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What do you think of the following statement from http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14164-glyphosate-and-gmos-impact-on-crops-soils-animals-and-man-dr-don-huber ?
"Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt, iron, zinc, copper, etc. that are essential for normal physiological functions in soils, plants and animals. It is this ability to shut down physiological functions and predispose plants to killer diseases that make it such an effective broad-spectrum weed killer. Glyphosate is also a very powerful selective antibiotic that kills beneficial, but not pathogenic, microorganisms in the soil and intestine at very low residual levels in food. Residue levels permitted in food are 40 to 800 times the antibiotic threshold and concentrations shown in clinical studies to damage mammalian tissues."
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- http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i-dont-understand-how-you-can-say-gmo-food-safe-when-farmers-are-spraying-glyphosate-their-crops, answered by Marian Bleeke, Fate and Metabolism Platform Lead, Monsanto
- Response from John Vicini, Food Safety Scientific Affairs Lead, Monsanto, regarding glyphosate as a chelator and antimicrobial [http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i%E2%80%99ve-read-glyphosate-was-first-patented-chelator-1964-stauffer-chemical-co-it-was-patented]
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http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i-dont-understand-how-you-can-say-gmo-food-safe-when-farmers-are-spraying-glyphosate-their-crops, answered by Marian Bleeke, Fate and Metabolism Platform Lead, Monsanto
- Response from John Vicini, Food Safety Scientific Affairs Lead, Monsanto, regarding glyphosate as a chelator and antimicrobial [http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i%E2%80%99ve-read-glyphosate-was-first-patented-chelator-1964-stauffer-chemical-co-it-was-patented]
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- http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i-dont-understand-how-you-can-say-gmo-food-safe-when-farmers-are-spraying-glyphosate-their-crops, answered by Marian Bleeke, Fate and Metabolism Platform Lead, Monsanto
- Response from John Vicini, Food Safety Scientific Affairs Lead, Monsanto, regarding glyphosate as a chelator and antimicrobial [http://gmoanswers.com/ask/i%E2%80%99ve-read-glyphosate-was-first-patented-chelator-1964-stauffer-chemical-co-it-was-patented]
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