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J_J_

(1,213 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:38 AM May 2016

They are spraying our wheat with Roundup-this is why 93% have glyphosate in their bodies

You’re going to want to sit down for this one. I’ve had some folks burst into tears in horror when I passed along this information before.

Common wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work through the fields as the practice allows for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest

Pre-harvest application of the herbicide Roundup or other herbicides containing the deadly active ingredient glyphosate to wheat and barley as a desiccant was suggested as early as 1980. It has since become routine over the past 15 years and is used as a drying agent 7-10 days before harvest within the conventional farming community.USDA pesticides applied to wheat

According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990’s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it. Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield: “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/

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They are spraying our wheat with Roundup-this is why 93% have glyphosate in their bodies (Original Post) J_J_ May 2016 OP
Uh, better get a better source of information. This has has been dispelled. tonyt53 May 2016 #1
. Brickbat May 2016 #2
Here is a different point of view from a Canadian farmer. yellowcanine May 2016 #3
Yeah, I don't think gonna take advice from Sarah, the healthy home economist. progressoid May 2016 #4
oh, the humanity! mike_c May 2016 #5
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. Uh, better get a better source of information. This has has been dispelled.
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:45 AM
May 2016

This practice is very rare here in the US, and actually occurs more in Canada than the US.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
4. Yeah, I don't think gonna take advice from Sarah, the healthy home economist.
Tue May 31, 2016, 10:40 AM
May 2016

That "article" is chock full of half-truths and spurious correlations.

No thanks.

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