——What is Roundup/glyphosate? Poison. It kills plants. That’s what it is designed to do. When it is sprayed on food crops, people are consuming poison with their food-——
How can I say this nicely.
That’s probably one of the most ignorant things I’ve read in a while.
Round up isn’t sprayed on food crops. It would just kill it in a few days. You spray it on the leafy part of the plant material you want to kill, the active ingredient disrupts the photosynthesis process and the plant starves to death. Spray it on the ground nothing happens, it has to be absorbed in the leaf for it to work.
If you get it on the ground, it breaks down quickly...
That being said it’s considered a haz mat material when it comes into contact with non plant creature. US and our furry friends ...so in its liquid form it’s bad for you to contact it.
It’s designed to kill anything green, not us.
It’s use comes with very clear instructions....
I know I used to sell it.
How can I say THIS nicely, if you used to sell it, you certainly were not very well informed about its use tied to soybean production.
Here’s a link, but I encourage you to read up on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_soybean
From Center for Food Safety May 2015 Fact Sheet
GLYPHOSATE AND CANCER RISK: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHY IS THERE CONCERN ABOUT GLYPHOSATE AND CANCER?What Do We Really Know About Roundup Weed Killer?The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) cancer authorities – the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – recently determined that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans”.
Glyphosate is the most heavily used pesticide in the world thanks to widespread planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, which are genetically engineered to survive spraying with it.
Use and exposure will increase still more if glyphosate-resistant turf grasses currently being developed for lawns, playing fields and golf courses are introduced.
Nearly all the corn, soy, and cotton now grown in the United States is treated with glyphosate. Its use skyrocketed after seeds were genetically engineered to tolerate the chemical.From 2014, MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Herbicide will Cause Half of All Children to Have Autism by 2025Because these seeds produce plants that are not killed by glyphosate, farmers can apply the weed killer to entire fields without worrying about destroying crops.
Between 1987 and 2012, annual U.S. farm use grew from less than 11 million pounds to nearly 300 million pounds.
“By far the vast use is on [genetically engineered] crops – corn, soy and cotton – that took off in the early to mid-nineties,” says Robert Gilliom, chief of surface water assessment for the US Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment Program.
Dr. Seneff noted the ubiquity of glyphosate’s use. Because it is used on corn and soy, all soft drinks and candies sweetened with corn syrup and all chips and cereals that contain soy fillers have small amounts of glyphosate in them, as do our beef and poultry since cattle and chicken are fed GMO corn or soy.Lots of food crops are sprayed with Round Up and we eat it.Wheat is often sprayed with Roundup just prior to being harvested, which means that all non-organic bread and wheat products would also be sources of glyphosate toxicity.
The amount of glyphosate in each product may not be large, but the cumulative effect (especially with as much processed food as Americans eat) could be devastating.
A recent study shows that pregnant women living near farms where pesticides are applied have a 60% increased risk of children having an autism spectrum disorder.
Personally, I'd rather eat the stuff God makes. I've found that the closer to God I get, the better things are.