Finally, the corporate giant Monsanto, an organization that has hailed itself as the answer to global food shortages and is “working to help farmers grow food more sustainably” has been outed and is currently facing backlash after a near $300 million lawsuit was settled proving that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the roundup herbicide, causes cancer. The company was found guilty of malice and covering up the fact that their most popular product does indeed cause cancer.

On their website, it still states that “Glyphosate has a 40-year history of safe and effective use. In evaluations spanning those four decades, the overwhelming conclusion of experts worldwide, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been that glyphosate can be used safely.” Seems they are still in denial, despite the lawsuit.

This is great news, however, as this story was too big to be kept from the mainstream. Many are starting to wake up to the fact that Monsanto isn’t as safe of a company as they would like you to believe. Despite years of mounting evidence that glyphosate is carcinogenic, Monsanto has been able to deny the fact, stating that no products contain a high enough level to pose a risk, failing to acknowledge the cumulative effect within the body.

Americans have applied 1.8 million tons of glyphosate since its introduction in 1974. Worldwide, 9.4 million tons of the chemical have been sprayed onto fields. For comparison, that’s equivalent to the weight of water in more than 2,300 Olympic-size swimming pools. It’s also enough to spray nearly half a pound of Roundup on every cultivated acre of land in the world.” ~Newsweek

Which Foods Have Glyphosate?

The issue is, it can be difficult to know exactly which products are genetically modified, and thus are likely to contain Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide or some form of glyphosate. In the past, a safe bet was to be sure to purchase only organic products; however in recent years even certain brands of organic foods have been compromised as glyphosate has been found in some of these as well. Thanks to WakingTimes for providing this list of foods containing glyphosate:

• Original Cheerios
• Honey Nut Cheerios
• Wheaties
• Trix
• Annie’s Gluten Free Bunny Cookies Cocoa & Vanilla
• Kellog’s Corn Flakes
• Kellog’s Raisin Bran
• Kashi Organic Promise
• Kellog’s Special K
• Kellog’s Frosted Flakes
• Cheez-It Original
• Cheez-It Whole Grain
• Kashi Soft Bake Cookies, Oatmeal, Dark Chocolate
• Ritz Crackers
• Triscuit Crackers
• Oreo Original
• Oreo Double Stuf Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
• Oreo Double Stuf Golden Sandwich Cookies
• Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips (Frito-Lay)
• Lay’s: Kettle Cooked Original
• Doritos: Cool Ranch
• Fritos (Original) (100% Whole Grain)
• Goldfish crackers original (Pepperidge Farm)
• Goldfish crackers colors
• Goldfish crackers Whole Grain
• Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies
• Oatmeal Cookies Gluten Free
• 365 Organic Golden Round Crackers
• Back to Nature Crispy Cheddar Crackers

