Posted on 07/11/2021 7:19:31 PM PDT by Meah
A new analysis of more than 50 previously secret, corporate-backed scientific studies is raising troubling questions about a history of regulatory reliance on such research in assessing the safety of the widely used weedkilling chemical known as glyphosate, the key ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide.
In a 187-page report released on Friday, researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria said a thorough review of 53 safety studies submitted to regulators by large chemical companies showed that most do not comply with modern international standards for scientific rigor, and lack the types of tests most able to detect cancer risks.
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Unless, of course, this is a media hit job.
It is from the far left Guardian, so pretty worthless.
What really bothers me is the practice of desiccation. Shortly before harvest grain crops and legumes are sprayed with Roundup (glyphosate) so that the plants will die standing and begin to dry out before reaping.
I thought they dried out naturally but this speeds up the process I guess and reduces spoilage. It’s a sick thing to do and most oat products test high for glyphosate.
A good many farm friends of mine have passed away with cancer. Including my former father in law.
Atrozine and all that stuff is nasty. But, here is the ticker. They have to go to school and get training on the usage of that stuff and then have the farm licenses to use it, yet you or I can go down to Home Cheapo and buy that stuff right off the shelf.
We never used it on the small farm I grew up on. You can get corn to grown pretty well if you get it up above the weeds by cultivation. These chemicals are used to help save on the costs of cultivating. It would be near impossible to cultivate corn, and other row crops, on a large corporate farm. Costs would be unreal.
More WHO BS
Interestingly, DDT is fairly simple to make if you have the precursor chemicals. There's the rub. Chloral Hydrate, the precursor to DDT, is a controlled substance. So really have to make Chloral Hydrate first, and then the DDT. The recipes are available on the internet. If you can make a chocolate cake from scratch, then homemade DDT is a cinch.
They spray potatoes to kill the plants before harvest. Once they are dead and dry, they begin to harvest.
Thats one thing I never did. Work on a potato farm back in the day shoveling spuds into the grader. Lots of my school friends did though. Now days, they wouldnt allow kids to do menial work like that. Its demeaning you know...HA!
But I did clean barn on our small farm and went out with my dad and brothers peeling popple pulpwood though. Three cents a stick. 300 sticks a day..7 days a week until the bark started to stick.
I’ve never heard of that before. Is that common?
That’s making “organic” food look better and better. I’ve generally not been willing to pay the premium for “organic,” but maybe it requires another look.
BTW, the Asian Long horned beetle is one that will devistate all broad leaf trees nationwide if left to get loose. That is..Oaks, Maples, Aspens, Popplars, Ashes, etc.
100% fact.
Another is the European beech bark disease. That one came over to Nova Scotia in the 1800s.
BTW, the Juniper trees/bushes are dying along I 40 at Ash Fork Az. They, the gubermint, are claiming its the lack of rain. I told them they are full of crap. Its a type of blight.
That SOB area ever gets lit up by someone throwing out a smoke from their car and all hell will break loose.
Would you really like Phoenix better with WEED POLLEN everywhere? I’m much further south with a few acres of land. Without the help of generic Roundup and a backpack sprayer, my land would be covered in nasty weeds - sometimes growing waist high.
No gravel landscaping here, but tomorrow morning Mr Generic & I are going to start killing a whole lot of little weeds before they become big weeds.
A farmer who sprays thousands of acres may have issues. I doubt my twice a year treatment, spraying weeds by hand, will cause me cancer. But then, I’ve been vaccinated for anthrax, other weird military stuff and COVID. No telling what I’ll die from.
Atrazine became common in the early 1960s on farms. My Dad says the local elevator hosted a meeting for farmers with a representative of CIBA-Geigy explaining atrazine. He also explained how safe it was all the while he was mixing some up. At the end of the meeting he DRANK it. If he was using the real thing his grave is probably still glowing.
“... regulators have agreed with the companies in concluding there is no cancer risk with glyphosate. European officials reaffirmed that view in an 11,000-page report issued last month....
Concerns about glyphosate have mounted since 2015 when the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen based on scientific studies conducted by independent researchers.”
If it was made in China, I’d bet the WHO would approve of it!
The reason I only buy organic steel cut oats.
“Atrazine has recently been associated with causing imbalances in hormone levels in laboratory animals, possibly disrupting reproductive and developmental processes on a short-term basis. Following a 2002 risk assessment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that atrazine is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.”
https://drinktap.org/Water-Info/Whats-in-My-Water/Atrazine
So it’s not that studies are faked to show cause cancer when it doesn’t ?
Wonder how they know that ?
Oh yeah, they hate capitalism.
“ I doubt my twice a year treatment, spraying weeds by hand, will cause me cancer.
If your skin is covered completely, your eyes, and you have a face mask…
You’ll reduce your odds.
And don’t spray near anything you’ll eat.
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