I wrote the article below for one of my recent columns in Longevity Magazine.
The only Glyphosate free bread in this country are the organic loaves baked by Fritz Schoon in Stellenbosch. (Every loaf tested in the supermarkets contains Glyphosate). Not only is he using James Moffett’s organic heirloom wheat he is stone grinding it in his bakery and immediately turning it into bread. This results in the full benefits of whole grain. No oxidising, no removal of the bran…in short wheat that has not been castrated.
Genuine grass fed beef (not the kind that is finished on grain/urea/chicken manure/molasses) is also free of Glyphosate.
Angus
12 November 2015
Glyphosate – the carcinogen you are ingesting daily.
One consistent theme of this column is the fact that human beings are committing species wide suicide. South Africans’ daily consumption of Glyphosate is the first of many examples to back up this view.
Glyphosate is found in every loaf of bread sold in every shop in this country. It is in all processed foods, tinned foods and ready made meals as these all contain maize and soya and their derivatives (I used to work with derivatives at Goldman Sachs and this is not the type I am referring to). Finally it is in all chicken, pork, beef and lamb. (The exceptions being genuine grass fed beef and lamb off the Karoo veld, which is much rarer than you think.)
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the world’s most widely used agricultural chemical. Before explaining what it does to humans, apart from being a carcinogen (cancer causing) let me first explain how it gets into your food and into human breastmilk and into our drinking water.
Glyphosate is sprayed onto all the grain crops that you eat or onto the food the animals that you eat eat. Glyphosate bioaccumulates. Cooking does not kill Glyphosate.
I will elaborate on each of the problems I am about to mention below. The problems that Glyphosate causes in humans is first, it chelates micro nutrients, second, it damages your gut bacteria as it destroys their Shikimate pathway and third, it damages the critical cytochrome enzymes.
Before delving a little deeper lets understand that GMO is the Trojan Horse by which the big global seed companies (the top 3 control 50% of the market) are attempting to gain control of the world’s food system. Through Glyphosate resistant seed and Terminator genes they make it very difficult for farmers to resist them. The entire agricultural academic world is funded by these companies and so all students are taught that this toxic form of agriculture is normal and necessary.
99% of the soya and 84% of the maize grown in South Africa is GMO (genetically modified organism). This means that these plants have been bred to withstand the weedkiller (herbicide) whose active ingredient is Glyphosate and which kills all plants that are not GMO. On the face of it, it appears to be a panacea for the farmer who does not have to use any other chemicals to kill those opportunistic weeds or till his land to remove the weeds. His joy however is short lived as not only are there now 32 species of weeds that are resistant to Glyphosate, the farmer has to add micro nutrients to his soil as Glyphosate has chelated them.
Chelation is the process whereby, in this case, micro nutrients are bound to a substance, in this case Glyphosate, and made unavailable. My first experience of this power of Glyphosate was in 2010 when I started helping Spier Wine Farm convert to organic agriculture. I had the soils tested and there was very little Zinc, Managanese, Iron and Copper. Glyphosate was patented in 1964 as a chelator of micro nutrients. Spier used to, like almost every wine farm still does, spray Glyphosate in their vineyards for weed control.
The proponents of GMO say that it is safe for humans because it breaks the Shikimate pathway and humans don’t have it. However our gut bacteria do have the Shikimate pathway and one of the megatrends in medicine is the realisation that the gut is the foundation to our health.
The GMO proponents, who still cling to the canard that we need GMO to feed the world, try very hard to underplay the damage Glyphosate does to the CYP enzymes mentioned above.
I would encourage you to investigate this carcinogen that you are consuming.
Herewith an invite to visit me on the farm next time you are in Stellenbosch.
A final insight into the power of the pro GMO lobby is that No regulatory authority anywhere in the world requests mandatory chronic animal feeding studies to be performed for edible GMOs. It means that these companies have a lot to hide and our government is not protecting us. They (the food companies and the agricultural chemical companies) have spent to date $100 million to fight GMO labelling laws.
29 Responses
Writing the while getting chemo treatment. Test cancer not such a big deal, but this and other environmental factors I’m sure contributed.
