#glyphosphate

The most widely sprayed herbicide in the world kills honeybees, according to a new report.

Glyphosate, an herbicide and active ingredient in Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) Roundup weed killer, targets enzymes long assumed to be found only in plants. The product is advertised as being innocuous to wildlife. But some bacteria also use this enzyme, including a microbiome found in the intestines of most bees. When pollinators come in contact with glyphosate, the chemical reduces this gut bacteria, leaving bees vulnerable to pathogens and premature death.

“The bee itself has no molecular targets from glyphosate,” Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author of the study, told Environmental Health News. “But its gut bacteria do have targets.”

Moran and other scientists liken glyphosate exposure to taking too many antibiotics—and upsetting the balance of good bacteria that supports immunity and digestion.

“We all know that glyphosate is an antibiotic. It’s very toxic to bacteria. It’s even patented as an antibiotic,” says Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “But very few researchers have actually dived into this issue. The good thing is, that’s starting to change.”

Why?

To clear land for commercially valuable timber species like Douglas fir and sugar pine.

Records show similar spraying in Maine, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and multiple southern states tied to the timber industry. Apparently this has been going on for decades.

the White House's plans to expand the chemical spraying to expand by another 10,000 acres in California’s Lassen National Forest, with reports saying it could eventually reach 75,000 acres in some burn zones.

I genuinely wish I had known about this sooner.

I am not usually someone who talks about protesting, nor jumps into it. .. but this feels like something people should be paying attention to.

They keep insisting glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer.

2199 – On nous empoisonne !

15 septembre 2017 –Régis de Castelnau

  La grande presse continue à nous informer sur les terrifiants dangers qui nous menacent. Il ne se passe pas de jour sans que l’on entende les noms imprononçables de produits chimiques ou de médicaments. L’objectif étant à chaque fois de déclencher un scandale, d’alimenter les peurs, flatter la pensée magique, et mobiliser les charlatans.

Si vous…