Many of Our Foods Contain Pesticides

Yes, glyphosate has health impacts. Our partners at Touchstone Essentials have done a deep dive on this research, showing that glyphosate creates massive inflammation which can lead to cancer and other diseases:

•  Glyphosate can negatively affect the microbiome in the gut, which can impact the immune system

• Cellular membranes can be disrupted by glyphosate

• Glyphosate is associated with rising rates of gluten intolerance

• Animal studies on mice correlated glyphosate exposure to anxiety and depressive-like behaviors

• Glyphosate can cause neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in the central nervous system

Their research is available here, and here is even more research from the US Right to Know team. I have written about glyphosate and lectins, as well as glyphosate and how it relates to the gut-brain connection. In fact, we’ve been writing about glyphosate for years in The Tenpenny Report. Read those articles here.

The reason we write about it so much is that it is a hidden ingredient in our food. It’s not listed on the labels at the grocery store, but the tasteless, colorless toxin is hiding in countless foods that we eat every day. Before you know it, you’re serving up toxins for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Glyphosate is used extensively by farmers, mainly as a weedkiller but also to dry out crops like corn, wheat and oats in order to harvest them earlier. As such, glyphosate residue ends up directly in our food.

We recently had a comment from one of our social media audience members who said he stopped using glyphosate on his farm eight years ago. He also stopped vaccinating, and he says his cow health has improved 200% with hardly any cattle deaths and almost no use of antibiotics needed.

We also recently published a guest article by Joel Salatin who said much the same thing. Read it here; it’s great! along with vaccines and our cow health has improved 200%.

Unfortunately there are some foods that are more likely to contain the pesticide than others.

(1) Oat breakfast cereals. Glyphosate has been found in nearly all samples tested by third party groups, and levels are often above the safety level of exposure for children.

(2) Wheat breads and pasta. In 2017, nearly 10 million pounds of glyphosate was applied to varieties of wheat grown in the US (source).

(3) Snacks made with corn or soy. Glyphosate has long been primarily used on corn and soybean crops, so much so that certain GMO crops are engineered to resist glyphosate. Foods like chips, cookies and crackers most likely contain corn or soy as a food additive.

(4) Almonds and nut butters. Glyphosate is often used as a weedkiller in almond orchards. Over 80% of non-organic California almond orchards are treated with glyphosate.

(5) Berries: Strawberry, blueberry and other berry crops are often sprayed with glyphosate which stays on the berries.

You can reduce your exposure to this toxic chemical. First, buy organic. The organic farming methods ban the use of glyphosate so your food has fewer toxins. You can also buy products with “glyphosate residue free” labels since these foods have been tested for glyphosate.

Regular detoxing also helps. Natural zeolite binds to pesticides, as does fulvic acid, which can bind to glyphosate in the GI tract, helping the body to eliminate it.