A new report found glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer, in a number of popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children. The study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas and snack bars. Thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children.
Recently, some scientists, doctors and activists around the world have worked to keep glyphosate out of crops due to concerns that it is a dangerous carcinogen.
"We're very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know," said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at EWG. He has been working to improve food safety standards for more than a decade. He said he and his team at EWG had a lab test involving "45 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats" and found glyphosate – the active ingredient in the Monsanto weed-killer Roundup – in all but two.
"I was shocked," said Dr. Jennifer Lowry, who heads the Council on Environmental Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"We don't know a lot about the effects of glyphosate on children," Lowry said. "And essentially we're just throwing it at them."
if you let your children to eat cereals, or other garbage food, you and your children deserve blessings of lord Beetus
Lucas Walker
t. Monsanto or just wanted an excuse to post a brainlet wojak
yeah idg the appeal of cold wet cardboard that has to be eaten slowly with a spoon either, especially for breakfast
Nicholas Allen
They bought 45 different cereals and 31 had unsafe levels of poison in them. That means 70% of millions of boxes of cereal have unsafe levels of poison in them. In other words, 700,000 out of 1 000, 000 bowls eaten every day are contaminated.
Angel James
Maybe this is just a plan to make roundup flavored tide pods more appealing
Christopher Cruz
Do we not fucking PAY people to make sure shit like this doesn’t happen? If those fuckers aren’t doin their job, then where does that leave us and what should we do about it? Doing nothing just invites more abuse. Should we say fuck it and just take matters into our own hands if our fucking govt won’t do anything?
Carter Morgan
Faggot are you new here? If you eat the boxed jew prepare for illness.
