"Makes you not think right, makes all your muscles, and joints hurt; fibromyalgia, you know, makes your blood clot..."
That is what I told the Maui County Council concerning a bill to stop the GMO and pesticide Eco-cide occurring on Maui.
I think I have proved it on my blog, and personally.
I have the RIGHT to know and tell this as the truth, because I know what caused me to almost DIE...Pesticides in my environment. People, corporations, state and county government are going around and spraying anything, anywhere, any and all the time...And they need to be controlled...
The chemical corporations sales people, and their government contacts need investigation on county, and state levels...
A new study reveals a hitherto unknown mechanism behind how the world's most popular GMO herbicide harms the brain.
Here we go...People unknowingly poisoned...Soil samples are surely needed...But, NO, just pretend it is OK!
"The response by council members and representatives from Maui Land and Pine was that due to the pineapple baseyard next to that site, and the many years of harsh (now illegal) chemicals being used there, it would not be suitable for living quarters! But how funny, after so many years, we now see the private school built - and now condos?!
I never stop being amazed by the Maui government and greedy landowners that do what they want, when they want to, and screw the public and the impacted neighborhoods!
SU CAMPOS, Napili Action Group Vice President
NAPILI - With a grading permit recently issued, groundbreaking ceremonies for the latest condominium project on the West Side were held in Napili on Feb. 27.
Approved in 2007, West Maui Village is situated mauka of Honoapiilani Highway on 9.65 acres, the old Rainbow Ranch site, above the Napilihau intersection, just north of Maui Preparatory Academy.
Zoned light industrial, the design incorporates 158 one-, two- and three-bedroom townhomes in 25 buildings.
- See more at:http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/530319/LETTERS-for-March-20-issue.html?nav=18#sthash.GdUhpmCl.dpuf
That is what I told the Maui County Council concerning a bill to stop the GMO and pesticide Eco-cide occurring on Maui.
I think I have proved it on my blog, and personally.
I have the RIGHT to know and tell this as the truth, because I know what caused me to almost DIE...Pesticides in my environment. People, corporations, state and county government are going around and spraying anything, anywhere, any and all the time...And they need to be controlled...
The chemical corporations sales people, and their government contacts need investigation on county, and state levels...
A new study reveals a hitherto unknown mechanism behind how the world's most popular GMO herbicide harms the brain.
Titled, "Mechanisms underlying the neurotoxicity induced by glyphosate-based herbicide in immature rat hippocampus: Involvement of glutamate excitotoxicity,"[i] the paper tested the neurotoxicity of Roundup® in the hippocampus of immature rats following acute exposure (30 minutes) and chronic (pregnancy and lactation) exposure.
The results found that acute exposure to Roundup® induces calcium influx into neurons (primarily, by activating NMDA receptors and voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels), leading to oxidative stress and neural cell death. They also found that the herbicide affected the enzymes ERK and CaMKII, the later of which is an enzyme whose dysregulation has been linked to Alzheimer's disease.[ii] Additionally, acute exposure was observed to have the following three effects:
- Increase the amino acid glutamate into the junctions through which neurons communicate (synaptic cleft), which, when released in excess levels, can exert excitotoxic/neurotixc effects in neurons.
- Decrease the neuroprotective antioxidant glutathione.
- Increase 'brain rancidity,' i.e. lipoperoxidation, characterized by excitotoxicity (over-stimulation of the neurons) and oxidative damage.
The summarization of their results, looking at the effects of both acute and chronic exposure, were reported as follows:
"Taken together, these results demonstrated that Roundup® might lead to excessive extracellular glutamate levels and consequently to glutamate excitotoxicity and oxidative stress in rat hippocampus."
Roundup-induced glutamate excitotoxicity appears to share similar effects to monosodium glutamate (MSG) and aspartame-linked excitotoxicity, and indicating that anyone either prone to, or suffering from, a brain or neurological condition involving increased oxidative stress and/or neuronal excitotoxicity (pathological or excessive nerve cell stimulation) should be even more wary to reduce exposure to this unfortunately ubiquitous environmental and food contaminant.
The authors also pointed out that their study found maternal exposure to Roundup® resulted in the offspring being exposed to the herbicide because it crosses the placental barrier during gestation and/or it is passed to them through the breast milk. They caution:
"Exposure to environmental toxicants during pregnancy and suckling periods has the potential to affect embryo and fetal development."
This is not the first time that concerns have been raised about Roundup's unique contraceptiveand birth defect causing properties.
For additional information on the adverse effects of Roundup herbicide and related glyphosate formulations, visit our database sections on the topic, which references peer-reviewed and published research from the National Library of Medicine on the chemical.
Also, dig deeper into the non-safety of GMO farming, food and environmental and health consequences, by visiting our GMO research center.
[i] Daiane Cattani, Vera Lúcia de Liz Oliveira Cavalli, Carla Elise Heinz Rieg, Juliana Tonietto Domingues, Tharine Dal-Cim, Carla Inês Tasca, Fátima Regina Mena Barreto Silva, Ariane Zamoner. MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE NEUROTOXICITY INDUCED BY GLYPHOSATE-BASED HERBICIDE IN IMMATURE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS: INVOLVEMENT OF GLUTAMATE EXCITOTOXICITY.Toxicology. 2014 Mar 14. Epub 2014 Mar 14. PMID: 24636977
[ii] Yamauchi, Takashi (August 2005). "Neuronal Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II—discovery, progress in a quarter of a century, and perspective: implication for learning and memory".Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 28 (8): 1342–54. doi:10.1248/bpb.28.1342. PMID 16079472.
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-brain-damaging-neurotoxin 
Here we go...People unknowingly poisoned...Soil samples are surely needed...But, NO, just pretend it is OK!
"The response by council members and representatives from Maui Land and Pine was that due to the pineapple baseyard next to that site, and the many years of harsh (now illegal) chemicals being used there, it would not be suitable for living quarters! But how funny, after so many years, we now see the private school built - and now condos?!
I never stop being amazed by the Maui government and greedy landowners that do what they want, when they want to, and screw the public and the impacted neighborhoods!
SU CAMPOS, Napili Action Group Vice President
NAPILI - With a grading permit recently issued, groundbreaking ceremonies for the latest condominium project on the West Side were held in Napili on Feb. 27.
Approved in 2007, West Maui Village is situated mauka of Honoapiilani Highway on 9.65 acres, the old Rainbow Ranch site, above the Napilihau intersection, just north of Maui Preparatory Academy.
Zoned light industrial, the design incorporates 158 one-, two- and three-bedroom townhomes in 25 buildings.
- See more at:http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/530319/LETTERS-for-March-20-issue.html?nav=18#sthash.GdUhpmCl.dpuf
