Roundup weedkiller

UK didn't ban it until 1984. Now banned for agricultural use pretty much everywhere, India and North Korea may still use it. However it is still permitted for use as a disease vector control, so used for malaria control etc. About 3000-4000 tonnes per year are made for this use.

 

No chemicals at all on veg or fruit.
Glyphosate used sparingly on the odd weed that shows in gravel path......did use it on oxalis but now find it better to dig it out.
Spot spray the occasional weeds in lawns....never use a weed n feed just a feed.
Early in the year I used an insecticide on lilies.....no damage whatsoever on lilies this year and plenty of bees, butterflies, birds and the like. Thinking about it though, I cant recall seeing many ladybirds!!
Careful and very limited application of pellets for slugs in spring and prob again sfter this wet spell but the torch and saline solution at night is main regime.
Nematodes for slugs and for pests in veg garden were used and I will soon apply nematodes for leatherjackets in lawns
All in all very few chemicals used here

 

One day someone will work out that just living is dangerous.

I've spent 48 yrs breathing in hardwood dust, they know it is carcinogenic, have done for 30 yrs or so, maybe more, but nobody cares, basically because it only causes cancer on certain people.

Nothing is black and white and often things only affect certain people in certain ways, you just go through life hoping it's never going to happen to you.

You have to, otherwise you would never drive a car again, get on a plane, or eat that bacon sandwich.

 

I'm no fan of Monsanto, but my issue is that it's a jury in the U.S. that has decided Glyphosate causes cancer, rather than a panel of scientists.

Whatever next, a U.S. panel of 12 jurors deciding whether or not global climate change is caused by man made CO2 emissions - would you accept their verdict?

 

Its just stupid, there are lots of everyday stuff out there which are dangerous to health, I'm guessing the problem here is that glyphosate is only made by the one company, Monsanto?

If we were talking about a substance that many different companies produce, I doubt it would have reached this stage.

I'm too busy dodging traffic fumes every day to worry about the small amount of contact I have with glyphosate.

 

Scientists are like economists.....they never agree.

 

Yes it is, that's what this thread is about, the jury has made that decision. A verdict is a decision.

 

I think for one reason or another there seems to be an official hate campaign against Monsanto, ok they are a large chemical company.
But I've never quite understood what the problem people have with them as opposed to other large chemical companies.

 

I think its more to do with their gmo seeds and the way they force farmers into buying seed and not allowing some seed to be kept back from harvest to be used as seed the next year.

Hundreds of Indian farmers have commited suicide because of this and the massive debts run up because Monsantos harsh practices. The seed hasnt delivered on monsantos promises either

 

A little light reading ...

March Against Monsanto

Millions Against Monsanto

Thousands protest against seed giant Monsanto

Occupy Monsanto

Monsanto - SourceWatch