by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
There has been a resurgence in interest in ancient grains in recent years, as more and more people begin to realize just how toxic modern wheat products are, with many “gluten intolerance” diseases increasing in modern times.
Unfortunately, ancient grains grown in the United States, along with all other grains such as wheat, oats, and barley, are almost all contaminated by modern pesticides and herbicides, even if they are certified organic.
We published a report on an investigation I conducted in 2014 by testing both organic and conventional products made from American (both the U.S. and Canada) grains, and we found very little difference between organic and conventional grains in terms of being contaminated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world’s most popular herbicide, RoundUp, which has been linked to cancer and other diseases.
See:
ALERT: Certified Organic Food Grown in U.S. Found Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide
Also:
Almost all American Grains Are Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide
How Glyphosate Herbicide Has Destroyed America’s Wheat
New Tests Confirm Children’s Foods Made from Oats are ALL Contaminated with Cancer-Causing Glyphosate
Herbicide Glyphosate Found in Organic Eggs and DairyContamination of U.S. Food Supply Worsens as 50% of Foods Tested Contained Cancer-Causing Glyphosate Herbicide
Most Beers and Wines Tested are Contaminated with Glyphosate
Study: 99% of Canadian Honey Analyzed Contaminated with Herbicide Glyphosate
We started testing ALL of the food we sell in our online store, Healthy Traditions, at that time, and stopped selling the organic grains we had in stock that tested positive for glyphosate.
So today, we do not even purchase, let alone sell, any foods that have not first been tested for the harmful herbicide glyphosate.
When we began to search for sources for ancient grains, all the ones we found at the time tested positive for glyphosate, which forced us to begin searching for glyphosate-free grains outside the U.S. We found that Italy had the cleanest ancient grains which consistently tested negative for glyphosate, and we found some organic, heirloom corn that tested clean in Central Mexico, where glyphosate was banned.
What shocked us the most is that farmers in America who were growing these organic grains were most certainly NOT spraying them with glyphosate, even though it is a common practice in conventional farms, where they want to use glyphosate to kill the wheat so that they could harvest it before the first snow fall, ensuring that they could harvest their entire crop first.
So even through the organic farms were not spraying their crops with glyphosate, it was obviously “drifting” to nearby farms. We have never been able to test any grains free from glyphosate in the northern states of Montana and the Dakotas, nor in Canada.
We eventually found a source of Khorasan Wheat from a single farm in Italy, and sold that for a few years.
But their harvest in 2023 was not successful, leaving us with very little left in stock from the year before.
But we recently just found a farm in Washington State that grew Khorasan in 2023, and samples from their field tested clean for any glyphosate. I proceeded to purchase many tons of this product, and we now have it in stock as a whole grain which you can purchase in bulk, as well as a whole grain flour.
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