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Glyphosate causing birth defect in domestic cattle

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Prominent underbite in a calf

There is an unending series of bad news and devastation across the landscape, triggered by suspected harmful effects of man made toxins in our midst. This blog is to do with glyphosate in the food and feed of domestic cattle. The material for this blog is provided by Montana used wildlife scientist Judy Hoy.

I had received a lot of information over the years from Judy. She is listed as one of the four scientists I have most learned from regarding the ravages causes globally by glyphosate. Her name and picture, along with those of Anthony Samsel, Stephanie Seneff and Don Huber, occupy one slide of my presentation on glyphosate when I am asked to speak, in India.

Deer from New Brunswick, Canada

I had contacted her when folks from New Brunswick, Canada, contacted me asking about the weird phenomenon being noticed among hunted deer, which showed mismatched jaws. She confirmed this is merely an extreme case of a common birth defect where a fetus in a mothers womb is poisoned by specific toxins such as glyphosate. The reason for this damage is complex, but has to do with disruption of some of the growth programs in the fetus, due to damage to hormones, enzymes and other proteins that are critical, and also from severe deficiency of specific mineral nutrients during that phase of foetal development. Both these conditions will happen if glyphosate is in the food and foliage that the pregnant mother forages and eats. Glyphosate will get itself mis-incorporated into proteins by being an analog of glycine. Glyphosate will also steal minerals from food by being a chelator.

There has been a lot of feedback from Judy over the years about degeneration in North American wildlife and the very real possibility that its very survivability is now questioned. Wildlife in North America, in other words, faces a serious existential threat and likely will go under due to birth defects not just in jaws but in many organs including reproductive organs. Percentage of bison, and all kinds of deer wild goats and sheep, as well as other carnivores and herbivores, that have visible birth defects including malformed reproductive organs, as observed by naked eyes and available from photographs and video, are approaching 100%. Many of them will not be producing viable off springs to propagate survival of the species. We have brought nature and wildlife to the brink through man made toxins.

But what about domestic cattle?

I wondered what was happening to domestic cattle, which should be far more affected by glyphosate through greater human contribution in their food and feed. Well, here is what Judy had to say about it, along with a few pictures of calves from Mexico.

Hi Tony,

Cattle in the United States, Mexico and of course Canada are born with an underbite, just like the wild grazing animals. Here in our area, some of the larger ranchers were loosing up 30 or 35 calves each spring in the late 1990s, through 2001. I put letters to the editor in our local papers saying that the symptoms on the calves were consistent with thyroid hormone disruption as a result of mineral deficiencies. I also told local veterinarians. I suddenly stopped hearing about birth defects on calves here in our area and called a rancher friend to ask him if the ranchers were doing something different. He said they were having their cows tested to determine what minerals they were deficient in and then giving their herd the specific minerals they needed. That apparently mitigated the birth defects significantly, suggesting that chelation of the minerals the livestock obtained in grass and hay by exposure to the Roundup on the grass or hay was the likely culprit. As far as I know, their grass and hay was never tested for glyphosate, because the ranchers wouldn’t believe that Roundup was responsible. Many spray their Roundup Ready alfalfa fields and didn’t want to admit that they were poisoning their own animals. Funny how that works.

Mexican Brahman calf with underbite

Most of the ranchers here in our area that I asked never actually admitted that their calves had a high rate of underbite, except for one rancher’s wife, who told me in 2003 that about 1/3 of their calves were born with underbite. In addition to calves, domestic goats, sheep and camelids here in the United States are also born with underbite. I was told that in 2001, over 50 horse foals born that spring in our county were shot because they were born with an underbite. Livestock owners don’t want anyone to know that their livestock have birth defects. They will kill a newborn rather than admit it, because they are all told that it is bad genes of the parent animals. Livestock owners are afraid no one will buy their animals if people know that there is a fairly high prevalence of birth defects in their herd. Apparently, giving lots of minerals while the cow, sheep, goat, mare, etc. are pregnant, keeps the prevalence of birth defects down. Also, most livestock owners, except for horse breeders don’t even look at the mouth of their newborn livestock, so don’t know the prevalence.

