Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer
Here is the paper that made me start to take organic food seriously a few years ago:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3945755&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3945755&#x2F;</a><p>I don&#x27;t have the skills to evaluate it in depth but it seems to indicate a plausible connection between glyphosate and leaky gut, which could explain why a lot of people who don&#x27;t actually have celiac&#x27;s have troubles with wheat.<p>This is conjecture on my part, but it&#x27;s possible that many people with trouble with wheat would be fine if they were able to avoid pesticides and repair their gut bacteria and general gut health.<p>The other thing I learned alongside reading that paper (or maybe it was mentioned in it, I forget), was that they use glyphosate not just to kill weeds, but as a dessicant applied directly to wheat to aid in the harvest, and a &quot;ripening agent&quot; applied directly to sugar cane.<p>Finally, although the risks are not well understood, it has been demonstrated that glyphosate does appear in detectable amounts in human excretions (urine and milk), which goes against some of the claims that were made in approving its safety (they claimed it does not bioaccumulate).<p>Sorry I don&#x27;t have sources handy for the rest of this stuff, but it&#x27;s enough to perhaps encourage others to run some searches too.<p>Edit: a final concern is not to humans but to soil biology. This new and growing field has been finding that there are symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi in the soil and that pesticides may disrupt this, dramatically reducing effective soil quality and the nutritional content of the plants grown there.