As a regional leader of Moms Across America, I am amazed the author of this article accuses our organization of attacking breastfeeding mothers. This is not only completely false but inflammatory rhetoric. Zen Honeycutt, our founder, has never stated that breastfeeding is bad. On the contrary, Moms Across America’s mission is to rid our children of toxic exposure. Most, if not all, of our members are proponents of breastfeeding, the most natural and supposedly toxic-free nourishment for newborn babies. Her concern is that our industrial food system is so overburdened by chemicals that they are showing up even in our own breastmilk. THAT is the material point. As far back as 1985, glyphosate was considered a Class C carcinogen by the US EPA. Even the World Health Organization has deemed glyphosate as “likely to cause cancer”. And just this month, a game-changing landmark case against Monsanto has awarded over $289 million in damages to a school groundskeeper who acquired non-Hogkins Lymphoma as a result of his exposure to glyphosate.
As made clear on our website:
“The glyphosate testing commissioned by Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse, with support from Environmental Arts & Research, also analyzed 35 urine samples and 21 drinking water samples from across the US and found levels in urine that were over 10 times higher than those found in a similar survey done in the EU by Friends of the Earth Europe in 2013.
The initial testing that has been completed at Microbe Inotech Labs, St. Louis, Missouri, is not meant to be a full scientific study. Instead it was set up to inspire and initiate full peer-reviewed scientific studies on glyphosate, by regulatory bodies and independent scientists worldwide.”
One 2015 rebuttal study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that countered the MAA findings used a different matrix but was co-authored by two Monsanto-funded scientists. However, they did find glyphosate in almost all of the urine samples (39/41).
More recent research paints a more troubling picture of glyphosate contamination in pregnant women which correlates glyphosate exposure to shorter gestation lengths (ie: premature births). The first birth cohort study of its kind has found more than 90 percent of a group of pregnant women in Central Indiana had detectable levels of glyphosate:
I have read some other articles written by this author and have discovered that he is prone to hyperbole and “alternative facts” that lack citations of primary source material. Reader beware.
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