corn, sugar, candy, soda pop, as well as milk, processed meats and fast foods were part of everyday life. So what has changed? Why were these foods considered healthy and nutritious in 1996 but not today?  While it is a common belief that today’s current chronic disease and health crises are all caused by multiple, unconnected agents such as food allergies, environmental pollutants, gluten, dairy, sugar and antibiotics, it’s much more reasonable that these chronic diseases and challenging health problems all have one common root cause It is vital that you understand exactly what poison is contaminating our food supply, destroying our immune systems and causing organ failure and death so you can learn how to protect your health and wellness. That means learning where and when the poison was created, what it's intended purpose was, how it found it's way into our food supply and why the government continues to allow this deadly poison to be added to over 90% of our basic, everyday food supply. *The topic ”Poison In Our Food” is based in large part on a video presentation of a lecture by Dr. Thierry Vrain on November 16, 2014 at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario Canada And most importantly…. What you can do to protect yourself.

The path leading to our current health crisis started innocently enough in 1960 by Stauffer Chemicals who was in the business of cleaning scale from industrial pipes and boilers… Industrial pipes and boilers run boiling water continuously 24-7 so within a few weeks or months the pipes and boilers become so clogged with serious mineral deposits (scale) on the sides of the pipes and boilers that it interferes with the efficiency of the systems. When you have an electric kettle at home, after a few months of boiling water you may notice mineral deposits collecting in the kettle. To combat this industrial scaling problem in 1964 a team of chemists at Stauffer Chemicals invented a descaling agent, a simple molecule named Glyphosate (1964 US patent # 3,160,632). Glyphosate worked by binding to metallic ions (atoms) and changing their chemical structure. The metallic atoms that once created the scale were transformed by Glyphosate into chemically inactive particles within a liquid slurry that no longer had any of the properties of metallic ions and could be pumped out of the pipes and boilers and exchanged for clean water. Glyphosate is an extremely broad spectrum descaling agent. Here is a short list of some of the atoms of metal it binds to…. S, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ca, Mg, Co, Mn, Mo, Se. In summation; Glyphosate was invented in 1960 and patented in 1964 as a broad spectrum descaling agent. (Patents are public documents that are available online).

Looking at a progress chart for Roundup Ready use – it started in 1996 at zero – because that is when the first crops appeared – ending in 2014 and you can see that we’re pretty close to 100%. 100% of Soy, 100% of corn, 100% of sugar beet  and 100% of Canola (rape seed) are engineered in the US and Canada. That doesn’t leave much room for anything else – so there is hardly any corn or soy or sugar beets or canola that are not engineered. Roundup Ready technology is an incredible success. Of course, if you spray a crop with any chemical that is absorbed by the plant (because it’s not just a contact pesticide) it goes inside the crop, inside the plant and inside each cell of the plant and kills it, you are bound to have residues of the chemical inside the plant. This result is understandable and not surprising. What is startling are reports that the yield from Roundup Ready GMO crops contains less minerals. This result should not be unexpected when you understand how the chemical works. As a descaling agent, Glyphosate was engineered to bind to metal atoms, changing their chemical properties and making them inactive. As a result, those metal atoms have basically disappeared. They are bio- unavailable.

In areas of Argentina where they used to raise cattle for the North America and European markets now they are growing engineered soy beans and the acreage is so extensive that they need to spray the crops by aeroplane. Because babies started being born with birth defects, Dr. Carrasco, who was head of the embryology department in Buenos Aires, went to investigate.. Then he came back to his lab. Injected frog embryos (frog eggs) with pico litres, tiny tiny quantities of Glyphosate and was able to replicate the birth defects he saw in humans. Birth defects in pigs fed Roundup Ready corn This is another paper published in 2014 a team of researchers from Germany about pigs fed Roundup Ready corn and when the sows gave birth to piglets many of the piglets were deformed.. Again with congenital malformations. Glyphosate residue found in animals and humans In 2014 the same team in Germany from the University of Leipzig in Germany looked into Glyphosate residues in animals and humans. If you go to the website of the chemical company Monsanto you will read that if by accident you were to ingest some glyphosate – you will flush it through the next day. It does not stick. It simply goes through your body just like water. And this paper tells exactly the opposite. It does stick. Not only does it stick – it bio-accumulates. And the same paper has this interesting observation… Chronically ill people have higher glyphosate residue in their urine than healthy people. Glyphosate effects on agriculture Dr. Don Huber is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods. His specific areas of training include soil-borne diseases, microbial ecology, and host-parasite relationships.

