I occasionally use Roundup, but I will try to be more careful with it.
They sprayed some on my lawn at our senior complex My cat ate some grass and it cost me $800 tp save her life. .
It appears the rats consumed it.
Without glyphosate, crop yields will be a fraction of what they are now.
the biggest problem with glyphosate, imho, are the plants like corn which are genetically modified to tolerate roundup. they spray it right on. just how do you avoid all corn?
i try, but it’s very hard to avoid glyphosated foods.
Unfortunately, there is no money in using natural strategies to control weeds and whatever.
Put your weeds in a barrel and light on fire and then feed the carbon back into your soil.
It’s in almost everything we eat. Which is a key part of the plan to make merchandise of us.
How close is Roundup to Agent Orange, chemically speaking?
I make my own weed killer:
1/2 Gal vinegar
1/4 cup salt or epson salt
1/2 tsp dish soap
1 tsp Dr Fred Summit heat rub
spray it on weeds on a hot sunny day.
The bottle of Roundup “Ready to Use” you buy at the garden center has a whopping SEVEN milligrams per liter in the bottle.
Do the math.
This is almost as egregious a misrepresentation as saccharine.
I buy Roundup by the 3 Gal jugs and have for years and years, had hoses blow and get it in my mouth and on my face many times, on my hands and arms and never had a issue with it. Just this week I sprayed out 2 jugs about 80 gallons mixed but as I have many acres with fences, ditches that I spray.
Unfortunately all the alternatives suck if you want to kill weeds for a long time.
I carefully follow ALL the application rules and keep meticulous records of when, where and how much I applied.
I have a 5 acre “Gentleman’s farm” in Hawaii. lots of animals and things live here.
The generic roundup, I use works great. Outlaw that chemical and I’d use Diesel.
Up to 50 mg/ kg is considered safe? 2500 to 5000 mg, 2.5 to 5 grams per day is safe ( adult size)?
Maybe this has something to do with the rise in bowel cancer in the young. The widespread use of glyphosate as grain crop dessicants. Spray right before harvest.
if you keep soil covered you have much less weeds for a season or more.
Todays’ problem also is generations of people who bought into the thinking and ways of “farming” big fields. This “on demand” food addiction we live in, is what’s killing many people (obesity, diabetes, cancers etc) and the land (over worked so add lab made fertilizers etc)
Mass production is not normal in nature, it happens slowly, but people want to mess with the natural ways of how the world was designed to run, so we create our selves more problems and disease etc.
All the big farm tilling is the main cause of weeds in their fields. If they didnt till so often or deeply they wouldn’t keep stirring up weed seeds to germinate. Less weeds would deter some insect pests who like those weeds.
For crop loving insect problems they could easily use extra natural things like pheromone traps, repellents etc. hot pepper powder, blood or bone meal, essential oils.
mulch of some sort (leaves, seedless grass and weeds, plastic type weed fabric, cardboard) anything to cover the soil and you have much less weeds.
But these more natural ways don’t make big money for pesticide companies and big machine makers, genetic modifiers of seed etc etc etc
the modifiers have lessened the nutrients of crops, grow shorter/faster to harvest, and other things only to the detriment of the human body consuming them.
suggestion: grow your own or connect with a small scale natural grower and buy from them what’s in season, and thank God for His abundant blessings.
The product sold as “ROUNDUP” has in fact changed its recipe. No more is gylophsphate or however it is spelled, used. I don’t think the stuff works as good anymore. Had to mulch weeds instead. That works two ways- kills weeds AND increases root moisture.
What’s worse then round-up?
Adults who call vegetables veggies and veg.
We will achieve idiocracy.
In Vitro Testing
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https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/alternatives-animal-testing/