http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/environment/pesticide-education/Cancer.Threat.From.Glyphosate http://www.reninet.com/catz/toxicpesticides.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/london/pested/ this shows that Glyphosate is actually a cancer cause ThePiedPiper 04June2000 http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/site_map.htm http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/chem_dex.htm > ** Original Subject: RE: WONDER DRUG IS: WEEDKILLER > ** Original Sender: > ** Original Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 07:29:26 -0500 (CDT) > ** Original Message follows... > > AND THE LATEST WONDER DRUG IS: WEEDKILLER. > CANCER by David Brown Sunday Telegraph 2/3/97. > The world's biggest selling weedkiller could become a new treatment for > cancer and Aids, scientists say. Proctor and gamble of Cincinnati the �22 > billion a year American giant, has applied for an international patent for > pills, powders and liquid drugs containing the weedkiller Roundup, which is > manufactured by a major rival. > The weedkiller's main chemical, it claims, is a safer way of knocking out > breast cancer cells because it causes less damage to healthy tissue in the > human body than existing chemotherapy treatments. It is also effective > against lung cancer and cancer of the colon and leukaemia, researchers say. > Roundup, which has been nicknamed 'God's herbicide' in the trade because of > its reputation for killing weeds and leaving wild birds and mammals > unscathed, is also known by its alternative trade name Glyphosate. > The weedkiller is made in the Netherlands by Monsanto, a rival American > owned international agrochemical and foods conglomerate. > It has been used widely by arable farmers in Britain since 1974 and is > popular to control weeds on set-aside land because it is regarded as > harmless to birds and other wildlife. Roundup is currently the biggest > selling agro-chemical in the world with sales totalling more than �620 > million a year. > Proctor and Gamble, America's 17th largest company, was revealing few > details yesterday about its work with Roundup to cure a range of fatal > illnesses in people and animals. It would also not be drawn on any plans for > a joint venture with Monsanto to develop the weedkiller in a variety of > medicines. > Executives were at pains to say nothing which would give away trade secrets > to its competitors in the cut-throat world of the pharmaceutical industry, > where patenting and bringing new products to market can cost millions of > pounds a time. > Terry Loftus, a spokesman said: 'I am not at liberty to discuss any details > for competitive reasons and it's too early to speculate on what these patent > applications may mean for the future.' > But the company confirmed that it had applied in the US for an international > patent for a composition containing the weedkiller 'that is effective in > inhibiting the growth of tumours and cancers in mammals with mild or no > effects on normal cells'. > The application proposes using Roundup in low doses in pills, powders, > pessaries or injections to treat 'all types of cancers or neoplasm or > tumours found in mammals, including leukaemia'. > The patent application includes details of laboratory tests on human breast, > lung and colon cancer cells which appear to show that the Roundup > preparation was safer and more effective than Adriamycin which is used in > cancer treatments. > 'The preferred material is the products sold under the name glyphosate or > Roundup by Monsanto,' it says. > If successful, Roundup will join a list of beneficial medicines which have > been derived from unlikely sources. Warfarin, the rat poison, is used to > thin the blood of heart patients. > Tom McDermott, spokesman at Monsanto's European headquarters in Brussels, > said: 'We know about the patent application and I can't say much more than > that. > 'Roundup is a good product and we are delighted with its track record in the > environment since we introduced it. But he warned: 'It is vitally important > that people don't go out and start drinking Roundup because they think it > will be good for their health. > 'We urge people strongly only to use the product for weed control in > accordance with the instructions on the label.' > The Cancer Research Campaign in London said it was 'intrigued' by the claim > but not impressed. At first glance, on the evidence produced by Proctor and > Gamble in its patent application, the weedkiller did not promise a new cure. > Professor Gordon McVie, director general, said that the limited scientific > information available in the application documents appeared to contain > contradictions about the effectiveness of the main active chemical in > Roundup. > 'A similar substance has been tested in the past and was not found to be > very effective,' he said. >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > -- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" ---- Thomas Jefferson <br><br> My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. 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