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Growing up on a farm and then going to the military, I was taught not to cut
corners. I learned that when I did, I always paid the price in the long run.
Our romance with biotech seed is one of those corners. It seemed like a perfect
way to farm just plant, spray, wait and then harvest. And lets face it, it
worked very well for several years. This shortcut allowed good farmers to get
better and poor farmers to look good. It also allowed a farmer to cover more
acres in less time. This seemed to be the ultimate answer to get big or get out.
However, just like when we cut corners in other areas, it has come time to pay for
this shortcut as well. Unfortunately, its not us that will pay the ultimate price for
our convenience, it isnt even our children, it is our grandchildren.
Tonights class is one that I did not want to do, but after a recent meeting, I can
see no way to avoid it. What you decide to do with the information is entirely up
to you.
I come from a farm background and even own a small farm in Southeast Iowa. I
understand the implications of this work. It is a game changer. It is a matter of
life and death. It is not just a matter of money anymore.
The promise of biotech crops has changed the way we produce food.Unfortunately the law of unintended consequences is changing much more than
that. Round Up is a trade name for glyphosate. Glyphosate is the most popular
herbicide in use around the world.
At the end of this class, if you understand what I have presented, you will go
through your cupboards and throw away any cereals that are not organic. Youll
throw away the rest of your non-organic corn based products and pitch your non-
organic eggs as well.
If youve got a glyphosate herbicide in your garden shed, youll throw it away.
With what we know now, there is no weed problem serious enough anywhere in
the world to justify its use.
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There are 3 factors we will look at when we are talking about glyphosate.
Number one is the chemical itself, number two is the genetic modification of the
plant that makes it resistant to glyphosate and number 3 is a newly discovered
micro-fungus that has been found in all genetically modified grain.
The effects of these three are intertwined. Science is not sure which causes what
problems, so their answer has been to ignore the problems and do nothing.
Unfortunate we dont have that luxury.
Here is what we do know. The glyphosate chemical is a strong chelator. It works
by tying up the minerals in the plant that are necessary for its immune system to
function. These are exactly the same minerals that our own immune system
needs to function, but more on that later. Glyphosate also stimulates pathogenicfungi in the soil, so that the defenseless plant is quickly killed by disease.
When applied, it trans-locates throughout the plant, especially toward the
growing tissues and the reproductive tissues. Much of it is exudated out of the
roots into the soil, where it further ties up minerals in the soil and distorts the soil
micro-biology. It is absolutely deadly to some species of soil life and a strong
stimulant to others.
Glyphosate is toxic to mycorrhizae fungi in as little as 1 ppm1. It reduces nitrogen
fixing in the soil by 20% and reduces the number of nitrogen fixing nodules by
70%. Seed germination tests run on cotton showed it reduced germination by 24-
85% and reduced seedling weight by 19-83%.2 Exposure to glyphosate kills up to
50% of some beneficial insects including Lady Bugs.
For farmers, the cost in nitrogen, the impaired nitrogen fixation by your soybeans,
and the destruction of the mycorrhizae should be enough for you to consider
dropping it, but there is more.
1http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Roundup-Glyphosate-Factsheet-Cox2.htm
2http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Roundup-Glyphosate-Factsheet-Cox2.htm
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When we say it chelates cations, it may be beneficial to review exactly what that
means. A cation is a positively charged ion. In the soil these minerals include:
potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, sulfur, manganese, selenium, copper,
and zinc. Hydrogen, the energy element of the soil is also a cation. Withoutenergy, none of our biological systems work.
Even varieties of crops that are resistant to the glyphosate are still deficient in the
minerals. Dr. Richard Olree lists five minerals that are critical for the functioning
of the immune system. These are: selenium, magnesium, boron, silica and iodine.
Four out of five of the minerals that are essential for the human immune system to
work are tied up by glyphosate.
As a side note, the Des Moines Register recently had an article that wasconcerned about the increasing number of strokes in young people. They blamed
the increase on obesity. There was no mention that a shortage of copper makes
the blood vessels of the brain fragile and subject to hemorrhage. Nor was there
any mention that a shortage of selenium causes heart failure (usually seen in
young athletes). Both copper and selenium are cations that are tied up by
glyphosate.
