Approximately 300 million pounds of glyphosate is used on American crops each year. Glyphosate is sold as RoundUp.
This is worth repeating. The food grown in our country, which we eat, receives 300 million pounds of a deadly herbicide each year. This equates to about a pound of herbicide for each of us in the United States every year.
Next time you’re at a hardware or garden center, check out the gallon jug of RoundUp. Now imagine you’ve consumed that much of the toxic herbicide in the last year…
A herbicide is designed to destroy. Extinguishing life. So getting a pound of glyphosate per person every year means we’re eating poison. You wouldn’t dream of swallowing a gallon of RoundUp, so why would you want to eat it through your food?
Putting an herbicide on plant crops is pointless. Wouldn’t a herbicide kill crops? How can this be?
That’s the extra crazy reality, straight out of science fiction, of this situation. In fact, glyphosate has been inserted into the DNA of crops. Yes, that is correct. Scientists have discovered how to alter the chromosomes of corn, soybeans, and many other crops by removing the natural chromosomes and replacing them with chromosomes from a herbicide.
The practice of placing RoundUp’s DNA within the DNA of crops intended for us to eat is known as Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs. Most industrialized countries ban GMOs. But not the United States.
And why the hell would anyone want a weedkiller on the DNA of food crops? Play some spooky background music because this really is straight out of a horror movie…
Let’s use corn since corn is a HUGE crop in the United States. If a corn crop is GMO and has glyphosate in its DNA, all other weeds growing within the crop can be sprayed with RoundUp, leaving the corn unaffected. That is the source of 300 million pounds of glyphosate each year.
Once glyphosate is sprayed on corn, it seeps into the ground. It is then absorbed through the roots of the plant and further concentrated within the corn kernels that we eat. And it’s not just corn on the cob: It’s in every corn chip, tortilla, cereal, and just about anything sweet because so much of it is flavored with high fructose corn syrup. Are you starting to see how you’re drinking that jar of weed killer every year?
The options are to grow your own food, buy only organic, and speak out often and loudly for the food industry to stop this madness.