California Confirms 'Roundup' Will Be Labeled "Cancer Causing"

petros

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Well that makes us even. I don't believe a lot of things you say. I farmed for 27 years. 1 section is 640 acres. A quarter is 80 acres. The amount did vary if we rented land or not. The 1800 acres was just under 3 sections or 22 quarters. The reason they use roundup and DDT previous is that it kills weeds. It is poisonous. Even with using the roundup etc. we still cleaned our seed to clean out weeds. Both for us and our neighbours. If the amount of land is what you wonder. We were a very small farm. Our cousin crops 6000 acres and that barely keeps his family going.

It is too bad that Monsanto didn't stay with making football turf

A quarter is 160 acres
DDT is an insecticide.
 

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Bees hate it, lots of cattle mutations, it's in human breast milk, fish, the air. Cannibis could fix your lazy brain cells Peter.
It's not the Roundup bees hate. Roundup washes off the plant after a rain. It's the Bt crops or bio-toxin crops that the bees hate and is the likelier cause of cattle mutations since corn is the most problematic bt crop and that's what most, if not all factory farms feed their cattle these days.
 

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After at least 5 years of almost catastrophic bee population decline (blamed on pesticides as usual) bee populations are at an all time high.

If you insist on eating organic (ROFLMAO). You will still get residue in and on your food anyway.
GMO foods are another beté noir of the Luddites.

Man has been modifying plants and animals for millennia. Modifying the plants genome directly is merely a quicker, SAFER, more cost effective way of making crops better.

Blindness among millions of kids due to cassava lacking a specific amino acid. Rice Iacking vitamin A causing similar problems. Greenpeace fought like Hell to prevent it being used. Thank God they lost & now India has kicked their sorry lying asses out.

Oh yes, and what price did the evil Capitalists charge?

Like many such projects, the Rockefeller Institute and the Ford Institute arrwnged for the distribution while Monsanto gave the info. free.

Someone says their feelings have been hurt. Slightly interesting.

And still we live longer!
 

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For Pete's sake. Can't you recognize sarcasm. Of course my feelings weren't hurt. If they were hurt by a discussion like that, I wouldn't be on this site. I totally agree with GMO,. Especially in India where they need something to increase how nutrious the rice. There needs to be more with it. Make sure that you don't hurt my feelings.
 

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I looked over the thread and couldn't find anywhere that I called it a herbicide. I did find where I was called a liar but didn't call ir a herbicide.
 

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Well, it wouldn't surprise me if Monsanto knew that already. But either way, who in their right mind would ingest or inhale it in the first place? Or even handle it without gloves?

Oh, yeah, I forgot, sheeple need to be told about hazards because they can't think for themselves. Humans need warnings that stoves may be hot, there's a risk of falling if climbing ladders, etc.


Sheeple aren't that stupid for the most part. Lawyers on the other hand ....
 

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It's not the Roundup bees hate. Roundup washes off the plant after a rain. It's the Bt crops or bio-toxin crops that the bees hate and is the likelier cause of cattle mutations since corn is the most problematic bt crop and that's what most, if not all factory farms feed their cattle these days.

Thankyou for your clearer understanding. When the roundup is washed off in the rain where does it go and what does it do to soil, if anything?
 

petros

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If I did, I called it a herbicide because it is.

It's an insecticide.

Thankyou for your clearer understanding. When the roundup is washed off in the rain where does it go and what does it do to soil, if anything?
You need a bath.

The sun turns it to salts.

Photo-degradation is the alteration of materials by light. Typically, the term refers to the combined action of sunlight and air
 

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It is a herbicide. If you don't believe me ( you have called me a liar once already) look it up. it has been a long time since I played on the playground. I am not going to play, I'm right, no I'm right. I am going to unsubscribe from this thread.
 

petros

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DDT is an insecticide not a herbicide. Never had been, been never will be.

Look it up.

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is a colorless, crystalline, tasteless and almost odorless organochloride known for its insecticidal properties. DDT has been formulated in almost every conceivable form, solutions in xylene or petroleum distillates, emulsifiable concentrates, water-wettable powders, granules, aerosols, smoke candles and charges for vaporizers and lotions.[5]
 

darkbeaver

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Study: Diet Full Of GMO Foods Deadly- Alters 4000 Genes In Liver And Kidneys



Published in the Environmental Health Journal,the new study suggests that even super low levels of Roundup exposure are deadly.
The study results showed that exposure to low-dose glyphosate concentrations, in an established laboratory animal toxicity model system, can result in liver and kidney damage, with potential significant health implications for people as well as our pets and wildlife populations.

 

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Gilgamesh

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Aspirin in what we think of as normal dosages does the same. The killing ingredient in Alar the the environmental charlatans banned causing loss of livelihood etc., among Apple farmers is present in 5x the concentration - in organic broccoli !

This changing in genes and cells as we ingest, is called 'living'. We may have cell phones and HDTV but in 2015 some of us are as ignorant as Medieval peasants.