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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

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Subject: [SANET-MG] A report to the parliament  of Britain
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:50:54 -0500
From: jcummins <jcummins@UWO.CA>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Dr.Eva Sirinathinghji of The Institute of Sciencer in Society
(http://www.i-sis.org.uk/full/USDA_scientist_reveals_allFull.php)
reports on a speech by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue
University and USDA senior scientist delivered to the UK Houses of
Parliament a damning indictment of glyphosate agriculture as a most
serious threat to the environment, livestock, and human health . The
speech was made at All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology Meeting,
Huber DM “The effects of glyphosate (Roundup®) on soils, crops and
consumers: new diseases in GM corn and soy and animals fed with it”, 20
November 2011, Houses of Parliament, UK
An excerpt from Dr.Eva Sirinathinghji's report on Huber's comments
states:"The conversion of US agriculture to monochemical herbicide
practice has resulted in the extensive use of glyphosate herbicides.
Coincidentally, farmers have been witnessing deterioration in the health
of corn, soybean, wheat and other crops, and epidemics of diseases in
small grain crops. All are associated with the extensive use of
glyphosate, which has increased further since the introduction of
glyphosate-tolerant, Roundup Ready (RR) crops.
Glyphosate immobilises nutrients required to maintain plant health and
resistance to disease. This weakening of the plants defence could
explain the infestation of GM crops with the new pathogen, which has now
been observed in horse, sheep, pigs, cows, chicken, multiple animal
tissues including reproductive parts (semen, amniotic fluid), manure,
soil, eggs, milk, as well as the common fungal pathogen that is
currently infesting RR crops, Fusarium solani fsp glycines mycelium. All
are coming into contact with glyphosate either through direct exposure
or consumption through animal feed. It is also highly abundant in crops
suffering from plant Goss’ wilt and sudden death syndrome.
The pathogen can be cultured in the lab, and has been isolated from
livestock fetal tissue, replicated in the lab and re-introduced back
into the animals. It appears to be very common and may well be
interacting with the effects of glyphosate on both plants and animals,
exacerbating disease and causing reproductive failure in livestock (see
below). Although great expectations have been placed on Huber to publish
his findings, he insists that before this can be done, further resources
are necessary to be able to characterize the ‘entity’ and identify what
type of species it is, including sequencing of its genome. This is a
slow process and once complete, it is his intention to publish the work
in a peer-reviewed journal."
It is wonderful that the government of Great Britain has undertaken an
unbiased report on Prof. Huber's findings.The academic bureaucrats in
the United States have disparaged Huber's findings most unfairly without
having even looked at the data behind his studies and even some claiming
to be environmental advocates have accepted the ignorant views of the
bureaucrats from academia. I have previously pointed out the sad state
of academic agroecology in US where public relation exaggeration by
academic and government bureaucrats have begun to displace the full and
truthful reporting of science.