Part 1 Samsel on Glyphosate and Autism, Asthma, COPD, Diabetes and more
Part 1 of the Effects of Glyphosate: Interview of Anthony Samsel by Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America
When Anthony Samsel of the Samsel and Seneff study on Glyphosate and Modern diseases http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416 agreed to allow me to interview him, something told me to get a hustle on and drive to his nearby home state as soon as possible. After hours on remote winding roads and towns so small that if you sneezed, you'd miss them, I was skeptical about the level of validity I would find. Would someone so brilliant live in the middle of nowhere?
When I arrived I saw the acres of beautiful flower, herb and vegetable gardens, large greenhouse and gorgeous music room with bass, cello and two grand pianos (and a third for the grandchildren). I saw the stack of the latest college text books on genetic engineering in his upstairs music recording studio, all of which he admitted to having read, and wall hangings of the elements, listened to him speak for a few moments...and I could tell I was in the presence of an extraordinarily valid and brilliant mind, maybe even a genius. I knew he had chosen this area specifically because it was remote. He mostly researches, cares for his wife who has health issues, plays music, writes and tends the garden all day. He told me he grows 10 months worth of his own potatoes and carrots ( I would later understand why...watch the video clip on my last blog and you will too), and cans and stores his own food in a root cellar. He is a man of veracious learning and love for living. He adores his wife and family and is passionate about contributing to the world.
What he has to say I not only believe because he has studied more studies on the subject than I could or would in a lifetime, (see his 43 page paper which is a mere section of his research results) but because I have met him and I could sense in my bones that this is a man who cares more about the future of our children and planet than himself. He is hacked daily and there has been a surveillance black box padlocked and chained to the pole out side his house. There are people who would like to stop him from sharing what he knows, but they will not succeed. He is committed to people knowing the truth and he has absolutely no reason to fabricate anything. He has no need for money or attention. He has everything he wants. He only wants health for his family and our planet. He is a man of facts and science.
What he has uncovered, and will continue to share, will impact the future of our entire nation and planet.
50% of our children will have Autism by 2025 at the rate we are currently going. Millions more will be sick with debilitating diseases and disorders. This is unbelievably outrageous. But it is not crazy. It makes absolute sense when you look at the past history and trend in connection with the levels of glyphosate in our food supply.We will be a nation crippled by convenient toxins with a generation of compromised adults if we do not listen, speak up and alter the course of our future. Our workforce, technology, economy and health care system could be compromised for the sake of greed.
Please watch and share this important interview with every Congress person, parent, nurse, doctor, health care provider, pre school director, food service director, or person who eats. It's up to us, we buy the food. Thank you.
His last words on this clip..."We are creating this..."
By feeding our children 31.5 million GMO school meals a DAY, even more hospital and senior center meals, by eating the 160 foods that are contaminated with glyphosate, click here for the list , by eating the 80% of our fast, cheap, easy and tasty food that is GMO and therefore heavily doused in glyphosate, and contaminated at levels thousands of times higher than what has been shown to cause breast cancer....we are creating this. Chips, soda,french fries, corn tortillas, candy, snacks, cookies, breakfast cereal...anything with corn, soy, sugar, wheat, high fructose corn syrup and hundreds more ingredients, are 80-90% likely to be contaminated with glyphosate and contributing to this disaster of a health crisis we are experiencing in America. To add insult to injury, the EPA just raised the allowable levels of glyphosate despite thousands of comments against this pandering to big chemical companies. They raised the levels of pesticides and herbicides in our food crops simply because big chemical companies ask them to. And we accept this...not on purpose...but when we don't speak up...when we don't demand otherwise and cause change...we allow this to...we are creating this too...
Is this really what we want to be creating?
Please take action today to create something else...to create health and freedom in America..to be informed, to have choice and to be healthy. Please host an event in your home town by adding it the the Moms Across America map today...a GMO Free Tea, or Potluck or GMO free Movie night... and share this information, share about GMOs ( which are doused in glyphosate) and the 160 non organic food crops. Because this is UNACCEPTABLE. Moms and supporters will not stand for this. We will stop this. But first we need everyone to know. We need numbers all across the country to rise up and share this with everyone they know. We need to be the ones to protect the future of America.
Please do whatever you can to create a new future. One that we Americans can be proud of and live to enjoy.
Thank you.
Zen Honeycutt
P.S. Part 2 of the Samsel interview here.
Samsel on Widespread Glyphosate Contamination
If there was ever a time when I wanted to stick my fingers in my ears and go "LA la la la la la la...I can't hear yooooou!!!!"
