Round-Up Ratted Out

[KristyHall]

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my step father had massive agent orange exposure, and he is dieing from it now. it is literally dissolving his brain stem and eating holes through his brain

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Can't we all just...... get along????

Why would you think we aren't?​

 

[ivan3]

Chawing on the E.U. regs., again and again (SOP/SOS).

Let's see: Glyphosate started being used in the early `70's (highway Dept.s love to spray the stuff along the Interstates). No stink raised until Monsanto `engineered' first G. resistant crop in `96. `ACTUAL risk assessments' ?Any epidemiological surveys revealing increase in developmental/teratogenic/carcinogenic/other systemic etc. effects, attributable to glyphosates - alone -, in humans, from massive long term accidental poisoning? From normal exposures of agricultural/trans. workers who come in contact on a regular basis? No?

Most recent EPA `rules' (04/11): http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/04/08/2011-8428/glyphosate-n-

Monsanto, like any good Corp., is fond of the hard sell (patent is expiring on RR Soybeans and they're pushing RR II - `bigger yield! Keep sending the Royalty per acre!' ). Generic RR Soybeans are on the way and Monsanto and Dupont are fighting like pit bulls in three piece suits for market share. Monsanto might be fudging the improvement in yields and the WVA Attorney General is calling them on it: http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/articles/2010/10/30/top_stories/genesuit.txt

Monsanto's response: http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/west-virginia-soybean-lawsuit.aspx

We spend a lot of time hunting fossils in stream drainages, here in the Midwest. Think of the streams as low level chemical cocktails (humans flushing their meds out of their bodies and down toilets/every kind of ag./livestock run-off/etc.. ) Specific chemicals, at specific dosage levels are fairly easy to rule in or out - odd ball `solutions' are tougher to track through any resulting clinical presentation, months or years later. No fish die-offs/herds of six legged frogs and we'll keep on getting our low level inhalation doses of crystalline silica from fracturing chert inclusions with the East Wing Rock Hammers...

EPA on `our' contribution: http://www.epa.gov/ppcp/

 

[PineappleMama]

Look what's happening in the courts as per the GMO suits. Farmers fields are being contaminated by this stuff, and a judge orders them to pay Monsanto... because it doesn't matter how it got there... even if Monsanto people PUT it there or the wind blew it there from your supposedly safe test fields... all that matters is that M's product was on your property so you owe them millions. If they can get away with that ... well let's just say I wouldn't be in the least surprised if this latest (or oldest) Monsatan drama turned out to be true.

And even if this was absolutely true nothing's going to be done about it. Monsanto isn't just Big Ag it's HUGE Ag and no politician is going to go up against them or their millions and lose their cushy job...

 

[KristyHall]

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that is upsetting. these big companies need to be stopped in court

 

[CluckyJay]

Big Ag will never be stopped. The best you can probably do is try to grow your own food and use organic pesticides/herbicides in a careful manner. For those able, grow your own pesticides and make your own vinegar (or whatever kind of) herbicides. And also hope that they don't contaminate your fields with their GMO kill genes, which in time, they undoubtedly will.

Big Ag is another way the devil wants to get you and your family. Too many farmers and ranchers have been basically gutted by Big Ag, all over the world.

Look at those Indian farmers drinking the very poison that they are forced to buy. I guess to those poor people, a horrendous death by poison is better than the alternative.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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This guy has a history of publishing "studies" with NO evidence to back his findings.

This isn't anything "new" at all, but just a rehashing of his same old rhetoric and junk science

http://www.cropgen.org/article_377.html

““For example, 450 of 1,000 pregnant heifers fed wheat silage experienced spontaneous abortions. Over the same period, another 1,000 heifers from the same herd that were raised on hay had no abortions.
High concentrations of the pathogen were confirmed on the wheat silage, which likely had been under weed management using glyphosate.”

As there is no RR wheat marketed, observed Bradford, this could only refer to management of prior crops or fallow ground or preplant weed control, which could also be the case for the hay.

If, in fact, this new organism had heavily infested wheat, this would make unlikely that glyphosate was involved, the opposite of his conclusion. Rather scary that Dr. Huber is not aware of which crops have RR and which do not when making his inferences.

Purdue University, where Huber was professor, has also issued a statement intended to clarify the relationship between glyphosate and plant disease development in which they wrote that “overall, the claims that glyphosate is having a widespread effect on plant health are largely unsubstantiated (9).
Others colleagues have expressed further doubts, among them:
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BINGO!!!!

While Dr. Huber is a world renowned Plant Scientist his reputation has taken a severe hit with his ramblings against Glyphosate using unsubstantiated data.​