If you type in (an animal species, like beef calves underbite images) on Google, lots of photos will come up that were posted by people of calves with underbite from throughout the United States. The same happens if you type domestic goat, sheep, llama, horse foal, etc. – lots of photos that have been posted from throughout the U.S.

Wildlife scientist Judy Hoy of Montana

I have been communicating for some time with a veterinarian in Mexico. I have attached two photos of the same Brahman calf born with underbite that he sent me. They have sprayed fields there in Mexico that are close to where the cattle graze in their pastures. They are very careful about breeding, so there is no way that their prized show Brahman calves are inbred.

I think that the Brahman cattle in India have a fairly high prevalence of underbite, but I have no way to tell for certain. I have seen photos on the internet of Brahman cattle with underbite taken in India and a lot of domestic goats there with underbite.

Underbite in a Mexican Brahman calf

Just like the Fish and Game departments are hiding the birth defects on the wild grazing animals to protect their ability to sell hunting licenses, the livestock owners hide the birth defects on their livestock so people will keep buying their animals. That makes it really difficult to get anyone to do something to stop the cruel, inhumane poisoning of the newborns. It has been much easier to just say that the few researchers who have worked on the issue are wrong, lying or don’t know what they are talking about. I get that a LOT here in Montana.
We included small samples of beef calves and domestic goat kids in our 2011 study which I attached so you can see the prevalence. Of 20 goat kids that I examined from several small herds for that study, every kid had a fairly severe underbite, making prevalence 100% in 2009 in the small sample. You can share this information with whomever you want.

I will send the study by Wetransfer.

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Judy

What about India ?

Question that remains to be answered is, what about India? Glyphosate has penetrated into the Indian landscape, legally or illegally, through a combination of corruption among chemical pushing agents and government officials in pushing it where it should not be used, along with ignorance of unaware farmers, abject lack of control or supervision by the Government of India, and possible tacit collusion by the pesticide industry.

However, we shall not know the extent of the damage unless one starts vigorous investigation and record keeping of the conditions of newborn domestic cattle.

This will be an added item to alert Indians about, including elected officials. India needs its own Judy Hoys, just as Canada and every other nation does.

Another thing, please take pictures of calves with an underbite in India and send me, with date, location and any other relevant detail you can find. This will be important to track how much glyphosate and other toxins have already entered the food and feed of the pregnant cattle in India.

Tony Mitra

Judy Hoy on Glyphosate and Wildlife

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I had a telephone interview with Judy Hoy on January 24, 2017, regarding effect of glyphosate (RoundUp) on wildlife. Judy is a wildlife biologist that has cared for wildlife all her life and is 77 years old.

She had a lot more to say beyond what is covered in this eight and a half minute video, regarding birth defects through glyphosate affected newborns, and how some of the deformation can be cured through the right kind of treatment, though the doctors do not like to acknowledge that, and claim the deformations are genetic, from the parents and cannot be cured. That conversation has not been recorded for inclusion in this video.

Here is her statement, and the talk recorded over the phone and converted into this video

I would like to address atmospheric transport of pesticides (an umbrella term that includes herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) and the consequences of those pesticides falling in rain and snow downwind of where they are applied. With regard to so called organic crops, rain containing pesticides, especially those extensively applied, like Roundup with its primary ingredient glyphosate, contaminate all of the foliage on which the rain falls, including organic crops. Such pesticides also contaminate the surface water used for irrigation of all crops, including the otherwise organically grown crops. This causes most organic crops to have measurable levels of glyphosate and/or metabolites, but much less than crops that are directly sprayed with Roundup. With regard to pesticides sprayed by aircraft, studies have shown that approximately 20 percent of the chemicals fall on the area sprayed. The rest of the chemicals are carried by the winds far from where they are initially sprayed, sometimes hundreds of miles in just one day.

Studies have shown that the environmental toxins travel across North America in a northeasterly direction so a large amount of the pesticides sprayed here in Western United States goes across the United States and north into Eastern Canada. It has also been shown that most pesticides sprayed in the Northern Hemisphere north of the equator travel around and around the earth towards the north, eventually ending up in the snow and ice above the Arctic Circle. Environmental toxins sprayed in the Southern Hemisphere go around the earth in a southern direction ending up in the snow and ice in the Antarctic.

