{"id":146039,"date":"2015-04-20T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/brazil-gave-green-light-to-3-new-gm-crops-but-calls-glyphosate-cancerous\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:19:41","slug":"brazil-gave-green-light-to-3-new-gm-crops-but-calls-glyphosate-cancerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/brazil-gave-green-light-to-3-new-gm-crops-but-calls-glyphosate-cancerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Confirms Monsanto\u2019s Roundup Causes Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian authorities\u00a0recently approved\u00a0new types of GM corn and soy meant to be used with 2,4-D chemicals, as well as a genetically modified\u00a0eucalyptus trees. But it seems the country is divided. Brazil\u2019s National Cancer Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablepulse.com\/2015\/04\/10\/brazils-national-cancer-institute-names-gm-crops-as-cause-of-massive-pesticide-use\/#.VSyJSsO9LCQ\">just echoed<\/a> the World Health Organization\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/17-scientists-speak-out-monsantos-roundup-is-causing-cancer\/\">concern that glyphosate<\/a>, one of the most often used biotech chemicals in the world, is cancerous. What\u2019s more, it\u00a0condemns GM crops for placing the country in the top ranking globally for pesticide consumption.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So which is it \u2014 support biotech or kick them out of your country, Brazil?<\/p>\n<p>If you ask Brazil\u2019s National Cancer Institute (NCI), glyphosate use and GM crops are putting the country in the top ten for pesticide consumption \u2014 and this doesn\u2019t bode well for keeping cancer at bay. As one of the largest agrochemical users in the world, Brazil\u2019s cancer institute seems to be at odds with its regulatory agencies which have <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/brazil-approves-more-herbicide-resistant-corn-soy-gm-trees\/\">allowed three new GM crops<\/a> into the country just last week \u2014 new strains of GM corn and soy meant to be used with 2,4-D and GM eucalyptus trees which consume more water than non-GM trees.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.inca.gov.br\/inca\/Arquivos\/comunicacao\/posicionamento_do_inca_sobre_os_agrotoxicos_06_abr_15.pdf\">a (translated) report administered<\/a> by the NCI, a part of the country\u2019s ministry of health, GM crops are painted as devilish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cImportantly, the release of transgenic seeds in Brazil was one of the factors responsible for putting the country in first place in the ranking of agrochemical consumption \u2014 since the cultivation of these modified seeds requires the use of large quantities of these products.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/brazil-gave-green-light-to-3-new-gm-crops-but-calls-glyphosate-cancerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian authorities\u00a0recently approved\u00a0new types of GM corn and soy meant to be used with 2,4-D chemicals, as well as a genetically modified\u00a0eucalyptus trees. But it seems the country is divided. Brazil\u2019s National Cancer Institute just echoed the World Health Organization\u2019s concern that glyphosate, one of the most often used biotech chemicals in the world, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}