New study finds association between insecticide exposure and lower sperm concentration in adult men
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Global study ties insecticide exposure to lower sperm concentration in adult men
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Food additives like artificial sweeteners are relentlessly tested by health authorities, researchers, independent labs and activist scientists (while we rarely examine natural food products for the same health risks). After three decades of intense scrutiny, aspartame has continuously been declared as safe for human consumption by all national regulatory agencies and EFSA.As it is a chemical used by large corporations in the food industry, it has attracted the unending ire of activist zealots who have (rather unreasonably) devoted their lives to spreading fear and disinformation on aspartame. Now, with the Ramazzini cabal working with NGOs, some media-savvy activist scientists and US tort law firms, they managed to take control of the ball with an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph on aspartame. After three decades, their time is now.Only one little problem… The IARC Monograph 134 on aspartame is illegitimate.
The organic food industry lobby was in full swing in Brussels with their StopGlyphosateWeek. A collective of NGOs ran an entire week of actions for the chemically obsessed to show how glyphosate, a relatively benign herbicide less toxic than a cup of coffee, is the root of all that is evil in humanity. The high-point of StopGlyphosateWeek was the screening of a film about the victims of Monsanto called Into the Weeds. It was promoted as the story about DeWayne “Lee” Johnson’s heroic battle against that evil scourge of corporate greed: Monsanto (sometimes called Bayer-Monsanto since the Darth Maul no longer technically exists).In writing this review, I approached watching an activist documentary about how glyphosate kills everything not from the typical film-goer’s expectation (a need to be motivated, inspired and leaving with the satisfaction of a clear victory for good against evil), but as a gauge on how activists see the science, benefits and policies of this essential cro