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 searched the USDA article, did not find what you found. Talked with farmers who never heard of spraying crops with Roundup a week before harvest. Can you provide copy of your evidence?
I don’t doubt this. I did however, learn on a tour of one of Great Harvet Bread Companies that the problem people are having with bread in this country has to do with the way we seperate the wheat berry. Wheat berries have three parts that need to be ground and kept together so we can properly digest it. We seperate the berry in this country and then make things like white bread. Our wheat bread does not contain all three part either. It is separated and then a portion of the third part thrown back in so that it can be called wheat bread. Gluten intolerant people often do just fine at Great Harvest Bread because they grind their own wheat and prepare it properly.
Please explain how to use this site or where the percent of use of roundup at harvest. I am getting LOTS of push back on that part from actual farmers who grow wheat here in Indiana. I can not figure how to get to those facts from the original source. Please help.
http://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/?load_time=2014-11-10+12%3A00%3A00&year__GT=2010&commodity_desc=WHEAT
Dean
Is this where the 61, 97 & 99% came from??
Yes, we are finding this article to be very *interesting* as our family has been wheat/cattle ranchers for…generations. And we’ve never heard of anyone doing this and we ourselves sure don’t. We raise winter wheat on 2,000 acres in NW Oklahoma on the incorporated family farm. The wheat usually doesn’t need help to “die” so it can be harvested. We might have years where it’s staying too wet to get into the fields so harvest is very delayed, but the wheat dies whether we are harvesting it or not. And if we don’t get it done soon enough, it will shatter and we lose wheat. One thing I *can* tell that has changed for our wheat farming….as of last year, the fed gov will no longer “allow” us to keep and use our own seed wheat. Yep, they are forcing us to BUY seed wheat every year now. This is due to the farm (another family member is running it, not us) has been taking subsidy monies. We did not know about Wickard vs Filbern then. We sure do now. Do NOT take any fed dollars or fed “help” as it comes with big strings attached…bad ones. Supreme Court: What the fed gov finances/subsidizes, they have the right to regulate. This is why the Feds work so hard at getting people to take food stamps, welfare, farm subsidies, etc. This is why your public schools are owned and run by the fed gov, not the parents anymore. The farm’s law firm that we use has verified that this is correct. The only way our farm can get out from under this is to pay all of that money back. This is why my father-in-law never took subsidy monies. We didn’t that. But we are NOT using Roundup or anything on our wheat. We still pull rye grass by hand, too. We eat our own wheat – get it straight out of the combines.
The only way you would be prevented from saving seed is if it a PVP (plant variety protected). This helps the developers of the variety get back the cost of producing it to start with. There are plenty of nonPVP varieties that can be saved but yields and other agronomic traits aren’t as good as the new ones.
Here several varieties that can be saved as they are not protected: Triumph 64, Chisolm and Custer. The link below has the agronomic data for these:
You’re Right. Farmers may be able to save seed not purchased from Monsanto. However, most farms are located near each other and if a neighbor farmer buys from Monsanto and their seed happens to land on your property and start to grow…………you better believe that Monsanto is going to be knocking on your door with legal documents. They do it and farmers are being sued by Monsanto all the time. They have a CONTROLLING interest!
Sounds like it’s strings attached to farm bill subsidies, not a private agreement on protected varieties. I didn’t know this was going on, but I’m not surprised. That’s exactly what CONgress did to farmers during the great depression (hence the reference to Wickard V Filburn).
Erik, that is not true. A PVP variety can be saved and replanted. It cannot be sold to a buyer that wants to plant it.
Wickard V. Filburn wasn’t about farmers that accept subsidies, it applied everywhere… in an incredibly tortured interpretation of the interstate commerce clause, the supreme court ruled that Congress can regulate anything that could potentially have an impact on interstate commerce, and if you aren’t buying seed stock from an elevator, that is an impact on commerce. Don’t even get me started, this is what paved the way for the out of control Congress we have today.
