The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever when they tried eating pasta on vacation in Italy.
Confused parents wondering why wheat consumption sometimes triggered autoimmune reactions in their children but not at other times.
In my own home, I’ve long pondered why my husband can eat the wheat I prepare at home, but he experiences negative digestive effects eating even a single roll in a restaurant.
There is clearly something going on with wheat that is not well known by the general public. It goes far and beyond organic versus nonorganic, gluten or hybridization because even conventional wheat triggers no symptoms for some who eat wheat in other parts of the world.
What indeed is going on with wheat?
For quite some time, I secretly harbored the notion that wheat in the United States must, in fact, be genetically modified. GMO wheat secretly invading the North American food supply seemed the only thing that made sense and could account for the varied experiences I was hearing about.
I reasoned that it couldn’t be the gluten or wheat hybridization. Gluten and wheat hybrids have been consumed for thousands of years. It just didn’t make sense that this could be the reason for so many people suddenly having problems with wheat and gluten in general in the past 5-10 years.
Finally, the answer came over dinner a couple of months ago with a friend who was well versed in the wheat production process. I started researching the issue for myself, and was, quite frankly, horrified at what I discovered.
The good news is that the reason wheat has become so toxic in the United States is not that it is secretly GMO as I had feared (thank goodness!).
The bad news is that the problem lies with the manner in which wheat is grown and harvested by conventional wheat farmers.
You’re going to want to sit down for this one. I’ve had some folks burst into tears in horror when I passed along this information before.
Common wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work through the fields as the practice allows for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest.
Pre-harvest application of the herbicide Roundup or other herbicides containing the deadly active ingredient glyphosate to wheat and barley as a desiccant was suggested as early as 1980. It has since become routine over the past 15 years and is used as a drying agent 7-10 days before harvest within the conventional farming community.
According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in-depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it. Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield: “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat have been treated with herbicides. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998. Note that bulgur is commonly made from durum.
Here’s what wheat farmer Keith Lewis has to say about the practice:
I have been a wheat farmer for 50 yrs and one wheat production practice that is very common is applying the herbicide Roundup (glyposate) just prior to harvest. Roundup is licensed for preharvest weed control. Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup claims that application to plants at over 30% kernel moisture result in roundup uptake by the plant into the kernels. Farmers like this practice because Roundup kills the wheat plant allowing an earlier harvest.
A wheat field often ripens unevenly, thus applying Roundup preharvest evens up the greener parts of the field with the more mature. The result is on the less mature areas Roundup is translocated into the kernels and eventually harvested as such.
This practice is not licensed. Farmers mistakenly call it “desiccation.” Consumers eating products made from wheat flour are undoubtedly consuming minute amounts of Roundup. An interesting aside, malt barley which is made into beer is not acceptable in the marketplace if it has been sprayed with preharvest Roundup. Lentils and peas are not accepted in the market place if it was sprayed with preharvest roundup….. but wheat is ok.. This farming practice greatly concerns me and it should further concern consumers of wheat products.
Here’s what wheat farmer Seth Woodland of Woodland and Wheat in Idaho had to say about the practice of using herbicides for wheat dry down:
That practice is bad . I have fellow farmers around me that do it and it is sad. Lucky for you not all of us farm that way. Being the farmer and also the president of a business, we are proud to say that we do not use round up on our wheat ever!
This practice is not just widespread in the United States either. The Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom reports that the use of Roundup as a wheat desiccant results in glyphosate residues regularly showing up in bread samples. Other European countries are waking up to the danger, however. In the Netherlands, the use of Roundup is completely banned with France likely soon to follow.
Using Roundup on wheat crops throughout the entire growing season and even as a desiccant just prior to harvest may save the farmer money and increase profits, but it is devastating to the health of the consumer who ultimately consumes the glyphosate residue laden wheat kernels.
The chart below of skyrocketing applications of glyphosate to US wheat crops since 1990 and the incidence of celiac disease is from a December 2013 study published in the Journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology examining glyphosate pathways to autoimmune disease. Remember that wheat is not currently GMO or “Roundup Ready” meaning it is not resistant to its withering effects like GMO corn or GMO soy, so the application of glyphosate to wheat would actually kill it.
