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Last month, we reported on a mysterious global epidemic of fatal kidney disease, focusing on a study published in theInternational Journal of Environmental Research and PublicHealth1that laid down evidence showing the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) is responsible for an epidemic of kidney-related deaths in a rural farming region of Northern Sri Lanka, as well as other rural regions around the world, including Costa Rica and Nicaragua. You can review the report here:Roundup Weedkiller Linked To Global Epidemic of Fatal Kidney Disease.

This information, while shocking to many who still consider glyphosate herbicide and the GM food produced with it to be relatively non-toxic, is not surprising to those who have been tracking the published research onglyphosate’s wide ranging harmful effects, and which now shows a link between glyphosate and several dozen health conditions. You can view the first-hand toxicological citations here:Adverse Health Effects of Glyphosate Formulations.

Only days ago, The Center for Public Integrity released a report titled, “Sri Lanka bans Monsanto herbicide citing potential link to deadly kidney disease,” citing Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’sMarch 13thdecisionto impose an outright ban on glyphosate. This decision follows a decision by the legislature in El Salvador last September toapprove a ban on glyphosate, but the proposal has not yet been signed into law.

Now that the world seems to be paying closer attention to the fact that the primary agrichemical used in the farming of genetically modified crops has deleterius, if not deadly, consequences to exposed populations, including kidney harm, it is only logical to ask the question if the US, which has the highest amount of glyphosate usage in the world, is also experiencing kidney harm as a result of widespread daily exposure.
A series of graphs based on data from the USDA, National Cancer Institutes, Centers for Disease Control, have recently surfaced, depicting at steep rise in the rates of kidney disease in the US from the time of the introduction of glyphosate and GM food, reveals that the US may also be suffering from an epidemic of glyphosate-linked kidney damage.

The first graph below depicts the ‘Age Adjusted Acute Renal Failure Deaths’ in the US from 1981 to 2009 plotted against the percentage of GE soy and corn planted, and the tonnage of glyphosate applied to corn and soy, showing death rates more than doubling over the past 30 years.

Age Adjusted Acute Renal Failure Deaths

The second graph depicts the ‘Number of Hospitalizations for Acute Kidney Injury’ in the US plotted against glyphosate applied to corn and soy, between years 1990-2010. Within a single decade (1996-2006), hospitalizations due to acute kidney injury had more than tripled.

'Number of Hospitalizations for Acute Kidney Injury'

The third graph depicts ‘Kidney and Renal Pelvis Cancer Incidence’ in the US, plotted against the percentage of GE soy and corn planted, and the tonnage of glyphosate applied to corn and soy, showing death rates increasing by 50% between 1998 and 2008.

'Kidney and Renal Pelvis Cancer Incidence'

The implications of this data are highly concerning. The steady increase in acute and chronic kidney disease in the US population dovetails so closely with the increased use (and therefore human exposure) to glyphosate and glyphosate contaminated food, that it is hard to write off the correlation as coincidence.

In previous articles, we have examined the evidence showing that glyphosate isaccumulating in our air, rain,groundwater,soil,food, and even persists in theseawater where it may be killing our coral reefs. Far from the ‘highly biodegradable,’ ‘virtually non toxic’ chemical it was once marketed to be by its creator Monsanto, it is now known to persist in a way that makes daily exposure inevitable, and which accumulates with time, as its use increases each year.

In fact, the entire basis for arguing for thesubstantial equivalence of GMO and non-GMO foodsis that glyphosate possesses negligible toxicity. The GMO biosafety debate normally revolves around whether the novel transgenes inserted into the plants produce problematic proteins or insecticidal compounds that have adverse, non-target adverse health effects on humans. If glyphosate is toxic in extremely low concentrations (as low as theparts per trillion range), then any food produced using glyphosate (and which is therefore contaminated with it, or its equally toxic metabolites, such asAMPA) will not be equivalent in safety to the non-GMO/conventional/organic food which isfree of such residues.

As the increasingly educated world comes to understand the inherent and extreme dangers of glyphosate formulations likeRoundup, there will be increasing momentum for the consumer to move supplicating the ‘powers that be’ for lapdog like permission to have GM-containing products accurately labeled, to recognizing the underlying infrastructure of GMO agriculture is slowing altering (via GMO transgene biopollution) and killing the biosphere via wide-ranging agrichemical destruction. In other words, the rallying cry now is to ‘Ban Glyphosate and GMOs!’

REFERENCES:

1 Channa Jayasumana,Sarath Gunatilake, Priyantha Senanayake Glyphosate, Hard Water and Nephrotoxic Metals: Are They the Culprits Behind the Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka?Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2014,11(2), 2125-2147; doi:10.3390/ijerph110202125

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  1. March 17, 2014 @ 1:36 pm Susan White Rose

    Please! IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA:

    New 2014 California Label GMOs Legistlation:
    What you can do:
    CALL or VISIT your legislator now URGING them to endorse SB 1381!
    Keep the conversation going, Tell everyone you know its our fundamental right to know, giving us the opportunity to make informed choices.
    Dear Friends-

    We hope by now you’ve heard about Round 2 to Label GMOs in California- SB 1381 authored by Noreen Evans.

    PHONE CALLS & Updates-

    We got word that SB 1381 was referred to the Health and Judiciary Committees as we had anticipated. This is great news as we have support in those committees.

    Please ask that EVERYONE call their legislators, make appointments, educate their staff.

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    Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (Chair)
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    Taking action now means better health can be more easily obtained for your family through the years- especially for those who don’t care to read labels or think about what they’re eating.

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  2. March 19, 2014 @ 5:28 pm Dramatic Increase in Kidney Disease in the US and Abroad Linked to Roundup (Glyphosphate) “Weedkiller”

    […] Posted March 19, 2014 Last month, we reported on a mysterious global epidemic of fatal kidney disease, focusing on a study published in theInternational Journal of Environmental Research and PublicHealth1 that laid down evidence showing the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) is responsible for an epidemic of kidney-related deaths in a rural farming region of Northern Sri Lanka, as well as other rural regions around the world, including Costa Rica and Nicaragua. You can review the report here: Roundup Weedkiller Linked To Global Epidemic of Fatal Kidney Disease.  Read more. […]

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