Monsanto’s weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers, Tests Reveal

greg nr said:

Monsanto’s weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers,
Tests Reveal

https://www.alternet.org/food/popul...ontaminated-monsantos-weedkiller-tests-reveal

So if it's getting into grain, grapes, and hops, whats to keep it from getting into outdoor cannibis?

The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sampletested, even independent beers. Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016. We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer.

What do these events all have in common? Monsanto's Roundup.

French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini released shocking findings in January of 2018 that of all the brands of Roundup they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic—over five times the allowable limit along with dangerous levels of heavy metals.

Roundup is commonly sprayed in vineyards to keep the rows looking tidy and free of so-called weeds and on grain crops (used in beer) as a drying agent just before harvest. Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off, and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home. Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.

Some of the test results were at first confusing. One would expect the organic wines and beers, and the carefully crafted independent beer brands to be free of glyphosate, as the herbicides are not allowed or used in organic farming. Instead, it appears that they are contaminated. Previous testing did show that some organic wines were contaminated, and in this round, one of the organic brands was as low as 0.38 ppb, but conventional wines had glyphosate residues 61 times higher, at 23.30 ppb. Studies have shown only 1 part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, so any amount is concerning.

Regarding beer, further testing would need to be done (we hope by the brands themselves), but it appears that the batch tests (equal amounts of multiple brands tested in one batch) of independent beer brands had higher levels: up to 13.60 ppb more than conventional beers. Organic batch tested at 2.57. Batch tests of large conventional brands such as Budweiser, Coors and Michelob showed 2.11 ppb collectively.

Inquiries into the big beer company manufacturing process revealed a possible explanation. Conventional beer producers tend to use cheaper ingredients which include rice, instead of barley, oats, rye and wheat. These ingredients are more expensive and tend to be used by independent and organic beer companies who prefer a richer flavor. Cheaper, hulled white rice is expected to have far lower levels of glyphosate residues than whole barley, oats and malt. If they are not organic, these are crops which are commonly sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent just before harvest.

But one thing that is clear is that the beer and wine industries must—and in many cases are—moving away from Monsanto's Roundup in order to avoid contamination by this harmful chemical herbicide.

Pam Strayer of Viewpoint-Wines & Vines pointed out that, "In 2016, organic wine grew 11 percent by volume; imported organic wines grew 14 percent, double that of American organic producers at 7 percent.”

"I haven't used RoundUp since 1977," said Phil Coturri, the Sonoma vineyard manager who was recognized by the Golden Gate Salmon Association earlier this year for his environmentally sound viticulture. "You can't constantly use a product and think that it's not going to have an effect. Glyphosate is something that's made to kill."

Over 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them farmers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, a leading manufacturer of glyphosate, for Roundup exposure leading to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Even big beer brands are seeing the benefit of organic. Anheuser-Busch announced last week that its brand Michelob has launched a new beer made with organic wheat called Ultra Pure Gold.

The Brewers Association, which certifies small independent and craft beers, gave this statement regarding the new MAA glyphosate test results:

Brewers do not want glyphosate used on barley or any raw brewing material, and the barley grower organizations have also come out strongly against glyphosate. It is clear that the malting and brewing industries are aligned in their opposition to the use of glyphosate on malting barley.

So how does glyphosate contaminate organic wines and beers? Drift, polluted irrigation water, soil, and through a new phenomena: pesticide rains. Glyphosate and other toxic chemical particles remain in evaporated water or dust cloudswhich form into rain and can contaminate vineyards and grain crops thousands of miles away.

In America, one out of two males and one out of three females are expected to get cancer, one out of five have mental illness, many struggle with infertility, sterility and infant death, and our healthcare costs are crippling. Just last week, a new study revealed that maternal exposure to glyphosate showed significantly higher rates of shortened gestation. Prematurely born babies are at significant risk of infant death.

According to a Save the Children 2013 report, the U.S. has 50 percent more infant deaths on day one of life than all other developed countries combined. Could this be due to the widespread use, drift and contamination of pesticides and herbicides like Roundup? These studies may suggest so. If American policymakers want to lower healthcare costs, eliminating the use of glyphosate herbicides could be one reasonable step to take.
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13.6 parts per billion. I'm not going to minimize anybody's outrage over how the petro-chemical-pharma-ag industry have completely wrecked the environment by releasing heretofore unknown chemistry into our environment over the past 50 years. If the results in this report is the tipping point for you then OK. But, really, 13.6 ppb is really, really small and doesn't get me very excited. I'm more upset about how the entire world is coated with pthalates that are used in plastics to make them flexible and oligomers of silicone used in adhesives and lubricants that are literally in and on every surface in everybody's home including food.

Monsanto is only one of the evil companies that should be fined to the point where the government can simply take ownership, use data from their files to put their management behind bars for life and the company scrubbed from existence. Actually, Facebook should be fined to this level too but that's a different topic.

