Posted on 04/25/2026 10:12:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dan Blaustein-Rejto is the director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute.
John Durnell, a Missouri man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is arguing that glyphosate’s manufacturer, Monsanto, failed to warn users of the chemical’s danger. The company claims that it should not have to add a cancer warning to product labels because the Environmental Protection Agency does not classify the herbicide as a carcinogen.
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Reminds me of when Dow’s Freon patent ran out and generic Freon was showing up in the market, then Freon was suddenly determined to be too dangerous and was outlawed and the only solution was Dow’s newly patented Freon replacement.
It is a shame that MAHA has embraced communism. The markets should be free to determine this sort of thing.
I was told the lighted end of a cigarette could generate enough heat around Freon to form phosgene gas very toxic. On submarines we used chillers to cool equipment and the boat. Obviously we had a closed atmosphere, so we monitored for leaks and didn’t smoke around our chiller units. Round up like any farm chemicals have ways to mitigate handling hazards. I’ve used Round Up for years. Read the MSDS sheets on everything you work with. Don’t breathe it, don’t get it on your skin, or in your eyes. Use your head for something beside a freaking hat rack. I have a 2 gallon jug of Round Up for my little 6 acre horse pasture. I’m 74 years old. Use your head people. Water will kill you if you screw around. IMO
some strawberry farmer moved a mile down the road from my daughter’s house in North Idaho. They were on ten acres, part of which they gardened. Strawberry farmer used roundup,so much that it was detected in their water supply.
Their drinking water or irrigation water? We have canals here in SE Idaho but I don’t drink out of them or bath in them. That crap is expensive, I use mine sparingly. Seems odd. Round Up kills straw berries.
When I was a boy, there were almost no Bald Eagles in Virginia. I thought I would die without ever seeing one. Now Bald Eagles are common in Virginia. Magnificent national symbol. After a lot of thought, I finally must confess that Rachel Carson was right.
The sad thing about Rachel Carson is that she was a smoker, and died of breast cancer two years after her famous book was published. She was a country girl, and grew up on a farm. She was close to nature all her life. She learned about nature by living it on her family farm.
The reason I ask canal or well is to get in a well takes awhile but the canal companies (at least around me keep the canal banks clean with burning and I’m sure they spray.” It would not surprise me to find traces of a herbicide in a canal water. My well is 230’ deep, a strawberry farm next door won’t affect me till 2033 unless he pours it down my well. Which will get him shot.
Actually, unless he put it in my well or the canal traveled to the aquifer directly I’d never see it because the chemical chain would break down. If it’s in their drinking water they need to do some (pardon the pun) digging.
“President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February aimed at strengthening domestic production of glyphosate”
“After a lot of thought, I finally must confess that Rachel Carson was right.”
Markets are too distance to notice individual dangers. It would be best for the farming industries not to look for an alternative substance but to change the current methods. I doubt that will happen.
They literally spray this crap on wheat before harvest. You do not have a choice. There is, in comparison, a tiny organic market for glyphosate-free wheat.
There is no “free market”.
Freon was banned in the US not because it’s dangerous but because of the “ozone hole”, a global hysteria which proved so effective to scare the shit out of the populace that it was used as a template to spawn an even bigger scam, global warming/climate change/climate apocalypse.
Freon is still widely used in China, Japan, etc... A perfectly fine product gone to waste because of fearmongering.
“Dan Blaustein-Rejto is the Director of Food & Agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute. His work examines how public policy can support environmentally and socially beneficial agricultural innovations such as methane-reducing cattle feeds and alternative proteins. Dan has led multi-stakeholder projects to identify technical options to decarbonize agriculture, assess federal policy gaps and opportunities, and build coalitions to advance climate-smart agriculture.”
https://thebreakthrough.org/people/dan-blaustein-rejto
Using glyphosate on grain immediately before harvest - to dry down - has got to increase human intake over using it before sowing. And glyphosate tolerant corn, as well. Which enters the food chain as animal feed as well.
We produced grain in abundance before these practices.
And maybe without an ethanol mandate we wouldn’t need quite as much.
In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased threshold levels in both oats and wheat; in the case of oats, the allowable threshold for final processed grain was raised from 0.1 per million (ppm) to 30 ppm.
https://ensia.com/features/glyphosate-drying/#:~:text=Two%20years%20before%20the%20first,and%20dries%20in%20the%20field.
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