Maybe you could work out an arrangement with a neighbor? You save enough seed for them to plant, sell it to them at planting time at whatever the market price is, and they do the same for you. Even steven in the end, but you aren’t saving seed to plant yourself, you’ve sold it all.
For years I have been making bread with whole wheat flour from local Indian food stores, that is traditionally grown, harvested and stone ground on chakki atta ( the stone mill historically used in India ).
As you know, bread is an important part of Indian cuisine, and its ingredients are treated with care. I have found it to be healthy and reasonably priced.
Hi Sarah,
I’m the gal you remembered (from the St Louis, Mo WAP Conference) and re-connected with at the recent WAP Indianapolis Conference. You have an amazing memory! Hear that folks….Sarah remembered me from a couple years ago after only talking to me for a few minutes.
That’s what GOOD REAL FOOD does for you. 🙂
Thanks for this article – I always find that people are really confused about wheat and all the gluten hype but still know that wheat is a problem for them. I knew that they spray Roundup pre-harvest and I always think it’s like people that think they may be lactose-intolerant (to milk). I say they are “pasteurized-intolerant” and now I can say people may be “Roundup-intolerant” instead of gluten intolerant.
Thanks for your wonderful articles that are soooooooo thoroughly researched!
Elaine
So then – why is there so much research being done on the gluten and why are the findings coming back that it is still a major player in causing autoimmune diseases and inflammation? Dr. Kharrazian just did a talk on the Digestion Sessions in which he explained the research. Thoughts?
Yes gluten sensitivity develops due to eating toxic wheat. Can this sensitivity be healed? Yes … my husband’s gluten sensitivity was resolved by healing the gut but he still can’t eat conventional, toxic wheat.
First and foremost, Round Up is not a pesticide, it is a herbicide. There’s a difference. Secondly, I attended a talk this summer given by Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former genetic engineer and soil scientist who was the spokesperson for Ag Canada. His job was to tell the public how SAFE Round Up was. Dr. Vrain now speaks out against it. He says that indeed, the problem is not the gluten, or the corn, or soy. It’s the “HERBICIDE” – Glysophate – that has put holes in our intestines. Thus, we have no permeability in our guts,thanks to Glysophate, which has also killed all the good bacteria in our guts, Many studies have been done on this topic but governments who are in bed with the big chem companies are suppressing it from the public. Big surprise! Watch Dr. Vrain’s Ted Talk ( if it’s still available and hasn’t been yanked) and get informed.
What Monsanto is getting away with is murder…just saying. Vrain says GO ORGANIC as if your life depends on it!
“pesticide” is a term that includes BOTH “herbicides” and “insecticides”.
Evidently Dr. Vrain’s talk on TED IS gone. I cannot find anything there or on the doctor anywhere on the net. Are you sure of the spelling of his name???
Also on wheat and problems,,,, I know my cousin was a BIG wheat farmer in N. Dakota and he was telling me about how using liquid ammonia was so great as a fertilizer,, easy, cheap and fast. He stated that “you could tell it really worked, as in the turns at the end of the field, nothing grew where the shanks (injecting the ammonia into the soil) missed or did not cover, nothing grew. I was an organic apps farmer at the time, and I stated that, to me, this showed that the soils were so screwed up by current and past farming practices, that nothing would grow. That when his father farmed, and used , early on, animal manners, where the manner wagon “missed” sections of ground, that the crop still grew, just not as vigorous as the mannered areas. He agreed with me, but was still so enamored with the cheapness of the ammonia….. Amazing to me.
I have a feeling that there are MANY factors at work with the great increase in “gluten problems” that it is not just gluten but all sorts of other “hidden” issues most are just not familiar with. Also, farming practices for any given crop grown in the USA can vary sooooo much on just where the crop is being grown. Wheat in the north is grown rather differently than wheat grown in the south, ditto with west verses east.
Interesting site and thoughts. Glad I was directed here by a friend.
