Paul Saladino· MD
what happens if you overlay maps of glyphosate use and cancer incidents in the United States yeah thank you for that yeah that was kind of my big debut in the medical system so even before I started my nonprofits I was lecturing to Medical Doctors all over the country and ultimately internationally with these maps and so I was showing that the glyphosate spraying 80 80% of the glyphosate spray the United States has done in what we would call generally the Midwest kind of running from North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota uh area all the way down to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico and so this huge broad Swift covers about 18 different states in the majority of it but that 18 to 20 States within our 50 spray about you know 80% of the glyphosate into our system because this is where we do most of our large scale agriculture in the country and then a couple other hot spots California being a major one because it's where most of our produce comes from that ends up on a human food plate is coming out of just a few few counties in Northern California so you get these hot spots uh Washington Oregon has a hot spot Northern California has a hot spot Southern California around San Diego County a hot spot and then a few others around the country outside the Midwest but all of that 80% sprayed happens to go into a single river system which is the Mississippi tributaries and so they start up near the border of of Canada and they collect that 80% of farm runoff from those environments and that any water soluble nutrient toxin herbicide pesticide whatever it is is is going to end up in that water body and then Mississippi ends in the last 90 miles of it in Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico there Louisiana uh has the highest cancer rates in the entire developed world now as it collects that huge swath of Life State we call that cancer alley so the cancer alley runs between bat marouge and New Orleans and so the highest rates of cancer in the developed world are sitting right there at our glyphosate you know epicenter and when we looked at the Cancer pattern around the country and superpose that realize it's not the spraying of the chemical that's mapping our cancer it's the accumulation of it within water systems and it's interpret it's then distribution through air and rain and so it's the air rain distribution of that Mississippi River that you can see our cancer hotspot became and the Striking thing that I was showing is that before 1996 our cancer in the United States was always as far back as we measured over 100 years had always been the Northeast with one little pocket in the northwest around prostate cancer but cancers across the board were always in our hot pocket of the Northeast we had never seen a cancer epidemic in the deep south of the United States and this is very important because a lot of people will justify our current cancer map by being a map of socioeconomic risk well poor people and depressed economies and blah blah blah no mississippi Louisiana were some of our poor states in 1995 and they are today and the cancer risk was not there in 1995 and by 2005 they had become the epicenter so it was not an economic phenomenon it is fully a toxin phenomenon wow