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You Can't Eat Lawn Grass!

by Cris Ericson
In these hard economic times, it is best to start your spring planning now.
You can't eat lawn grass. How about taking up your lawn and planting corn?
The most important thing you need to know about lawn grass, is that chemical weed killers drain through the soil and down and out to ground water supplies and lakes and rivers and streams. Simultaneously, while these lawn grass weed killers are getting into our drinking water supplies, they are also lowering men's testosterone levels. Now, more and more you can find websites on the internet where enlisted soldiers refuse to go to war, or refuse to return to war zones. Why aren't they being tested for their testosterone levels before being Court Martialed?
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Question for a Federal Court to answer:
If it is true that Glyphosate
( used
in farms and found in most water
supplies due to farm drainage runoff
and from use of Glyphosate
in home gardens and lawns,
golf courses and municipal lawns
and parks),
is lowering
the testosterone level of males,
then,
what percentage of males might
have a testosterone level too low
to go to a war zone,
or to return
to a war zone once they know what
they face there?;
and
isn't it true that the Government
should test all males who refuse to
go to war,
or refuse to return to a
war zone,
for their individual
testosterone level to see if,
in fact,
they are "fit" for military
service for which there is an
"implied contract"
that the
soldier will perform the job duties
of killing human beings,
which
requires a significant testosterone
level to do?
Isn't it a material fact that it requires
a significant testosterone level for
a person to be able to willingly kill
another person?
Isn't it true that the Government has
strict and absolute liability under
the federal toxic hazardous
substances law in conjunction
with companies like
Monsanto for allowing Glyphosate
to leach into the water system?
Isn't it true that studies prove that
criminals who kill (are charged with
homicide)
have high testosterone
levels;
and that soldiers who refuse
to kill
frequently, if not always,
refer
to the killing going on in a war zone
as "criminal"?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20012598

Nov 22, 2012 ...
But emerging evidence
suggests that men have
less testosterone
today than their
fathers ..
Population-wide,
testosterone levels
have dropped markedly in the ...
that it can transform an adult male frog
into a fully reproducing female. ...
testosterone levels
in the upper 25 percent of normal have a lower risk ...
Low Testosterone (Low T) Symptoms, Causes, Treatment ...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20012598

Abstract
Glyphosate is a herbicide
widely used to kill weeds
both in agricultural
and non-agricultural landscapes.

Glyphosate's reproductive toxicity
is related to the inhibition of a StAR protein
and an aromatase enzyme,
which causes an in vitro reduction
in testosterone
and estradiol synthesis. ...
Evaluations included the
progression of puberty,
body development, the hormonal production
of testosterone,
estradiol and corticosterone, and the
morphology of the testis.
Results showed that the herbicide
(1) significantly changed the
progression of puberty
in a dose-dependent manner;
(2) reduced the testosterone
production,
in semineferous tubules' morphology,
decreased significantly the epithelium...
(4) no difference in tubular diameter was observed;
and (5) relative to the controls,
no differences in serum corticosterone
or estradiol levels were detected,
but the concentrations
of testosterone
serum
were lower in all treated groups...
These results suggest that
commercial
formulation
of glyphosate
is a potent endocrine disruptor
in vivo,
causing disturbances in the reproductive
development of rats
when the exposure was performed
during the puberty period.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20012598

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone
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