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Popular Brands Of Beer & Wine Found To Contain Glyphosate

Popular Brands Of Beer & Wine Found To Contain Glyphosate

The FDA warned of the presence of the toxic chemical in everyday foods in 2017, now a report from the California Public Interest Research Group indicates that glyphosate residue has been found in a variety of popular wines and beers sold in the USA, some of which are even certified as being organic. Glyphosate has …

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Can You Lower Risks Of Cancer With Organic Foods?

Can You Lower Risks Of Cancer With Organic Foods?

Organics this, organics that, is all this talk about organics just hype of an overpriced gimmick, or can consuming more of it really have a tangible effect on health and longevity? It may be convenient to view all produce as equally nutritious, but that is not the case as results from a growing body of …

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Pesticide Exposure Linked With Autism

Pesticide Exposure Linked With Autism

Infants exposed to common pesticides during pregnancy and their first year of life are suggested to be at increased risk of autism spectrum disorder, as published in The BMJ. Their population based case control study which may be the largest to investigated pesticides exposure and autism spectrum disorder used registry records to identify 2,961 patients …

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Second Court Ruling Finds RoundUp To Cause Cancer

Second Court Ruling Finds RoundUp To Cause Cancer

An American jury in California has found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer to have caused cancer, representing a significant blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case. However, the unanimous jury decisions in San Francisco federal court was not a finding …

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93% Of Americans May Have Glyphosate In Their Bodies

Pesticides Can Lead To Parkinson’s Disease

According to findings from the first ever comprehensive project the vast majority of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies, which is the main ingredient in Monsanto’s/Bayer’s Roundup herbicide. Anyone who thinks that proliferation of crop chemicals throughout the environment aren’t really a big deal, should really rethink that. According to a comprehensive analysis of glyphosate …

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