Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You're building up the soil because the pesticide and herbicide are basically creating an addiction of the planet, of the planetary soil. Whereas organic does just the opposite, it builds up a healthy soil that's very important for us. Genetically engineered food is a problem because it's polluting all the other organic foods on the planet, which is no small deal because they don't know what they're doing.
Mike: Right, they experiment.
Cousens: I'm not criticizing because they don't know what they're doing; because no one knows. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is a rubber and lethal herbicide. It is two chemical compositions away from Agent Orange. So, it does the same thing Agent Orange does when you spray it on the plants. It dries up the root system of the plants and the plants die. When you put it in rubber, it stops the moisture molecules from breaking down, so the rubber is stabilized. Now, it doesn't know the difference between a moisture prohibitive in the food or a moisture prohibitive in the digestive tract.
Mike: So, you're dehydrating your dog.
Newman: Right. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That is when I learned about ethoxaquin, the rubber stabilizer and lethal herbicide. When we thought about how ethoxaquin works, we started to think about how it acts in the digestive tract. Was it any wonder that her digestive tract was so compromised? No, it wasn't. So, I became very angry and disillusioned with my vet. I was very grief-stricken to have lost her, because in nine months she had become my family. I said to myself, "Here I am, becoming a naturopathic doctor. I'm getting my PhD. What am I doing feeding my dog a bag of food when I don't know what I'm feeding her? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 According to Pollan, who is a superb journalist and reporter known for his detail and accuracy, traces of atrazine routinely turn up in American waterways at concentrations much higher than 0.1 part per billion. But American regulators generally won't ban a pesticide till the bodies or cancer cases start to really pile up—that is, until scientists can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspected molecule "causes" illness in humans or ecological disaster. |
Gary Null
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| She said that "Zeneca's annual revenues from the cancer drug tamoxifen are at $470 million; the same company also makes over $300 million annually on the carcinogenic herbicide acetochlor and other chlorine products."17
Prescription Drugs and Cancer
Common sense tells us that chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are created specifically to kill things, so it's doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that they may be also be toxic to humans. But when we look at prescription drugs we assume that they are beneficial or harmless. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Multiple studies have shown pesticide residues in breast milk,290 yet no long-term studies have been conducted to determine the effects of pesticide and herbicide combinations. Considering that many are fat-soluble, we should be very concerned about this lack of knowledge.
In the brain, many of these powerful chemicals alter neurotransmission, receptor function, and membrane physiology. Of special concern is the recent finding that many of these chemicals can have specific localized effects on the nervous system.2 |
Joseph E. Mario
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 From diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, artery hardening, atherosclerosis, smoking, alcohol, chronic excess cocaine use, herbicide poisoning, aging; excess Sodium, cholesterol, and saturated fats. May be caused by sudden twists to the neck, from improper neck manipulation. Multiple strokes can cause multi-infarct dementia (MID) with impairment of specific Brain functions. Protect the cell membrane bilayers composed of Polyunsaturated fatty acids and Fat molecules with cholesterol between, with selected Proteins and antioxidant Vitamin E in the middle. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Monsanto tested unsprayed beans and so provided no data on endocrine-disrupting estrogen sprayed onto the soybeans with the herbicide Roundup.
ž The protein analysis did not come from the Roundup Ready soybean itself but from the resistant bacterium whose genes were inserted into the new plant. The two may or may not be equivalent. Tests used to verify antigenic equivalence do not prove that the amino acid sequences are the same and rearrangements are normal in the DNA sequence of a plant as it accommodates a new gene. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Paraquat An herbicide, causes cross-linking in the lungs (take Vitamin B3 Niacin).
Parathion In the Southeast, originally developed as a nerve gas, has killed more children in the U.S. than any other pesticide, and it's still being used. Has killed chi ldren bathing in bathtubs inside the homes days after the spraying in that area.
PCB In livestock feeds, farm women had higher rates of miscarriage and birth defects.
Permethrin An insecticide and roach spray; irritates the eyes; causes lung tumors in animals; avoid, esp. if pregnant. |
Marion Nestle
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 They question the wisdom of planting vast areas of land with crops modified to resist herbicides or insects: will such plants transfer herbicide resistance to unwanted weeds, or toxin resistance to harmful insects? Government regulations do not require agricultural biotechnology companies either to answer such questions in much detail or to do very much to identify the potential consequences of releasing transgenic foods into the environment (consequences such as those that occurred with StarLink corn). |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Researchers found that exposing rats to a mixture of the herbicide, paraquat, and the fungicide, maneb, could produce parkinsonism in the animals. Yet, neither compound alone could cause the disorder. It seems the combination opened the blood-brain barrier, allowing paraquat to produce the brain lesion responsible for parkinsonism.
