War, Genocide, Bayer, Herbicide, Glufosinate, Brain Dysfunction [quackwatch] Bayer's GE Crop Herbicide, Glufosinate, Causes Brain Damage]

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Does iatrogenic Brain Damage from Bayer's Herbicide, Glufosinate, require

treatment with antidepressents thereby increasing the profits of Glaxco

Smith Cline, Eli Lilly, etc?

Are Brain Damaged Americans less likely to protest War on Iraq?

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Bayer's GE Crop Herbicide, Glufosinate, Causes Brain Damage*

 

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The glufosinate herbicide, used in large quantities on Bayer's GM

herbicide-resistant crops, has been found to have adverse effects on the

brain.

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*Bayer's GE Crop Herbicide, Glufosinate, Causes Brain Damage*

 

*GM WATCH daily

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The glufosinate herbicide, used in large quantities on Bayer's GM

herbicide-resistant crops, has been found to have adverse effects on the

brain.

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041207f1.htm

The Japan Times, 7 December 2004

By YUMI WIJERS-HASEGAWA, Staff writer*

 

Yoichiro Kuroda, the principal investigator in a project titled the Effects

of Endocrine Disrupters on the Developing Brain, under the government's

CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) program,

believes polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and glufosinate can hamper the

development and activity of the brain.

 

PCBs are " mock hormones " -- endocrine disrupters that cause neural

development defects by disrupting gene functions and neural-network

formation in kids -- resulting in lower IQ scores and hyperactive

tendencies, he said.

 

Glufosinate, widely used in the U.S. as a super herbicide for

herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops, is like a " mock

neurotransmitter " that has an aggressive effect on brains, he said.

 

If an embryo or a baby is exposed to the chemical, it can affect behavior,

as it disturbs gene functions that regulate the developing brain, he said.

 

A decade ago, the late Toshiko Fujii, a one-time professor of medicine at

Teikyo University, conducted research in which she found that the main

component of this GMO-compatible herbicide had adverse effects on the brains

of baby rats.

 

" Male rats often fight one another, but female rats are peaceful, " Kuroda

said in explaining Fujii's research.

 

" But female rats born from mothers that were given high doses of glufosinate

became aggressive and started to bite each other -- in some cases until one

died. That report sent a chill through me. "

 

He said there is a considerable possibility that fetuses and babies are also

affected by the substance, and since it is widely assumed that males are

more aggressive to begin with, it is possible they are more affected than

females.

 

" The chemical industry has not been considering this kind of risk on the

developing human brain,

which is a fragile, fine chemical machine, " he said.

 

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