Posted on 06/24/2017 6:13:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
For over two years now, environmental activists and anti-industry groups have been raging against the U.S. government, the European Union, and practically anybody else that would listen about the herbicide glyphosate.
Glyphosate is a weed killer and the main ingredient in RoundUp. Weed killers are obviously a critical tool for American farmers and farmers around the world. The left-wingers are attacking weed killers despite the chemical receiving a clean bill of health from both the EPA and Europe’s main food safety and chemical authorities.
PRI.org reported late last year that “in November 2015, the European Food Safety Authority, or EFSA, found that glyphosate was ‘unlikely’ to cause cancer in humans. In the US, the EPA released a report that also said glyphosate was unlikely to cause cancer. That report was posted online in late April, but disappeared three days later. The EPA says that, although the report was labeled ‘final’ on every page, it was prematurely released.” Yet the left wingers are protesting from California to France and have been marching in the streets and testing their own urine to get it banned or restricted.
The impact to consumers of the anti-weed killer mafia would be to ban glyphosate, the most widely-used agricultural chemical of all time. U.S. farmers use 300 million pounds of the stuff each year. While anti-glyphosate activists argue that all that use is a threat to public health, they now have a major problem in trying to make their story stick.
Reuters reported on June 14, 2017 in a bombshell article titled “The WHO's cancer agency left in the dark over glyphosate evidence,” that “When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France in March 2015, there was something he wasn’t telling them. The epidemiologist from the U.S. National Cancer Institute had seen important unpublished scientific data relating directly to a key question the IARC specialists were about to consider: Whether research shows that the weedkiller glyphosate, a key ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling RoundUp brand, causes cancer.” It appears that the one study that drives their entire campaign has been exposed as bogus.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found that the weed killer was “probably carcinogenic,” yet the review’s chairman ignored some evidence that contradicted that conclusion. In fact, and according to EcoWatch, Blair himself worked on the decades-long Agricultural Health Study (AHS), which debunked allegations of a link between glyophosphate exposure and cases of cancer. The scientist was part of a team that looked at health data from 89,000 U.S. farm workers and family members that dated back to the 1990s on. Earlier data from that study had already found no link between the two, and the latest findings only strengthened that case. And Blair testified that the data would have changed the IARC’s whole analysis.
For some reason, this report was never published. Results oriented scientific research has no place in this type of important analysis. This cuts the legs out of the protesters who are relying on this IARC “study” to work over governments to ban the popular weed killer. According to the Reuters story, one of Blair’s researchers emailed him before a 2015 meeting that “it would be irresponsible if we didn't seek publication of our NHL manuscript in time to influence IARCs decision." Three years later, that data has yet to be published because as Blair states, “you couldn’t put all that in one paper.”
One reason why Americans should be angry with results oriented scientific research is that they pay for it. American taxpayers’ money pays for IARC’s work through the World Health Organization and the United Nations, in addition to direct grants from the U.S. government.
In Europe, the head of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) came under attack by green campaigners because his researchers dared contradict IARC’s conclusion. For mild-mannered scientists, EFSA raised eyebrows for coming out swinging against what it called “Facebook science.”
The federal government and the states rely on IARC to make determinations of what substances can be linked to cancer. Sept. 11 first responders relied on the IARC to determine that 15 of the compounds present at the World Trade Center were known carcinogens. Yet, in this case the new revelations have spurred talk of withdrawing the IARC glyphosate monograph that is the underpinning of a pending case against RoundUp in California right now. The IARC needs to fix the deliberative process and stop suppressing scientific evidence that contradicts the finding they want to conclude. The public deserves an organization to produce an accurate judge of potential cancer hazards – the IARC has called into question whether they deserve to be that source for reliable scientific analysis.
Round Up isn’t a weed killer. It kills every damned thing. Especially grass when you grab it instead of the Weed-B-Gone.
All this lawn crap is killing insects. I hardly see any butterflies. My lawn is 50% weeds. Still looks nice and green.
Here's a link from an anti-chemical outfit, but the ag people at North Dakota State University are quoted in it, and they know their stuff.
So, are these tree-huggers volunteering to remove weeds and unwanted vegetation from my yard for FREE?
“A good friend of mine......went through chemo for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”
There’s increasing evidence of a glyphosate-Lymphoma connection, as well as other cancers.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26614-monsanto-s-roundup-linked-to-cancer
There are too many neurotoxins in our bodies. This is one of them. Everything we eat, touch, and breathe reaches our bloodstream and has the potential to do damage to our brains.
There is an epidemic of babies born with neurological issues from mild to severe. There is an epidemic of older people coming down with beurodegenerstive diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. WE ARE DOING SOME THINGS WRONG and we need to examine and change our practices of every substance that causes neurological damage.
A lot of these products and their marketing are SINISTER.
