Glyphosate is used widely as an integral part of raising crops including corn, soybeans and cotton genetically modified to resist its killer effect, and as a desiccant on potatoes, sugar beets, wheat and other crops just before harvest.
My brother was heavily exposed to this from constant runoff under his house and food garden from the adjacent boatyard that used Roundup to regularly kill all vegetation on the edges of their property. After twenty years living there he developed lymphoma, which fortunately he was (barely) able to recover from. Anecdotal, likely directly related to the boatyard's spraying practices.
The courts will protect only one thing and that is the system itself. It fails to protect the constitution many times it creates rights where none exists but it’s masterful at protecting the DC Swamp’s power.
I would not trust Bayer/Monsanto as far as I could throw a stick! You only need a team of lawyers if you are doing something wrong! Roundup is a killer and a profit maker. The FDA (especially after Covid era) are not going to be aggressive with Big Pharma-Tech. Its business as usual and keep status quo. We need to be resilient on our own. I don't think courts are going to help much........
As a vegetable grower I am so grateful that our farm uses only organic/regenerative methods. The people who have by far the biggest toxic exposure risk are us farmers who come into intimate contact with chemicals. However, I do understand why conventional ag uses these products. If you aren’t working in the field you don’t understand how difficult it is to make sure that tomatoes (or chard or cabbage or whatever) are growing and not weeds. My callouses tell that story. There are mechanical weeders that we use, but we still have to do a lot by hand. The biggest barrier for us to compete with grocery store produce of course is price because the purpose of glyphosate from a business ROI and profit and loss perspective is to reduce labor costs, and it does reduce it dramatically, orders of magnitude. But it is definitely not the right way. The future of weed control is robots with lasers that can use image algos to determine what is a weed and what isn’t. I am a Luddite and I hate the thought of robotics on the farm, but in the next decades the cost benefit analysis will make it so even relatively small farms will be purchasing these products. I guess what I am getting at is talk to your farmer. If he or she doesn’t use glyphosate first give him a hug and then look at his hands and then pay him double whatever he is asking, because he is still barely breaking even.
I can help you with this. The villain is not the glyphosate, but the liquid surfactant packaged with it to facilitate spreading it. Those surfactants are toxic as hell, completely undocumented on packaging and there have been no exceptions. Wet, the surfactant kills bees on contact. Breathing the mist is deadly to humans.
This is like the makers of cutting fluid who love to brag that their products can not rust machines. That is true; but the water you mix it with, does.
Except surfactants are selected by and packaged by the glyphosate manufacturer.
Perhaps Congress people and courts should be held legally liable as Monsanto is in these cases. Then maybe the buck isn't always passed to the consumer as the companies continue getting wealthy off the backs of the consumer. As a receiver/stock boy with a chain store I was charged with removing and shipping baby pajamas from the shelves manufactured by Monsanto. They willingly harmed children. They have no bounds, nor should we have with them, and those that collect bribes from them so they can continue their Evil ways.
My brother was heavily exposed to this from constant runoff under his house and food garden from the adjacent boatyard that used Roundup to regularly kill all vegetation on the edges of their property. After twenty years living there he developed lymphoma, which fortunately he was (barely) able to recover from. Anecdotal, likely directly related to the boatyard's spraying practices.
The courts will protect only one thing and that is the system itself. It fails to protect the constitution many times it creates rights where none exists but it’s masterful at protecting the DC Swamp’s power.
I would not trust Bayer/Monsanto as far as I could throw a stick! You only need a team of lawyers if you are doing something wrong! Roundup is a killer and a profit maker. The FDA (especially after Covid era) are not going to be aggressive with Big Pharma-Tech. Its business as usual and keep status quo. We need to be resilient on our own. I don't think courts are going to help much........
As a vegetable grower I am so grateful that our farm uses only organic/regenerative methods. The people who have by far the biggest toxic exposure risk are us farmers who come into intimate contact with chemicals. However, I do understand why conventional ag uses these products. If you aren’t working in the field you don’t understand how difficult it is to make sure that tomatoes (or chard or cabbage or whatever) are growing and not weeds. My callouses tell that story. There are mechanical weeders that we use, but we still have to do a lot by hand. The biggest barrier for us to compete with grocery store produce of course is price because the purpose of glyphosate from a business ROI and profit and loss perspective is to reduce labor costs, and it does reduce it dramatically, orders of magnitude. But it is definitely not the right way. The future of weed control is robots with lasers that can use image algos to determine what is a weed and what isn’t. I am a Luddite and I hate the thought of robotics on the farm, but in the next decades the cost benefit analysis will make it so even relatively small farms will be purchasing these products. I guess what I am getting at is talk to your farmer. If he or she doesn’t use glyphosate first give him a hug and then look at his hands and then pay him double whatever he is asking, because he is still barely breaking even.
EVIL LURKING IN & OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED!!! UNITE, PRAY AND PREP
This is so enlightening re legal antics that Bayer and Monsanto attempted to civer their deadly product
I can help you with this. The villain is not the glyphosate, but the liquid surfactant packaged with it to facilitate spreading it. Those surfactants are toxic as hell, completely undocumented on packaging and there have been no exceptions. Wet, the surfactant kills bees on contact. Breathing the mist is deadly to humans.
This is like the makers of cutting fluid who love to brag that their products can not rust machines. That is true; but the water you mix it with, does.
Except surfactants are selected by and packaged by the glyphosate manufacturer.
Perhaps Congress people and courts should be held legally liable as Monsanto is in these cases. Then maybe the buck isn't always passed to the consumer as the companies continue getting wealthy off the backs of the consumer. As a receiver/stock boy with a chain store I was charged with removing and shipping baby pajamas from the shelves manufactured by Monsanto. They willingly harmed children. They have no bounds, nor should we have with them, and those that collect bribes from them so they can continue their Evil ways.