While the herbicide industry maintains that glyphosate is minimally toxic to humans, research published in the Journal Entropy strongly argues otherwise by shedding light on exactly how glyphosate disrupts mammalian physiology.
Authored by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff of MIT, the paper investigates glyphosate’s inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, an overlooked component of lethal toxicity to mammals.
The currently accepted view is that ghyphosate is not harmful to humans or any mammals. This flawed view is so pervasive in the conventional farming community that Roundup salesmen have been known to foolishly drink it during presentations!
However, just because Roundup doesn’t kill you immediately doesn’t make it nontoxic. In fact, the active ingredient in Roundup lethally disrupts the all important shikimate pathway found in beneficial gut microbes which is responsible for the synthesis of critical amino acids.
Friendly gut bacteria, also called probiotics, play a critical role in human health. Gut bacteria aid digestion, prevent permeability of the gastrointestinal tract (which discourages the development of autoimmune disease), synthesize vitamins and provide the foundation for robust immunity. In essence:
Roundup significantly disrupts the functioning of beneficial bacteria in the gut and contributes to permeability of the intestinal wall and consequent expression of autoimmune disease symptoms.
In synergy with disruption of the biosynthesis of important amino acids via the shikimate pathway, glyphosate inhibits the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes produced by the gut microbiome. CYP enzymes are critical to human biology because they detoxify the multitude of foreign chemical compounds, xenobiotics, that we are exposed to in our modern environment today.
As a result, humans exposed to glyphosate through the use of Roundup in their community or through the ingestion of its residues on industrialized food products become even more vulnerable to the damaging effects of other chemicals and environmental toxins they encounter!
What’s worse is that the negative impact of glyphosate exposure is slow and insidious over months and years as inflammation gradually gains a foothold in the cellular systems of the body.
The consequences of this systemic inflammation are most of the diseases and conditions associated with the Western lifestyle:
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease
- Depression
- Autism
- Infertility
- Cancer
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- And the list goes on and on and on …
In a nutshell, Dr. Seneff’s study of Roundup’s ghastly glyphosate, which much of the wheat crop in the United States is doused with annually, uncovers the manner in which this lethal toxin harms the human body by decimating beneficial gut microbes with the tragic end result of disease, degeneration, and widespread suffering.
Got the picture yet?
Even if you think you have no trouble digesting wheat, it is still very wise to avoid conventional wheat as much as possible in your diet!
You Must Avoid Toxic Wheat No Matter What
The bottom line is that avoidance of conventional wheat in the United States is absolutely imperative even if you don’t currently have a gluten allergy or wheat sensitivity. This includes bypassing food products made with it such as the popular meat substitute seitan also called vital wheat gluten. The increase in the amount of glyphosate applied to wheat closely correlates with the rise of celiac disease and gluten intolerance. Dr. Seneff points out that the increases in these diseases are not just genetic in nature, but also have an environmental cause as not all patient symptoms are alleviated by eliminating gluten from the diet.
The effects of deadly glyphosate on your biology are so insidious that lack of symptoms today means literally nothing.
If you don’t have problems with wheat now, you will in the future if you keep eating conventionally produced, toxic wheat!
How to Eat Wheat Safely
Obviously, if you’ve already developed a sensitivity or allergy to wheat, you must avoid it. Period.
But, if you aren’t celiac or gluten sensitive and would like to consume this ancestral food safely, you can do what we do in our home. We source organic, naturally low in gluten, unhybridized Einkorn wheat for breadmaking, pancakes, cookies, etc. Please note that einkorn is not to be confused with the more general term farro, which includes emmer and spelt, which are both hybridized. You can learn more about the scientific research on the “good” gluten in einkorn in this article.
When we eat out or are purchasing food from the store, conventional wheat products are rejected without exception. This despite the fact that we have no gluten allergies whatsoever in our home – yet.
I am firmly convinced that if we did nothing, our entire family at some point would develop sensitivity to wheat or autoimmune disease in some form due to the toxic manner in which it is processed and the glyphosate residues that are contained in conventional wheat products.