If the minerals are tied up in the soil, then they are not available to the plant. It
then follows that they are not in our food. So we can trace the problem of these
strokes, not to obesity, but to mal-nutrition. At a recent seminar a physician said
that Americans are the first people in history to die of malnutrition with their
bellies full.
Glyphosate applied to the leaves moves into the growing and reproductive
tissues. Those tissues include the seed. That is the grain we grind and put into our
food; flour, chips, cereals, etc.
A study from Denmark showed residues of glyphosate in half of their cereals at
levels of .11 ppm. At .5ppm glyphosate has anti-androgenic properties. (meaning
it is Feminizing, it is anti-testosterone) At 2 ppm it is anti-estrogenic. (meaning it
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is Masculinizing) At 1 ppm is disrupts enzymes, at 5ppm it damages DNA and at
10 ppm is kills cells. Researchers in France saw cellular damage at all levels of
concentration even that as low as 100,000 times more dilute than the product
sold on shelves.
So at .1 ppm in cereal we dont need to be concerned, except that it builds up in
the tissue over time, like radiation or dioxins. There is no safe level of exposure,
because your 1/10 ppm today simply adds to the 1/10 ppm tomorrow etc. etc.
So if you eat 2 pounds of GMO fed food per day and drink a high fructose corn
syrup soda, it adds up to consuming about .16 ppm of glyphosate per year. In
chickens about 20% ends up in manure, so if we assume the same in people,
within just a couple of years we have high enough concentrations to see thehealth effects already noted.
Now, if we take the person that drinks 3 or 4 sodas per day, or the person that
eats either more contaminated food or just more food altogether, you can see
how quickly it adds up.
Regardless of your political or religious views, based upon what we know
glyphosate does to the endocrine system and hormone balance, perhaps it is a
little hypocritical to condemn a person for their sexual orientation, when it very
well may be the chemicals we used on our crops that caused the condition in the
first place.
The Food and Drug Administration allows glyphosate residues of up to 400 ppm to
be in feed. Studies in chicken manure showed that 20% of the glyphosate found
in feed goes right on through the animal. So where is the rest of it..
Once the glyphosate is applied, it stays in the food chain. There is a cow-calf
operation in Nebraska where they split the herd and fed half of it wheatlege. The
wheat had not had any glyphosate; however, the farmer had used glyphosate as a
weed burn down before he planted his wheat. The half of the herd that was fed
the wheatlege has had a 45% miscarriage rate.
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That means the heifers that lost their calves (for whatever reason) now go to the
feedlot. They werenthealthy enough to reproduce, but well eat them anyway.
That creates some very disturbing questions.
What killed the unborn calves?
Glyphosate tolerant wheat is not sold in the United States, so any glyphosate
residue in the soil should have killed the wheat outright. That means it must have
been something the glyphosate did to the soil or did to the organisms in the soil.
Something killed those calves. The next questions become, Is it still in the
heifers? Will it be in the meat? Does glyphosate do it to all soils? What about
corn and soybeans? What about around my yard?
If glyphosate has stimulated some super-killer fungus, I want to know. When
tests were done on the placentas from the aborted calves every one had
detectable levels of the micro-fungus associated with glyphosate. Further tests
on swine and horses, revealed the same thing. And when tests were made on the
placentas of still born children, they contained the fungus as well. This micro-
fungus is found in high concentrations in RoundUp Ready soybeans, corn, and
distillers grains.
But there is more.
Where it used to take about 1.2 servicings to produce a calf, now infertility is so
widespread that many calves are sterile and heifers may take as many as 8 or 10
servicings in order to get pregnant.
The problem is so severe in some herds, that veterinarians are wondering where
the replacement animals will come from. It is hard to have a profitable cow-calf
operation when there arent any calves. Maybe you know someone who quit the
beef business, when their cows couldnt conceive. Infertility in dairy herds now
hovers around 20%.