Dr. Huber also taught plant pathology, soil microbiology, and micro-ecological interactions as they relate to plant disease as a staff Professor at Purdue University for 35 years In an interview Dr. Huber’s research, spanning 55 years, found that GMO crops are breaking our agricultural systems. When you change one part of that system, you change the interaction between all the other components, because they work together. It is simply impossible to change just one minor aspect without altering the entire system. The idea behind Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready corn, cotton, soybean and sugar beets is that farmers can increase yields by killing pesky weeds. Unfortunately,   this practice is beginning to create super-weeds at an alarming rate. It’s been stated in the British Institute of Science in Society, the US is faring the worst, combating 13 different glyphosate-resistant weed species in 73 different locations. But the introduction of glyphosate-resistance has also had a direct impact on soil microbes. With each new Roundup Ready crop approved, the glyphosate residues in the soil increases, and the tolerance levels in the weeds increases as well.. About 20 percent of the glyphosate migrates out of the plant's roots and into the surrounding soil. Once in the soil, glyphosate affects beneficial soil microorganisms in the same way that it affects weeds (because they have the same critical metabolic functions). The Glyphosate in Roundup forms a barrier around specific nutrients (metal ions) preventing any life form that needs that element from utilizing it properly. This applies to both plants and soil microbes -- as well as animals and humans. This basic concept explains why Roundup Ready crops cause such profound health problems in those who consume them. Glyphosate, even in Roundup Ready crops, affects about 25 different enzymes required to make that plant or organism function properly. Plants compromised by Glyphosate can have micronutrients and minerals such as iron, manganese and zinc reduced as much as 80-90 percent.

According to Dr. Huber: "The plant can only utilize certain [reduced] forms of all the nutrients… The way nutrients becomes available in the soil is through beneficial microorganisms. We also have microorganisms for legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, or any of the other legumes that can fix up to 75 percent of their actual nitrogen for protein in amino acid synthesis that actually comes from the air through the microorganisms in the soil. Glyphosate is extremely toxic to all of those organisms. What we see with our continued use and abuse of this powerful weed killer is that it is also totally eliminating many of those organisms from the soil. We no longer have the same balance that we used to have. Consequently, we see an increase of over 40 new plant diseases, diseases we used to have under fairly effective control, which now all of a sudden is another serious problem." Once extremely rare, toxic botulism is now becoming a more common cause of death in dairy cows because the beneficial gut bacteria is being destroyed by Glyphosate.  To make matters worse for cattle and other herbivores, The US Department of Agriculture (USAD) recently deregulated GMO alfalfa (our fourth most important economic crop and the most nutritional feed for cattle). Not only will this have a lethal effect on the herbivore microbiome leading to toxic botulism and death it will also result in the destruction of soil microorganisms leading to nutritional deficiency and making the plant susceptible to diseases. According to Dr. Huber, It's possible that those who do not  consume an all-organic diet, which is the majority of Americans, to some extent or another, are destroying their gut flora with every bite of food they eat. The reduction of mineral content inherent in Glyphosate treated foods will certainly make you far more susceptible to potentially dangerous pathogens and chronic diseases.

In a paper published by Dr. Bonnie Kaplan, a psychiatrist in the University Hospital in Calgary Alberta Canada. Doing what she calls nutritional psychiatry, Dr. Kaplan works with Autistic children and she feeds them mineral supplements and they get better – quickly. And this is from the EPA website. There are several pages on basic information about Glyphosate in drinking water and you will read that the maximum contaminant level is 0.7 mg per liter and a little further on in the page that people drinking water containing more then 0.7 ppm of Glyphosate may develop kidney problems and infertility. From what you have read so far, there are a whole host of other symptoms that would appear when you become contaminated or poisoned with Glyphosate. While the debate on the safety of GMOs remains important, it must not distract from the serious health risks of glyphosate sprayed on both Roundup Ready and non-engineered crops. There are many sides to the GMO discussion but few mention the herbicide, glyphosate -- when more than 90% of all grain crops in North America are sprayed with a herbicide that should have remained a pipe and boiler cleaner.