Here, very briefly, is
what the “smoking gun” (Swanson et al, http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/92/JOS_Volume-9_Number-2_Nov_2014-Swanson-et-al.pdf)
contains:
Despite spending more on
medical care than any other nation, in 2012 (the most recent year for which
there are statistics) the US is only #36 in life expectancy, behind Costa Rica,
Slovenia and Lebanon. One reason is the
increase in a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes and several
varieties of cancer. Swanson et al. show
that that the upcurve in these conditions exactly matches the increase in the
percentage of GE soy and corn crops and the quantity of herbicides containing
glyphosate applied. As they point out,
correlation is not causation, but you can’t show causation unless you can first
show correlation, and by a standard measure, Pearson’s correlation coefficient,
the correspondence between increased GMO/glyphosate use and more than a dozen
diseases is higher than 0.9.
To the best of my
knowledge, this is the first and only epidemiological study that shows the
correlation between GMO/glyphosate and America’s deteriorating health, and it
should be a wake-up call to every US citizen.
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