It was when scientist Anthony Samsel said: "There are some 160 of our foods contaminated with glyphosate."(Listed below) Samsel is a chemist, retired Arthur D. Little Inventor and co author of the paper : "Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases." The Samsel-Seneff paper can be found at the journal-Entropy, ISSN 1099-4300 www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy
Glyphosate is the active chemical ingredient in Roundup, a registered trademark of Monsanto, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Hundreds of millions of pounds of this chemical are used each year. It is used on parks, school yards and city landscaping. It is sprayed on the soil prior to planting crops that are raised in a no-till non-organicproduction system. It is also used as a desiccant and applied preharvest on a wide number of crops destined for the food chain. Glyphosate based herbicides are sprayed directly GMO plants. GMO plants are genetically engineered to with stand glyphosate herbicide. The animals and the people that eat these crops that have absorbed glyphosate either through the soil or from being repeatedly sprayed with glyphosate are subjected to numerous health concerns.
Glyphosate is designed to kill all plants that it touches except those that are genetically designed to withstand it. It does this by chelating or "tying up " vital nutrients in the plant. It ties up; calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron, copper,nickel, cobalt, boron, molybdenum, selenium and potassium and makes them unavailable. Glyphosate also kills good microorganisms in the soil (that would normally protect the plant from disease) and causes a rapid growth of bad organisms that cause disease that kills the weeds. The weed dies because it essentially has a weakened defense system. As one scientist said "It basically gives the plant AIDS, weakens it's immune system".
We are now learning that glyphosate can do the same thing to us. By eating food that contains glyphosate residue we have glyphosate in our bodies. Glyphosate attacks the beneficial microorganisms in our digestive tract and triggers a host of varying health issues for us and our children.
Thankfully we now have the Samsel and Seneff scientific paper “Glyphosate and Modern Diseases” this 43 page peer reviewed scientific paper shows that glyphosate has "insidious" effects on the American population. Especially our children. .
Here is Anothny Samsel in his own words in an interview with Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America:
EPA limits for glyphosate residues as published in the Federal Register.
§ 180.364 Glyphosate tolerances for residues.
(a) General. (1) Tolerances are established for residues of glyphosate, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below resulting from the application of glyphosate, the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate, the ethanolamine salt of glyphosate, the dimethylamine salt of glyphosate, the ammonium salt of glyphosate, and the potassium salt of glyphosate. Compliance with the following tolerance levels is to be determined by measuring only glyphosate ( N- (phosphonomethyl)glycine).
Commodity |
Parts per million |
Acerola |
0.2 |
Alfalfa, seed |
0.5 |
Almond, hulls |
25 |
Aloe vera |
0.5 |
Ambarella |
0.2 |
Animal feed, nongrass, group 18 |
400 |
Artichoke, globe |
0.2 |
Asparagus |
0.5 |
Atemoya |
0.2 |
Avocado |
0.2 |
Bamboo, shoots |
0.2 |
Banana |
0.2 |
Barley, bran |
30 |
Beet, sugar, dried pulp |
25 |
Beet, sugar, roots |
10 |
Beet, sugar, tops |
10 |
Berry and small fruit, group 13-07 |
0.20 |
Betelnut |
1.0 |
Biriba |
0.2 |
Blimbe |
0.2 |
Breadfruit |
0.2 |
Cacao bean, bean |
0.2 |
Cactus, fruit |
0.5 |
Cactus, pads |
0.5 |
Canistel |
0.2 |
Canola, seed |
20 |
Carrot |
5.0 |
Chaya |
1.0 |
Cherimoya |
0.2 |
Citrus, dried pulp |
1.5 |
Coconut |
0.1 |
Coffee, bean, green |
1.0 |
Corn, pop, grain |
0.1 |
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husk removed |
3.5 |
Cotton, gin byproducts |
210 |
Custard apple |
0.2 |
Date, dried fruit |
0.2 |
Dokudami |
2.0 |
Durian |
0.2 |
Epazote |
1.3 |
Feijoa |
0.2 |
Fig |
0.2 |
Fish |
0.25 |
Fruit, citrus, group 10-10 |
0.50 |
Fruit, pome, group 11-10 |
0.20 |
Fruit, stone, group 12 |
0.2 |
Galangal, roots |
0.2 |
Ginger, white, flower |
0.2 |
Gourd, buffalo, seed |
0.1 |
Governor's plum |
0.2 |
Gow kee, leaves |
0.2 |
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except field corn, forage and field corn, stover |
100 |
Grain, cereal, group 15 except field corn, popcorn, rice, sweet corn, and wild rice |
