Dare
to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will
defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits
that there is an entire department within the corporation with the
simple task of ‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who speak out
against GMOs.
The WHO recently classified glyphosate, a
chemical in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, as carcinogenic –
news that is really heating things up with biotech. So Monsanto has
been demanding that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) retract their
statements about the poisons’s toxicity to human health.
The company demands this even though a
peer-reviewed study published in March of 2015 in the respected journal,
The Lancet Oncology, conducted a analysis proving that glyphosate was
indeed ‘probably carcinogenic.’
Monsanto’s vice president of global regulatory affairs Philip Miller told Reuters the following in interview:
“We question the quality of the assessment. The WHO has something to explain.”
It has already been explained, Mr. Miller. The study states:
“Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide,
currently with the highest production volumes of all herbicides. It is
used in more than 750 different products for agriculture, forestry,
urban, and home applications. Its use has increased sharply with the
development of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant crop varieties.
Glyphosate has been detected in air during spraying, in water, and in
food. There WAS limited evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of
glyphosate.
Glyphosate has been detected in the blood and
urine of agricultural workers, indicating absorption. Soil microbes
degrade glyphosate to aminomethylphosphoric acid (AMPA). Blood AMPA
detection after poisonings suggests intestinal microbial metabolism in
humans. Glyphosate and glyphosate formulations induced DNA and
chromosomal damage in mammals, and in human and animal cells in vitro.
One study reported increases in blood markers of chromosomal damage
(micronuclei) in residents of several communities after spraying of
glyphosate formulations.”
In a recent talk attended mostly by students
hoping to get decent paying internships in their field, a student asked
what the company was doing to negate “bad science” concerning their
work.
Monsanto’s employee, Dr. William “Bill” Moar,
who gives talks on Monsanto’s products to reassure everyone that they
are safe, perhaps forgot the event was public when he openly revealed
that Monsanto had:
“An entire department” (waving his arm for emphasis) dedicated to “debunking” science which disagreed with theirs.”
Likely, this is the first time a Monsanto
employee has publicly admitted that they have immense political and
financial weight to bear on scientists who dare to publish against them.
Of course they don’t list this discrediting department anywhere on
their website.
The company will stop at nothing to discredit
and devalue the contributions of unimpeachably respected Lancet and the
international scientific bodies of WHO and IARC, among others.
The stakes are high – after all, an entire
industry of GMO seed (for which they currently hold more than a
three-fourths monopoly share) is based on being Roundup ready.
Glyphosate is their hallmark product, and it accounts for billions in
sales when you account for the seed they sell to go with their
best-selling herbicide.
In a single publicly made phrase, Moar has
admitted that the Monsanto-funded science is sheer propaganda –
essentially that they indeed have dozens, if not hundreds of employees
out making sure that no science which tells the truth about their
cancer-causing products ever garners any credibility whatsoever in the
information age.
Monsanto has also held up the findings of
regulatory bodies, particularly in the United States where the revolving
door between agrochemical corporations and government seems never
ending.
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