What Are You Going to Do About Toxic Wheat?
How did you react to the news that US wheat farmers are using Roundup, not just to kill weeds, but to dry out the wheat plants to allow for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest and that such a practice causes absorption of toxic glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and other herbicides, right into the wheat kernels themselves?
Did you feel outraged and violated as I did? How will you implement a conventional wheat-avoidance strategy going forward even if you haven’t yet developed a problem with gluten or wheat sensitivity?
What about other crops where Roundup is used as a pre-harvest desiccant such as barley, sugar cane, rice, seeds, dried beans and peas, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and sugar beets? Will you only be buying these crops in organic form from now on to avoid this modern, man-made scourge?
UPDATE: The Soil Association in July 2015 called for an immediate ban on the use of glyphosate for wheat ripening and desiccation purposes. The nonprofit reports that glyphosate residues are widely found in nonorganic wheat samples and the use of the herbicide on wheat crops has increased 400% in the past two decades.
Dr. Robin Mesnage of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Kings College in London, revealed new data analysis showing Roundup, the most common brand of Glyphosate based herbicides, is 1,000 times more toxic than genotoxic glyphosate alone due to the inclusion of other toxic chemicals in its mix.
Peter Melchett, Soil Association policy director said; “If Glyphosate ends up in bread it’s impossible for people to avoid it unless they are eating organic. On the other hand, farmers could easily choose not to use Glyphosate as a spray on wheat crops – just before they are harvested. This is why the Soil Association is calling for the immediate ending of the use of Glyphosate sprays on wheat destined for use in bread.”
References
Glyphosate now commonly found in human urine
Study: Glyphosate, Celiac and Gluten Intolerance
The Glyphosate, Celiac Disease Connection
Pre-harvest Application of Glyphosate to Wheat
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Yield and quality of wheat seeds as a function of desiccation stages and herbicides
Wheat farmer weighs in on the use of Roundup as a wheat desiccant
More Information
Roundup: Quick Death for Weeds, Slow and Painful Death for You
Hybrid Wheat is Not the Same as GMO Wheat
The Dutch Ban Roundup, France and Brazil to Follow
How to Mix and Use Gluten Free Flour
Can Celiacs Eat Sourdough Bread?
The Dirty Little Secret About Gluten-Free
I can’t read the whole article without pasting it into Word because there is a popup to the left that slides down with the scrolling and cuts off the right side of the article!– the popup has Facebook, Twitter, etc. on it vertically- I see no X to close it- it is so annoying and Have seen these on other pages. How do I get rid of it so I can read an article without having to copy and paste it elsewhere???? Thanks.
have you tried Evernote? It’s great for viewing and for saving articles, recipes, etc.
This very recent article claims that even organic grains tested positively for glyphosate.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/alert-certified-organic-food-grown-in-u-s-found-contaminated-with-glyphosate-herbicide/
Here is one quote from the article: ‘Next, Tropical Traditions tested the USDA certified organic grains from suppliers they had been using, sourced mainly from western states such as Montana and Idaho. Sadly, the presence of glyphosate residue was found in organic wheat and other organic grains, including organic barley, oats, spelt, and einkorn. The range was from 0.03 to 0.06 mg/kg, just slightly lower than the conventional grains that were tested”
Sarah, it goes on to mention the practice of spraying before farmers harvest the grain.
We visited a cousin’s farm in northern Alberta, Canada in late August this year. Her spouse told us that he sprays round-up on the crop to speed up the process for harvesting otherwise the crop would not mature in time.
My husband asked about the wisdom of that and we found out they have been deceived by the chemical companies saying that it does not go up the stem enough to actually affect the crop that is harvested.
If this had not been what you discussed for toxic wheat I was going to tell you about this info we obtained this summer.
Of course we were absolutely flabbergasted even though we try to eat healthy but have not gone all out up to this time.
Australian wheat is not sprayed prior to harvest. Sorghum is usually sprayed and it’s used for cattle feed mostly. There is a lot of glysophate used in modern farming. The land could be sprayed 4-6 times a year, so this could have a residual problem. This is the modern conventional way of farming. The call it zero till. Instead of cultivating weeds they spray them.
