BIRTH DEFECTS Arden Anderson, Ph.D., D.O., M.P.H., Author of Real Medicine, Real Health] The glyphosate problem has a number of issues for us. And one of the very sad side effects of glyphosate are birth defects. In the towns where people were workers on the farms, particularly the soybean farms, we had as much as 70 times increase in the number of birth defects in these sprayed areas. And in fact, research of looking at studies around the world show that glyphosate is in fact geno-toxic, which means it does directly cause birth defects. And that doesn't necessarily mean exposure directly to the body, in other words the person was under the sprayer and got sprayed, so exposure can also be ingestion, because that is an exposure of the body to glyphosate. [Jeffrey M. Smith, Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology] Lab animals fed Roundup Ready soy have had serious reproductive disorders. In mice, the testicles change, including damage to the young sperm cells. In rats, there were changes in the uterus and ovaries. The DNA function differently in the embryo offspring of mice. When female rats were fed genetically modified soy, more than half of their babies died within three weeks. The babies were also smaller, and could not reproduce. When mice were fed genetically modified Roundup ready and Bt corn, they had fewer babies, and smaller babies. Preliminary evidence that's not yet published can be even worse. In rats, the testicles changed from pink to blue. In hamsters, by the third generation, most lost the ability to have babies. Some had hair growing in their mouths. This is astounding research. And yet it's never followed up. Typically, the industry distorts or denies the findings, pretending that there's no problem. [Don Huber, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, Purdue University] Where we used to have one fertility clinic for people, we now have an average of 14. [Dan Skow, D.V.M., Veterinarian, Agricultural Consultant] In our community where I live, within 100 miles of my house there is 50 infertility clinics. 20 years ago there probably wasn't any. One of the ladies in our local community, who works in a hairdressing shop where the ladies get to talking, and this type of thing, anyway they just accept the fact that to bring forth one healthy baby, they may have one, two, three, four miscarriages before they finally have one that takes. So what does that all mean long term? I don't know. It's scary. We just know that fertility is declining. There may be other reasons. I don't know the answer to that. But in the livestock world, we definitely know that there is a decline. History repeats itself. Thalidomide immunomodulatory drug and was developed as a sedative in 1957