RoundUp + Stupidity = Evil

Hi. My name is Lindsey. You may remember me from such rants as THIS ONE about RoundUp and stupid people.

Oh, how I wish I would've had this kick ass blog post to show to my friends IDIOT landlord when she was spraying toxic chemicals directly into the ground.

Or to the lady in front of me today grocery shopping who had a giant vat of that shit on the conveyor belt. 

This is from Real Food Forager talking about the disturbing effects of RoundUp and how it is much worse for all of us (even those precious little scientists who created it) than any of us originally thought. Break out your notepad, you're gonna wanna write some shit down.

Here is a snippet:

"Glyphosate
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. It is a non selective herbicide that was patented in 1964 as a strong metal chelator. That means that it grabs hold of elements and makes them unavailable.
In 1974 Monsanto registered glyphosate as an herbicide. It binds up calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, magnesium, nickel, boron and zinc.
Glyphosate disrupts plant physiology so that they cannot grow and can’t defend themselves against disease. The plants die as a result of the diseases they may acquire — indirectly from the glyphosate.
Glyphosate is systemic.  It takes only one drop sprayed on any part of the plant and it goes throughout the entire plant. A minimum of 20% of glyphosate that hits the foliage is exuded through the plant’s root system directly to the soil. It stays in the soil.
Glyphosate is damaging
Dr. Robert Kremer, a microbiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service has studied glyphosate and has come to several conclusions about the ways in which it is damaging.

1. It kills beneficial microbes in the soil that keep pathogens in check.
2. It is a food source to opportunistic bacterium and fungi (fusarium), so it promotes bad bugs.
3. Glyphosate binds up all the nutrients in the plant so that when the plant is used for food it is nutrient deficient and the animals suffer. Any offspring from those animals are also nutrient deficient.
4. It takes away control mechanisms in the plant so the plant cannot defend itself.
5. It accumulate in the new growth points of plant — roots and buds.
6. The breakdown product of glypohsate is AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid) which is more toxic than glyphosate. AMPA affects microbes that make nutrients available.
7. Glyphosate filters down into the soil and any plant in the area will take up the glyphosate. If it is used to spray weeds, it can be taken up by any plants in the area of the spraying.
8. There are 40 documented diseases that increase as a direct result of using glyphosate in all crops.
9. As glyphosate is destroying the soil — it is also destroying the rumen of the cow — there are increasing cases of the clostridium bacterium that causes botulism occurring inside the cow. Not a pretty sight."

~ Courtesy of Real Food Forager Blog

When, oh when, are humans gonna get out of their own way and learn how to just live simply and organically? It's cheaper, more effective and easier. It makes more sense and is easy to teach and live by. It just seems like a no brainer.

Every time I feel weak in the knees for paying out the ass for organic feed for my chickens (almost DOUBLE the price of conventional feed) I will remember this post and haul out my checkbook.  Or debit card. Or giant hunk of gold. Or whatever. Because buying organic means that we remove our dollars from the montsanto, pesticide driven market that is everything corn. And the only way things change is when we stop paying for the bad and force the good. We are 'Mericans, we vote with our pocketbooks, and anyone who says differently is selling something.

Rant officially over.

Just saying - knowledge is power. We need to spread that power around like peanut butter.