GLYPHOSATE = ROUNDUP!

Effects of Roundup on mammalian fertility

1. Hartmut Meyer, German Working Group on Biodiversity
2. Forum for Environment and Development

For more than ten years it has been known that low concentrations of pesticides in the environment and food can have negative effects on male fertility (ELIASON 1985).

The complex regulation of male fertility is known to be very susceptible to externals factors. The alteration of fertility parameters by e.g. pesticides are often the first signs of other adverse effects on human and animal health.

In addition, recent scientific reports have stressed that numerous chemicals acting as endocrinal substances are potential threats to children’s development (HERMAN-GIDDENS et al. 1997).

Recently, scientists from Egypt and Norway demonstrated that glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto’s widely used herbicide Roundup, exhibits negative effects on the fertility of male white rabbits (YOUSEF et al. 1995).

The animals were treated with glyphosate in sublethal doses of 1/10 and 1/100 of the LD50 dose (380 and 38 mg kg-1 body weight, SMITH & OEHME 1992). After a six-week experimental period the animals were allowed to recover from the treatment for a further six weeks. Seven fertility parameters were measured weekly during the whole experiment. As an overall parameter of the physical status of the animals, the body weight was measured.

In contrast to former findings with dogs and rats, glyphosate fed at sublethal levels significantly lowered the body weight of the treated rabbits. All seven observed parameters of semen quality were influenced negatively by glyphosate. Four of these parameters did not return to the levels of the control group during the six-week recovery period:

• semen volume
• sperm concentration
• percentage of abnormal sperms
• methyl blue reduction time (activity of spermatozoa).

Yet, the EPA has raised the allowable limit of glyphosate. Go figure ….

Source: http://twnside.org.sg/title/effec-cn.htm

***Who is the one who sprays those pesty weeds that won’t go away? And what product he use?

And who manufactures that glyphosate = Roundup? MONSANTO …

I would say that males should be aware of this. They are exposing themselves to this poison while completing their “honey-do list.

Not a nice way of curbing the world’s over-population problem!!

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