• Breakfast Cereals as Tested by the Environmental Working Group (2018)
  • Granola
    • Nature’s Path Organic Honey Almond granola
    • Back to Nature Classic Granola
    • Quaker Simply Granola Oats, Honey, Raisins & Almonds
    • Back to Nature Banana Walnut Granola Clusters
    • Nature Valley Granola Protein Oats ‘n Honey
    • KIND Vanilla, Blueberry Clusters with Flax Seeds
  • Instant Oats
    • Giant Instant Oatmeal, Original Flavor
    • Simple Truth Organic Instant Oatmeal, Original
    • Quaker Dinosaur Eggs, Brown Sugar, Instant Oatmeal
    • Great Value Original Instant Oatmeal
    • Umpqua Oats, Maple Pecan
    • Market Pantry Instant Oatmeal, Strawberries & Cream
  • Oat Breakfast Cereal
    • Kashi Heart to Heart Organic Honey Toasted cereal
    • Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal
    • Lucky Charms
    • Barbara’s Multigrain Spoonfuls, Original, Cereal
    • Kellogg’s Cracklin’ Oat Bran oat cereal
  • Snack Bar
    • Cascadian Farm Organic Harvest Berry, granola bar
    • KIND Oats & Honey with Toasted Coconut
    • Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars, Oats ‘n Honey
    • Quaker Chewy Chocolate Chip granola bar
    • Kellogg’s Nutrigrain Soft Baked Breakfast Bars, Strawberry
  • Whole Oats
    • 365 Organic Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats
    • Quaker Steel Cut Oats
    • Quaker Old Fashioned Oats
    • Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats
    • Nature’s Path Organic Old Fashioned Organic Oats
    • Whole Foods Bulk Bin conventional rolled oats
    • Bob’s Red Mill Organic Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (4 samples tested)
  • Orange Juice Brands as Tested by Moms Across America(2017)
    • Tropicana
    • Minute Maid
    • Stater Bros.
    • Signature Farms
    • Kirkland
  • Ben & Jerry’s Ice Creams
  • Staple Crops as Reported by Friends of the Earth Europe(2013)
    • Soybeans
    • Soybean fodder
    • Cotton seed
    • Maize grain
    • Sorghum
    • Barley straw and fodder Grass hay
    • Lentils
    • Sweetcorn
    • Sugar beet
  • Miscellaneous
    • Women’s Feminine Hygiene Products
    • Human Breast Milk as Reported by Mercola(2014)
    • Certain Vaccines
    • Cotton Clothing Products
    • Rainwater Samples(2014)
    • Human Urine samples
    • Groundwater Supplies

 Final Thoughts

The most effective way to avoid glyphosate in your diet is to eat a whole-food plant-based diet, which means limiting your intake of processed foods as much as possible. Look for the “Non-Gmo Verified Project” stamp to ensure your foods do are not genetically modified and thus should not contain glyphosate. The fact of the matter is, the more informed we are in regards to these chemicals, the more power we have over our own health. It’s up to us to take responsibility for our own lives, our bodies and what we are putting inside. Vote with your dollar and avoid GMO’s whenever possible.

Much Love

In our current society, there are a few drugs that are not only accepted as entirely normal, but they are also pushed on us everywhere we turn. Coffee and alcohol ringing a bell? Not only are they pushed, but they are expected and encouraged. We hear all the time how wine is good for the heart and how we can actually benefit from moderate amounts of alcohol, but is this really true? A new study shows how it may be time to rethink that drink.

First of all, what exactly does “moderate” drinking mean? It seems each country has a different definition. When I’ve written articles about this in the past people have condemned me for it because, in places like Italy and France for example, wine is often consumed as much as water. In the United States, moderate consumption of alcohol means one drink per day for women and two for men. In Sweden, this number is even lower.

It is important to know that the only way you can possibly reduce your risk of alcohol-related harm to zero is to reduce your consumption to zero. Of course, everybody is different and some could face the consequences of their decision to drink, and others who haven’t taken a sip of wine in their life could still die younger than those who consume alcohol regularly.

You Do Not Need Alcohol To Be Healthy

Regardless of this, because of the purported benefits of moderate consumption, many are all too quick to use this as an excuse or as a way to justify their potentially bad habits. Many drink much more than what is considered moderate, but because the risks and negative aspects of alcohol consumption aren’t regularly brought into the conversation, often as a society we are turning a blind eye to this. If we are drinking solely because we believe it is good for our hearts, then it’s important to know that in no way do we need alcohol to keep our hearts healthy. Garlic and ginger have the same blood-thinning effects as alcohol and if you’re looking for a dose of antioxidants, then grape or pomegranate juice have got you covered.

If you are honest with yourself, how much do you drink in a week? How much do you drink at a time? Alcohol can be addictive, and because it is so heavily encouraged it can be easy to avoid looking at our alcohol consumption, paying attention to how much we are consuming and asking why we feel the need to do it in the first place.

Moderate Drinking Correlates To Shorter Life Expectancy

A recent meta-analysis published by The Lancet correlated drinking patterns with life expectancy for over 500,000 people from 19 different countries, and it found that anything over 5 drinks a week is linked to a shorter life expectancy and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. So, even a glass of wine with dinner each night may be pushing it as this would technically be 7 drinks per week. How do your habits compare with this analysis? Obviously, those who consume more alcohol are at an even greater risk. Five drinks per week is nothing for so many people who do not recognize their drinking habits as a cause for concern.

