(NaturalNews) Roundup is the world`s most popular herbicide used to
control weeds all over the planet and is omnipresent in the food chain
of animals and humans. Roundup is claimed to have an active ingredient
known as glyphosate (G) and said to be safe for humans even though
plants are readily killed. In a first of its kind published study,
French researchers recently sought to examine the toxicity of four
popular G-based herbicide formulations on human placental cells, kidney
cells, embryonic cells and neonate umbilical cord cells and
surprisingly found total cell death of each of these cells within 24
hours. (
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