Monsanto, Glyphosate, and Our Food

Kettle & Fire: The Dangers of Glyphosate in Food (and what you can do about it)Show more

So what is glyphosate and how does it get in our food?

Glyphosate is a powerful herbicide. Commercially, it’s most commonly known under the brand name “Roundup” and in 1974, The Monsato Company began selling Roundup as a weed killer.

The chemical compound of Roundup is so powerful, it destroys almost all plant matter it touches by preventing plants from creating certain proteins they need to grow.

After creating this product, Monsanto began looking at ways to ensure that it would only kill weeds – and not completely destroy entire crops. The company began to develop seeds for plants that resisted glyphosate and did not die when sprayed with Roundup so farmers could produce higher yields with less risk (to the farmers).

These kinds of plants are usually what people are referring to when talking about GMOs, aka Genetically Modified Organisms.

More widespread use of Roundup began in the mid-90s and, since then, the use of this chemical and the spread of glyphosate has skyrocketed.

This is primarily how glyphosate gets into the food system: a farmer plants GMO seeds, soaks the crop in Roundup, and then sells that crop to food manufacturers.

That food could be:

The lettuce in your salad.
The wheat of your bread, cake or cereal.
Your oats or oat products.
The food given to beef cattle.
The milk from dairy cows.
The berries in your breakfast smoothie.
Or even your baby’s formula.

Not surprisingly, Norwegian researchers even found that soybeans grown from “Roundup Ready” (GMO) seeds actually contained glyphosate within the beans themselves. Yikes.

Even The Monsanto Company admitted that glyphosate exists on and in crops that are heavily sprayed with Roundup – such as corn, canola and cotton.

There is also a process known as desiccating, in which farmers douse their crops with glyphosate just before harvest. This is most often done to grains in order to make sure they dry out sufficiently for storage and transport. AND because this process essentially “kills” the plant and dries it out, this method has been used on supposed “Non-GMO” crops as well.

It doesn’t end there.

Glyphosate actually binds to soil and can remain there for up to 6 months! This means that any food grown in the same area could still absorb glyphosate, even if not sprayed with it directly.

Here’s a scary thought: It is estimated that two-hundred and fifty million pounds of glyphosate is used in the USA alone, every year.

Glyphosate has been found in water supplies, probably from run-off from fields. It’s also been found in foods like Oreos, Quaker Oats, Cheerios, hummus, and dog food. And, it’s even been found in breast milk.

Reading above, it’s easy to see how glyphosate is getting into our bodies via our food and water supply.

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