Hi Sarah !
I’m a pharmacist and former human genetics nerd.
I would like to point out that the parts where you discuss CYP450 enzymes, gut bacteria, inflammation, toxins, diseases… well everything you mention with regards to life sciences makes no sense whatsoever.
I have no idea whether glyphosate is toxic or not, so I can’t dispute that claim. However, your explanation of the underlying physiological notions is deeply flawed and inaccurate. Being an economist, you should have had this post reviewed by a scientist (biochemist, chemist, etc.) before it was published. It’s not too late to do so, by the way.
The topic your are presenting here might be important, but relying sound scientific information should be a priority. Right now, this post is made of pseudoscience… and I’m sure you don’t want that.
Olivier
Your blanket statement is not a critique, an argument or an explanation. You need to explain what is wrong with Sarah’s physiological explanation? Why is it “deeply flawed and inaccurate?” Why does Sarah’s explanation “in regard to life science make no sense?” Just appealing to your credentials does not automatically give you credibility.
Look up “glyphosate”, which is the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, used by farmers who grow wheat and other crops from genetically modified seeds produced and sold by Monsanto Corp. The seeds are so modified that the growing wheat can be sprayed with glyphosate without harm, but kills the weeds in the crops. Glyphosate is a translocative growth hormone, causing susceptible plants (the weeds) to grow faster than normal, then causing collapse of tissue until death. Glyphosate remains in the wheat crop, is processed, sold, eaten, and people who eat the grain also are eating glyphosate, which is now known to be a cause of obesity, hormonal changes, autism, ADHD, and other diseases. ALmost all wheat grown in the US is sprayed with glyphosate, and almost all wheat farmers are being forced to purchase every year Monsanto’s “Roundup – ready” wheat seed (also soy, corn, cotton, etc.). Farmers are no longer able to save their seeds for next-year’s crop, but must purchase Monsanto seeds each and every year or be sued by Monsanto. PLease do more research into this terrible problem with our nation’s food supply and your health.
Carol – Pest Advisor California 30 years
Carol There is NO GMO wheat in U.S.A. Farmer do not spray roundup on wheat. I know I have earned a humble living growing nothing but wheat for 4 decades. And I have never bought seed from monsanto, I do save some of my seed from year to year.
Hahaha! Clearly you’re not a regular here. She’s not an economist and as a clinical practitioner I would listen to her long before I’d listen to a pharmacist….and if you are a “former” genetics nerd then maybe you should pick that up again because the latest research is absolutely proving many facts that you proclaim as “pseudoscience”.
Thank you for sharing your feedback as a pharmacist, I wondered the same thing and it is great to have feedback from someone who actually has a background and a degree in this. We live among wheat farmers and I have spent summers with them during harvest and they never spray before harvest.
When reading the above, it feels like she has just strung together random bits of info to make an article. There’s actually a name for that in journalism but I can’t recall it. It is a form of misleading plagiarism where the reporter is avoiding doing hands on researching on the topic but wants to sensationalize the topic to catch readers, and that is the feeling I’m getting from reading blogs these days. No one is taking the time to visit the source directly anymore. Visit your local farmers everyone!
Sorry to say, tactful as this guy seems to sound, for all their ‘expert knowledge’ Pharmacists are often so frightfully ignorant in such matters and far be it for them to caution you if they did know. As profitable agents for Big Pharma, they do a rip roaring trade peddling all of Big Pharma’s Nasty Toxic Chemical Drugs any way. To many discerning people today, Big Pharma and Commercial Agriculture are like “two peas in a pod”……they serve eachother well, to the discomfort of others.
Three decades as an Independent Natural Health Researcher after a Medically Induced Disorder, so distressing, tells me this girl is doing her level best to get some good INFO across to her readers. May I suggest, this is not his platform here. Furthermore, I run two Natural Health websites, and will be happy to give direct access to this noteworthy webpage on both of them, not just links.
And to Sarah I say, there has been a considerable amount of nit picking here from some who are obviously not your readers – what’s all the distraction about for exactness? Also, I will suggest it’s in the interest of Pharmacies to protect “their bread and butter” often because the Agriculture Industry (the big guys) send so many patients their way who often become their customers for life. Sad but true.
