Posted on 10/23/2017 8:13:54 AM PDT by rktman
Another day, enough major science scandal involving corrupt, self-serving, ideologically-driven functionaries at the United Nations.
This one concerns the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, which has been caught promoting false claims about the weedkiller glyphosate.
According to a report issued back in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) there is “sufficient evidence” that glyphosate causes cancer in animals and “limited evidence” it can do so in humans.
As a result, glyphosate was categorized as a “Group 2a carcinogen” – leading to a proposed ban across the European Union beginning next year, as well as mass litigation in the U.S. against its manufacturer Monsanto Corp.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I bought as garden hoe from Home Depot last year that had a warning label that it somehow causes cancer in California.
It is well known that swallowing small bits of saliva for decades will cause cancer.....................
Jones town, kool aid? Why haven’t we banned kool aid?
All of my fishing taclke causes cancer in California. What a coincidence!
That is my biggest problem with GMO’s.
The genetically modified plant may, in fact, be fine (though I still think it risky business).
But the reason they GMO corn is so that it will grow in Roundup. With the end result being you end up eating corn that has been growing in Roundup.
The propaganda is so bad that a number of countries have banned the chemical based on the UN nonsense.
Then the anti-people activist Greens point to the countries that have banned it as proof that it is really bad.
And the problem with that is...
If you read the article.
yet MORE fake science ...
The prpblem with the glyphosate according to the documentary What’s Up with Wheat?, is they spray it on the plants right before harvest. It starts to kill the plants and makes the fruit ripen fast. It’s not considered harmful to humans - but that says nothing about the bioflora in out guts which may very well be affected by traces of glyphosate in wheat/bread, leading to the array of mysterious GI issues we see today.
“I bought as garden hoe from Home Depot last year that had a warning label that it somehow causes cancer in California.”
i can just hear Uncle Si delivering that line ...
I remember 40 years ago when they were spraying Malathion to kill the fruit fly in California. Everyone was in a tizzy saying it was going to kill us, then the Head Scientist DRANK a Whole Bottle of Malathion on LIVE TV.
He still gives interviews today!
California is threatening to secede. (They won’t.) If they did, you can be darn sure most of their goofy rules about everything will go out the window post-haste. If they didn’t, their people’s democratic republic would be paralyzed into collapse before the end of their first five-year plan.
I can't speak to the carcinogenic properties of garden hoses, but I cut a relatively new hose open to protect a power cord crossing a road. Based on the goop and slime I found I wouldn't even let the neighbors' dogs drink out of it.
Prop 65 has no hard numbers and douchebag lawyers like the guys who go around measuring toilet dimensions to the 1/2 inch and suing under ADA would sue anybody or thing that had minuscule traces of something remotely believed to be carcinogenic etc.
You prevent that by just putting a prop 65 sticker on everything you build or make.
Thank you for verifying some suspicions. Early this last August we took a Luther Tour in Germany. Most of the tour was in the former East Germany and a lot of the wheat was obviously ripe, but had not been harvested. In fact, much was lodged, which means that it was laying down. Often there were widely spaced tracks in the fields. Some kind of machine had gone to & fro in the unharvested crops. There were signs that the soil had been too wet to complete the harvest.
There were John Deere employees from the Quad Cities and they knew of no reason for traveling through pre-harvest wheat. We concluded that one possibility was that a ripening agent may be necessary because of the normally short harvesting season in that area. They expressed the opinion that the greens in would not allow such an application.
We have not raised wheat on our farm in southeast Nebraska, but there is no reason to use any kind of ripening agent in the US. Once the crop starts to mature, it drys rapidly on its own. No farmer will apply a chemical unless there is a probability of an economic gain. The application cost is approximately $10 per acre + chemical.
From: http://kswheat.com/the-truth-about-roundup-and-wheat-support-material
“The claims that Roundup agricultural herbicides are commonly doused on wheat crops a few days before harvest is not accurate. It is not routine for U.S. wheat producers to use Roundup, or other formulations of glyphosate, for pre-harvest applications. Although Roundup is labeled for pre-harvest applications at least 14 days before harvest as a desiccant or in order to control perennial weeds, it is uncommon for U.S. producers to make that application. As a point of clarification, in Canada it is more common for label-approved pre-harvest applications of Roundup brand herbicides due to the short growing season.”
Bring back DDT.
Well ya! Obliviously! Dihydrogen Monoxide is a major component of saliva! Studies show that 100percent of organisms exposed to that stuff eventually dies!
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