LOL... you have a point there. More like one of those aggressive flesh eating bacteria.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Keith Addison <ke...@journeytoforever.org>wrote: > Hi Zeke > > > Great... so the same chemicals that are killing the bees and the monarch >> butterflies (and probably frogs and who knows what else) are also killing >> us. And someone said that humans are intelligent life.... >> > > You think Monsanto is a human? > > Bests > > Keith > > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Darryl McMahon <dar...@econogics.com> >> wrote: >> >> http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23267-autism-nation- >>> americas-chemical-brain-drain >>> >>> [image and multiple links in on-line article] >>> >>> Autism Nation: America's Chemical Brain Drain >>> >>> Thursday, 24 April 2014 09:04 \ >>> By Dr Brian Moench, Truthout | News Analysis >>> >>> While autism rates in Europe have remained virtually flat for the last >>> decade, in the US, they have risen from 1:10,000 in 1981 to 1:68 in >>> 2014. >>> Many studies point to the prevalence of toxins in our environment as the >>> culprit. >>> >>> As flowers burst on the scene, blossoms unfold, and lawns awaken from >>> winter's sleep, nature's spring rituals are joyful to watch. >>> >> > >> >>> Unfortunately, many home owners, gardeners, landscapers, farmers and >>> state >>> agencies launch an anti-nature spring ritual - mounting an arsenal of >>> poisons to kill insects and weeds. This ritual comes at a tremendous >>> cost. >>> >>> Last month, leading scientists warned of a "silent pandemic," citing >>> strong evidence that "children worldwide are being exposed to >>> unrecognized >>> toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting >>> behaviors, truncating future achievements and damaging societies." These >>> "brain" toxins - heavy metals, fluoride, chemicals like PCBs, toluene, >>> solvents, flame retardants, BPA, phalates and pesticides - are found in >>> the >>> furniture you sit on, the clothing you wear, the air you breathe, the >>> food >>> you eat and soil your kids play in. >>> >>> And this short list of chemicals and compounds is just the tip of a very >>> large toxic iceberg. >>> >>> "It's time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible >>> for >>> the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California," said Irva >>> Hertz-Picciotto, an epidemiology professor at University of California, >>> Davis. >>> >>> In 1981, the autism (ASD) rate in the United States was 1:10,000. In >>> 2007, >>> it was 1:150. In 2009, it was 1:100. In 2012, it was 1:88. In 2014, it >>> is >>> 1:68. At this rate of increase, by 2025 it will be 1:2, or 50 percent. >>> For >>> those of you tempted to think this is just greater awareness and >>> expansion >>> of the criteria for diagnosis, the CDC says that since the 2012 >>> estimate of >>> 1 in 88 children identified with ASD, the criteria used to diagnose, >>> treat, >>> and provide services have not changed, but the rate has increased >>> another >>> 30 percent. >>> >>> Meanwhile, autism rates in Europe have remained virtually flat for the >>> last decade. Recent estimates in European countries range from 1 in >>> 5,000 >>> in Germany to 1 in 700 in Portugal. So what are Americans doing to harm >>> themselves and their children's brains that Europeans aren't, besides >>> watching Fox News? >>> >>> No one knows for sure, but one thing to consider is the massive increase >>> in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the concomitant upsurge in >>> pesticide and herbicide use. >>> >>> David Vogel, professor at the Haas School of Business and in the >>> Department of Political Science at the University of California, >>> Berkeley, >>> points out that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and >>> environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, >>> comprehensive, >>> and innovative than those adopted in Europe. Vogel's book, The Politics >>> of >>> Precaution, explains that since around 1990, global regulatory >>> leadership >>> has shifted to Europe. >>> >>> With many types of environmental risks, extreme conservative ideologues >>> in >>> the US have brought regulatory protection of public health to a >>> screeching >>> halt. America's failure to deal with the climate crisis is probably the >>> most conspicuous casualty. But what is happening to the brains of our >>> >> > children may be just as important. >> >>> >>> In more than 60 countries around the world, including Australia, Japan, >>> and all of the