Is glyphosate linked to autism in children? Scholars urge that safe food is a basic human right
On May 27, 2015, the "GMO Controversy and the Future of Food" international symposium Dr. Seneff is a senior scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. During her studies she majored in biology and minored in food and nutrition at MIT, and later earned her doctorate from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her recent research focuses on exploring the link between toxic environmental chemicals and contemporary diseases. She believes that glyphosate (the herbicide in Roundup), which is overused in large-scale global cultivation of GM crops, is correlated with the rising rate of autism in children in recent years. The main reason is that glyphosate chelates with manganese in the human body, leading to manganese deficiency, which is manifested in the lower manganese content in the teeth of autistic children compared with normal children. In addition, glyphosate also produces effects similar to environmental hormones, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) under the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it as "probably carcinogenic." This symposium concluded successfully with the participation of more than a hundred members of the public and a lively atmosphere of discussion. Of course, this is only a beginning. It is hoped that more and more people will begin to pay attention to the food issues of GM crops, pesticide overuse, environmental ecology and human health, and it is further hoped that consumers can demonstrate their own power; only by standing up and taking action is there any possibility of changing the world. Note: The course materials from this symposium will be published online one after another; please see the "GMO Controversy and the Future of Food International Symposium" section 