Animals all over the world now have the same birth defects, many being far from sprayed cropland. For example, Roundup is not used in the extreme backcountry of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, but the animals in remote areas of both parks have the same facial and male reproductive malformations reported in studies of big game animals and documented on domestic grazing animals here in the valleys of Western Montana. This observation is based on pictures of the animals in documentaries and photos taken by photographers who hike far from roads in the national parks to photograph wildlife.

The Forest Service person I contacted by phone emphatically stated to me that they do not and have not used Roundup on the National Forest here in Western Montana. That is because Roundup kills everything and the forest service does not want to kill the native plants and trees. Yet, the examined hunter-killed deer and elk that live on the Forest Service land full time, well away from the valley where sprayed fields are, have the same birth defects. And the birth defects there appear to be at the same high prevalence as the animals living in the valleys. I would like to state that when collecting the study data from accident-killed big game animals, I didn’t separate the animals I examined into valley animals and forest animals.

My biologist colleague and I have examined a fairly large number of mule deer and pronghorn antelope from Eastern Montana and the same birth defects were higher in prevalence on those from Eastern Montana than on our Western Montana mule deer. We don’t have pronghorn antelope here in extreme Western Montana where most of the white-tailed deer I examined came from. White-tailed deer from Central and Eastern Montana brought to my colleague or to me to examine have an equally high prevalence of underbite and a much higher prevalence of overbite than our white-tailed deer here in Western Montana. My colleague examines the bite of each animal when he cleans the skull for the hunter. Those animals lived on the open prairie or in small isolated mountain ranges until the hunter harvested them, so we don’t find much difference in the birth defects with regard to where the animals live. They all have the same birth defects at very high prevalence. Some birth defects, especially underdeveloped premaxillary bone and male reproductive malformations are close to or over 50%. Biology books state that any birth defect with a prevalence of over 5% should raise a red flag, so the prevalence of those birth defects on wild ruminant species here in Montana is 10 times more. It is far past time to raise that proverbial red flag.

Severely underdeveloped lower jaw or overbite was found on over 5% of the white-tailed deer taken to a butcher shop in New Brunswick, Canada. The butcher who reported the overbite on the deer did not look for underbite on other deer brought to his shop.

The evidence shown by the extremely widespread identical birth defects on the wild and domestic animals and the evidence that Tony Mitra reported was found in the Canadian glyphosate test levels, indicates a high level of contamination in the rain and snow. Most of the pesticides in the weather fronts that come through our area are on dust picked up by the winds as they move across the bare fields in the states to the west of us. The millions of acres of bare fields in states upwind of our Western Montana valley are the source of large dust storms when the autumn months are dry. Even if there aren’t large dust storms, when the wind in the weather front passes over the bare fields, the soil particles on the very top of the dirt in the field is blown up into the air. When Roundup is used as a desiccant and applied just prior to harvest, glyphosate and other chemicals in the Roundup are still on the top layer of soil just prior to winter. When the weather front carrying the pesticide laden dust particles hits the high mountains, it slows down, dropping the contaminated snow or rain on the mountains and into our Western Montana valleys.

The snow is especially significant because the toxins that melt out of the snow during the spring and early summer are released into the creeks, rivers and dams that provide the irrigation water. When the water evaporates after the crops are sprinkled with the contaminated water, it concentrates the Roundup and other toxins on the leaves and in the top surface of the soil. In the winter the highly contaminated soil from organic fields and directly sprayed fields is picked up by winds and carried in the weather fronts to be deposited in the snow and surface water downwind and the whole contamination cycle begins again. It will take years to rid the environment of biologically significant levels of Roundup if they never spray another drop for the rest of time.

As many researchers have stated and shown so emphatically in studies, the biologically significant levels of glyphosate that cause birth defects and health issues in developing young animals are hundreds or even thousands of times lower than what is present on the foliage, in the rain and snow, and in the air throughout North America and now likely throughout the world.

Judy Hoy

Meanwhile, for those interested might read up on a dozen year old report from environment Canada on the spread of pesticides through the Canadian estuarine and aquatic environment, and results of its presence from various such samples.

Click on the image for browsing the file from Environment Canada