Monsanto's Roundup Ready Crops Contain Organism Causing Animal Miscarriages, Scientist Says

Recent research claims that Monsanto's Roundup Ready genetically modified crops contain an organism, previously unknown to science, that can cause miscarriages in farm animals. This disturbing find comes on the heels of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's decision to deregulate Roundup Ready Alfalfa (RRA). Roundup Ready is designed to survive Roundup, Monsanto's weed-killing chemical.

Purdue University's Emeritus Professor Don M. Huber presented the findings of the research, which observed the new organism using a 36,000X electron microscope. According to Treehugger, the organism can cause disease in both plants and animals, a rare feat.

Huber wrote an open letter to Vilsack requesting a moratorium on deregulating Roundup Ready crops. Huber states that Roundup Ready has a high concentration of an animal pathogen connected to "plant and animal diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions." Huber finishes his letter by stating, "It deserves immediate attention with significant resources to avoid a general collapse of our critical agricultural infrastructure."

A recent article in The Washington Post suggests that Roundup Ready Alfalfa is unnecessary and harmful to the farming community. When RRA is grown, reports suggest that weeds develop a resistant to Roundup. This has reportedly already happened to Roundup Ready corn, soybeans, and cottons. As The Washington Post remarks on GMOs, "You can't recall them the way you can a car or a plastic toy. They're out there for good. And no one knows what their full impact will be." Although the impact of Roundup Ready Alfalfa has now become disturbingly more apparent.

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[elizabeth lerer]

03:39 PM on 04/11/2011

Protesting? Boycotting? Let's crash the stock...
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[HazelPethigFan]

12:51 PM on 04/10/2011

Many of Huber's former colleagues at Purdue disagree with him.

You anti-GMO Luddites are ppathetic. Does technology scare you that much?

Ok..you Luddite greens need to show your loyalty to the antiGMO cause then. Go yell at diabetics. They've been using GMO insulin for 30 years. Most insulin in transgenic G-M-O. It's "frankenmedication".

What are you anti-Technology Luddites waiting for? Go protest.

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[IlanaRobinson]

03:50 PM on 04/07/2011

Dr. Huber has written a second letter with much more information about both the pathogen and the reasons for his first letter to Secretary Vilsack. The letter is posted at:
http://farmandranchfreedom.org/Huber-European-letter

[Tristan Jones]

07:07 PM on 03/25/2011

GMOing still is causing a lot of damage. For example, when the companies started putting cows into Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and fed cows corn. Thats when most of the E. Coli outbursts happened. Those outbursts were caused because and cattle are not naturally designed for eating corn, they have developed to eat grass. To genetically modify a cow or another organism you have to infect the DNA with E.Coli. Then that E. Coli gets into the cow's stomach. When the cow releases it's feces the E. Coli is in it and when the cows are in the C.A.F.O.s it isn't cleaned so the cows are standing ankle deep in their own manure. When the cows get to the slaughter house their bodies are covered in manure and thats how the E. Coli gets into our McDonald's burgers, our daily meat, our home-cooked food, the supermarket. The companies are also making us think that the are going to "End world hunger." That is a complete lie. The companies are making us think that so we buy more of their GMO food and again so they wallow in their selfishness and pools of money. What this is actually doing is making more mass production, and bigger crops. That forces poor people out of there homes due to cancerous radiation emitting from the crops. The poor people moving out of their homes causes denser populations, less jobs, less income, and more "hunger".
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[mark whitehouse]

05:31 PM on 03/04/2011

This is a hideously big story, and likely to get bigger, yet its hardly related here on huffpost. Why? To think Huber wrote his letter jan16, vilsack approved GM alfalfa two to three weeks later, either in utter disregard, or in malevolent one eyed defiance. (see auroraaustraliis Nature blog). To date the approval process has been able to disguise/hide/delete any implication of harm. Maybe Vilsack or those looking over his shoulder feel they can terminate the study/documentation of this pathogen also - easy to end an academics tenure - easy to put pressure on a family - Tax / pecadillo's / blemishes - business as usual. It would seem they have the protection, RRalfalfa is being planted even now.