I always think of the line from Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, when I think about our current society and our relationship to alcohol,

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

Being Conscious

Having an occasional glass of wine, a beer or cocktail every once in a while is not necessarily a bad thing, but the majority of those who choose to drink do so regularly. What is it about our lives that make us want to reach for that mind-altering beverage? Is it a form of escape from lives we are pretending to be content with? Is it a boost of confidence for those who find it difficult to be in social situations? Or is it just that everyone else is doing it?

I want to challenge anyone who is reading this to be mindful around your drinking habits and observe how are you feeling when you suddenly feel the urge to have a drink. Was it a stressful day at work? Is there a celebration to be had? There are many reasons why we drink, and I know that so many of us simply do it because everyone else is and we don’t want to be the oddball. I’m willing to bet that the more open and honest we are with ourselves around our drinking, the more we will see it as something that is offering us some form of sedation, rather than something that is uplifting us.

Much Love

“Children today are sicker than they were a generation ago. From childhood cancers to autism, birth defects and asthma, a wide range of childhood diseases and disorders are on the rise. Our assessment of the latest science leaves little room for doubt; pesticides are one key driver of this sobering trend.” — October 2012 report by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) (source)(source)

Perhaps the most important thing to mention when it comes to autism is that there is no biological marker for it. It can’t be identified, and those who receive an autism, or ASD diagnosis are simply diagnosed with it based on behaviour and social tendencies. It’s a large spectrum, with some being completely and clearly neurologically impaired, and others on the other end whom which you wouldn’t be able to tell have an ASD diagnosis and everything else in between. This is always important to acknowledge that, when it comes to autism, one person on one end of the spectrum could be damaged in a specific biological way, due to environmental factors discussed in this article, and another may not be damaged at all, in any way. In fact, some of them might even be more ‘enhanced,’ for lack of a better term.  Having received multiple labels myself as a child, I have come to learn that these labels are simply, for the most part, made up terms for big pharma to make trillions of dollars of off, it’s a big problem and one that has yet to be addressed adequately. Your child is not different, they are most likely damaged, something that may be hard for many to swallow, but we can’t keep ignoring all of the evidence that’s continually emerging by labelling those with autism as unique, which is ignoring the real cause of what’s really going on here, pure brain damage….

According to a senior researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Stephanie Seneff, at the rate, we’re going, “by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.” (source) She’s been outspoken about the consistent and strong correlation between the rising use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (with its active ingredient glyphosate) on crops and the rising rates of autism. Her research also reveals that the side effects of autism mimic glyphosate toxicity and deficiencies.

A few years ago, I wrote about a study coming out of the University of California, Davis, which determined that pregnant women who live in close proximity to land and farms where chemical pesticides are/were applied experienced a seventy-five percent risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder, or some other developmental disorder. You can read more about that and access the study here.

Now, a new study has been published that implicates DDT as a possible trigger for autism. Having been an avid autism researcher for more than a decade now, it’s clear to me that there are several environmental triggers that can and do lead to an autism diagnosis, and multiple pesticides, including ones we used in the past, like DDT, are clear culprits. Others include prescription drugs during fetal development, vaccines, wifi radiation and more.

DDT was a commonly used pesticide designed to combat malaria-transmitting mosquitoes, it was banned in 1972 because it was linked to multiple health ailments, and clearly very dangerous, very similar to the ones that are falling under intense scrutiny today. It was banned years decades after its use, and is still found in some soils today, as well as many waterways. It takes more than a dozen years to break down.

The results of the study were published in the  American Journal of Psychiatry, and the research was was drawn from mothers who were confirmed to have DDT in their body, just as many today do when it comes to other commonly sprayed chemicals, like glyphosate, which is highly detectable in most peoples urine across North America as well as Europe.

According to the lead author, Alan Brown,

DDT is still persisting in the environment and is detectable in almost everyone I would not say women should be conerned but itis important to be informed that at least this one chemical exposure is related to increased risk.”