You should google “the iron theory of everything” article on freetheanimal, you will find some interesting info.
Still got to research GMO’s and stuff, thanks for the share!
P.S: looking forward to your broth : )
Googling does not bring up anything called ;the iron theory of everything’
This information needs to be spread far and wide and farmers challenged as why, given the research, they continue using glyphosate based products as well as GMO infused foods.
Hi Angus.
I grow my own veg for our table as my 4th child cannot remove metal toxins easily and her gut was destroyed aswell at a young age.
I want to know if irs even worth buyinf shop seed and where I can get. Im in Kzn.
Kind regards
Lieshka
HI Farmer Angus, thanks for this article. I wonder about Spring Farm Bakery’s essene bread. Would that wheat be contaminated? I’m going to ask them.
my apologies – I’ve just been eating some bread and reading packet of Spring Farm Essene Bread “organic sprouted wheat”
Spring Farm Bakery says: Yes the wheat we use is organic but not certified – from a wonderful place called Go Natural in Somerset West.
Does the Eureka range of flours contain glyphosate?
Yes. Loaded with glycophosphates just like ALL tge wheat in SA
Hi Angus, I live right on a golf course. They did a big clean up in november 2014 that included fuligation with round up and garlon and in january 2015, i started with hearing loss on the right side of my face which would come and go. I then in later months started losing feeling in my face and then having severe pain in my head and neck with weakness in my right arm with brain fog which continues to this day. When they do this or spray at all, the birds move into our light fittings and trees break? I noticed today when gardening that we have no earthworms here which is so strange. Can this be attributed to glyphosate and the other pesticides? Thank you.
Hi Angus.Have you heard of pure neem oil? and if so what areyour thoughts please, in relation to all crop farming. Thanks in anticipation. Paul Howes (Absolute neem oil agent)
Hi Angus. I am not sure if my previous question was relayed so here it is again. What do you know about pure neem oil ? relating to crop farming specifically. Many thanks in anticipation. Regards Paul Howes (for Absolute neem oil)
Wow, you pretty much hit every inaccurate, cherry picked, fear-mongering point possible huh?
How did you miss that every single regulatory body across the world has deemed glyphosate not a carcinogenic risk as used in ag?
How did you miss that glyphosate isn’t found in breast milk?
Or meat?
Or that the levels found in flour and other food products are 100x below the NOAEL?
That’s a lot to miss Angus.
We are in trouble. Thanks Angus for a super narrative. Kasey I suggest you find organic detox agents and formulas. They have to be those which detox at a cellulite level. I recently came across one and I can provide info to you. You can get in touch with me by e mail on [email protected]
Thank you for expanding the information for glyphosate i learned alot and I think you would love to listen to this podcast http://learntruehealth.com/cause-of-autism-dr-stephanie-seneff/ because it teaches similar information.
Thank you for confirming what someone else posted on fb concerning wheat and other products in America. I have been diagnosed with gluten intolerance and found that certain gluten free products give the same symptoms….
Because GF products contain arsenic
I have been watching a documentary by Dr Patrick Gentempo on GMOs exposed. Anyone interested can google that. It pretty much confirms all in the above article and much more.
Very helpful information
I understand that Roundup is applied to oats two weeks prior to harvesting to enhance drying/returns. Is the same practice typically adopted in South Africa?
That being said is South Africa self sufficient in our oats production?
Thanks
Peter
I can’t answer as to whether South Africa is self sufficient in oats.
They do use Glyphosate. All non organic farmers do. The only certified organic grain farmer in South Africa is Bertie Coetzee in Prieska.
angus
You said earlier that Eurika mills flour uses Glyphosphate. When reading up on their website though it specifically states that their flour is GMO and Glyphosate free. https://stonegroundflour.co.za/our-story/
Just checking if this is something that may have changed since you originally wrote this article?
Where is Frits Schoon’s bread available in Jhb, preferably in the Kyalami area?
Thanks, interesting article!
Does this include oats? I eat oats almost everyday 🙁
In theory oats should not be sprayed with Glyphosate. The only way you can know for sure there is no Glyphosate is if it is organic certified.
Where to find ALL Glyphosate free or Organic growns in Johannesburg area ?