Roundup and Cancer

Monsanto hit with a $2Billion settlement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/...auth=login-email&login=email&auth=login-email

Full disclosure, this is exactly the same type of cancer my stepfather just got through battling. He's a farmer and has without a doubt been exposed to this shit on a wholesale level.

 

Agent orange v2.0

 

Exactly the same type my father had. Also exposed to this stuff for years farming.

 

No where did they prove the cause effect relationship...it's all circumstantial. This award will lose once it gets out of San Francisco. NHL is quite common, about 4% of all cancer.

 

I heard the EPA said the opposite of the UN

 

The only question I have is which greedy idiot at Bayer green lit the Monsanto buyout. It must not be comfortable being him right now. Monsanto is going down, and taking Bayer with it.

 

I had somebody arguing with me that glyphosate is the reason I have Celiac disease - and if I would just stop eating wheat treated with it I would suddenly get better.

Doesn't work like that but I sure as hell wish it did!

 

Anecdotal I know, but I have heard of people who don't noticeably react to Italian made pastas, ostensibly due to different farming methods.

 

Can I sue Jimmy Carter for my eldest's peanut allergy?

 

I don't have proof of anything, but since watching a fairly extensive investigative report a few years ago on the shit going on in Argentina (not this documentary, but it's on the same topic), I can tell you that Monsanto does not want me sitting on a jury.

 

I have heard that - though I have also gotten sick while in the UK getting accidental exposure...sooooooooo dunno. Won't find me testing the theory though!

There is a study/trial about to start at the Mayo for a medicine to block the reaction - I thought about signing up, but the trial was 14 weeks long, and I had to eat bread every night and log my reaction after taking the medication. I could also be placed on the placebo and it would be the 14 most agonizing weeks of my life.

BUT - if the medicine turns out to work, it would be worth it long term. I'm torn.

 

Strains of wheat from what I understand

 

I include crop variations in farming methods. Strains, cross breeds, soil and fertilizing, pesticide and herbicide application...any and/or all the variables.

 

Be nice if there was something like an epi pen to kill the reaction, but I can't see going back to the good ol' days of whole wheat and white bread. Cora snuck a donut at school and suffered the GI consequences for it, great lesson but I would like to be able to stop the reaction if she gets accidentally dosed.

 

Yep that's the theory - not a daily thing but more reactionary. I don't want to throw away my summer, so if there is still something come November I may just take one for the team and sign up.