Concerning our Microbiome, it is very delicate and sensitive even to ‘Alcohol Sugars’ like Xylitol in homemade baking and Erythritol that is so commonly used in Kombuchas which are sold commercially to benefit our gut flora. Have you ever tasted that? My taste buds can pick it instantly – something was wrong. Our Microbiome can pick it too, and even so, it will pick any foreign substance that is not flora-friendly. But it is powerless to do anything about it if we keep making poor choices in what foods we ingest – especially on a daily basis.
For years, I was totally ignorant about Microbiome – never heard of it – I asked myself where had I been as a researcher? It’s so very interesting and I would call it our body’s best asset to our health when cared for correctly. Thank you for your input Sarah. Pardon the space I’ve taken. Good wishes to all.
Could you please provide the link to the USDA data?
It’s included in the sources at the end of the post.
I read your article and sources with great interest. Like others, I am interested in more complete citations. The data you quote in saying “according to the USDA” appears to be secondary data from a newspaper article. They show a chart which they purport to be USDA data, but they don’t cite the original source either. Also, the figures in the newspaper chart are for glysophate use on the crops, not necessarily preharvest as you state. I strongly urge you to protect your credibility with more careful research.
I’ve looked there but had trouble finding the stats that support your assertion that
“According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been doused with Roundup as part of the harvesting process”. –
can you point me to the bit where it says that
thanks
I clicked through on the sources. The USDA source was an article in the Examiner that quoted the percent of wheat that used glyphosate, but not the percent that used glyphosate as a dessicant. I then clicked through to their USDA source and could not find any information on its use as dessicants despite numerous searches of their data base. Could you link directly to the USDA source you cited?
The reason I am asking is that I want to share this article but am trying to vet it first
Yes indeed. It does explain a lot … even for those of us who have no gluten sensitivity and still have issues eating US grown wheat.
I know of no wheat farmer in the US that sprays glyphosate or RoundUp on their wheat. It is not a practice that is endorsed on our farm and would never suggest it to another farmer. Wheat close to the stage of harvest has already completed it’s lifecycle, so from an economic perspective it’s a complete waste of money to spray the crop.
The research paper you cite was written by computer scientists. I personally, would not get my agricultural advise from someone whose expertise is in that field but to each their own.
You can also eat organic wheat if you have concerns since those crops have to be grown without RoundUp, and you would be supporting some of my organic farming friends. Happy eating.
Are you friends with only organic wheat farmers? 99% of durum wheat and 97% of spring wheat is harvested using Roundup as the desiccant. Click through to the sources in the article.
Coming from a completely conventional farm family we also have never and know no one who has ever done this. It doesn’t make sense financially and that is the reason cited for doing it. Roundup is expensive as is the application especially as it would have to be done by air plane to avoid destroying the crop.
I don’t know of anyone in our community who farms organically so that is definitely not the reason it isn’t done. I am not saying that there isn’t someone out there who doesn’t do or hasn’t done something this silly BUT it is not wide spread. If every farmer who responds to this does so with shock and horror and has never heard of such a thing maybe it’s not denial but confusion on someones behalf. And that probably wouldn’t be the people doing the farming.
As a REAL and conventional wheat farmer, I will just say, NO.
Bravo.
You are incorrect. My family farms and I can tell you for a fact that putting Round up on a crop ready to harvest is simply not done. Besides being a big waste of money ( do you have any clue how much herbicide is needed for a 100 acre field? Or how much it costs a producer to apply it just once?) as the previous poster pointed out, it makes no sense to apply it once the crop has lived it life cycle.
Round Up is not used as a desiccant. It’s preposterous. Sunshine and dry air ripens any crop sufficiently.I don’t have to click on your links because I know how it works, having grown up as a farm kid, and living where agriculture is the #1 industry in our state of Montana.
