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How safe is Roundup Herbicide?
How safe is Roundup Herbicide?
Date: 1/11/2012 12:23:51 PM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1055 times
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Roundup Hebicide review...
increasingly being identified as a hazard that is not good for human, animal, or soil health, in spite of the PR that Monsanto puts out.
IS ROUNDUP REALLY SAFE?
Roundup Herbicide is touted as safe. There is an extensive PR budget that suggests that it is safe. You can see some of this information here.
http://www.scotts.com/smg/templateFramework/images/microSites/SCOTTSCOM/pdf/r...
OTHER CONCLUSIONS AND REPORTS
ROUNDUP AND BIRTH DEFECTS: IS THE PUBLIC BEING KEPT IN THE DARK?
"Taking all these industry studies together, there is enough evidence to require regulators to apply the precautionary principle and withdraw glyphosate from the market."
–From Roundup and birth defects:Is the public being kept in the dark?
http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/RoundupandBirthDefects.6.11.pdf
*THIS IS WHAT I WAS CHIPPER SHREDDING
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN COMMENT
ABOUT GYLSOPHATE BREAKDOWN
You're right about glyphosate not breaking down in the environment too quickly. I worked as an extractionist in an agricultural testing lab for several years, and my main task was testing grains for glyphosate. It was in MOST of the samples I tested, and these were food products being shipped internationally. That's one of the scariest qualities of this particular herbicide - it just hangs around in your driveway, and lawn (and fields) for years, not to mention your liver.
Its frustrating when Monsanto says things like "well, these tests are not at realistic concentrations..." Frustrating because there are whole organs in our bodies that act as filters, which end up accumulating the toxins that the body doesn't know what to do with. The concentration in ones lawn may not be dangerous, but what about the concentration in your liver or kidneys?
Anyway, don't want to start a flame war with any lawn-care enthusiasts, but I wont touch that stuff. Weed-pulling is a good excuse for me to get outside. :P
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weed-whacking-herbicide-p
QUOTE
Aparently people don't realize that in the U.S., chemicals tend to be treated with an innocent-until-proven-guilty regulatory approach. Roundup is by no means the first chemical that the EPA has taken a second look at, only after decades of harming the environment and people's health."
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/monsantos-roundup-herbicid...
BOUlDER, CO TURNS AWAY FROM ROUNDUP HERBICIDE
Rella Abernathy, Boulder's integrated pest management coordinator, said the decision to reduce the use of Roundup is based partly on new scientific studies that have shown the surfactant "POEA" -- the inactive ingredient in Roundup -- to be more harmful to humans than its active ingredient of glyphosate.
"(POEA) tends to have more health risks associated with it, and the combination of the two together tends to make the glyphosate more toxic," Abernathy said.
The city will rely primarily on mechanical means of controlling weeds in public sidewalks, paths and parks.
If that proves ineffective, Abernathy said, the city would turn to so-called "minimum risk" products approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Minimum risk pesticides are a special class of pesticides that are not subject to federal registration requirements. Their active ingredients are made of substances such as garlic oil, peppermint oil and salt.
Abernathy said city staffers are now testing a variety of minimum risk products to treat dandelions.
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_17960073
Glysophate, Roundup as Chelator harming soil and plants
Herbicides such as glyphosate are chelators. In chemistry, chelators are substances that bind with metals, preventing their interaction with surroundings; chelation is a way to remove heavy metals from the bloodstream. Herbicides and pesticides are specific chelators of copper, zinc, iron, and manganese, and some of these herbicides leach from GM plants back into the soil. These metals are essential micronutrients for plants (not to mention animals). Once chelated they are immobilized and no longer available -- to plants, to animals, to soil microbes. Even herbicide-resistant plants are affected--the inserted gene stunts the plant's ability to absorb nutrients. According to Dr. Huber, the nutritional efficiency of GM plants is "profoundly compromised". In GM plants, iron, manganese, and zinc can be depleted by as much as 90 percent. When glyphosate is applied externally, the effect is compounded.
Bacteria in the intestines of animals and man are quite sensitive to glyphosate. When the balance of the "intestinal milieu" is disturbed, unhealthy organisms normally held in check will blossom. Botulism in dairy cows was once rare but , now that beneficial gut organisms are no longer capable of holding Clostridium botulinum in check, is now becoming a common cause of death. Ecology and physiology function best in balance; when balance is disturbed there are consequences. In the 15 or so years since GM foods were introduced and the floodgates opened (already GM is 86 percent of corn, 93 percent of soy, canola, and cottonseed oil, and 95 percent of sugar beets), food allergies have risen substantially. Correlation may not be causation, but then again it could be and is being investigated.
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