Weed Killer Under Attack From Tree Huggers

townhall.com ^ | 6/24/2017 | Brian Darling

[rktman]

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.

[Renegade]

If it’s that bad,spray them with it so they wither and go away.

[Renegade]

I prefer to use Agent Orange.

[AndyJackson]

Common sense prevailed for once.

In HOA?! You get the liar of the day award!

[rktman]

Well, in calibfornia, the air is KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER. I believe I even saw that warning on a shovel I bought. So, no digging for me.

[Mr. Lucky]

Not a terribly persuasive response.

[ferret_airlift]

I saw Hoppes 9 caused cancer in rats in California. I have dutifully avoided using rats to clean my guns since.

Regardless, I have much poison ivy the treehuggers need to come dig out for me if I can’t poison it.

[thirst4truth]

Thanks for the tip, way cheaper than chemicals.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Roundup is bad stuff.

[Dixie Yooper]

I’m not trying to win agreement or lie to anyone. If none of this matters to any of you, get outside and start killing weeds. It’s Saturday. Quit bragging about what you’re going to do your ground water and go do it.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“it goes on the leaves and stays there, it never reaches the soil, totally safe.

It goes into the roots of the plant. It goes into the soil.

Worse, it goes into humans.

[SeeSharp]

This is really an indirect attack on genetically modified crops. The most common genetic modification in use is the one that makes food crops resistant to Roundup.