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/The-Gene-Revolution-The-Future
It’s still there John
for the purposes of this article and as it happens in general, herbicides and pesticides are referred to as “pesticides”. by government, by scientists, by doctors, and by farmers…
(SIGH)………..
I’m getting to the point where I don’t care .
Herbicide, pesticide, insecticide, fratricide, deicide, I don’t care. if it came from a laboratory, keep it out of my body!
Sorry but go look up pesticide definition. The word encompasses insecticides and herbicides along with fungicide and a whole list of others. Yes, Roundup is an herbicide but it is also a pesticide.
Actually any herbicide or insecticide is a pesticide.
If this was true, and we all had “holes” in our guts, we all would be gluten intolerant. As usual, everyone is hopping on a band wagon and this is the popular one today. Something different tomorrow. Remember what the “experts” did to the Egg industry back in the 70’s? Or how margarine was being touted as being better than butter — yup, 1 step away from plastic vs cream w/salt. LOL
Herbicides, insecticides, rodentisides and fungicides are all pesticides, but I knew what you meant.
Sorry to inform you that Roundup IS a pesticide. A herbicide is a pesticide. So are insecticides, fungicides, miticides, arachnicides, etc. Those are all pesticides. Many people think a pesticide is only for killing insects..not true. An insecticide is for killing (mitigating, controlling) insects and is a pesticide, so are all the other -cides (except sui and homi).
Its like this: “Someone says a donkey is not an equine… a HORSE is an equine”… well horses, donkeys, mules and zebras are all equines.
I replied to your post earlier but you’ve neglected to post it for whatever reason. May I add, according to Dr. Thierry Vrain, a retired genetic engineer and soil scientist, GMO crops such as Roundup ready corn, soy, wheat, Canola – they’re all part of the problem because the Roundup is in the seed. So,it’s not just about the spraying of the Roundup at harvest. Roundup ready crops are a huge contributor to a multitude of health problems. And, Roundup is not a pesticide, it’s a herbicide.
Cheryl, just FYI, ‘pesticide’ is a blanket term encompassing chemicals that kill pests whether it’s a plant, insect, fungus, etc. Herbicides kill plants. In other words, all herbicides are pesticides but not all pesticides are herbicides. And I fully agree that they should all be avoided in our food at all costs!
Actually, pesticides is a general term to refer to insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc. See http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/
Herbicides are pesticides as are insecticides and fungicides. pests are not just bugs, weeds are pests , as are fungi like when the make the leaves fall off your crabapple
And what are the millions of us that can’t afford an Organic diet supposed to do? I am trying to buy organic dairy to avoid the hormones and additives in milk products..I have found a source for Home chicken eggs….but to eliminate regualr wheat, soy, sugar beet,will double an already straining grocery budget. There are a few sources for Italian pasta that aren’t too bad, but most everything else is twice the price if not three times.Everything has gone up in price but our income certianly has not, I don’t know what to do.
Don’t eat wheat if you can’t afford organic or conventional wheat that is chemical free.
Sarah, do you make your own bread? Do you use a bread-maker? I’m not the best cook and I try to buy organic bread but obviously, if I made my own it would be best. The type that you recommended is really expensive but I’d like to give it a try. Our family eats a lot of bread. 🙁
wheat is addictive. If you have to go wheat-free, expect cravings fro 3 weeks or so. (same with sugar BTW)…. just know cravings are normal, they will go away, you are going thru withdrawal, and yes it is worth it.
Organic products are also treated with chemicals. There is an entire book of accepted organic treatments for crops. Look up the requirements and the practices for certified organic products, before stating that organic means that it does not have any chemicals on it.
As for the comment about ‘dousing’ the grain with Round-Up, do you even realize that there are use rate restrictions??? If an applicator breaks these and goes ‘off label’, which is what you are implying with the dousing/drenching terminology, they can face legal action.
