Posted on 04/26/2026 7:26:21 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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I hope enough people show up to make it count. Pictures show proof that people care it.
Sitting on couches is not the way to save the country. I hope more people care enough to get up and defend America.
Andrew Breitbart always said politics is downstream of culture
‘Round Up’... the usual suspects.
Glyphosate restrictions around the world:
https://downloads.regulations.gov/EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0385-0235/attachment_17.pdf
Know who was Monsantos lead lawyer?
Phil Perry.. Liz Cheny’s husband. Follow the money.
Great if you like weeds.
Unfortunately, for now and for years to come, glyphosate is a necessary evil in commercial agriculture. Getting off the couch to vilify and try to ban it is energetic advocacy for bad policy. MAHA would do better to press for better health through better nutrition via higher quality foods, including processed foods.
MAHA moms and citizens were a key swing voting bloc in the Trump coalition. And they have no loyalty to any party, just to key points of their agenda. Politicians dismiss them at their own peril.
Better Amazon another two and a half gallons on concentrate STAT!
Somehow people managed to farm before glyphosate was released
Yes, RoundUp is great in small, carefully-applied quantities for fighting weeds. But farmers spray it in huge quantities on their grain crops a couple of days before harvesting. It dessicates the plants and makes them easier to harvest and ups per-acre yields. Virtually every product on the market containing American grain will show traces of glyphosate. (Buy imported pasta!)
Application on weeds is great, I use it. But spraying it directly on an edible crop to synchronize ripening needs an alternative.
Best I can tell overall the agenda is a big government agenda. At least in this instance, it is.
Still, I hope they have a huge protest. We need to re-mainstream the idea that we do our Constitutional and civic duties.
I think this means a new and even more toxic herbicide for large Ag application has been developed.
This is just like the gun grabbers: blaming the tool instead of the users.
I've relied upon glyphosate for our native plant restoration project for 30 years. We took a catastrophically overgrown property with a 200-year weed history from 60 remaining species to now 400 plant species. I never could have done it without glyphosate. It would have been impossible. On 14 acres, I use only a couple of quarts per year in foliar sprays, most of which is out of hand squirt bottles that can put down a spot as small as a centimeter.
Glyphosate may be the only way we can restore a sane redwood stand density because of the way the species sprouts from the root crown. Although I do burn down stumps, that doesn't get the root sprouts. Experiments in sprout control are ongoing, but the results are promising.
Antibiotics are not good for you, but without them many would die. It's the same with herbicides. After a treatment, we should inoculate with plants, seed, and mocroflora. Don't buy the lawyers' scam. It only feeds the big chemical companies with more toxic and patented alternatives.
“Andrew Breitbart always said politics is downstream of culture “
Isn’t it ironic that it’s endorsed by somebody called “ProgressingAmerica”? Subverting language and calling white black, you sound like a sneaky leftist.
Correct. It's glufosinate ammonium. It's the same damned game as was played with DDT and Freon: ban the product when the patent expires.
Bayer bought Monsanto. The patent on glyphosate had run out. Private label producers had jumped into the market. What to do? Make glyphosate a carcinogen! Guess where the original study fingering glyphosate was done? Germany. And it was the typical study with outrageous dosages.
The reason Bayer bought Monsanto was for the "Roundup Ready" seed technology. They had glufosinate ammonium patented and ready, complete with glufosinate ammonium tolerant seed.
So, once California lawyers latched onto it, the fear of lawsuits terrified every private label producer out of the market, and Monsanto had their monopoly back. Oh but the settlements have been so big that Bayer is bitching.
Best laid plans.
“Know who was Monsantos lead lawyer?
Phil Perry.. Liz Cheny’s husband. Follow the money.”
I love dandelion, skerrit, queen Anne’s lace root..very nutritious and tasty.
NO… Monsanto’s Roundup does not cause cancer
And so on. The "ozone hole" that supposedly justified banning freon was actually caused by a volcano.
As the world starts to use AI, this kind of BS is only going to get worse. The problem is that the consequences of exotic species and "preserving the environment" include mass extinctions. This isn't about whether or not a chemical or technology is perfect; it's about how to minimize competing risks in each particular instance. We don't know enough to be making blanket prescriptions as policy.
WTF is wrong with you..the only sucker is you, IDIOT.
GFY
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