Dear Female Representatives and Senators,
A new study from Argentina on glyphosate and glyphosate herbicides shows that “exposure to low doses could alter the development of the female reproductive tract, with consequences on fertility.”
This finding is significant considering that glyphosate proponents argue that low dose exposure to this chemical through food consumption is not of concern to human health.
This means the conventional food you, your sister, daughter, or female constituents eat such as wheat, dairy, beans, eggs, orange juice, breast milk, wine, beer, and more, which has been shown to contain low levels of glyphosate, could be responsible for your/their miscarriages and reproductive harm.
The low doses a pregnant woman is exposed to when she walks by her neighbor who is spraying Roundup on their driveway could cause her to miscarry. Monsanto/Bayer could be responsible for countless miscarriages over the past four decades because of their flagship product Roundup that has been used in our agriculture and landscaping industries.
Over 300 million pounds of glyphosate is used each year in the United States. Roundup continues to be sprayed on food crops and sold at Home Depot and Lowes despite recent lawsuits in which juries awarded 4 plaintiffs a total of over 2.5 billion dollars for the “malice and oppression” concerning the knowledge that Monsanto’s product could contribute to non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
The five Argentinian scientists further revealed, “Studies have also demonstrated that the exposure to GBHs alters the development and differentiation of ovarian follicles and uterus, affecting fertility when animals are exposed before puberty.” Glyphosate herbicides do not wash, dry, or cook off. Thus, our children are consuming these residues in food, thousands of times before puberty.
In landscaping use, 90% of runoff into our streams, oceans, swimming, and drinking water is from city use of pesticides and herbicides. Our city sprays glyphosate herbicides in order to have “clean” looking sidewalks and playgrounds that impact our daughters who are playing barefoot in their neighborhoods.
These exposures could unknowingly be causing reproductive damage to girls long before they reach reproductive years. What our daughters are exposed to when they are two affects whether or not they will be able to have a child when they are twenty-two.
Monsanto has known for decades that their glyphosate products could cause miscarriages.
In the Monsanto Trials the discovery process revealed that a study stated, “...although the results are suggestive, they failed to demonstrate a significant association of glyphosate exposure with the risk of spontaneous abortion.”
Donna Farmer, Monsanto’s lead toxicologist, crossed out the words “although” and “suggestive”, leaving the sentence to read, “The results failed to show there is an association that glyphosate causes miscarriages.”
moms across america