Recently a seminal paper published decades ago that proclaimed the safety of glyphosate and has been integral to the continual drenching of our food and fields in it has been retracted. The diabolical corruption of science and research publishing is nothing new, only erupting during the Covidiocy and culling we have endured, but has been occurring as long as profit was able to be made. The ghost writing by corporate shills that was finally proved to render the glyphosate paper completely worthless and deceptive is only one of the tactics pathological profiteers employ, and the legacy of corruption of science mirrors the corruption of our blood and soil.
IMG source - ASHS.org - American Society for Horticultural Science
Reading the comments on the blog of Sasha Latypova, I chanced upon a link to this paper detailing the loss of >$1M of organic sauerkraut due to glyphosate contamination of chicken and turkey manure used as fertilizer. The demineralization glyphosate causes turned the tasty fermented cabbage into mush the texture of applesauce, rendered it unsalable, and a total loss to the producer. How glyphosate tainted and destroyed an organic crop is revelatory of the insidious penetration of toxic chemicals into our bodies even when we exercise diligence and seek to exclude them from our diets. The efforts of organic farmers to practice natural farming methods can be wrecked by their inability to control standard farmers around them, before them, or supplying the suppliers that supply their suppliers.
They can only interrogate their suppliers and soils so much, and we gardeners seeking to provide our own food are even less able to prevent toxins from insinuating themselves into our production. Because we can't control maniacs drenching their production in glyphosate, and neither can we afford to meticulously test our soils and feedstocks, adopting some methods to mitigate glyphosate that does slither into our gardens is almost certainly necessary. Glyphosate has been found in the umbilical blood of newborns in the high arctic, where no one has ever deliberately applied it to any crops or soils. In crop growing regions where diabolical deception of Big Ag has caused it to be liberally applied for decades, we must assume our soils, our fertilizers, and our - even organic - food is tainted.
Fortunately the paper points out some processes and microorganisms break glyphosate down, and refertilization with minerals can restore nutrients that have been stripped from our blood and soil. Blood is thicker than water, and water that once carried minerals in solution now is tainted with glyphosate that chelates the minerals, removing them from every source available to us. Worse, once it gets into our bodies, it acts as a biocide in our guts, destroying beneficial gut fauna we depend on to aid in digestion with ruinous impact at every trophic level on our nutrition, and our health.
I am glad to have run across this paper just as I begin to bring my aquaponics greenhouse into production, forewarning me that I will have to ensure nominal mineralization underlies the fertility of the food I produce. I hope the fortuitous reminder of the insidious insinuation of glyphosate into our supply chains for food, fertilizer, and water is timely, as gardeners in the Northern Hemisphere await the growing season, and prompts them to action to ensure glyphosate is removed from their gardens and the minerals it removes are restored. All our grubbing in the dirt will be for naught if we let the evil machinations of Monsatan decades ago wreck our food and our gardens today.