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Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show
theguardian.com ^
| 5/8/2018
| Unk
Posted on 05/08/2018 11:10:30 AM PDT by rktman
Monsanto introduced its glyphosate-based Roundup brand in 1974. But it is only now, after more than 40 years of widespread use, that the government is investigating the toxicity of “glyphosate-based herbicides” on human cells.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chemicals; ecowankers; foodsupply; monsanto; roundup; weedkiller
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Too bad it isn't damaging to my freakin' weeds. Well if it's damaging at all. ;-) Investigate away. Stock up now on concentrate.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:10:30 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Everytime I try to keep some over winter is gets some stringy fungus in it that jams the spout!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:18:06 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
To: rktman
“When they pry the Chapin pump-sprayer from my cold dead hands.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:19:38 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Delta 21
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:21:04 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: rktman
You need to make sure the weeds are healthy and growing and it will take it to the roots.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:21:33 AM PDT
by
tiki
To: rktman
Horsecrap. Glyphosphate has been researched to death, still no reputable evidence of carcinogenicity. To say otherwise is tin foil asshat territory.
To: rktman
The patent has expired. Explains everything.
More Lucy and the football.
DDT, FreonR12, light bulbs and sweeteners, Teflon and toilets, the same game played again and again.
Some people never learn.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:24:13 AM PDT
by
Stalwart
To: rktman
The money quote:
“DeVito said the NTP first-phase results do not mean the formulations are causing cancer or any other disease.”
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:24:31 AM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: akalinin
Well except in calibfornia where even garden hoses are “known to cause cancer”. Shovels too.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:24:38 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: tiki
So I need to fertilize them first? LOL!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:25:23 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: jonno
Danny DeVito? Who knew? ;-)
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:26:15 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
Well except in calibfornia where even garden hoses are “known to cause cancer”. Shovels too. Well I'm a dead man then, I loved nothing better than to drink out of a garden hose when I was a kid, on a hot summer day.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:26:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Well you’re safe. The saying is: “The good die young.” LOL!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:28:36 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
Thanks for the reminder! I need to mix up a batch in my sprayer and get after the weeds on my gravel drive.
To: tiki
Apparently you've never tried to kill a trumpet..vine, bush..alien invasive beast of a plant.
It is my mission...this summer to KILL it!! TOTALLY eliminate it!!
KILL,...KILL...KILL!!!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:29:35 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: tiki
Apparently you've never tried to kill a trumpet..vine, bush..alien invasive beast of a plant.
It is my mission...this summer to KILL it!! TOTALLY eliminate it!!
KILL,...KILL...KILL!!!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:29:37 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: rktman
HAHA!!!
Hell...breathing is banned there.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:30:51 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: dfwgator
Maybe this is all a dream...and we are all dead?
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:31:46 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: rktman
“calibfornia where even garden hoses are “known to cause cancer”. Shovels too.”
Also a state where AIDS is magic and celebrated!
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:32:27 AM PDT
by
edh
To: rktman
Well you’re safe. The saying is: “The good die young.” LOL! Good point.
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posted on
05/08/2018 11:32:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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