Every ag product, meats both wild and domestic not grown organically in the United States is contaminated with atrazine, neonicotinoids, glyphosate, dicamba, DDT, mercury, lead, cadmium, PFAS, E. coli, Imazalil plus other toxins and pathogens.
Glyphosate was detected in all of the wheat-based foods. Pasta samples contained glyphosate at levels ranging from 60 to 150 parts per billion. Increasingly, glyphosate is also sprayed just before harvest on wheat, barley, oats and beans that are not genetically engineered. Glyphosate kills the crop, drying it out so it can be harvested sooner than if the plant were allowed to die naturally. [Environmental Working Group]
In 2015 the City of Belle Fourche applied for and received federal money to build an industrial park beside track owned by the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad even though former Belle Fourche mayor Todd Keller scoffed at the boondoggle. And, before it was ousted the Trump Organization's Department of Transportation headed by the wife of Republican former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell awarded more than $5.6 million in grants to upgrade infrastructure and enhance rail safety in the red moocher state that is South Dakota including $2.24 million for the RCPE mainline.
Now, a California capitalist wants to bleed the little South Dakota town of some of its municipal water and a wad of DC supplied cash in a state where environmental protection isn’t even a thing.
As Albany Farms was looking for a U.S. location for a new ramen noodle production plant, it honed in on a site “right in the middle of 21,000 square miles of the very best wheat that grows on the planet,” said Lyle Rogalla. He said the plant will need the equivalent of about 80,000 acres of wheat annually. It could be either hard red winter wheat or hard red spring wheat. [AgWeek]Just imagine the joy of driving from Rapid City, Spearditch, Gillette or Hulett and back for work in a fucking ramen factory every day for $15 an hour especially during South Dakota's eight month winters.
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"The recent rise in glyphosate application to corn and soy crops correlates positively with increased death rates due to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Glyphosate has been shown to cross the blood–brain barrier in in vitro models, but has yet to be verified in vivo. Additionally, reports have shown that glyphosate exposure increases pro-inflammatory cytokines in blood plasma, particularly TNFα. Given that all four of these genes were significantly upregulated in oligodendrocytes following glyphosate exposure, future work will focus on examining the effect of glyphosate exposure on myelin sheath." Glyphosate infiltrates the brain and increases pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFα: implications for neurodegenerative disorders
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