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These tests have not been done in humans, but is it a coincidence that up to 1/3
of young couples in the United States are infertile? Is it a coincidence that
according to the March of Dimes 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage?3 Even
more conservative research shows that miscarriages have increased by 20% since1976.
4 What does that mean to you, your wife or daughter? If youve lost child
you already know.
How sympathetic is a young mother going to be when she finds out what killed
her unborn baby? Do you think she will care how much easier it was for you to
farm? Do you think she will care about how clean your fields were?
In a middle class suburb here in Des Moines of three babies born in the last 6
months, only one is healthy. The other two have allergy and/or food issues. Thatis too small a sample to be scientific, but when my children were born, they were
healthy. We didnt know anyone that had a child with health problems. Now,
school nurses dispense prescriptions to children every day.
We didnt used to worry about a lack of fertility, quite the converse. In my
generation, more than just a few marriage proposals were unplanned, if you
know what I mean. Today, we all know people that need a doctors help in
order to conceive. Even then many of those couples remain infertile.
Studies in Europe show that there is genetic damage with concentrations as low
as 4 ppm. It has been shown to concentrate in the liver, kidneys, thyroid and
testicles. Those are exactly the same organs where cancer rates have
skyrocketed.
So when you drop your dollar into the cup at the gas station for some poor sot
that has cancer, how would you feel if you knew it was your application of
chemicals that caused it? Of course we cant prove where it came from, and thelawyers can keep things ted up for years so that no one has to take responsibility,
3http://www.hopexchange.com/Statistics.htm
4http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-unitedstates.html
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but the bottom line is people are dying because of the farmers that use
glyphosate. That is a terrible responsibility. That is a crime against our neighbors
that cannot be repaid.
A 54 year old man accidently sprayed himself with glyphosate. One month later
he developed asymmetrical Parkinsonian symptoms. Two years later an MRI
showed that the damaged portion of the mans brain that was in exactly the same
area as seen with other Parkinsons patients.
Drinking as little as a cup of glyphosate is a popular method of suicide in Taiwan.
When the brain is nutrient deficient it cannot properly function. One study
several years ago concluded that all mental illness including depression is related
to nutrition. As a side note farmers have double the national rate of suicide.5,6
We dont have the most nutritionally dense food to start with, but when you tie
up the few minerals that are in that food, you end up with a disaster. The food
doesnt taste as good and it spoils, but worst of all it doesnt feed the body. We
are an obese nation that is starving to death.
It is no wonder that we are all so hungry. Even when we eat, the food is empty.
Our cells know the food is empty, so we stay hungry. We eat empty calories, weget fat. Poisons (like glyphosate) are stored in fat, so the problem simply makes
itself worse.
When our bodies are unable to get rid of a toxin, it will surround that toxin in fat
so it cannot cause any further damage. So when we eat a toxin, like glyphosate,
our body will make fatjust to store it. Which by the way, is exactly how your
body treat aspartame found in many diet sodas.7
5Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry [Paperback]
Carl C. Pfeiffer Ph.D. M.D6
http://www.encognitive.com/files/Mental%20llness%20and%20Nutrition.pdf7
What a brilliant marketing plan! Sell a product to people that want to lose weight that actually makes them
fatter! Evil, but brilliant.
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The next thing we need to consider with the chemical is that it gets tied up but
not used up. Meaning that is stays in the soil or in the seed or in the tissue until it
is released again. It can be released in the soil anytime phosphorus fertilizer is
applied. It can be released in the tissues as well. It is like radiation, exposure iscumulative. It just collects in the tissues. That is why there is no safe level of
exposure.
The laboratory tests to confirm the presence of glyphosate are expensive, as
much as $300 per test. That is one of the primary reasons so very little testing
has been done here in the US.8 That is also why you dont have any idea how
much glyphosate residue is in your food. If it didnt build up, it probably would
not be important, but since it accumulates, day by day, month by month, year by
year..
