Are we really causing birth defects?

Some facts about Glyphosates that you may not know, that cause birth defects.

According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff from MIT, Glyphosate disrupts the transmitters during gestation that inhibits the neural tube to close and cause Anencephaly (water on the brain).

Wow, I was shocked to hear her presentation. I love science.

Glyphosates are sprayed on our grains when they are being harvested to dry quicker.  The glyphosate makes the grains void all of all nutrients.  It causes Vitamin A levels to be at a toxic level and Vitamin D to be a deficiency.  I recently attended the Weston A Price Foundation annual conference where they talked about this in our modern diet.  It is good to have reminders of what our modern diet is doing to us.

Anencephaly is one of the most severe forms of neural tube defects (NTDs), reflecting closure failure in the cranial region. It results in the absence of much of the brain, skull, and scalp, and is incompatible with long-term survival. In anencephaly, the brain initially protrudes through a defect in the cranial vault (termed exencephaly), and the brain is then gradually destroyed because of mechanical injury and vascular disruption. Damage to the hypothalamus results in adrenal hypoplasia due to insufficient expression of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) by the pituitary gland, which in many cases fails to develop at all.

Farmers often have trouble getting wheat and barley to dry evenly so they can start harvesting. So they came up with the idea to kill the crop (with glyphosate) one to two weeks before harvest to accelerate the drying down of the grain.  The process is known as desiccation according to Dr. Charles Benbrook, Ph.D.  This is astounding information.  We have the right to this information.

Monsanto has done such an effective job marketing glyphosate as ‘safe’ and ‘biodegradable’ that farmers here still believe this even though such claims are false.  Consumers don’t realize when they buy wheat products like flour, cookies, and bread they are getting glyphosate residues in those products.  It’s barbaric to put glyphosate in food a few days before you harvest it.

I know you must be wondering what this has to do with your yard or at least pondering the facts.  

When spraying roundup we are poisoning the waterways that we drink from and the animals that drink from them.  Have you read my blog, if not here is the link about our water. Scientists are proving every day the harm to ourselves and the environment by using Glyphosate to kill the unwanted vegetation.  We are the only ones that can do something about this.   My point is we are killing ourselves with what some call convenience in that little bottle.  This is the reason I switched to organic grains years ago.

I feel one of my missions to educate my community about Glyphosate and to stop using it.  A recent job with the goats a neighbor told my client that paying goats to clean up his property is ridiculous and that the bottle of Roundup is cheap.  In other words, he wasn’t giving up that bottle.  Sad to say this property was waterfront on the Chesapeake Bay.

During the winter I reflect on the year that the goats and I have had and are proud of every property we did this year to save the environment but more importantly I hope I’m saving a human.