Last Fall this research shocked the Nation: Glyphosate in your breakfast cereal. Tests detected glyphosate in all 28 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats by General Mills (Cheerios), Quaker and Pepsico.
Cheerios, Peanut Butter Bars, or Granola Oats, Honey & Almonds, were some of the worst products with the highest concentration of glyphosate. One could also exclaim: “Want to kill your kids? Just feed them Cheerios.”
I am wondering when EWG will test California wines: I spent a couple of months in the Napa and Sonoma valley and have seen them constantly spraying their vineyards with RoundUp. American soil is soaked with Glyphosates…
With the garden season now in full swing, here is a reminder for gardeners and commercial “landscapers”:
In the journal “Scientific Reports”, the researchers say they saw “dramatic increases” in several pathologies affecting the second and third generations. The second generation had “significant increases” in testis, ovary, and mammary gland diseases, as well as obesity. In third-generation males, the researchers saw a 30 percent increase in prostate disease – three times that of a control population. The third generation of females had a 40 percent increase in kidney disease.
Skinner and his colleagues call this phenomenon “generational toxicology” and they have seen it over the years in fungicides, pesticides, jet fuel, the plastics compound bisphenol A, the insect repellant DEET, and the herbicide atrazine. At work are epigenetic changes that turn genes on and off, often because of environmental influences.
What Can You Do as a Gardener?
Never, ever, use any glyphosate products, such as RoundUp or the Weed b’ Gone. Pour boiling water over any weeds cropping up in your driveway. Do it on a hot and dry day, and they will die in minutes.
Weeds in the lawn can easily be dug out. And Dandelions are edible: their leaves are very tasty, mix them in your salad. Make Dandelion wine from the blooms and roast the roots as a vegetable side dish.
Weeds in the lawn can easily be dug out. And Dandelions are edible: their leaves are very tasty, mix them in your salad. Make Dandelion wine from the blooms and roast the roots as a vegetable side dish.
Way healthier than breakfast cereal or Granola Oat bars...
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