Roundup Chemical Doubles Your Risk of Lymphoma

There’s been a striking increase in the number of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases over the past three decades, and a major new scientific review suggests chemical pesticides—particularly glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup—are playing an important role in fueling the cancer.

 Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate have been linked to:
• death of human embryonic cells
• breast cancer and other cancers
• infertility
• hormone disruption
• birth defects
• eye, skin, and respiratory irritation
• spontaneous abortions in farm animals.

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OUR VIEW: Herkimer County deserves answers

Lenarcic knows about dioxin. It was a key ingredient of the herbicide Agent Orange, used widely as a defoliant during the Vietnam War and later linked to birth defects and cancers, including non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Through the years, Lenarcic’s work with Vietnam veterans, their exposure to Agent Orange and its after-effects have topped his list of concerns.

In the 1940s and 50s, the government experimented with Agent Orange at several sites across the country, one being Fort Drum — then called Camp Drum. According to the Agent Orange Record, in 1959, 1,035 acres of sugar maples and other hardwoods at the army base near Watertown in Jefferson County were sprayed in a test to see how effective the herbicides were against foliage.

According to the Aspen Institute, an educational and policy studies organization, several U.S. communities at or near Agent Orange manufacturing or storage sites continue to report dioxin levels above recommended safety standards. Among them is Fort Drum. Lenarcic suggests that the dioxin possibly worked its way into the aquifer that serves the Kuyahoora Valley area.

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