Posted on 03/21/2015 9:23:30 AM PDT by opentalk
The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency has declared that one of the UK’s most widely used weedkillers is “probably carcinogenic to humans”.
Amateur gardeners and professional farmers have been urged to “think very carefully” about using the popular herbicide Roundup, which contains glyphosate.
A summary of the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) report, published in The Lancet Oncology, said that the herbicide had been detected “in air during spraying, in water, and in food”.It had also been detected “in the blood and urine of agricultural workers, indicating absorption”.
...The IARC's report said that its use has increased sharply with the development of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant crop varieties.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
No kidding? Sorry for the hijack, but any suggestions for killing crabgrass in St. Augustine?
That makes at least 2 of us. :-) And another one. Playing with the Mercury when we broke open a thermometer to roll it around in our hands and polish nickels with it.
Pretty good bet that he is, since he was probably around 30yrs. old when driving the truck which would make him 95 if he is still alive. :-)
It's even worse than being sprayed. It's being genetically modified to produce the toxins (pesticides).
Not one GMO crop has been modified for higher yield or gain. They have only been modified for getting rid of pests and weed control to ave on labor costs. It's a common misconception that they are being engineered to "feed the world".
Additionally, there have been very few studies of the effects of GMOs on humans. No one is studying what’s actually happening to us while we serve as Monsanto’s guinea pigs eating up their “safe” poisons.
“Monsanto’s Roundup is Killing Human Kidney Cells”
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“No kidding? Sorry for the hijack, but any suggestions for killing crabgrass in St. Augustine?”
Pull it up by the roots.
Can you support this claim?
Thanks for the info. After seeing how Monsanto has sued farmers who never bought their seed, but had fields that were inadvertently pollinated by their neighbor’s Monsanto crops, I promptly became anti-Monsanto and pro-small farmer.
Learning how it effects our bodies has made me an even stronger opponent to GMO foods. Your info has further steeled my reserve to try to keep corn and soy out of my kids’ diet. Is sweet corn also GMO or is it mainly feed corn?
Buying meat that has not been fed GMO corn or soy is not in the realm of possibility for me. My kids need to eat.
Yesterday I got test results back that show I have Graves Disease. Explains why I have felt so awful for so long. It is an autoimmune disease, my gut/immune system is out of whack. Obviously, there is no way of knowing whether a diet high in GMO foods affected me this way, but if it affects your gut then it could be a contributor.
“So, to be clear, eating GMO corn products can cause your gut (which is primarily responsible for keeping you healthy) to turn into a breeding ground for tiny little pesticide factories inside your body, actively creating toxins which are designed to kill living things. “
Garbage. The bT will not even harm a fly ...
“Thanks for the info.”
You don’t really believe his crap, do you?
“It’s also been linked to autism.”
UFO’s have been linked to missing persons, also ...
“Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Could a UFO have interfered with Flight MH370?”
In an interview with Huffington Post, MUFON’s Pennsylvania State Director John Ventre said: “Between black boxes, transponders, radar, debris fields, explosion and missile strike signatures, evidence is always left behind. The one explanation that some researchers are considering is that the plane and its passengers were abducted by extraterrestrials.”
Playing with mercury - I’ll tell you what “playing with mercury” was.
Years ago, I worked in the Chemistry Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I was in charge of supplies for the various chemistry laboratories for undergraduates and graduates. One of the substances they used was liquid elemental mercury, and they used it in VAST quantities, tons, in fact.
While in use, mercury becomes contaminated with various oxides and other metals, and it was the policy of the Chemistry Department to reclaim as much of this mercury as they could. It fell to me to do the job of reclaiming this mercury, and they had a specific protocol at the time. Now, remember, this was before OSHA or the EPA were even around, so these methods may seem a little - primitive.
The first step was to set up huge (20-liter) aspirator flasks, which are kind of like very heavy-duty Erlenmeyer flasks, with a tube just below the neck, to which a piece of rubber hosing could be connected, then filled with about 300 pounds of mercury. A rubber stopper with a length of glass tubing that extended nearly to the bottom of the flask was inserted, and a small beaker filled with spun glass as a filter was set on top. About 5 liters of a very strong Sodium Hydroxide solution was poured on top of the mercury, then the rubber hose was connected to a special faucet that created a lowered air pressure in the aspiration fixture, using the flow of water to provide the vacuum necessary to draw air down through the mercury and cause it to bubble, stirring the mercury so the NaOH would scrub all the grease and oils and organics dissolved in the mercury. This was set up to run 24 hours a day, for seven days, the NaOH solution changed daily, by siphoning it off the top of the mercury,
And just dumping it down the drain, where it eventually found its way into Lake Mendota.
After the first week, the aqueous solution was changed to Nitric Acid, a strong oxidizing agent, and one that reacts with most metals NOT mercury, and the process was similar to what was done with the Sodium Hydroxide rinse. Change the solution every day, and dump it down the sink.
Right now, there are people saying there are SO many things wrong here, but it goes on. Once the reclaimed mercury was finally dewatered for the last time, it was decanted into 200 ml bottles, by first pouring the mercury out of the aspirator flasks, into a huge beaker, then dipping the bottle into the pool of mercury, filling it, then capping it. Al this was done in open air, with the operator (me) standing over the process. There was a good chance that I probably had some mercury poisoning, but that was some 50 years ago, and maybe it has all left my system. If not, then it is still there, as elemental mercury dissolves at only a very small rate in any aqueous solution.
That is why I do not get too excited over a broken CFL bulb, just throwing it in the trash without much concern about complying with some EPA cleanup and hazard suit requirements. That amount of mercury that may be in a CFL is miniscule to what I was exposed to, and the “hazard” is much overstated.
As an aside note, it is impossible to thrust your arm and hand deeper than a few inches into a pool of mercury. The specific gravity causes most everything to float back up, and the weight is crushing the deeper the push.
Thanks for the info.
More FUD from the environmentalists - using the weed killers they recommend is like pissing in the ocean hoping to make it saltier.
There is no alternative to glyphosate which can effectively kill grasses and weeds - a weed is any unwanted plant.
This campaign is much like the anti-DDT campaign which has killed nearly 3 billion people so far.
Turns out that that DDT spray we soaked up as kids was actuall a good thing.
see here:
Radical Environmentalism’s Death Campaigns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270431/posts
“... Why would Audubon do such a thing? Its own research and Department of the Interior studies showed that bird and animal populations were exploding during the two decades when DDT was used most widely. Countless other studies documented that the life-saving chemical was safe for humans and most wildlife, including bald eagles. People actually tried to kill themselves with DDT – and repeatedly failed. “
It was banned by Nixon’s EPA director William Ruckelshaus in the hopes that world “overpopulation” could be solved by allowing billions to be exposed to malaria and die.
Me either.
You have a choice, and it appears you've made it, you've chosen cheap food.
There is a reason the food is cheap, in fact, it's the lowest priced food that's ever been in the entire history of the world.
That reason is that the American Farmer, along with a lot of other folks, have built a Food Production Machine unlike anything else ever seen on the planet. EVER.
EVER
Think on that a moment.
There NEVER, EVER has been such a machine before.
You don't have to buy food that comes out of this amazing machine, but it's going to cost more if you don't.
Get down on you knees and praise God for the opportunities you have, and that opportunity is to CHOSE which system of food you want to eat. Otherwise you would be forced, along with everyone else, to pay more.
Bet he ate carrots. Seems most people who eat carrots die.
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