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Herbicide Resistant Crops Pose Nutrient Deficient Animals

Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with a silver bullet? Minimum tillage practices
have forced extensive applications of Glyphosate (Roundup). Increase of herbicide
resistant plants through genetically modified engineering have exhausted nutrient
availability and increased crop diseases.

Glyphosate has changed the face of crop production and researchers are becoming aware
of potential serious problems.

Glyphosate 101 simply demonstrates the sole purpose as weed control.
Dr. Don Huber, a retired plant pathologist from the University of Purdue states, "to
understand why glyphosate impacts micronutrients and how it can have secondary effect
on crops, you need to look first at how it does its job".

Glyphosate is a phloem mobile chemical, meaning it moves downward in conducting
tissues in the leaves, stems and roots until it is exuded into soil and groundwater.
Meristermatic tissues in plants are the areas of high physiological activity requiring high
availability of essential nutrients for cell division and growth.

Glyphosate is a strong broad spectrum chelate, meaning it shuts down the ability to
utilize micronutrients necessary for enzyme function and defend against disease. Nothing
in a glyphosate plant operates on Glyphosate itself. It simply chelates with a host of
elements in plants immobilizing them in a non selective mode.

Glyphosate is non biodegradable, accumulating in soils for long periods of time.
Glyphosate has negative impact on nutrient availability, disease resistant and other
physiological functions for life of the plant. Genetically modified engineering is an alternative enzyme inserted that is blocked by
glyphosate in the meristematic tissues.

Nutrient Availability. Nutrient values in feedstuffs are solely dependant on the
inventory and availability of soil nutrient levels which are the regulators, inhibitors on
activators of every physiological process in the plant. This determines the nutrient values
of feedstuffs for animals Health Concerns. By introducing such an intense mineral chelator through accumulation in feeds, forages and foods and exudation into groundwater’s poses a significant health concern for humans and animals.

Chelation immobilization of elements creates an unequally yoked field of energy in the
body. This brings up the question of the role these elements play in the body. Calcium
(bones) Fe (blood) Mn Zn (liver and kidneys) Cu Mg (brain).

Plant Energy

Glyphosate reduces photosynthesis or carbon dioxide fixation meaning lowered energy to the plant. Low energy increases plant disease. Invading organisms and pests can then deplete nutrient availability.

Antimicrobial effect. Being a strong broad spectrum chelator, glyphosate becomes a
potent antimicrobial agent effecting the functions of numerous plant enzymes by
inhibiting enzymes, a plant becomes highly susceptible to soil borne pathogens such as
fusarium, phythium phytophthora, rizoctonia and others that can be carried into the food
chain.

This causes deficiencies and relates to an unequally yoked field of energy to the body.
“You can trace every disease and every infection to an unequally yoked of field energy”.
Crops and Livestock Jeopardized. Crop production and the livestock industry could
become jeopardized sooner than later without making any attempt to use glyphosate in a
more judicious manner and delay its broad-spectrum chelation mode of essential
elements.

Food For Thought - Agriculture

In order to sustain life on earth food must be grown locally.

Diversifying crop production into small family farms and utilizing predatory selective insects, birds, insects, worms to open up hardpan soil and increase minerals to roots of plants.

Food should be grown locally fostering sustainability on every community through the small organic family farm.

Every living thing is supported by another living thing, even what farmers refer to as pests.

Let the dairy cows live as cows, pigs be pigs, chickens be chickens, etc., in uncrowded conditions, foraging on the seeds, grasses, insects and even some weeds which are natural to their historical evolution.

Agriculture and domestic drinking supplies are now being structured rather than stripped of their life content.

Gone is the need for growth hormones, and antibiotics fed to animals and birds.

A well diversified production of organic farming, feed animals naturally, structuring water reduces animal fatality, increases growth and health of animals, nurtures the root system of crops and their vitality for those who consume both crops and animals.

We are producing our food with insufficient mineralization at deep levels to the root systems.

The root of a plant is indicative of the health of our planet to the end consumer.

What attracts what we call pests is not genetically modified seeds but our own insistence on monoculture on large commercial farms and sick plants which the pests are designed to eat.

Our children are eating more and receiving less protein than we did 100-200 years ago.

The cause of wars and strife in many parts of the world is due to inefficient farm production lack of fertile land on which to sustain their people.

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