In an excellent article by Lily Haight [Leader, Sept. 11] regarding Pope’s recent herbicide spraying with glyphosate, Washington State University extension employee, Brendan Whyte stated that …
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In an excellent article by Lily Haight [Leader, Sept. 11] regarding Pope’s recent herbicide spraying with glyphosate, Washington State University extension employee, Brendan Whyte stated that glyphosate “absorbs very quickly to soil particles. Within an hour or two it is no longer biologically active.” We are meant to think that therefore spreading glyphosate in our environment is harmless.
If it disappears almost immediately, I wonder how Whyte would explain the presence of glyphosate in the urine of all 48 members of the EU Parliament of 2016 who volunteered to have their urine tested. Members came from nine different countries.
A German study titled “Urinale 2015” sampled glyphosate concentrations in urine from more than 2000 participants; 99.6 percent of all citizens who took part in the survey had glyphosate in their urine.
Exposure to glyphosate has been linked to autism, Alzheimer’s, cancer, depression, gluten sensitivity, inflammation and Parkinson’s. All use of glyphosate should be banned. It has no place in a healthy ecosystem. We are playing Russian roulette with glyphosate as we did with DDT.
Beth Stroh-Stern
Brinnon
