Roundup to be banned in the UK, ?

[Mark Bolam]

I would just buy cake instead.

 

 

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[openspaceman]

I would just buy cake instead.

 

 

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Off with his head

[Haironyourchest]

As a farmer I am inclined to say a ban on Roundup may be what it is needed to make people more aware of the value of their food.

 

Food is far too cheap, people in general in the Western World are vastly overweight with all the problems that follow, diabetes, hip and knee replacements overloading an already overloaded hospital system.

 

A few bread queues and bread at £10 a loaf would be a good start.

 

A lot of the food we eat is unnecessary rubbish anyway, and we eat two thirds of it and chuck the rest in the landfill. Kids won't clean their plates, people buy food on a whim, try it once and leave it in the fridge to go bad, and then do it again a few months later, forgetting that they don't like that product. Three milks open at the same time.

 

At least the staples should be organic, flour, bread, other bulk carbs and milk products, traditional veg etc. The prices could be raised a little bit, and also subsidised by a higher VAT on non-essentials like jars of sun dried tomatoes, sweets, snacks, basically everything else on the shelves.

[Stubby]

A lot of the food we eat is unnecessary rubbish anyway, and we eat two thirds of it and chuck the rest in the landfill. Kids won't clean their plates, people buy food on a whim, try it once and leave it in the fridge to go bad, and then do it again a few months later, forgetting that they don't like that product. Three milks open at the same time.

 

At least the staples should be organic, flour, bread, other bulk carbs and milk products, traditional veg etc. The prices could be raised a little bit, and also subsidised by a higher VAT on non-essentials like jars of sun dried tomatoes, sweets, snacks, basically everything else on the shelves.

 

Im a bit anal about the fridge . I line the milks up in date order and only the one open at a time . Plate cleaning is another . I eat what the kids leave .

[Haironyourchest]

Im a bit anal about the fridge . I line the milks up in date order and only the one open at a time . Plate cleaning is another . I eat what the kids leave .

 

Same here. Do you also reach for the milks at the back of the shelf in the shop? I do, happy to admit it.

[openspaceman]

As a farmer I am inclined to say a ban on Roundup may be what it is needed to make people more aware of the value of their food.

 

Food is far too cheap, people in general in the Western World are vastly overweight with all the problems that follow, diabetes, hip and knee replacements overloading an already overloaded hospital system.

 

A few bread queues and bread at £10 a loaf would be a good start.

 

I agree the farming system is set up to keep food cheap and at consistent levels, it avoids the boom and bust of unregulated systems.

 

I get desperately worried about reports like this from the medical profession, on the one hand I'm not clever enough to understand and interpret the significance of the results and on the other I see such reports, such as pollution by particulates, being cited with the "pollutant" *causing* thousands of premature deaths when in fact the premature deaths are extrapolated from models which assume all particles inhaled have an equal toxicity.

 

I decided I didn't need to apply herbicides after my FEPA course in 1986 but had remained fairly sanguine about the use of glyphosate until:

 

1 I saw it being liberally sloshed around and used contrary to the manufacturers instructions on amenity work, I would expect farmers to be a bit more stringent on using it because of the cost implications.

 

2 Its use as a desiccant prior to harvesting.

[Stubby]

Same here. Do you also reach for the milks at the back of the shelf in the shop? I do, happy to admit it.

 

Yea . Always look for the longest date

[Gary Prentice]

A lot of the food we eat is unnecessary rubbish anyway, and we eat two thirds of it and chuck the rest in the landfill. Kids won't clean their plates, people buy food on a whim, try it once and leave it in the fridge to go bad, and then do it again a few months later, forgetting that they don't like that product. Three milks open at the same time.

 

At least the staples should be organic, flour, bread, other bulk carbs and milk products, traditional veg etc. The prices could be raised a little bit, and also subsidised by a higher VAT on non-essentials like jars of sun dried tomatoes, sweets, snacks, basically everything else on the shelves.

 

Sun-dried tomatoes not essential?

[Haironyourchest]

Sun-dried tomatoes not essential?

 

Essential when you get the craving! Ok, we'll keep the sun dried tomatoes...

[case mx270]

Anyway its not glyophsate bit that's the problem its all the wetters that are added to make it work that are the cause for concern