When Alan started reacting to certain foods with violent diarrhoea, he had no idea it would lead back to a mystery illness that began in a plastic greenhouse in 1991. Through years of careful observation — including a simple experiment swapping pork for beef — he pieced together a connection to glyphosate that changed the way he eats, shops, and grows his own food.
Seventeen independent scientists classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic. Over 100,000 people sued. Bayer paid billions. And in New Zealand, you can still buy it next to your groceries — with no warning on the label. The precautionary principle was built to prevent exactly this. So what happened to it?
Over a million New Zealanders may be living with fatty liver disease without knowing it. Peer-reviewed research is now linking glyphosate — the world's most widely used herbicide — to its rise. Children near agricultural areas are among the most vulnerable. This investigation explores the evidence, the mechanisms, and what New Zealand isn't yet measuring.
A landmark scientific review has confirmed that gut microbes act as gatekeepers of oestrogen metabolism — and that disrupting them may contribute to hormone-driven cancers. No More Glyphosate NZ asks the question the researchers didn't: what role might glyphosate, a patented antimicrobial present in our daily food supply, be playing in that disruption?
Celiac disease has risen nearly tenfold in New Zealand over three decades. Genetics cannot explain it. But emerging research points to a specific biological mechanism: glyphosate may be depleting the gut bacteria — called Rothia — that break down gluten before it can trigger an immune response. The question is whether anyone in authority is paying attention.
New Zealand has 14,000 people living with Parkinson's disease — a number heading to 20,000 by 2040. France, Germany, and Italy have already recognised it as an occupational disease linked to pesticide exposure. New Zealand has no research programme, no recognition, and no plan. That needs to change.
When MPI and the EPA tell us glyphosate is safe, they are relying on animal studies conducted on laboratory rats and mice whose biology has been profoundly distorted by decades of commercial breeding. The science of 'safe' is more fragile than regulators want you to know.
After 45 years in paediatrics, Dr Michelle Perro believes glyphosate exposure deserves far greater scrutiny. In this interview, she discusses children's health, gut disorders, environmental exposures, and the questions she believes regulators are overlooking.
As microbiome research grows, some scientists are asking whether chemicals like glyphosate could influence the gut bacteria that play important roles in human health.
Glyphosate is frequently described as one of the most studied herbicides ever developed. Yet scientific understanding evolves. This article examines whether modern concerns about microbiome health, hormone disruption, cumulative exposure, and developmental effects were the same questions researchers were asking when many current safety standards were established.
