A fresh salad for lunch, an apple for a snack, and a nice lean chicken dinner with spinach on the side sound like very healthy food choices, and they are. However, if each of these foods is conventionally-grown or raised the health benefits greatly decrease while the risks soar.

What is Glyphosate?

Glyphosate is a synthetic broad-spectrum herbicide used to kill weeds. The most familiar name for glyphosate is Roundup, but it is also in more than 750 other products in the United States.

Roundup Gets in Your Body Even When You Sterilize Vegetables

Conventionally-grown produce looks healthy enough. It's filled with lively color and has a pleasing taste but just beneath the surface lurks a toxic poison that's slowly damaging your health. Even when you take conventionally-grown produce home and scrub it vigorously with hot water and food-grade hydrogen peroxide, you're still very likely eating toxins with every bite.

This is because glyphosate doesn't just get on your food during chemical spraying it also gets in  your food through ground water and soil contamination. Thirsty, growing plants drink the water and absorb Roundup into their roots, where it stays locked inside until it reaches your plate. So, even plants which were not directly sprayed with glyphosate often absorb it through ground water and soil contaminated with it. Livestock is also fed glyphosate-laced crops.

This is one of the primary reasons for the invention of genetically modified "Roundup Ready" crops. Not only is glyphosate terrible for your health, it would quickly kill the crops just as effectively as the weeds. This is why the crops have been genetically-altered; to survive the toxic spraying!

Multiple Health Dangers from Herbicides in Your Food

The health dangers associated with herbicides in your food supply are staggering.  Consuming foods laced with Roundup on a regular basis may lead to the following serious health problems:

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