“DDT is still persisting in the environment and is detectable in almost everyone,” lead author Dr. Alan Brown told IFLScience. “I would not say women should be concerned but it is important to be informed that at least this one chemical exposure is related to increased risk.”

It’s crazy because this chemical was sprayed on crops worldwide for decades, and seemed to have been replaced with chemicals that are just as harmful.

“What’s appalling is that we have known about these dangers for decades yet have done little about it. Nearly 20 years ago, scientists at the National Research Council called for swift action to protect young and growing bodies from pesticides. Yet today, U.S. children continue to be exposed to pesticides that are known to be harmful in places they live, learn and play.”

– Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) (source)

It’s becoming quite clear that what we call ‘autism’ is linked with environmental factors, and goes far beyond genetics, but our health authorities don’t want to admit that. Because if environmental factors are causing autism, and it’s not genetics, then we have a big problem on our hands, especially for multiple corporations basically control the government, and what science is deemed credible…

This is why we haven’t seen a ban on these pesticides despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense to use them.

A study published a few years ago in the journal PLOS Computational Biology from researchers at the University of Chicago revealed that autism and intellectual disability (ID) (autism has nothing to do with intellectual disability) rates are linked with exposure to harmful environmental factors during congenital development, critical stages of fetal development.

According to that study,

Autism appears to be strongly correlated with the rate of congentical malformations of the genitals in males acrossthe country. This gives an indicator of the environmental load and the effect is surprisingly strong…TRhe strongest predictors for autism were associated with the environment.

You can access that study and read more about that here.

There Are Multiple Factors

“The change in how agriculture is produced has brought, frankly, a change in the profile of diseases. We’ve gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects, and illnesses seldom seen before. . . . The tobacco companies denied the link between smoking and cancer, and took decades to recognize the truth. The biotech and agrochemical corporations are the same as the tobacco industry; they lie and favor business over the health of the population.” – Dr. Medardo Avila Vazquez, a pediatrician specializing in environmental health (source)(source)(source) (Related CE Article on the GMO/Cancer link in Argentina here

There are too many cancer-causing, autism causing, and brain damaging products to list that are all contributing to debilitating health effects that are on the rise exponentially. And yes, vaccines are one of many environmental factors that have contributed to this. To say vaccines aren’t implicated in autism is completely unscientific, yet the mainstream makes you feel stupid for even questioning them. Take aluminum for example, we now know that aluminum from vaccines does not exit the body, but ends up travelling to distant organs and eventually ends up in the brain. The brains of deceased autistic people were also recently opened and some of the highest brain aluminum content in history was found.  This is just one of many examples of how vaccines are connected to autism and other damage, which is why the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has paid more than $4 billion. But that’s another topic in itself. But it’s important to mention.

It’s quite clear that they’re not completley safe.

Let’s not forget about Dr. William Thompson……

Vaccines, like environmental pesticides, prescription drugs during fetal development, and more have all been implicated in ASD, and that is an undeniable scientific fact. You can check out the related articles below for more information.

Daughter of “Autism Speaks” Founder  Shares Shocking Information About Vaccines (disturbing revelations)

Another Groundbreaking Study Links Agricultural Pesticides To Autism

Monsanto, Pesticides, Vaccines, & Autism: If We Continue On This Route, “All Children Will Be Autistic By 2025.”

Scientists Link Autism To These Toxic Chemicals During Fetal Development

This Is What Happens To The Brain When Glyphosate & Aluminum Accumulate In It

Scientists Discover Huge Amounts of Aluminum In The Brains of Deceased Autistic People

Study Shows Where ‘Almost’ 100 Percent of Aluminum From Vaccines Could Go Inside A Baby’s Body

MIT Professor Explains The Vaccine-Autism Connection

The Top 6 Reasons Why Parents Should Never Be Forced To Vaccinate Their Children

“Peer Reviewed” Science Losing Credibility As Large Amounts of Research Shown To Be False

10 False Claims Made By The Pro-Vaccine Community