Glyphosate is a known teratogen, meaning "monster-maker."

Below is a brief section from an interesting and frightful article from www.truthout.org about the most widely used herbicide in the world. I've seen hundreds of warning stories about Roundup™ but this one caught my attention — it seems especially well written. If you are at all interested in this, please read the whole article by following the link in the headline:

One Little Piggy Had Birth Defects

By Jeff Ritterman, M.D. 
Truthout | Op-Ed Friday, 08 August 2014 

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Glyphosate and Birth Defects
  

Glyphosate is a known teratogen, meaning "monster-maker." Studies conducted on rats and rabbits since the 1980s have shown an astonishing spectrum of birth defects associated with glyphosate, including absent kidneys, missing lobes of the lungs, enlarged hearts, ventricular septal defects (holes in the heart), extra ribs, and deformed and absent bones of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum and limbs.

But if birth defects in rats and rabbits have not been enough to get our attention, we are now seeing high rates of spontaneous abortion and birth defects in human infants born in areas where glyphosate is being sprayed. This is particularly true in Argentina, Paraguay and other parts of Latin America where GM acreage has increased significantly. A group of researchers in Argentina noted alarmingly high rates of miscarriages and birth defects in families living within meters of glyphosate spraying. They decided to conduct a study with animals in the laboratory.

The scientists exposed frog and chicken embryos to glyphosate. The herbicide caused birth defects in the embryos similar to those seen in human infants. They were able to demonstrate that glyphosate attacks the Vitamin A (retinoic acid) signaling pathway, which is crucial for normal fetal development in vertebrates. Since the Vitamin A pathway is found in all vertebrates, it is likely that the piglet birth defects, too, can be explained by a glyphosate induced disturbance of this pathway during embryonic development.

    But, there's more.

Glyphosate's Role in Chronic Diseases
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Yes, there's more and none of it is good. -J