30 |
Grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 17 |
300 |
Guava |
0.2 |
Herbs subgroup 19A |
0.2 |
Hop, dried cones |
7.0 |
Ilama |
0.2 |
Imbe |
0.2 |
Imbu |
0.2 |
Jaboticaba |
0.2 |
Jackfruit |
0.2 |
Kava, roots |
0.2 |
Kenaf, forage |
200 |
Leucaena, forage |
200 |
Longan |
0.2 |
Lychee |
0.2 |
Mamey apple |
0.2 |
Mango |
0.2 |
Mangosteen |
0.2 |
Marmaladebox |
0.2 |
Mioga, flower |
0.2 |
Noni |
0.20 |
Nut, pine |
1.0 |
Nut, tree, group 14 |
1.0 |
Oilseeds, group 20, except canola |
40 |
Okra |
0.5 |
Olive |
0.2 |
Oregano, Mexican, leaves |
2.0 |
Palm heart |
0.2 |
Palm heart, leaves |
0.2 |
Palm, oil |
0.1 |
Papaya |
0.2 |
Papaya, mountain |
0.2 |
Passionfruit |
0.2 |
Pawpaw |
0.2 |
Pea, dry |
8.0 |
Peanut |
0.1 |
Peanut, hay |
0.5 |
Pepper leaf, fresh leaves |
0.2 |
Peppermint, tops |
200 |
Perilla, tops |
1.8 |
Persimmon |
0.2 |
Pineapple |
0.1 |
Pistachio |
1.0 |
Pomegranate |
0.2 |
Pulasan |
0.2 |
Quinoa, grain |
5.0 |
Rambutan |
0.2 |
Rice, grain |
0.1 |
Rice, wild, grain |
0.1 |
Rose apple |
0.2 |
Sapodilla |
0.2 |
Sapote, black |
0.2 |
Sapote, mamey |
0.2 |
Sapote, white |
0.2 |
Shellfish |
3.0 |
Soursop |
0.2 |
Spanish lime |
0.2 |
Spearmint, tops |
200 |
Spice subgroup 19B |
7.0 |
Star apple |
0.2 |
Starfruit |
0.2 |
Stevia, dried leaves |
1.0 |
Sugar apple |
0.2 |
Sugarcane, cane |
2.0 |
Sugarcane, molasses |
30 |
Surinam cherry |
0.2 |
Sweet potato |
3.0 |
Tamarind |
0.2 |
Tea, dried |
1.0 |
Tea, instant |
7.0 |
Teff, forage |
100 |
Teff, grain |
5.0 |
Teff, hay |
100 |
Ti, leaves |
0.2 |
Ti, roots |
0.2 |
Ugli fruit |
0.5 |
Vegetable, bulb, group 3-07 |
0.20 |
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 |
0.5 |
Vegetable, foliage of legume, subgroup 7A, except soybean |
0.2 |
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10 (except okra) |
0.10 |
Vegetable, leafy, brassica, group 5 |
0.2 |
Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4 |
0.2 |
Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2, except sugar beet tops |
0.2 |
Vegetable, legume, group 6 except soybean and dry pea |
5.0 |
Vegetables, root and tuber, group 1, except carrot, sweet potato, and sugar beet |
0.20 |
Wasabi, roots |
0.2 |
Water spinach, tops |
0.2 |
Watercress, upland |
0.2 |
Wax jambu |
0.2 |
Yacon, tuber |
0.2 |
(2) Tolerances are established for residues of glyphosate, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below resulting from the application of glyphosate, the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate, the ethanolamine salt of glyphosate, the dimethylamine salt of glyphosate, the ammonium salt of glyphosate, and the potassium salt of glyphosate. Compliance with the following tolerance levels is to be determined by measuring only glyphosate ( N- (phosphonomethyl)glycine) and its metabolite N- acetyl-glyphosate ( N- acetyl- N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine; calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of glyphosate).
Commodity |
Parts per Million |
Cattle, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Corn, field, forage |
13 |
Corn, field, grain |
5.0 |
Corn, field, stover |
100 |
Egg |
0.05 |
Goat, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Grain aspirated fractions |
310.0 |
Hog, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Horse, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Poultry, meat |
0.10 |
Poultry, meat byproducts |
1.0 |
Sheep, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Soybean, forage |
100.0 |
Soybean, hay |
200.0 |
Soybean, hulls |
120.0 |
Soybean, seed |
20.0 |
(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]
(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]
(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]
[45 FR 64911, Oct. 1, 1980]
Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting § 180.364, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.fdsys.gov .
What can we do?
Eat organic. Budget. Cook from scratch. Cook in bulk and freeze. Bring your own food to parties and gatherings. Tell your Congress people about this. Grow your own. Share the food you grow with your neighbors and build community.
It's time to reconnect to our food. The future of the human race depends on the actions we take today.
Zen Honeycutt
* Study that show sthat Glyphosate causes breast cancer in the parts per trillion: Dr. Thongprakaisang: Glyphosate Induces Growth in Human Breast Cancer Cells; http://gmoevidence.com/dr-thongprakaisang-glyphosate-induces-growth-in-human-breast-cancer-cells/