countries in the European Union, there are significant >>> restrictions or outright bans on the production and sale of GMOs. In the >>> US, federal agencies have approved the GMO/pesticide industrial >>> agriculture >>> system based on studies conducted by the same corporations that created >>> them and profit from their sale. >>> >>> The best-selling herbicide in the world is glyphosate, originally >>> patented >>> and sold by Monsanto as Roundup. Glyphosate is a potent endocrine >>> disruptor, meaning it can interfere with the production, release, >>> transport, metabolism, or elimination of the body's natural hormones, >>> which >>> are the most potent biologic substances known to science. Fetuses and >>> infants are particularly at risk, as any disruption of endocrine systems >>> can affect brain development. Last week a study was done that proved yet >>> again Monsanto has been lying to the public. Monsanto has defiantly >>> proclaimed all along that Roundup breaks down quickly and doesn't >>> accumulate in the human body. Not so. Moms Across Americas examined the >>> >> > breast milk of ten American women and found alarmingly high levels of >> the >> >>> primary active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, in three of the ten >>> women. The study also examined urine from 35 people across the country >>> and >>> found glyphosate at levels ten times higher than a similar survey done >>> in a >>> European population. Monsanto and regulatory bodies worldwide have based >>> all of their regulations on the assumption that glyphosate is not >>> bio-accumulative. Senior Monsanto scientist Dan Goldstein even recently >>> stated, "If ingested, glyphosate is excreted rapidly, does not >>> accumulate >>> in body fat or tissues, and does not undergo metabolism in humans. >>> Rather, >>> it is excreted unchanged in the urine." >>> >>> Recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine >>> compared >>> brain autopsies of autistic children, who had died from unrelated >>> causes, >>> to those of normal children. Autistic brains demonstrated abnormal >>> patches >>> of disorganized neurons disrupting the usual distinct layers in the >>> brain's >>> cortex. The primary implication of the research is the abnormalities >>> almost >>> certainly had to have occurred in utero during key developmental windows >>> between 19 to 30 weeks gestation. Perhaps even more important than the >>> dose >>> of a toxin is the timing of the exposure, and presence or absence of >>> other >>> facilitators or synergistic toxins. Other research suggests an even >>> longer >>> list of toxic substances can irreversibly interfere with the delicate >>> process of organizing fetal brain architecture. It is a popular >>> misconception, fed in part by weak government regulations, that toxins >>> produce an all or nothing effect. Levels above "safe" doses are >>> acknowledged to be harmful, but below "safe" levels are misinterpreted >>> as >>> harmless. But that's not how the body works, especially the developing >>> brain. >>> >>> Brain-damaging chemicals can provoke the entire spectrum of outcomes, >>> from >>> imperceptible changes to severe neurologic handicaps. Furthermore, the >>> absence of cognitive or behavioral problems in childhood is not >>> necessarily >>> evidence that an early exposure to a neurotoxin had no adverse effect on >>> brain development. In fact, studies in both animals and humans have >>> demonstrated that some substances cause damage to the brain that is >>> manifested only in the delayed onset of learning problems, attention >>> deficits, and changes in emotional regulation, which can have long-term >>> consequences in teenage and adult years. >>> >>> The immature brain of an embryo, fetus, or infant is at risk for >>> significant and permanent damage from exposure to chemicals, like >>> pesticides, at levels that may have no detectable impact on adults. >>> Consequently public policies that too often focus on adults fail to >>> protect >>> developing brains during pregnancy and early infancy. >>> >>> Most pesticides work by causing chemical disruption of the brain and >>> nervous system of insects. In fact, many pesticides are merely >>> derivations >>> >> > of chemical warfare agents of the World War I and World War II era, >> i.e. >> >>> nerve gases. It should be no surprise, then, that human nerve cells >>> could >>> also be affected, especially when considering that at the critical >>> embryonic stage, the human fetal brain is no larger than that of many >>> insects. Research confirms that mothers