Posted on 06/28/2026 4:24:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Prominent activists with the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement are raging and saying they feel betrayed after the Supreme Court sided with pesticide maker Monsanto on Thursday and said it did not need to put a warning label about a potential cancer risk associated with its Roundup weedkiller.
The backlash could test the movement’s ties with the Republican Party, especially after the Trump administration backed Monsanto in the case.
Several studies have found a link between glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, and cancer, including a major study from last year. Bayer and Monsanto have denied any such connection.
But MAHA followers have long been alarmed by the idea, and many have grown impatient with a White House that has largely resisted their calls for tighter regulation of pesticides.
In April, President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and high-level administration officials held a private meeting with MAHA activists to hear their complaints and try to smooth over any ill-will.
Later that month, a MAHA-led coalition rallied outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments, saying people should be able to hold companies accountable.
Inside, the justices heard arguments — including some by the Department of Justice — that companies should be protected.
For some MAHA supporters, Thursday’s verdict showed that despite Trump’s alliance with Kennedy, the administration would rather prioritize the interests of pesticide makers.
“A lot of MAHA voters are realizing they’ve been snookered, they’ve been had by Republicans that had no intention of protecting their health. It’s just a talking point that they added,” said David Murphy, founder of United We Eat and finance director of Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
Murphy said the decision could be a tipping point for MAHA voters, who have historically...
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I disagree. The correlation is conflated with high usage of other pesticides and industrial chemicals among the population sample.
I don't think you are questioning my truism that the cure for "bad policy is good policy", only that we cannot always know with certainty what good policy is.
To which individual variation and changing background conditions also apply.
none
Wrong! They have developed crops, such as corn and soybeans that are resistant to Roundup. You plant soybeans don’t till when weeds show up then spray Roundup. Viola! Clean soybean fields Roundup kills grasses and weed. 2-4D kills broad leaf crap like thistle and stuff. My personal favorite 2-4D is LV-6, but each to his own.
Wondering if many of the weeds today have built up a tolerance to it.
I still use it. Just wear proper equipment and wash up with some dish soap outside before going indoors.
Wash your spraying clothes seperate from everything else.
Thank you.
Check the level of concentration of your Roundup. Hardware store RU is not AG supplier RU. The Agriculture Supplier is selling commercial/ farmer strength chemical concentrates. I live in spud/malt barley/alfalfa country. Our fertilizer/chemical suppliers are helping farmers with 10’s of thousands of acres of crops. I don’t buy elk rifles at toy stores and I don’t buy my little horse ranch chemicals from Home Depot. Just saying. Be safe. 👍
I believe that the fermentation of sourdough bread kills pesticides used on the wheat.
Yep, roundup ready corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, etc.
Crop rotation was pretty effective at weed control 60+ years ago: corn, oats, soybeans, hay rotated worked. Plus the moldboard plow buried weed seed too deep to sprout. Timely rowcrop cultivation.
That and some 2,4,d on corn. Were the fields entirely weed free? No, but we had good crops.
Genetics have made the biggest changes in corn. The upright leaf that catches more sunlight than the old style horseshoe leaf has allowed for higher seeding population rates. I have heard that fungicides (which are now commonly sprayed twice a growing season) have given approx 20 bushels more per acre.
One thing I’m certain of: the ag sector is almost totally reliant on pesticides. Most moldboard plows and rowcrop cultivators have been scrapped.
I think equipment and fuel costs weigh in on why farming moved to chemicals. No till with spraying verses tractor fuel, cultivation, equipment maintenance costs more. Plus added acreage under production and man-hour costs too. It ain’t my old sickle bar and hay rake and B-John Deere days any more.
The first study that I think you are thinking about is a secondhand study from France in 1950’s. No one could duplicate that study.
Hey I live among farmers and I can’t keep up with stuff. The old ways I know are totally gone. We planted seeds grabbed a hoe grew food. Most people don’t know a bean book from a fish hook. A farmer friend took a ninety year old farmer from his church for a ride in a hay swather a while back. Explained the GPS track steering to him. This old man cut hay as a young man with a horse drawn sickle bar mower. The old man was amazed. Jim said he couldn’t believe it, hay rows you could survey by. And farming is getting more tech savvy. They know the MSDS sheets, yield/per acre, water requirements, and how to run spreadsheets on a MAC. They ain’t the old dumbass farmer down the road anymore and their wives and kids know stuff too. Takes a lot to feed this country and a good portion of the world. IMO
Thanks for the link to your website. Your property is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
You presume a binary choice. There are other management modalities available you know, particularly markets trading competing actuarially-estimated risks.
Thank you. The project has produced a ton of new science, so I hope you avail yourself of especially the site history with its unique insights into aboriginal management capabilities. I could keep an entire graduate school busy dealing with the implications. We just found species #402 this month, showing up in TWO places 150yds apart and over four miles from the only place it's ever been seen in the entire county.
The Shill is just writing an article trying to split the MAHA people from Trump. No where in their archives will you find a similar article saying this about past democrap administrations.
>> How many cancers caused by Roundup
You tell us! SHOW YOUR WORK.
>> Those who use glyphosate already know about the risks. Any more than that is a matter of hysterics.
^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^
I use glyphosate sparingly, but whenever I need it I use it. I use proper protective equipment etc. I have a TX pesticide applicator license, and I understand the risks and responsibilities thereof.
So the ambulance chasing lawyers and hangers-on can go to H.
>> It ain’t my old sickle bar and hay rake and B-John Deere days any more.
LOL! I’m bringin’ em back. NH451, model 55 FNH rake. Baler is new though.
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