It's a tale of corporate malfeasance as old as time: corporation discovers herbicide. Corporation markets herbicide. Corporation discovers herbicide does far more than kill weeds, but attacks critics and whistleblowers ad nauseum to sweep it under the rug.
This, according to Dr. Chadi Nabhan, is the story of glyphosate, an herbicide often marketed under the name Roundup and sold by the quart in hardware and lawn stores across the United States. Nabhan, a cancer specialist, says that glyphosate doesn't rinse off, but remains on our grains and produce, and anything made from them, right up until the moment we consume them... and longer: a study from last year found glyphosate in 80 percent of Americans' urine, perhaps because the chemical appears to leech into our drinking water. It also covers the plants one might stroll past every day.