more exposed to commonly used, >>> "safe" pesticides bear children with lower intelligence (1,2,3,4,5), >>> structural brain abnormalities (6), behavioral disorders, compromised >>> motor >>> skills (7,8), higher rates of brain cancer (9), and smaller head size >>> (10). >>> >>> In December 2013, the European Food Safety Authority ruled that the >>> controversial pesticides linked to declines in bee populations, the >>> neonicotinamides, may adversely affect the development of neurons and >>> brain >>> structures in unborn babies. >>> >>> Adult neurologic diseases like Parkinson's and an acceleration of >>> cognitive decline are more common in adults with even modest exposure to >>> "legal" pesticides (11, 12). Adults with high levels of DDT metabolites >>> are >>> four times more like to have Alzheimer's (13). >>> >>> In May 2007, 200 of the world's foremost pediatricians, toxicologists, >>> >> > epidemiologists and environmental scientists at a worldwide conference >> >>> issued this warning, "Given the ubiquitous exposure to many >>> environmental >>> toxicants, there needs to be renewed efforts to prevent harm. Such >>> prevention should not await detailed evidence on individual hazards. ... >>> Toxic exposures to chemical pollutants during these windows of increased >>> susceptibility can cause disease and disability in childhood and across >>> the >>> entire span of human life." >>> >>> The scientists explained that exposure to common chemicals skewed the >>> development of critical organs in fetuses and newborns, increasing their >>> chances of developing diabetes, cancer, attention deficit disorders, >>> thyroid damage, diminished fertility, and other conditions in later >>> life. >>> >>> In October 2013, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists >>> and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, representing well >>> over >>> 50,000 physicians and other health-care professionals, issued a joint >>> statement: "Patient exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and other >>> stressors is ubiquitous, and preconception and prenatal exposure to >>> toxic >>> environmental agents can have a profound and lasting effect on >>> reproductive >>> health across the life course." On their website they stated further >>> that, >>> "Reproductive and health problems associated with exposure to toxic >>> environmental agents: Miscarriage and stillbirth, Impaired fetal growth >>> and >>> low birth weight, Preterm birth, Childhood cancers, Birth defects, >>> Cognitive/intellectual impairment, Thyroid problems." >>> >>> The Standing Committee of European Doctors - which brings together the >>> continent's top physicians' bodies, including the British Medical >>> Association, stated, "Chemical pollution represents a serious threat to >>> children, and to Man's survival." >>> >>> In June 2009, the Endocrine Society, comprised of 14,000 hormone >>> researchers and medical specialists in more than 100 countries, warned >>> that >>> "even infinitesimally low levels of exposure [to endocrine-disrupting >>> chemicals] - indeed, any level of exposure at all - may cause endocrine >>> or >>> reproductive abnormalities, particularly if exposure occurs during a >>> critical developmental window. Surprisingly, low doses may even exert >>> more >>> potent effects than higher doses." And in November 2009, the American >>> Medical Association Board of Delegates approved a resolution that >>> called on >>> the federal government to minimize the public's exposure to BPA and >>> other >>> endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The measure was advanced by the >>> Endocrine >>> Society, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American >>> College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. >>> >>> Americans are exposed to over 83,000 industrial chemicals as part of >>> modern civilization. Virtually all pregnant women are walking chemical >>> repositories. Tracking 163 chemicals, 99 percent of pregnant women >>> tested >>> >> > positive for at least 43 different chemicals (14). >> >>> >>> Other studies show that the average newborn enters the world on day one >>> "pre-polluted," harboring hundreds of chemicals and heavy metals >>> acquired >>> during intrauterine life, and many of those undoubtedly reach the brain >>> during critical windows of embryonic development. None of those >>> chemicals >>> enhance the natural process of brain maturation; many of them are known >>> to >>> be toxic to neurons and brain tissue. >>> >>> With alarming, and still rising, rates