yet it's glyphosate's fault even tho it's been in use for decades ?
color me unconvinced.
DUH. And what do you think it does to our equally necessary microbiota???
Honeybees are an invasive species. The enviros ought to be search for effective pesticides that will kill the European honeybees while leaving native pollinators alone.
color me unconvinced.
Bee shortage is a lie.
Could they please make a version of Roundup that is toxic to mosquitos?
Those weedy plants aren't generally the plants with flowers that bees feed upon.
So, I wonder, if Roundup is the culprit, how it is being used and on what plants it is used for the burn down.
Monsanto is now owned by Bayer.
Bayer is facing massive lawsuits on 3 fronts....ill effects of contrast dye from medical imaging, essure birth control, and now Roundup.
It’s cha-ching time for the lawyers.
Glyphosate increases the strength of butterfly wings such that a butterfly in the Congo causes increased eddy currents that travel to Africa and create tropical disturbances of the coast of Sierra Leone.
Cat 5 hurricanes! We all gonna die!
Before the government can properly utilize our earning potential....
The "mystery of the worldwide deaths of honeybees" is looking more and more like it's as real as "global warming".
If it was actually a problem, honey production in the US would collapse at some point. Instead, it looks like it fluctuates a bit year-to-year, but is staying relatively consistent: https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1blue2.png
Further, if glyphosate was in any way affecting bee populations, it would be most evident in states which use a lot of glyphosate and have high honey production: North and South Dakota and Minnesota.
US use of glyphosate is six times as much as it was twenty years ago. Where is the evidence that it is affecting bee populations?
This hypothesis needs to be confirmed ASAP.
The stakes are huge either way.
But if it wills off honey bees, it’s the most dangerous substance in all of agriculture, and one of the most dangerous in the world.
“Understanding how glyphosate impacts bee gut symbionts and bee health will help elucidate a possible role of this chemical in colony decline.”
So they admit they don’t know whether it impacts the bees at all, that it’s all speculation and maybe a possibility.
This is all BS. There is so much crap out there passing for science. If this causes cancer, why aren’t all the landscape workers dying of cancer?
OOooooooo! MonSAAANNNTTOooo!
BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA!
I’ve just met ONE TOO MANY individuals who — when you say “Monsanto” — totally wig out and their head twists around like Linda Blair in “The Exorcist.”
Glyphosate is a glycine mimic that absorbs through plant leaves and stems and binds to the active site of the critical enzyme EPSP synthase inhibitng its function in the production of other amino acids that plants and bacteria require to survive. Rendered unable to produce these vital amino acids, the plant cannot sustain the cellular mechanisms that transport nutrients and water to the stem and leaves, so the plant wilts, dehydrates, and dies. Because EPSP synthase is present in highest concentration in the growth areas of plants, glyphosate accumulates in these aeras, and does not break down until the plant has died and begins to decay.
Once in the soil, glyphosate adsorbs onto the soil particles, and remains immobile unless the soil itself is transported by some means, which would include surface erosion by wind or water. Glphosate is broken down by microbes in the soil into inert organic compaunds: nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. How long that takes depends on the soil and the amound of glyphosate, but the half-life of glyphosate in soil has been observed to be anywhere from 1 to 174 days. Glyphosate in soil is not absorbed by other plants, which is why you can plant a treated area mere days after treating the weeds in that same area. Because of this, glyphosate in the soil is bound TO the soil, it is unavailable for uptake into plants subsequently grown on treated land, and is thus not present to be ingested by consumers of those plants.
More detail here:
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html
Oh bullshiite. Monsanto has awful business practices, but trashing roundup based on bad science is marxist territory. They almost ruined them with bad science regarding roundup and cancer. It was complete BS suitable for contrail, antivax kookville crowds. In other words, Useful Idiots.
That and "core"... SMH
Here come the Freepers who defend poisoning the environment. They are, I expect, at least strongly overlapping with Freepers who love to defend pit bulls and those who advocate the intentional killing of neighbors’ cats.