[BannedNBoston]

06:04 PM on 03/01/2011

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy-alert.html

# Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
# Vitamin B12 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B12.
# Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.
# Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein

[Danielle Dusold]

10:13 PM on 03/02/2011

In addition, ongoing research is linking high levels of soy in the diet to an increase in fertility and reproduction issues in females. People need to wake up and start learning more about what they are eating!

[CHellBellz]

09:45 PM on 02/28/2011

A ton of my female friends where having miscarriages, and i wondered could it be what they are consuming. I thought this was a factor for awhile. It makes sense though, tampering with our food is dangerous.

[Truson Organics]

06:19 PM on 02/28/2011

"Transgenic crops are not simple products like widgets, ipods or even automobiles. They are living organisms that can interact with other creatures in the environment in myriad ways. Nature is complicated. When you modify an organism at a genetic level, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the results are also complicated, and often unexpected.

Science does not proceed in a linear fashion the way we write up our grant applications, you know—experiment A leads to experiment B to C to a cure for cancer. So all of the supposed benefits of our manipulations are purely speculative. We don’t know how it will all turn out. And then when we create new organisms, new products, and release them in the wild, in our food, in our drugs, we simply don’t know enough to anticipate what the consequences will be."

[rodjard]

06:27 AM on 02/28/2011

It is scary but I am starting to see some kind of links between things that Monsanto, Bayer, Phizer,
Lilly, The EPA, The FDA are doiing that seem to go hand in hand with some kind of re-enginering experiment of the human endocrine system. At the center of this is the human need for Iodine and an attempt to replace it with other Halides such as Fluoride, Chloride, Bromide that are not not a natural form of them but an industrial form of them. It seems that the more advancments that are made the more dependent we are getting on prescription medicines to fix problems that no one ever had before. Could there be a diabolical link to all this?

[buckeyedave]

08:29 PM on 02/27/2011

I wonder if planned parenthood supports Monsanto.

[thrugreeneyez]

10:46 PM on 02/27/2011

I don't get it.

[jaslyn]

11:41 AM on 02/27/2011

People can change the environment food is grown in and put companies like Monsanto out of the drivers seat if they'd just buy organic, go to their farmer's markets and just stop buying factory raised food. You may pay just a little more, but it will save you money in health care in the long run. If you buy what's in season, you may not pay more either.

[nongrata]

04:40 PM on 02/28/2011

organic does not mean non-GM. most organic foods sold in the market, esp corn, are of the GM variety.

[Truson Organics]

06:07 PM on 02/28/2011

The USDA organic standards board does not allow for any GMO crops to be used in organic agriculture. A farmer using GMO seeds would not be able to use the USDA certified organic seal.

[johndoeyes]

04:47 PM on 02/28/2011

organic does not mean non-GM. most organic foods sold in the market, esp corn, are of the GM variety.

[CHellBellz]

09:47 PM on 02/28/2011

Go to amish markets they use their own seed that that they get from the past crops instead of buying seeds from Monsanto that are engineered not to produce seeds for another season.

[bbrecht]

08:32 AM on 03/01/2011

wrong.

[SageSpencer]

03:53 AM on 02/27/2011

I did not think it was possible for me to hate Monsanto today more than I did yesterday. Apparently I was wrong.

[Aelfgifu]

06:56 AM on 02/27/2011

I also didn't think it was possible for me to hate the government any more for letting Monsanto poison us and destroy our food supply. I was wrong too.

[SolarArray]

02:33 AM on 02/27/2011

Monsanto is a despicable company. Watch Food Inc. to see how they operate. Very ugly.

[thrugreeneyez]

10:46 PM on 02/27/2011

Also, The World According to Monsanto is another brilliant documentary describing the horror that is Monsanto.

[onething]

09:11 PM on 02/26/2011

The general pattern with scientific discoveries is that the ability to "do" something or other seems so nifty it just can't be resisted - and it predates the much greater understanding of how that discovery actually works in the real world. The husband and wife scientists who discovered xrays, both xrayed themselves to death.

[Rynchostylus]

09:38 PM on 02/26/2011

The discovery of X-Rays was not hastened due to a global deficit in short-wave EM radiation.