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Thank you Peter - I recall writing about Stephanie's first work on glyphosate several years ago. The chemical industry /Monsanto lost its mind, they were so angry.

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According to Stephanie Seneff, PhD, glyphosate enhances the toxic effects of other pesticides. In "Toxic Legacy" one can read why glyphosate is evil (her word). The "gly" in glyphosate replaces the "gly" in glycine, a major component in protein synthesis.

I love maps! I've loved them my entire life. They can be incredibly useful. Here's a very useful map to help you get an idea of how toxic your environment is. Not how clean, but how toxic. Even if you live in a relatively pristine area, you are breathing glyphosate in the form of ethanol exhaust from cars and air traffic.

https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?year=1992&map=GLYPHOSATE&hilo=H

Click through the years to see where the progression occurs.

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Natural Grocers undertakes its own glyphosate surveillance testing, even though most of the bulk food it sells is already certified organic and nonGOM Project certified. When a spike occurs we go back to the source to identify the problem. The problem of pesticide drift and soil contamination is pervasive, as these numbers show.

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In his latest book- Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It, Dr John Abramson discusses the fact that the US spends by far the highest percentage of GDP on healthcare (17%) yet the nation ranks 68th in overall health. The US also has some of the highest pesticide contamination in foods. At last count, nearly 50% of the population had comorbidities up from 6% in early 1980. Coincidence? No wonder that people were so easily frightened into taking the experimental jabs!

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Thank you for all the great work Carey

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This article starts out measuring glyphosate in ppm - as the EPA raIsed the limit from 5 ppm to 30 ppm. But the study is measuring in ppb. So if we look at the the highest glysophate

level as reported in the test , 1150 ppb , wouldn't this only be about 1 ppm? And wouldn't that be under the limit? I am not in favor of pesticides at any level but the dual measuring standard is confusing and misleading.

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Carey, another amazing story. Thanks for all your great work at bringing this complex issue into better focus.

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