Consuming low concentrations of glyphosate linked to deadly, nightmarish deformities

Pigs who consume feed with low concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate (also marketed as Roundup) give birth to piglets with a wide array of severe defects, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and Sadat City University in Egypt, in collaboration with Danish pig farmer Ib Borup Pedersen. The study was published in the Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology.

The higher the glyphosate levels, the higher the rate of birth defects.

"It shocks me that the industry does not take the evidence of Roundup's and glyphosate's harmful effects more serious than it does," Pedersen said in April, when he publicly called for a ban on glyphosate use on animal feed prior to harvest.

Huge increase in defects

The study found that, when the feed given to sows during the first 40 days of pregnancy contained 0.25 parts per million (ppm) of glyphosate, the rate of birth defects in piglets went up to one in 1,432. When the glyphosate concentration was increased to between 0.87 ppm and 1.13 ppm, the birth defect rate jumped to one in 260.

The abnormalities included cranial and spinal deformity, ear atrophy, leg atrophy, absence of a trunk and "elephant tongue." One female piglet was born with testes, while another piglet had a swollen belly, with a foregut and hindgut that did not connect. One was born with cyclopia, a condition in which only a single large eye develops that has also been seen in farm animals exposed to Roundup spraying in Argentina.

The researchers euthanized all the piglets and analyzed their bodies, finding glyphosate in every single organ and tissue. The chemical was found in highest concentrations in the lungs and heart.

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