing to worry about it if you're exposed to this level of glyphosate. So these independent researchers came along and said, okay, well we're going to test it because we know you're not, Mr. EPA, so we're going to go and test it. They test it on these lab rats and sure enough, within months, a few months ... they notice these problems that had developed and it, basically, it alters the biology of these creatures and it can do the same to humans.

Mike Papantonio: Let me put this in perspective, okay? There's no question that the toxicologists that worked on this and followed it for years, the toxicologists clearly knew this. They knew that they had not done enough testing, they knew that you certainly can't go out and tell everybody, hey, this is safe. They had not even done testing to prove whether it's safe. But you mentioned the EPA, the EPA in this case ... I'm going to try this case. I'll be trying this case in St. Louis and I'm going to try the EPA. For once, we're going to tell the story about the EPA being part of these types of corporate frauds. As a matter of fact, the CEO of this company, of Monsanto, actually worked with the EPA, was also head of the EPA. You see this transition that takes place between not just the CEO, the people of lower management that move onto the FDA, that has allowed this to happen. The EPA that's allowed this to happen. The point is, we know that this is a product that will kill people but, nevertheless, the EPA keeps hanging onto the idea, well, it hasn't been proven.

Mike Papantonio: Well the EPA also knows that the tests that were done, initially, to even get this put on the market, that those tests were fraudulent. They were fraudulent and they were done by the EPA and a toxicologist named, Kushner, who was hired by Monsanto to phony up some data. That was decades ago and this has been on the market killing people ever since.

Farron Cousins: And it's important to point out too, when we talk about the EPA, it's not just the Scott Pruitt EPA, this was EPA under Obama, under W., under Clinton, under Bush, Sr., and under Reagan. That's how long this issue's been in front of them and just to remind people here, you spent most of the month of April taking depositions in these cases.