Then you need to read the brochure/guide:
http://roundup.ca/_uploads/documents/MON-Preharvest%20Staging%20Guide.pdf
put out by Monsanto. Tables of what crops and when to apply. just because you have never heard of folks using Roundup in this manner, does not mean it is not done by others. Also, I might posit that the REAL FARMERS, the family farmers may very well not be avid users some chemistries for certain purposes. BUT large corporate farms are very likely to use such products/processes as much of the decision making is done from behind desks, not the wheel of the tractor. Corporate farms are very bottom-line sensitive and often far less involved with the long tern impacts of some practices or problems these practices may create for “others”.
Roundup is used to dry out the garbanzo crop in eastern Washington state.
We have been wheat farmers in kansas for over 30 years, we grow corn, soybeans,winter wheat and beef. NEVER have we used or even heard of this practice of roundup on wheat prior to harvest. We know many wheat growers in western Kansas, land of wheat and they too do not use this practice. Kansas is called the wheat basket of the nation. You need to review your source as this is incorrect and sadly misleading causing fear of our food where it does not exist. Please post the EXACT USDA article stating such a thing occurs.
Unfortunately Bret I know several farmers that do this exact thing. It is very common practice in our state and I have seen it with my own eyes. Makes me sick and why I stopped eating it many years ago when I saw what they did.
Brent, the crop is sprayed because it saves money and yield; It’s the opposite of “a complete waste of money to spray”.
Wheat drying in the field is susceptible to mold. Read up on witch trials – suspected to be caused by early American settlers hallucinating from moldy wheat.
With Glyphosate, nearly the entire wheat crop can be harvested without damage from rains, damp weather, etc. as opposed to (sometimes entire) losses due to mold and rot right before harvest time.
And when I read your comment disparaging this information because you accuse “computer scientists” of doing the research.. I lost all respect for you and laughed out loud.
You are really grasping at straws.
Sarah:
Thanks for bringing this timely article to our notice. I, like you, have suspected something like this for a long time – because as you have said, only selected wheat products make me feel slightly “off”. It never made sense to me that a product (wheat) that is almost as old as civilization itself can be such a culprit. Please let us know where we can buy bakery and wheat products that are absent the toxic wheat. I think this is a completely unregulated side of the food industry. Does organic help in this? considering revelations about how corrupt the organic certification process has become. Do you know of any companies that use the Einkorn wheat for baking?
Thanks !
Einkorn is unfortunately expensive because it is low yield, so it is not widely used on a commercial level at the present time.
Yes you can get Einkorn and other forns of ancient grains on places as easy as Amazon. You can
cook and bake with it, thicken stews and gravies etc. Please purchase the book Wheat Belly (available on Amazon) he covers what else is wrong with the current wheat we are eating and where to buy alternative ancient grains and why. I cook with it. I have purchased cookies, spaghetti, made with Einkorn for me and my family and it is delicious with a nuttish flavor! The kids love the cookies etc.
The only problem we have of course is eating out! It is hard to do, but we do it, we just avoid the
wheat products, even if we have to say hold the roles to our server. Where there is a will there is a way !
Marti,
You can buy Einkorn Wheat on Amazon, and all there Pasta’s are sold on Amazon.
The market I go to sells Einkorn pasta , and it can be found at good health food stores.
But I have found that Amazon has the best price.
Read “Wheat Belly”, but not the recipe book..
I would Not go look for anything on a Monsanto website to find out how Toxic Round-up is.
They would never tell the truth, and never would the Koch brothers. There all in it together..
Its about Money.
When I was at the Vet with one of my dogs, about 4 yrs ago, the subject came up about Round-up.
The Vet told me, I could give it to my dogs right out of the container, and it would not hurt them!
Seriously!!!
I have found that Drs.,and Pharmacists after getting out of school, basically learn from Big Pharma, and believe every word they said..How sad !!
Wow, Sarah. I am just completely flabbergasted and disgusted! And to be honest, a little overwhelmed. I have kind of let up on our wheat consumption because I am a very busy mother of 3 little kids 3 and under – but this was a true wake up call. It’s so hard to avoid wheat but I am going to redouble our efforts now. Thanks for sharing. I just wish the news weren’t so dreadful.
Yes indeed. Dreadful. A crime against humanity all in the name of ease of production and profits.