Enough bad news about the chemical, what about the genetically modified plant
itself. That can be an entire class by itself. But in a nutshell, when studies were
still permitted even the presence of the genetic modification caused a 10% yield
drag. Genetically modified hybrids require twice as much water to produce a
bushel of grain. But the scariest part is this
Most hybrids do not accept the genetic modification. So the very narrow genetic
base of our feed grains, is furthered narrowed when genetically modified crops
are grown. That means the risk of catastrophic disease throughout a crop is much
higher. This year, the bacterium that causes Goss Wilt swept through central
Iowa. Anthracnose has become so common that many corn producers think that
corn naturally matures from the top and bottom at the same time. Sudden Death
Syndrome in soybeans was seen in Central Iowa fields as early as mid-July.
We no longer have the genetic diversity we need to stop an epidemic that could
cause a complete crop failure. Perhaps a few of you remember the Corn Leaf
Bight the wiped out the Texas Male Sterile varieties in the early 70s. I remember
8As of Jan 2012, the I dont know of any labs still conducting these tests. Those that were, have either refused to
take additional samples, or have given up and stopped testing.
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that blight because of what that crop failure cost my family. There is no world-
wide grain surplus. What would happen if we had a major crop failure?
The way the modifications are made is of interest as well. They attach the gene
they want to implant onto a Mosaic virus and basically shoot it into the DNA
strand. They cannot control where it lands or what other genes it disrupts.
It attaches and produces a protein that is completely foreign to the plant and
foreign to the animal that eats the crop as well. Studies by Verity Farms on swine
stomachs clearly show additional lesions and inflammation in the animals that are
fed genetically modified grain. The human digestive system is very similar to a
pigs. Perhaps that explains the recent and rapid increase in digestive disorders in
people; including indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome and any number ofallergies. That also explains why wild life, including mice and rats, only eat the
genetically modified grain as a last resort.
Every farmer has seen the small piles of grain that gets spilled when we harvest or
move grain. Have you noticed that in recent years, many of those piles will lay
there all winter? My farm is along a river, so there is plenty of wild life including
deer, pheasants, and turkey. However, when my neighbor has spilled grain along
the edge of my lane, it lies there all winter. Nothing eats it. Is it because the
animals know something that we dont?
Two years ago a dairyman from South Africa told us that when he ran out of his
conventional corn and bought some genetically modified corn to feed his cows;
his milk production went down and somatic cell count went up. When he found
more nongenetically modified corn his production returned to normal.
We dont have definitive proof that genetically modified grain causes problems in
people. But that is only because the universities and government institutions thatare responsible for that research are unwilling to investigate anything that might
offend large contributors such as the biotech industry.
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In the real world, one plus one equals two. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a
duck, it is a duck. If you have digestive problems, try a remedy that works for
cows and pigs. Stop eating genetically modified food and see if your intestines
return to normal.
Now what about this newly discovered fungus? First of all it has been found in all
grain from genetically modified crops. It can only be detected with an electron
microscope and is only slightly larger than a virus.
It may be related to the mosaic virus used in the genetic implantation or it may be
something entirely new. It was this fungi that Dr. Huber wanted more study on
before the USDA lifted the restrictions on RoundUp Ready Alfalfa and Sugar
Beets.
Those studies have not been done. This is the fungus that has been related to
sudden death syndrome in soybeans, anthracnose in corn, miscarriages and
sterility in animals. It may not be the same fungi, but it seems to be related.
At a recent meeting one farmer (before he walked out) asked, Ifthe world finds
out about this fungus who is going to buy our grain? The physician that was
presenting answered him simply by asking him, Who should buy it? If it poisons
livestock, why would you sell it to anyone?
It isnt a new dilemma. Tobacco farmers of the south and the poppy farmers of
Afghanistan know their products poison people, but they choose to grow them
anyway. The difference is the people that use their poisons, do so voluntarily.
Opium and tobacco kill the people that use them, they dont affect the next
generation. Glyphosate is different.
