World Health Organization -Monsantos Roundup- Cancer

Monsanto has been poisoning our foods for years and getting away with it. Roundup has been around since 1976. They are very powerful lobbyist.

Saw that. CEO said the stuff was safe enough to drink, no reports of him actually drinking a glass.

I just watched the movie The East or most of it, which is about a group of young people who have decided to go after major corporations that are knowingly causing harm to water supplies which turn causes local residents to get cancer.  One of the things they do in the movie is serve the executives drinks of their poison.  I do need to watch it again so I really get what is going on but that is basically the jist of things.  It is just very funny that you said that Spookiesmom.

It seems to be clearly evident that Round-up's neonicortinoids (sp) are (one of the) more likely THE cause the the decimation of bees around the word. I am embarrassed to admit that about 6 years ago I actually used it to get rid of a patch of pampas grass. It didn't really work. I've been using white vinegar instead & the patch is nearly gone. Nobody should have planted that idiot invasive species here in the first place, and I am am trying to reclaim it to plant milkweed, so needed by the monarch butterflies.

But the much larger picture is the extensive use of it agriculturally. I'm happy to say that my province, Ontario, is the first government in North America to take legal measures against it to almost but not quite phase it out by 2017. I think the European nations are set against it and I believe Monsanto actually sued or tried to sue them!

Everywhere on FB people are lobbying against neonics. Also, I think there is a huge increase in #s of people looking into backyard apiaries. Of course, this doesn't address the cancer connection but..........roundup and Monsanto, IMHO, are high on the list of the general poisoning of the environment everywhere, which, I believe in years to come, will be shown to have been one of the causes of DNA and cell mutations and cancer. OK I'm not a scientist but...my personal opinion is - it's all so sick. I hope one gov't up after another stands up to kick them OUT.

flannelette - the biggest hope by those who object to GMO and Roundup is that consumers vote with their pocketbooks. I am seeing more and more products that advertise or certify that they are GMO free, and the Non-GMO Project has some traction. If people stop purchasing products/produce that contain GMOs then there is less incentive to use Roundup - and there does seem to be a push in that direction so I am hoping that discussing the link between pesticides and cancer will propel the conversation forward.  This is what spelled the end of DDT use many years ago, for the very same reasons.

music - the good news is that with social media, the internet, blogs, and fierce competition by companies for our dollars - the information about a movement to avoid pesticides/GMO might be easier.  Boycotting DDT only had network news, word of mouth, and newspapers to spread the info.  Unfortunately, there are more food producers than ever before, so you are correct about the need for label reading and the level of work it takes to avoid this, but if there is enough news about the link to cancer people will hopefully pay attention. If the crowd at my local Whole Foods is any indication, then I think at least some people (myself included) are willing to put in the work - and I have noticed many more products in my regular grocery store that are themselves advertising that they are non-GMO.  I follow the Virgin Diet (no soy, corn, gluten, sugar, peanuts, dairy or eggs, although I do eat pasture raised chicken eggs now) and at least half a dozen of my closest friends do as well - and these folks don't associate with each other so they are not eating like this because we all hang out together - they are scattered geographically, it is because they are trying to avoid food that is unhealthy.  I think that is a hopeful sign

Jessica - it is a way to avoid many of those things.  The plan promotes eating clean, organic, pasture raised, grass fed types of food.  By eliminating dairy you are eliminating some amount of hormones, but sources of animal protein will always have some. Avoidance of soy and corn, much of being GMO, is done to eliminate pesticides, which can cause inflammation.  I follow the dirty dozen, clean fifteen rules when buying produce, and I eat very little processed food. Avoiding sugar, peanuts and gluten are for anti-inflammatory purposes. This is a hard plan to follow, not gonna lie!  It becomes a way of life rather than a diet, but it is difficult when dining out or socializing to be sure.  I do it because eating this way was the only way I could lose weight I had gained from chemo and the initial months of hormonal therapy.  It also reduced my AI induced joint pain, so now I do it to hopefully live a longer and more healthy life, but also to be pain free and maintain my desired weight.