Now for the comments about killing the wheat before it is ready, that doesn’t make sense on even the most basic level. If the wheat is not ready for harvest, by killing the plant before it is ready, the ‘so called money hungry farmers’ would be losing money. Why would they do that???? They lose grain production, therefore causing a loss of money. Again, why would they do that????
Being a professional in the nutrition field, I am not seeing more cases of gluten sensitivity. People have always and will always be diagnosed with Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease. By eliminating gluten containing foods from their diet, they are able to minimize their disease, but they do not cure it forever. I have seen more and more people however self diagnosing themselves with sensitivities. What their reasoning is, I cannot say.
I live in the middle of wheat production country and I am proud to say I am married to an aerial applicator, the practices put forth in this article are false. There is not a wide spread Round-Up applications made in this area.
I am proud of the work that my farmer friends are doing to feed the world and the part that all of my applicator friends both aerial and ground play in the production also. For everyone saying you do not need conventional farming techniques, organic and small local farms do not feed the rest of the world. If that were the case, conventional techniques would not have been developed and would not continue to change.
I hope that everyone takes a minute to visit a conventional farm and learn how the farmers care about their land and products, just as much as the small farmer.
Re: “Organic products are also treated with chemicals. There is an entire book of accepted organic treatments for crops. Look up the requirements and the practices for certified organic products, before stating that organic means that it does not have any chemicals on it.”
OK, since you are an expert on this, name one chemical that is used to treat organic crops in the field.
Go grain free! There is little nutrient value in wheat. Save your money and eat meat, veggies, fruits, dairy, nuts and seeds.
Michelle–I agree but many of the people who post on this website appear to follow more of a Weston Price Foundation approach to diet.than a Paleo or Paleo template. As far as I know, Sarah is involved in the organization? With that in mind, I think people who consume wheat should be able to get wheat that hasn’t been exposed to Roundup, and also be able to buy Einkorn wheat.
We are now grain free, and along with eating traditional foods, according to the WAPF, we are radiantly healthy!
You are very wrong. Wheat has many vitamins and minerals. Whole wheat even more.And consuming dairy, my dear, is the worst for humans. Milk is the cause of many diseases.It is for calves, not humans. I suggest you look into this .
Now here is a comment that really doesn’t make sense!!!
If a person says that organic wheat is too expensive for their budget, you tell them to eat inorganic meat and nuts and fruit, etc???
Or maybe you are telling them to eat organic meats etc since they can’t afford organic?
Either way…Hello?!
Eat real food – stuff that supplies your body with nutrients, not robs it of them. Meat, eggs, raw milk, good fats, bone broths (tons of calcium and minerals) veggies and fruits. It’s what our family of 8 lives on 🙂
stop eating processed foods. get the cookbook nourishing traditions and buy only organic foods for the recipes. Making broth and using it to cook beans and rice is affordable. When you stop buying packaged goods your costs will go way down
I wish hugs could supplement the need, Ellen.
Hormones in milk? You don’t need “organic” (which just about anyone can slap that label on) just buy milk that is “certified growth hormone free”. I don’t know about other states, but in NYS, farmers have to milk a cow, separately, if she is being given antibiotics, and her milk is dumped. That practice has been going on for over 30 years.
As a certified organic farmer I take offense to this. Not just anyone can be certified organic it is a time consuming and expensive process. Certified organic means your milk comes from cows who are fed non-gmo and non chemically treated food. Certified organic actually means a lot and not “just anyone” can become certified.
Sarah, I was trying to research the USDA site by using the Quick Stats USDA link you use to site that resource in your article. It takes us to an excel worksheet filter in which we can find a variety of stats about wheat harvest (among other things), but there was no option to search for Pre-harvest process or anything specific to percentages of crop treated with anything. Could you please be more specific as to how we can find the data to which you refer? Thanks so much.
Please go after the group that allows this t happen, now, not tommorow!
The group that allows this to happen is the consumers who choose to save 30c on a loaf of bread. The control side of the cash register is the side where the purse is.