3GT said:

I smoke and never used roundup, and how is my age is relevant to this? You're old and stubborn, its OK your whole generation is like this.

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Don't tar us all with the same brush! I'm 63 and have been trying to educate people about Mon$atan and the rest of the a$$holes that are happy to poison us for profit for years but most don't want to hear it.

Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Tobacco etc are all in cahoots. Eat toxic food to bring on illness so Big Pharma gets you for life. Put High Fructose Corn syrup in everything to promote obesity, diabetes and liver disease and Big Pharma gets you again. Campbell's tomato soup recently switche from using sugar to HFCS so I wrote them up a nasty tho polite short rant and checked the box to post it to my F*ckBook too. Will not buy any Campbell's products now. Same with soda pops, bread etc etc.

Unfortunately, I still smoke but we make our own cigs from leaf tobacco sourced from a place that uses natural curing without the 600 chemicals used in commercial tobacco. 50 years and no smoker's hack.

greg nr said:

Monsanto’s weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers,
Tests Reveal

https://www.alternet.org/food/popul...ontaminated-monsantos-weedkiller-tests-reveal

So if it's getting into grain, grapes, and hops, whats to keep it from getting into outdoor cannibis?

The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sampletested, even independent beers. Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016. We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer.

What do these events all have in common? Monsanto's Roundup.

French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini released shocking findings in January of 2018 that of all the brands of Roundup they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic—over five times the allowable limit along with dangerous levels of heavy metals.

Roundup is commonly sprayed in vineyards to keep the rows looking tidy and free of so-called weeds and on grain crops (used in beer) as a drying agent just before harvest. Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off, and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home. Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.

Some of the test results were at first confusing. One would expect the organic wines and beers, and the carefully crafted independent beer brands to be free of glyphosate, as the herbicides are not allowed or used in organic farming. Instead, it appears that they are contaminated. Previous testing did show that some organic wines were contaminated, and in this round, one of the organic brands was as low as 0.38 ppb, but conventional wines had glyphosate residues 61 times higher, at 23.30 ppb. Studies have shown only 1 part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, so any amount is concerning.

Regarding beer, further testing would need to be done (we hope by the brands themselves), but it appears that the batch tests (equal amounts of multiple brands tested in one batch) of independent beer brands had higher levels: up to 13.60 ppb more than conventional beers. Organic batch tested at 2.57. Batch tests of large conventional brands such as Budweiser, Coors and Michelob showed 2.11 ppb collectively.

Inquiries into the big beer company manufacturing process revealed a possible explanation. Conventional beer producers tend to use cheaper ingredients which include rice, instead of barley, oats, rye and wheat. These ingredients are more expensive and tend to be used by independent and organic beer companies who prefer a richer flavor. Cheaper, hulled white rice is expected to have far lower levels of glyphosate residues than whole barley, oats and malt. If they are not organic, these are crops which are commonly sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent just before harvest.

But one thing that is clear is that the beer and wine industries must—and in many cases are—moving away from Monsanto's Roundup in order to avoid contamination by this harmful chemical herbicide.

Pam Strayer of Viewpoint-Wines & Vines pointed out that, "In 2016, organic wine grew 11 percent by volume; imported organic wines grew 14 percent, double that of American organic producers at 7 percent.”

"I haven't used RoundUp since 1977," said Phil Coturri, the Sonoma vineyard manager who was recognized by the Golden Gate Salmon Association earlier this year for his environmentally sound viticulture. "You can't constantly use a product and think that it's not going to have an effect. Glyphosate is something that's made to kill."

Over 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them farmers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, a leading manufacturer of glyphosate, for Roundup exposure leading to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Even big beer brands are seeing the benefit of organic. Anheuser-Busch announced last week that its brand Michelob has launched a new beer made with organic wheat called Ultra Pure Gold.

The Brewers Association, which certifies small independent and craft beers, gave this statement regarding the new MAA glyphosate test results:

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Second reply because I think the authors completely missed an important point about viticulture today.

It is practically impossible to produce European wine in a large scale using organic methods. By the turn of the last century, French wines were destroyed by pests and diseases that came from the New World. There was great progress made in developing disease resistant vines by hybridizing old world and new world vines in the early part of the 1900's. This all came to a screeching halt when spray technology and root-grafting took hold. The French government banned growing any of the promising hybrids -- literally illegal to grow them. They created a certification program that promoted the relatively few varieties that are now grown in thousand acre monocultures around the world. It all relies on sprays that are so toxic there can be as much as a month after spraying before people are allowed to re-enter the vineyard. Even so-called organic vineyards rely on sprays such as sulfur, mineral oil and copper sulfate.

