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I Don’t Eat Oat-type Breakfast Cereals Anymore

Is the FDA still allowing Roundup for spraying crops?

Roundup (with the active chemical glyphosate) is allowed; commonly used in modern agriculture. Except for a few weeds (now proliferating), glyphosate kills plants that haven’t (yet) mutated or have been genetically manipulated to be unaffected. Glyphosate is one of the most-used herbicides across the planet.

I don’t eat CheeryOh-type breakfast cereals anymore because sprays of glyphosate (Roundup) are now commonly sprayed on oats to kill and promote drying before mechanical harvesting. Combines run faster or earlier that way.

But virtually all oat-based breakfast cereals have detectable contaminations of glyphosate, from the pre-harvest sprayings.

A big deal? Increasing evidence shows that minute concentrations of glyphosate can turn off not only the metabolism in green plants (the herbicide effect), but also disrupt bacterial growth and metabolism. In the human gut (intestine), bacterial populations can be disrupted.

With the increasing understandings of the gut/body and gut/brain connections and control, the last thing I want to do is mess up my gut microbiome with some contaminated CheeryOhs. Only the Breakfast of Champions for me (mostly), wheat-based cereals. Glyphosate is seldom used on wheat.