COMMON LAWN CHEMICAL DECLARED CARCINOGEN!

In California.  https://oehha.ca.gov/propositi...

One NJ town prepares to take action...http://www.northjersey.com/sto...

Not for long, because it likely is not. To catch people up...

https://www.scientificamerican...

https://www.reuters.com/invest...

The EU made a similar ruling; which was sharply criticized by more than 1000 scientists.

Monsanto has a dismal history concerning the environment. They will do everything they can to protect their golden Roundup egg. It's use has gone from 20 million to almost 300 million pounds a year since 1995. An EPA review of more recent data labels most studies with problems. Beyond it's potential to cause cancer, there are so many other really good reasons not to use Roundup, erosion, aquatic toxicity, super weeds, promotion of chemical agriculture, promotion of GMO crops, etc. 

tourn said:

Monsanto has a dismal history concerning the environment. They will do everything they can to protect their golden Roundup egg. It's use has gone from 20 million to almost 300 million pounds a year since 1995. An EPA review of more recent data labels most studies with problems. Beyond it's potential to cause cancer, there are so many other really good reasons not to use Roundup, erosion, aquatic toxicity, super weeds, promotion of chemical agriculture, promotion of GMO crops, etc. 

Those are all subjective opinions, not objective facts.

Well, actually, it's a mix of opinion ("dismal") and verifiable, or controvertible, fact ("use has gone from 20 million to almost 300 million pounds a year..."). 

Links below are to an apparently peer-reviewed compilation of info on Roundup, followed by the Newsweek take on the more scholarly article. 

Note in Newsweek the comment from Monsanto:  "...glyphosate, when used according to label directions, does not present an unreasonable risk of adverse effects to humans, wildlife or the environment."  "Unreasonable" risk - now there's an opinion.

(1)  https://link.springer.com/arti...  Excerpt:

Results

Since 1974 in the U.S., over 1.6 billion kilograms of glyphosate active ingredient have been applied, or 19 % of estimated global use of glyphosate (8.6 billion kilograms). Globally, glyphosate use has risen almost 15-fold since so-called “Roundup Ready,” genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant crops were introduced in 1996. Two-thirds of the total volume of glyphosate applied in the U.S. from 1974 to 2014 has been sprayed in just the last 10 years. The corresponding share globally is 72 %. In 2014, farmers sprayed enough glyphosate to apply ~1.0 kg/ha (0.8 pound/acre) on every hectare of U.S.-cultivated cropland and nearly 0.53 kg/ha (0.47 pounds/acre) on all cropland worldwide.

(2) http://www.newsweek.com/glypho...

Personally, after vacillating for many years about using weed-killers on the dandelions and violets in my lawn, I've settled on aiming for more than 50% grass, and pretty much sworn off products ending in -cide, except maybe insecticidal soap applied directly to scale and aphids, no spraying, and not at hours when flying insects are active.  Maybe I'll change my mind if/when the bees recover; meanwhile, they can feast on my early-season dandelion flowers.

Good link from Klinker.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Monsanto, Agent Orange, PCBs, saccharine, all have what in common? See http://www.corp-research.org/m...

Monsanto was and is a dirtbag. I know.

Oh. You "know".  Gotcha. Ok, then. 

It's a shame that Roundup has helped feed millions around the globe over the last couple of decades.  It just doesn't seem right for something that is so bad for people.

ice said:

It's a shame that Roundup has helped feed millions around the globe over the last couple of decades.  It just doesn't seem right for something that is so bad for people.

Roundup GMO crops are almost exclusively used for animal feed, cows, pigs, etc. Eating animals causes most of the common illnesses in humans. Raising cows is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases. Being that GMO crops have been banned till recently in most other parts of the world, I doubt Roundup is responsible for feeding millions. You've drunk the Monsanto coolaid.

ctrzaska said:

Oh. You "know".  Gotcha. Ok, then. 

You're welcome!

Roundup found in Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream!!! See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

How about Autism and Roundup? https://www.omicsonline.com/op...

tourn - Interesting NYTimes article. Traces of Roundup also found in Quaker Oats,Cheerios and Ritz crackers.Glyphosate a herbicide is the main culprit found in Roundup.

Glyphosate is contaminating all our streams. See https://www.sciencebase.gov/ca... scroll to the right and then down to glyphosate. It is one of the highest contaminants across the country. Maybe the issues related to corn, wheat, soy, even dairy and allergies and hyperactivity is really related to glyphosate contamination rather than just gluten? All these crops are heavily GMO Roundup crops. There is some data that suspects glyphosate molecules mimic and disrupt glycine processes in the developing brain and may have something to do with high Autism rates which coincidentally seem to correspond with the tremendous increasing use of glyphosate over the past 20 years. See https://www.omicsonline.com/op... And they are talking about just molecules of glyphosate in the brain at just the right time in development. Only molecules!

Industrial  agriculture produces only 30% of the worlds food supply but uses 70 precent of fossil fuels. See http://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/food-agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture#.WYkfMbEpChA

Here is a link to California's Prop 65 list if anyone is interested:

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list