I have a small vineyard with a couple of rows that were planted with an American-French hybrid -- Marechal Foch. The rest is planted in the more well known varieties -- Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay. The Foch requires nothing more than pruning and yeilds wonderful wine in quantity. The European varieties cannot produce anything without weekly sprays from one of the allowed "organic" sprays. If I had it all to do over, I'd only plant disease resistant hybrids but I don't sell my wine. The commercial wine industry is a completely dependent on chemical technology.

13 ppb glyphosphate is small beer. If they had analyzed for the poisons regularly used to control diseases -- diseases that could have been controlled if the consumer would accept new varieties that are resistant, the results would be far more sinister.

thumper60 said:

u r right sir 80% of food poisoning an recalls r on so called organic foods

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Total BS. Pulling numbers out of your ass might work for Trump but I'm no ignorant redneck like most of the republicunt idiots that support him. The vast majority of food recalls are from commercial foods and crops.

Listeria in California lettuce seems to be a regular recall and you can be damned sure it ain't grown organically. Ground meats and deli meat are predominant as well.

OldMedUser said:

Don't tar us all with the same brush! I'm 63 and have been trying to educate people about Mon$atan and the rest of the a$$holes that are happy to poison us for profit for years but most don't want to hear it.

Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Tobacco etc are all in cahoots. Eat toxic food to bring on illness so Big Pharma gets you for life. Put High Fructose Corn syrup in everything to promote obesity, diabetes and liver disease and Big Pharma gets you again. Campbell's tomato soup recently switche from using sugar to HFCS so I wrote them up a nasty tho polite short rant and checked the box to post it to my F*ckBook too. Will not buy any Campbell's products now. Same with soda pops, bread etc etc.

Unfortunately, I still smoke but we make our own cigs from leaf tobacco sourced from a place that uses natural curing without the 600 chemicals used in commercial tobacco. 50 years and no smoker's hack.

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My wife cam off insulin by eliminating all forms of sugar and carbs from her diet.

OldMedUser said:

Total BS. Pulling numbers out of your ass might work for Trump but I'm no ignorant redneck like most of the republicunt idiots that support him. The vast majority of food recalls are from commercial foods and crops.

Listeria in California lettuce seems to be a regular recall and you can be damned sure it ain't grown organically. Ground meats and deli meat are predominant as well.

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now we r off to republicunt idiots what the fuck u talking about haha iam out catch me in the outdoor[/QUOTE]

whitebb2727 said:

My wife cam off insulin by eliminating all forms of sugar and carbs from her diet.

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I can totally believe that. Most people could get rid of Type II diabetes if they made not so onerous changes to diet and lifestyle but would rather take the pills their doctors hand out and carry on eating fast foods they wash down with a diet pop. Makes me laugh when these gluttons order everything super-sized but that's OK because they get a sugar-free drink like that's were all the calories and toxins are. The fries alone at McDee's use something like 60 chemicals to make them what they are.

Haven't eaten there for over 30 years and proud of it! None of the other places either.

OldMedUser said:

I can totally believe that. Most people could get rid of Type II diabetes if they made not so onerous changes to diet and lifestyle but would rather take the pills their doctors hand out and carry on eating fast foods they wash down with a diet pop. Makes me laugh when these gluttons order everything super-sized but that's OK because they get a sugar-free drink like that's were all the calories and toxins are. The fries alone at McDee's use something like 60 chemicals to make them what they are.

Haven't eaten there for over 30 years and proud of it! None of the other places either.

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Different story a year ago. She was in and out of the hospital a lot.

Its amazing how much diet can influence sickness.

3GT said:

I smoke and never used roundup, and how is my age is relevant to this? You're old and stubborn, its OK your whole generation is like this.

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Every generation thinks they invented sex

Fogdog said:

I'm more upset about how the entire world is coated with pthalates that are used in plastics to make them flexible and oligomers of silicone used in adhesives and lubricants that are literally in and on every surface in everybody's home including food.

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Speaking of pthalates.....


You’re getting a bigger helping of toxic chemicals if you dine out often, study says

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article207255194.html

greg nr said:

Monsanto’s weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers,
Tests Reveal

https://www.alternet.org/food/popul...ontaminated-monsantos-weedkiller-tests-reveal

So if it's getting into grain, grapes, and hops, whats to keep it from getting into outdoor cannibis?

The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sampletested, even independent beers. Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016. We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer.

What do these events all have in common? Monsanto's Roundup.

French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini released shocking findings in January of 2018 that of all the brands of Roundup they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic—over five times the allowable limit along with dangerous levels of heavy metals.

Roundup is commonly sprayed in vineyards to keep the rows looking tidy and free of so-called weeds and on grain crops (used in beer) as a drying agent just before harvest. Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off, and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home. Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.

