The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and

oundup: a massive brainwashing operation 79made for the EU by the Permanent Phytosanitary Committee, in charge ofpreparing an evolving list of authorized active substances by classifying themaccording to their degree of toxicity (irritant, corrosive, harmful, toxic, andvery toxic), along with labeling requirements. “According to French and internationalbodies, glyphosate is considered an irritant that may producesevere eye lesions, and [is] toxic for aquatic organisms,” Marc reports. “Accordingto the World Health Organization, the U.S. EPA, and the EuropeanCommunity, the use of glyphosate in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructionstherefore poses no human health risks. . . . However, several epidemiologicalstudies have demonstrated a correlation between exposure toglyphosate and cancer.”Roundup Triggers the First Stageof the Development of CancerIn fact, while regulatory agencies have continued to classify glyphosatebasedherbicides as “not a human carcinogen,” a series of epidemiologicalstudies tend to demonstrate exactly the opposite. For example, a Canadianstudy published in 2001 by the University of Saskatchewan showed thatmen exposed to glyphosate more than two days a year had twice the risk ofdeveloping non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of men never exposed. 17 These resultswere confirmed by a Swedish study published in 2002 by Lennart Hardell(the dioxin specialist) and his colleagues, which compared the health of442 users of glyphosate-based herbicides with a control group of 741 nonusers,18 as well as by an epidemiological investigation of farmers in theAmerican Midwest by the National Cancer Institute. 19 Another epidemiologicalstudy in Iowa and North Carolina of more than 54,315 private andprofessional users of pesticides suggested an association between the use ofglyphosate and multiple myeloma. 20In France, a team under Professor Robert Bellé of the Station Biologiquede Roscoff, which is under the authority of the CNRS [Centre Nationale dela Recherche Scientifique] and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, studiedthe impact of glyphosate formulations on sea urchin cells. “The early developmentof sea urchins is one of the recognized models for the study ofcell cycles,” explains Marc, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the workof the laboratory in Brittany. In fact, the discovery of the sea urchin model,