Both of these chemicals are sprayed on tomatoes, potatoes, corn, lettuce, and many other crops. Since the EPA does not test for chemical interactions, this problem would never have been discovered by our watchdog government agency. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War.
After leaving MIT and taking a faculty position at Virginia Tech, I began coordinating technical assistance for a nationwide project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. Part of the project became an investigation of the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer, usually an adult disease, in Filipino children. |
| In the United States, most of our agriculture takes place on relatively lifeless soil, decimated from years of unnatural pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer use. So the plants grown in this soil and sold in our supermarkets lack B12. In addition, we live in such a sanitized world that we rarely come into direct contact with the soil-borne microorganisms that produce BJ2. At one point in our history, we got B12 from vegetables that hadn't been scoured of all soil. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Another concern is pesticide and herbicide residue in seafood. We know that fish tend to accumulate and retain these poisons for long periods of time, and that bottom-feeding animals (shrimp, oysters, crabs, and lobsters) present the greatest risk. In the case of seafood from the Gulf coast, the problem is that all of the giant industries, refineries, aluminum plants, and fertilizer plants dump their waste into the Mississippi River, which empties out into the Gulf. All of these bottom-feeding creatures contain significant levels of mercury, lead, and other heavy metals as well. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Atrazine, the most widely used herbicide for corn," Jack also reminds us, "has seeped into the ground all around here." As we climb back into the car, he adds, "In some parts of the Midwest, you can't even drink the water."
Accidental Farmers
Just behind Jose and his host, we pull into the gravel driveway of a handsome 160-acre farmstead, where Matt and Diane Sharp—in jeans and high rubber boots—greet us. One of their sons and a daughter hang back shyly, but close enough so they don't miss a thing. |
Peter Pringle
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 The biotech companies had no interest in strategies to fight malnutrition in developing countries; profits were in the gene-altered herbicide and pest-resistant crops for the big farms of North America and the prairies of Argentina and Brazil. But the United Nations and several international aid agencies were very interested. Despite big improvements in global food supplies since the '60s, more than two billion people, especially women and children, lacked sufficient vitamins and minerals in their diets, particularly vitamin A and iron. |
| Monsanto had a long list—cotton, potato, and corn, all with a pest-resistant gene, and soybean and canola that would be resistant to Monsanto's own new powerful Roundup herbicide.
The doctrine of substantial equivalence now became part of the arsenal of the antibiotech forces. To Rifkin, the day the FDA gave approval to Calgene was the day he declared his own "tomato war."29 He vowed to picket markets, hand out notices, and organize tomato dumpings and boycotts.30 Calgene executives were defiant. "Now they're trying to scare consumers," complained the company's boss,
Roger Salquist. |
| During the Vietnam War, Monsanto was among the companies that made Agent Orange, the herbicide sprayed on Vietnamese jungles and later blamed for cancers and birth defects. The "wicked chemical giant" of the past, now returned under a new banner, was again having trouble with its public image, especially in Europe. The latest news from the American biotech labs was not helping.
In the spring of 1998 the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Mississippi cotton seed company named Delta and Pine Land had announced a new invention for plant breeders—a means of making plant seeds sterile. |
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
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 The agrichemical conglomerate Monsanto, for example, has given away hundreds of gallons of its Round-Up?herbicide through "Spontaneous Weed Attack Teams" (SWAT) for spraying in inner-city neighborhoods to make them "cleaner and safer places to live." Monsanto's PR also touts Round-Up?as a boon to endangered species, pointing out that the herbicide "is used in Kenya, Africa, to keep grasses from short circuiting electric fences that protect the endangered black rhino. |
Peter Radetsky
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 Well, she was putting herbicide on the rock garden."
There was one more clue: every time Pitman drove into the congested streets of Chicago to see a doctor she became ill. It was beginning to look as though exposure to chemicals, from herbicides to auto exhaust, played a role in her problems. So when in the fall of 1980 she happened onto a newspaper article about a local physician who specialized in the relationship between health and the environment, Pitman was ready to give him a chance. The doctor's name was Theron Randolph. |
Patrick Holford
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 For a consumer of meat or milk products, choosing the organic rather than nonorganic varieties reduces the risk of exposure to pesticide and herbicide residues as well as BGH.