of autism and behavioral >>> disorders >>> in the US, public health officials and politicians should be running >>> around >>> with their hair on fire determined to find out exactly what is happening >>> and why, and most importantly how to stop it. But the current American >>> aversion to holding powerful industries accountable for anything makes >>> it >>> virtually certain that regulatory agencies will continue to turn a blind >>> eye to most, if not all, of the likely environmental triggers of autism. >>> The tragic decline in America's collective intellectual prowess, and the >>> chemical assault on our children's brains, are spiraling toward >>> catastrophe. >>> >>> >>> >>> Notes: >>> >>> 1. Rauh V, Arunajadai S, Horton M, Perera F, Hoepner L, Barr DB, et al. >>> >> > 2011. Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to >> >>> Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide. Environ Health Perspect >>> 119:1196-1201. >>> >>> 2. Bouchard M, Chevrier J, Harley K, Kogut K, Vedar M, Calderon N, >>> Trujillo C, Johnson C, Bradman A, Barr D, Eskenazi B. Prenatal Exposure >>> to >>> Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year Old Children. Environmental >>> Health Perspectives, 2011; DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003185 >>> >>> 3. Engel S, et al. Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates, Paraoxonase 1, >>> and Cognitive Development in Childhood. Environmental Health >>> Perspectives, >>> 2011; DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003183 >>> >>> 4. Horton M, et al. Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Piperonyl Butoxide >>> and >>> Permethrin on 36-Month Neurodevelopment. Pediatrics 2011; 127:3 >>> e699-e706; >>> doi:10.1542/peds.2010-0133 >>> >>> 5. Horton M, Kahn L, Perera F, Barr D, Rauh V. Does the home environment >>> and the sex of the child modify the adverse effects of prenatal >>> exposure to >>> chlorpyrifos on child working memory? Neurotoxicology and Teratology, >>> 2012; >>> DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2012.07.004 >>> >>> 6. Rauh V, et al. Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a >>> common organophosphate pesticide. PNAS 2012 109 (20) 7871-7876; >>> published >>> ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203396109 >>> >>> 7. Oulhote Y, Bouchard M, Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate and >>> Pyrethroid Pesticides and Behavioral Problems in Canadian Children >>> Environ >>> Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1306667 >>> >>> 8. Ostrea EM, et al. 2011. Fetal exposure to propoxur and abnormal child >>> neurodevelopment at two years of age. Neurotoxicology. >>> >>> 9. Greenop K, Peters S, Bailey H, et al. Exposure to pesticides and the >>> risk of childhood brain tumors. Cancer Causes & Control. April 2013 >>> >>> 10. Kimura-Kuroda J, Komuta Y, Kuroda Y, Hayashi M, Kawano H (2012) >>> Nicotine-Like Effects of the Neonicotinoid Insecticides Acetamiprid and >>> Imidacloprid on Cerebellar Neurons from Neonatal Rats. PLoS ONE 7(2): >>> e32432. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.003243 >>> >>> 11. Pezzoli G, Cereda E. "Exposure to pesticides or solvents and risk of >>> Parkinson disease" Neurology 2013; 80: 2035-2041. >>> >>> 12. Ross S, McManus IC, Harrison V, Mason O. Neurobehavioral problems >>> following low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides: a systematic >>> and meta-analytic review. Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Ahead of >>> Print : >>> Pages 1-24 (doi: 10.3109/10408444.2012.738645) >>> >>> 13. Jason R. Richardson, PhD1,2; Ananya Roy, ScD2; Stuart L. Shalat, >>> ScD1,2; Richard T. von Stein, PhD2; Muhammad M. Hossain, PhD1,2; Brian >>> Buckley, PhD2; Marla Gearing, PhD4; Allan I. Levey, MD, PhD3; Dwight C. >>> German, PhD5 Elevated Serum Pesticide Levels and Risk for Alzheimer >>> Disease >>> JAMA Neurol. Published online January 27, 2014. >>> doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2013. >>> 6030 >>> >>> 14. Tracey J. Woodruff, Ami R. Zota, Jackie M. Schwartz. Environmental >>> >> > Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the US: NHANES 2003-2004. Environmental >> > Health Perspectives, 2011; DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002727 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list > Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org > http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > _______________________________________________ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
