by Jeffrey M. Smith – posted on NaturalNews
The following article reveals the devastating and unprecedented impact that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is having on the health of our soil, plants, animals, and human population.
On top of this perfect storm, the USDA now wants to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, which will exacerbate this calamity.Please tell USDA Secretary Vilsack not to approve Monsanto’s alfalfa today. [Note: typos corrected from Jan 16th,see details]
While visiting a seedcorndealer’s demonstration plots inIowalast fall, Dr. Don Huber walked passed a soybean field and noticed a distinct line separating severely diseased yellowingsoybeanson the right fromhealthygreen plants on the left (see photo).
The yellow section was suffering from Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plantdiseasethat ravaged the Midwest in 2009 and ’10, driving down yields and profits. Something had caused that area of soybeans to be highly susceptible and Don had a good idea what it was.
The diseased field on the right had glyphosate applied the previous season.Photo by Don Huber
Don Huber spent 35 years as a plant pathologist at Purdue University and knows a lot about what causes greenplantsto turn yellow and die prematurely. He asked the seed dealer why the SDS was so severe in the one area of the field and not the other. “Did you plant something there last year that wasn’t planted in the rest of the field?” he asked. Sure enough, precisely where the severe SDS was, the dealer had grownalfalfa, which he later killed off at the end of the season by spraying a glyphosate-basedherbicide(such as Roundup). The healthy part of the field, on the other hand, had been planted to sweet corn and hadn’t received glyphosate.
This was yet another confirmation thatRoundupwas triggering SDS. In many fields, the evidence is even more obvious. The disease was most severe at the ends of rows where the herbicide applicator looped back to make another pass (see photo). That’s where extra Roundup was applied.
Don’s ascientist; it takes more than a few photos for him to draw conclusions. But Don’s got more–lots more. For over 20 years, Don studied Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate. He’s one of the world’sexperts. And he can rattle off study after study that eliminate any doubt that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but to theoutbreakof numerous other diseases. (See selected reading list.)
Sudden Death Syndrome is more severe at the ends of rows, where Roundup dose is strongest.Photo by Amy Bandy.
Roundup: The perfect storm for plant disease
About the author:
International bestselling author and filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the executive director of theInstitute for Responsible Technology. His first book,Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, is the world’s bestselling and #1 rated book on GMOs. His second,Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, documents 65 health risks of the GMfoodsAmericans eat everyday. To help you choose healthier, non-GMO brands, use theNon-GMO Shopping Guide.
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