Round up is one: genetically modifying seeds and plants to withstand huge amounts of it to make growing easier, but then humans will eat those plants laden with glyphosate and from soils contaminated.
Problem is that the public doesn’t understand that when we eat plants grown in a soil, we eat that soil. The plant is made from it and we end up being made from that plant. If it just made people vomit after eating, NO ONE WOULD TOUCH IT. But it doesn’t; it adds to the cumulative neurotoxicity inside us and brings slow, long term sequelae like poisoning your uterus, helping your next baby have brain issues, or causing your later years to be mired in heart wrenching difficulty.
I don’t believe Snopes but I don’t believe Eco watch they have an agenda.
They don’t sell Round-up ready wheat, they have developed it but it hasn’t been approved and it could be 10 years or more.
As far as desiccating, there are products meant for that which are way cheaper than RU and just a electrolyzed compound of salt and bleach.
If farmers are using it wrong then that should be combatted but just because some organization says it is so doesn’t mean it is, they’ve been known to lie.
NO it isn’t. it would kill the wheat too. Think about it, your first premise is they use it before harvest to kill the wheat and the weeds for harvest.
If it kills the mature wheat it would sure as heck kill it at any stage.
There is no RU ready wheat for sale.
Shades of DDT. Perhaps we’ve grown up a little since then.
I am not a liberal but I’d like this product banned. Or severe warnings on every product or produce made with it.
I believe if we don’t take care of our soft tissues like brain matter and fertility we won’t exist long. Gd gave us this world but we are supposed to use our brains to make the world better. These diseases of the brain and reproductive systems aren’t making the world better.
Aspartame / sucralose is another insidious brain destroyer that is sneaked into products for reasons of back door greed. All “light” yogurts and beverages have it, and the best deal of all for the makers of this poison is the chewing gum deal. IT IS IN EVERY COMMERCIAL BRAND OF CHEWING GUM, even the sugar gums.
The agenda is simply a matter of priorities. I place the neurological and reproductive health of humans over the success of the round up and sucralose companies. It’s a wise and long term priority.
Ah, well I was talking about rodenticide...not herbicide.
Basic Roundup cannot be used on lawns—it kills pretty much everything. Can’t say I have never used it, but not in veggie garden.
For lawn, I pretty much just use Milorganite...although some years I have put down grub control...don’t want to get too many grubs eating roots...they turn large patches of grass white :(
Try this. 1 gallon white vinegar, 1-2 tbsp dish washing soap (cheapest you can find), and add lemon juice to add acidity. Spray with a pump style sprayer.
“Problem is that the public doesn’t understand that when we eat plants grown in a soil, we eat that soil.”
It’s not really very complicated, lol.
What is Roundup/glyphosate? Poison. It kills plants. That’s what it is designed to do. When it is sprayed on food crops, people are consuming poison with their food. It’s not rocket science. Plenty of people trust in the FDA, EPA, and Monsanto when they’re told it’s ok to eat a product which is designed to kill things. If our elected officials, who continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars donated from Monsanto, says it’s safe for humans to consume plant poison, then by golly, it must be safe! Yummy!
tiki, then perhaps you will believe Monsanto, that advocated spraying before harvest for just this purpose.
See post 60 in this thread and read what they actually wrote.
Will the vinegar’s scent attract flies or other insects?
Does it take care of crabgrass?
Thx ...
Personally, I like stacking the odds in my favor in everything, especially with my health and with the health of those in my care.
Over the last few years I've had a major change of mind and habits regarding the foods I eat and feed my dogs, as well as the chemicals used on my yard.
Three years ago, my two dogs were in bad shape in spite of my feeding them the best bagged and canned food available, with skin and ear issues, joint pains, allergy issues and one dog failing the liver part of his wellness test.
During my research, the only thing I could find to help them was to change their diet to an all organic, non-GMO, whole food diet and it worked!
Their skin issues are gone, allergy issues are gone, the arthritis issues have disappeared and for the first time in their lives, my two springer spaniels have perfectly clean ears! No more ear problems!!!
I now keep them away from all yards that have been sprayed and no longer spray my back yard, which is their yard.
I changed my diet to match and my health has also improved. My spring allergies haven't bothered me since and the arthritis problems have also gone away. Only occasionally do my joints hurt.
After hanging out with my mom in various elder care facilities in her last years, including locked down memory care, I want to avoid the memory and dementia related problems I witnessed in those places.
As such, I don't want Roundup and the rest of our better living through chemicals anywhere near me and mine and especially want that stuff far, far away from the food we eat.
Getting older is tough enough as it is. Life is good and I'd like to enjoy it in good health for as long as I have left.
Hmm, I tried Roundup concentrate first; if that doesn’t do it, then I’ll try the gasoline.
Would the kind of gas (just a little) for lawn tools be OK?
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