The World Health Organization (WHO) is right when it announced recently that Roundup® weedkiller, also known as "glyphosate", probably causes cancer. In response, Monsanto has been whining that the WHO is wrong.
However, according to Professor Dave Schubert, head of the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA: "There are a number of independent, published manuscripts that clearly indicate that glyphosate…can promote cancer and tumor growth. It should be banned." (The Salk Institute is one of the world’s top biomedicine research institutes, and in 2009 it was ranked number one globally by ScienceWatch in the neuroscience and behaviour areas.)
Roundup has been linked with numerous diseases including autism, dementia, thyroid and bladder cancer, kidney failure, bowel and intestinal disease, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. It has been found in 75 per cent of air and water tested, and in virtually all sanitary cotton products. Crops are drenched in Roundup right before harvest, meaning that we get a lot of it in our food.