New research supports the possibility that combined exposure to heavy metals and glyphosate has a synergistic effect leading to high levels of heavy metals accumulating in the kidneys. This in turn causes chronic kidney disease of the type that
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Dr Jayasumana: New Research Supports Glyphosate Connection to Chronic Kidney Disease
GalleryWorld Health Organization: Glyphosate Is A Probable Human Carcinogen
The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency has declared the world’s most widely used weedkiller – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen” in a move that will alarm the agrochemical industry and amateur gardeners. (more…)
GalleryDr. Swanson: GM Crops and Glyphosate Linked to U.S. Health Deterioration
A new correlation study has been published in the Journal of Organic Systems has linked the world’s number one herbicide, glyphosate, to a huge increase in the incidence of chronic diseases across the United States. (more…)
Dr Krüger: Chronically Ill Humans Have Higher Glyphosate Levels than Healthy Humans
This German based new study concludes that Glyphosate residue could reach humans and animals through feed and excreted in urine. Presence of glyphosate in urine and its accumulation in animal tissues is alarming even at low concentrations. (more…)
GalleryNew Study Shows GM Soy is Unsustainable in Argentina
The GM soy-based agro-export model as currently configured in Argentina is socially and ecologically unsustainable, according to a new peer-reviewed study.
The Paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718513000730
Modifying Argentina: GM soy and socio-environmental change
Author: Amalia Leguizamón
Highlights
*This paper examines Argentina’s agro-export strategy for socio-economic development.
*Strategy is based
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GalleryDr Spisak: Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood
A new study shows that contrary to reassurances from industry and regulators, complete genes – including GM genes – can pass from food into human blood. (more…)
GalleryProfessor Heinemann: GM Crop Production is Lowering US Yields and Increasing Pesticide Use
University of Canterbury researchers have found that the biotechnologies used in north American staple crop production are lowering yields and increasing pesticide use compared to western Europe. (more…)
Dr. Thongprakaisang: Glyphosate Induces Growth in Human Breast Cancer Cells
This study shows that Glyphosate exerted proliferative effects only in human hormone-dependent breast cancer, T47D cells, but not in hormoneindependent breast cancer, MDA-MB231 cells, at 10-12 to 10-6 M in estrogen withdrawal condition. (more…)
Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Hoppe: Glyphosate Found in Human Urine Across Europe
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of the weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe. (more…)
Dr Hilbeck: Farmers Have Seed Choices Restricted by GM Crops
This study finds that there is “no evidence that restrictions and regulations of GM crops in Europe have decreased seed choices for farmers in the non-adopting countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In contrast, we observed that in Spain, which
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