Glyphosate found in granola, crackers and oatmeal
I&#x27;ve been anti-glyphosate for awhile. But first, my point of view:<p>A lot of crops require &quot;Roundup Ready&quot; varieties, and Monsanto (ab)uses patent law to enforce licenses on their RR seeds, even in situations where it is clear Monsanto crops contaminated someone else&#x27;s field.<p>Worse yet, due to horizontal gene transfer in some grasses and weeds, we now have RR weeds, and that is a one way process. Due to this, Glyphosate-based products are no longer useful for new weed eradication solutions, only for existing solutions until their last users are overtaken by RR weeds.<p>Roundup had its time, and now it is essentially a commercial failure after the fact.<p>All of that said, I&#x27;m anti-glyphosate because, frankly, it should have never been cleared for use. It kills valuable crops that have not been supplied with the RR gene (which has happened repeatedly due to overspray effecting neighboring fields), they&#x27;ve known since day one that horizontal gene transfer could produce RR weeds, and now we&#x27;ve lost an important tool in weed control due to the overuse and abuse of glyphosate.<p>Due to this overuse and abuse, the American public has been unwittingly used as guinea pigs due to bad science stating that it doesn&#x27;t harm us, but very little (until recently) was done to see how it interacts with our gut flora.<p>We now know that in at least some of the population, glyphosate exposure has side effects. Maybe it screws with our gut bacteria (most likely not the pathway described in Glyphosate II (Samsel 2013)), maybe it is because of APMA (a metabolite of glyphosate) which mimics glutamate toxicity (and want some extra fun? Look at the relationship between autism and glutamate). I don&#x27;t know.<p>I don&#x27;t need to know the exact mechanism (although I&#x27;d like to us to know, to prevent future mistakes from harming people due to accidentally using the same pathway), I just need to know that there is enough science to link glyphosate exposure to modern diseases and disorders.<p>Well, that, and it doesn&#x27;t really work anymore in a lot of crops, especially RR ones.