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Old Mon, Nov-26-18, 12:49
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Default Herbicides: another reason to gluten free

I don't know about you, but things like this give me the willies:


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Herbicide Is What’s for Dinner

According to the EPA, between 1993 and 2015, glyphosate MRLs increased by 100 percent to 1,000 percent in the U.S., depending on the crop. Desiccation has changed the game: Because we are using more herbicides, herbicide residues and MRLs have also gone up. Countries can use MRLs as a bartering tool to negotiate lower prices, and will raise their MRLs in response to pressure. Monsanto and other manufacturers of glyphosate have requested increases in MRLs, and been granted many of them.

Current MRLs for glyphosate range from 0.2 ppm to more than 300 ppm, depending on the crop. Between 1993 and 2015, the U.S. EPA glyphosate tolerance levels have increased by a factor of 50 for corn, and 2,000 for alfalfa.


I don't see this much discussed, even in Wheatbelly and Grain Brain circles. But I think it's a factor in the increasingly poor picture of how grains impact health.


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I asked Sheri Roberts, a crop specialist with Agriculture and Agrifood Canada in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, whether she thought desiccation was safe. She was reluctant to make the call, but said she wished it was not so commonly used. “The timing’s really tight,” she said. “If you don’t get it just right, that herbicide ends up in the grain.” If farmers apply a non-contact herbicide (like glyphosate) too early, it will be taken up by the growing plant and end up inside the seed. Non-contact herbicides are taken up by the living plant and incorporated into still growing tissues, while contact herbicides kill the tissues they touch.

A 2015 study by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found glyphosate in 30 percent of 3,200 food products. Similar studies have found glyphosate exceeding maximum residue limits (or MRLs) in Cheerios, beer, and wine.


More reason to fight against factory farms. Big Agriculture tries to tell us it's the only way to feed the world, but it strikes me as a very efficient way to kill the world, too.

Can't we grow local and eat local? It might not be the full range of foods we are used to, but having more variety in bad food is not a plus. As my husband and I have shifted to more local and sustainable food, we eat more apples, greens, chicken, and beef, but this is all incredibly tasty stuff that we have no interest in trading for lesser versions.
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Old Mon, Nov-26-18, 13:00
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Think maybe in terms of organic versus not organic. Even better to grow what you can and learn non-traditional methods to supplement your vegies.

THe pesticides are are used on all fruits and vegies, too. This i s why I am trying to learn how to grow my own-- to get rid of the herbicides and pesicides.
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Old Tue, Nov-27-18, 11:39
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the herbicides also travel up the food chain. we raise our own meat sometimes and even if we buy non-gmo feed, there is no guarantee that the feed is free from glyphosate. also there is much organics fraud, so that is no guarantee either.

i've pretty much just given up on the whole thing.

we have local people around here who advertise their products as 'moreganic' with means absolutely nothing, it's all marketing and greenwashing. there's another place that sells bison, which should be, you know, totally grass fed and clean. well, when i was looking for free/cheap food for our pigs, i found out that one of the local breweries sends all their spent grains to this bison farm. not organic, or non-gmo, or anything fancy. just standard big-ag grains. and you can bet that the bison farm doesn't advertise that!! NO way, their website etc says grass fed, local, better than, etc.

fwiw, we are gluten free--almost everybody in my family has celiac.
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Helps to know your supplier. The fellow that delivered my grain also owned the company; we had good conversations.

Takes some work to remove the pesticides and herbicides from the food chain.
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Beeves can defiantly be finished on grass alone if it's quality forage. Been getting some of mine from steers raised in high Sierra Mt pastures on BLM land. It tests at 30% fat. It's good, have even eaten their ground beef raw with no ill effects. Grass fed exclude pathogens due to rumen pH.
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