Some of the test results were at first confusing. One would expect the organic wines and beers, and the carefully crafted independent beer brands to be free of glyphosate, as the herbicides are not allowed or used in organic farming. Instead, it appears that they are contaminated. Previous testing did show that some organic wines were contaminated, and in this round, one of the organic brands was as low as 0.38 ppb, but conventional wines had glyphosate residues 61 times higher, at 23.30 ppb. Studies have shown only 1 part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, so any amount is concerning.

Regarding beer, further testing would need to be done (we hope by the brands themselves), but it appears that the batch tests (equal amounts of multiple brands tested in one batch) of independent beer brands had higher levels: up to 13.60 ppb more than conventional beers. Organic batch tested at 2.57. Batch tests of large conventional brands such as Budweiser, Coors and Michelob showed 2.11 ppb collectively.

Inquiries into the big beer company manufacturing process revealed a possible explanation. Conventional beer producers tend to use cheaper ingredients which include rice, instead of barley, oats, rye and wheat. These ingredients are more expensive and tend to be used by independent and organic beer companies who prefer a richer flavor. Cheaper, hulled white rice is expected to have far lower levels of glyphosate residues than whole barley, oats and malt. If they are not organic, these are crops which are commonly sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent just before harvest.

But one thing that is clear is that the beer and wine industries must—and in many cases are—moving away from Monsanto's Roundup in order to avoid contamination by this harmful chemical herbicide.

Pam Strayer of Viewpoint-Wines & Vines pointed out that, "In 2016, organic wine grew 11 percent by volume; imported organic wines grew 14 percent, double that of American organic producers at 7 percent.”

"I haven't used RoundUp since 1977," said Phil Coturri, the Sonoma vineyard manager who was recognized by the Golden Gate Salmon Association earlier this year for his environmentally sound viticulture. "You can't constantly use a product and think that it's not going to have an effect. Glyphosate is something that's made to kill."

Over 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them farmers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, a leading manufacturer of glyphosate, for Roundup exposure leading to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Even big beer brands are seeing the benefit of organic. Anheuser-Busch announced last week that its brand Michelob has launched a new beer made with organic wheat called Ultra Pure Gold.

The Brewers Association, which certifies small independent and craft beers, gave this statement regarding the new MAA glyphosate test results:

Brewers do not want glyphosate used on barley or any raw brewing material, and the barley grower organizations have also come out strongly against glyphosate. It is clear that the malting and brewing industries are aligned in their opposition to the use of glyphosate on malting barley.

So how does glyphosate contaminate organic wines and beers? Drift, polluted irrigation water, soil, and through a new phenomena: pesticide rains. Glyphosate and other toxic chemical particles remain in evaporated water or dust cloudswhich form into rain and can contaminate vineyards and grain crops thousands of miles away.

In America, one out of two males and one out of three females are expected to get cancer, one out of five have mental illness, many struggle with infertility, sterility and infant death, and our healthcare costs are crippling. Just last week, a new study revealed that maternal exposure to glyphosate showed significantly higher rates of shortened gestation. Prematurely born babies are at significant risk of infant death.

According to a Save the Children 2013 report, the U.S. has 50 percent more infant deaths on day one of life than all other developed countries combined. Could this be due to the widespread use, drift and contamination of pesticides and herbicides like Roundup? These studies may suggest so. If American policymakers want to lower healthcare costs, eliminating the use of glyphosate herbicides could be one reasonable step to take.
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The World According to Monsanto (Full Documentary)
nearly 2 hours worth ..a good watch..on how Monsanto used mafia tactics to get their shit sold

3GT said:

I smoke and never used roundup, and how is my age is relevant to this? You're old and stubborn, its OK your whole generation is like this.

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Seriously we aren’t all like him, he was a twat at 20

Fogdog said:

13.6 parts per billion. I'm not going to minimize anybody's outrage over how the petro-chemical-pharma-ag industry have completely wrecked the environment by releasing heretofore unknown chemistry into our environment over the past 50 years. If the results in this report is the tipping point for you then OK. But, really, 13.6 ppb is really, really small and doesn't get me very excited. I'm more upset about how the entire world is coated with pthalates that are used in plastics to make them flexible and oligomers of silicone used in adhesives and lubricants that are literally in and on every surface in everybody's home including food.

Monsanto is only one of the evil companies that should be fined to the point where the government can simply take ownership, use data from their files to put their management behind bars for life and the company scrubbed from existence. Actually, Facebook should be fined to this level too but that's a different topic.

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Good point, how many ppb of roundup is safe?

Monsanto and other huge corps have been given a free pass by Governments for the longest. The so called 'leaders" are too busy taking step aside $$$ to give a damn.

zeddd said:

Good point, how many ppb of roundup is safe?

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Zero. The chemical glyphosate is only one of the toxins present in RoundUp® but is the main ingredient that does the work killing any plants that aren't genetically altered to be resistant to it. Some of the other stuff in it is said to be worse than the glyphosate but the focus is on it.