Interesting article. Makes me glad we buy organic bread and flour.
Ultraculture | Enlightening Stuff for an Evolving Planet
Ultraculture | Enlightening Stuff for an Evolving Planet
Thank you for catching that.That article makes no sense to real scientists, neither of the authors is a biologist, and they did no research. Apparently they're both anti-GM activists, though.
Glyphosate | Response of the Glyphosate Task Force to the study published in the journal Entropy
Tamar Haspel: Condemning Monsanto With Bad Science Is Dumb
Bogus paper on Roundup saturates the Internet - New York Food | Examiner.com
Thank you for catching that.
Too bad they didn't understand, as someone at Huffington Post put it, "Condemning Monsanto With Bad Science Is Dumb".
However, and I don't claim any kind of evidence or proof, I don't think it can be good to be getting all that Round Up (weed killer) in our food.
Glyphosate-based herbicides all work on the same biochemical principle -- they inhibit a specific enzyme that plants need in order to grow. The specific enzyme is called EPSP synthase. Without that enzyme, plants are unable to produce other proteins essential to growth, so they yellow and die over the course of several days or weeks. A majority of plants use this same enzyme, so almost all plants succumb to Roundup.
If you have read the HowStuffWorks article How Cells Work, you know a good bit about DNA and how it produces enzymes. In the same way that many antibiotics gum up enzyme production to kill bacteria, glyphosate gums up enzymes in plants to kill them. Glyphosate kills plants like antibiotics kill bacteria.
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Given the amount of glyphosate sprayed on the planet every day, it is probably safe to say that glyphosate is not violently toxic to people or animals. People do not have the same enzymes in their cells that plants do, just like human cells and bacteria differ enough that antibiotics kill bacteria cells but not human cells.