Until now we have enjoyed the ignorance of not knowing what the effects of
glyphosate and glyphosate resistant crops are. We cant deny the evidence
anymore. A farmer that thinks like a chemist can stay in business for years. A
farmer that thinks like and accountant can stay in business for decades. But if a
farmer wants to have something worth passing onto his children, he needs to
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think like a farmer. We are stewards of the land, we have a responsibility to take
care of it and make it better for the generations that come after us.
When we simply poisoned our weeds and bugs, we knew that it wasnt
sustainable, but it kept us in business. With glyphosate, it is no longer a business
decision, it is a moral one.
Our government has refused to protect us or even investigate the problem.
Within days of receiving the information that Dr. Huber had compiled; Secretary
Vilsack approved genetically modified alfalfa. The very next week he approved
genetically modified sugar beets.
The USDA is supposed to protect us. Instead they have turned the American
population into the biggest research experiment the world has ever seen.
Well, here we are. We have the herbicide and technology that has allowed us to
farm more acres with fewer weeds. The only problem is we end up with birth
defects, cancer, miscarriages and sterility.
We have a choice, either act on what we know, or ignore the facts and pretend
what we do doesnt matter.
We could even do what many livestock producers already do. We grow the good
stuff for ourselves and sell the rest to the public. After all we dont get paid for
quality.
But when the young couple next door has a miscarriage, perhaps sending them a
sympathy card isnt enough. Your weed-free fields will be small comfort to them.
Besides we cant prove any of the chemicals we use directly cause any health
problems. It might even have been the chemicals from the neighbors, or the
chemicals on the food at the store.
If you or a loved one start showing symptoms ofParkinsons you can always
pretend that no one know what causes it, but that wont change the fact that as
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the disease progresses theyll be needing wheel chairs, diapers and round the
clock nursing care before it is over.
As you pray for the people in the congregation that have cancer, think about what
role you may have played. There is no proof; there is no way to definitively prove
any farm chemical directly caused the problem. But we know that glyphosate
causes cancer. We know there is residue in the grains. We know that is builds up
in the tissues.
I know it is a difficult decision. For me, I am endangering my work with many of
my farmer customers. For farmers, were talking about a major change in the
way you do business. It also means a major change in our shopping patterns.
For those of you that eat, you know that most of the breakfast cereal is grown
with glyphosate. You know that the corn the chickens eat is genetically modified
and that the chemical passes right into the eggs.
Ive had people tell me it is too expensive to eat organic food. I tell them they
cant afford not to. If they feed their children glyphosate residue, there is a good
chance there wont be grandchildren
Who wants to watch a loved one battle liver, kidney, thyroid or testicular cancer?There are a lot of things I would like to have in common with Lance Armstrong;
cancer is not one of them.
Go look at your cupboard, which of those foods do you trust to be safe for your
children to eat? According to the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the
Biotechnology Industry Association, approximately 80 percent of current grocery
fooditems contain GMOs.Look under the counter, which of the weeds in the front yard are worth thechance of a miscarriage?
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(SO what if it isnt you or your wife? A miscarriage by anyone is a tragedy. It may
be easier to ignore if it is a stranger, but that doesnt make it any less of a
tragedy.)
Now is the time to take action. Go through your cupboards, go through the
chemicals you use on the lawn and if you are a farmer, decide what is more
important to you.
What you decide is important, it makes a difference.
Your only effective defense is good, solid nutrition. I recommend everyone take
high quality supplements, especially mineral supplements. No matter how careful
we are, it is too easy to end up eating GMO food.
The supplements I take and recommend are through Natures Sunshine. On my
websitewww.advancedwellnessquest.comthere is a link where you can take an
on-line health assessment and then be given specific recommendations as to
what supplements to take. Your body is designed to be healthy, so even the
smallest thing is a message your body is giving you that you need to pay
attention.
Eliminating GMOs from your diet and glyphosate from your operation, may bethe most important decisions you will ever make. You will never know the lives
youll touch with it. It is not an economic decision at all, it is a moral one.
Share what you have learned with others. If you have questions call our office at
515-270-2300 and well answer as many as we can. Our mission with Wellness
Quest is to give you the information you need so that you can make intelligent
and informed decisions about your personal wellness.
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