Allergy and its effects
Milk allergy or intolerance is very common among both children and adults. Sometimes this is the result of lactose intolerance, since many adults lose the ability to digest lactose (milk sugar). The symptoms are bloating, abdominal pain, gas, and diarrhea, which subside on giving lactase, the enzyme that breaks down lactose. Probably equally common is an allergy to dairy products. |
Peter Pringle
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| Roundup Ready crops have reduced the average number of active chemical ingredients applied per acre but have modestly increased the average use of actual herbicide. Bt corn has had little impact on pesticide use. In any case, Benbrook says, whether GM crops reduce pesticide use is the wrong question. The real question is whether biotech can be used in a more subtle way to strengthen plants' defense mechanisms and put an end to the "pesticide treadmill" that occurs when pesticides destroy beneficial insects and, at the same time, create new, resistant pests requiring ever more pesticides. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 The company earns the other half of its profits from herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, plastics, and industrial chemicals, including $300 million a year from the sale of the carcinogenic herbicide acetochlor. Its Perry, Ohio, chemical plant is the third largest source of potential cancer-causing pollution in the United States, emitting 53,000 pounds of known carcinogens into the air in 1996.35 However, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is focused solely on early detection through methods such as mammograms, conspicuously failing to mention environmental causes. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Update on Pesticide Use
Since the first edition of Conscious Eating, the tide of pesticide and herbicide use has continued to increase rather than ebb. The following data come from a report in Pesticide Action Network published by Califor-nians for Pesticide Reform (CPR). In California, which uses 25% of all the pesticides in the US, the trend is toward an increasing use and dependence on toxic pesticides and herbicides. California literally puts hundreds of millions of pounds of chemicals on our crops, soil, water, homes, schools, and work places each year. |
Kenny Ausubel
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| A current member of its board of directors is the vice president of a major herbicide manufacturer.57 Its financial sponsorship continues to include hefty donations from the same large pharmaceutical companies that produce chemotherapy drugs.58 Since 1992, when the American Cancer Society Foundation was founded to receive donations over $100,000, its board members have included the president of Lederle Laboratories, the drug division of the giant chemical company American Cyanamid, which produces cancer drugs as well as chemical fertilizers and herbicides. |
Patrick Holford
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| We, the consumers, pay the price, while the fanners and agrochemical companies (who own both the patent for the new strain of soybean and the herbicide to which it is resistant) profit—and we are told that this technological advance is for the benefit of humanity! Consumer groups are campaigning for clear labeling to state when a food contains genetically engineered ingredients, and consumers are advised to avoid these products. Because pollen is carried by bees, insects, and the wind, contamination of other crops, including organic ones, will be inevitable if GM crops become widely grown. |
Peter Pringle
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| Mendel's genetic theory suggested that the transfer of a single gene carrying a trait for insect or herbicide resistance—if, indeed that is what had occurred in Oaxaca—should on its own have little impact on genetic diversity. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Dioxin is most notorious as a contaminant produced in the manufacture of herbicides, especially Agent Orange, the herbicide used during the Vietnam War. The form of dioxin that contaminated Agent Orange is 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-/>-dioxin (TCDD), and has been described as "the most toxic chemical known." However, although it has been shown in animal studies to cause cancer and to have numerous side effects in humans, including headaches, peripheral neuropathy, ulcers, and immune system dysfunction, its carcinogenicity to humans has not been firmly established. |
Marion Nestle
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| Crop Plants (mainly for animal feed) Introduce herbicide resistance to improve weed control. Permit growth with minimal use of fertilizers, pesticides, or water. Increase resistance to damage by insect, fungal, viral, or other microbial pests. Increase resistance to "stress" by frost, heat, salt, or heavy metals. Permit fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Increase grain content of scarce amino acids.
Foori Animals (for human use) Increase the efficiency of growth and reproduction. Strengthen disease resistance. Develop veterinary vaccines and diagnostic tests. Increase milk production. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 According to the Times article, one reason the carcinogenic effect of this herbicide may have gone unnoticed for about 50 years is that the effect only surfaces as a result of "combining" different ingredients together. In other words, by itself, 2,4-D is virtually biologically inert, but when it is mixed with other common ingredients in weed killer products it can combine with other chemicals to become deadly. Yet, this weed killer is still commonly sold for residential lawns and gardens and used by many people who have no idea how cancer-causing it may be. |
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