Roundup to be banned in the UK, ?

[difflock]

An interesting comment above somewhere about the overuse of "Simazine", I was told that the blacktop gangs (some transit based and somewhat transient too) put it on by the broadmouthed shovel full, to prevent the weeds from popping up through their doncy bitmac.

Btw, I did recently ask a 90 year old local farmer how they used to deal with Couch grass or Scutch in the past, before Glyphosphate was available.

He replied that the old joke was "simply buy another farm of land" !

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[TIMON]

Can you not use a hoe to dig the weeds out?

 

You could wear a straw hat and dungarees if that would help?

 

 

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[SteveA]

Reading the comments on this thread it seems many have become married to a wolf in sheeps clothing.

Fact is that chemical farming is destroying so much in the great outdoors and if we continue the way we are heading it's a seriously grim picture for our children.

 

We've ready lost so much, and for what?.... to fund massive corporations like Monsanto.

 

It's not too late.

[difflock]

Population, and unrestrained breeding is the REAL problem.

Monsanto and chemicals are merely a by-product of our essentially selfish human nature

[Billhook]

Strange how most people will take "supplements" basically chemicals, or medicines, mainly chemicals without too much fuss. These are directly ingested.

And yet they complain about farm chemicals which have been through just the same rigorous testing procedure, and which they are ingesting only in tiny diluted doses.

Not to mention the amount of bleach, detergents, fly spray and other chemicals that the average housewife splashes at random every day.

 

Roundup was always deemed to be one of the safest chemicals and wasused in waterways (not sure now) as it was said to be harmless to fish.

 

A glass of neat Roundup was drunk in front of an audience by the chairman of Monsanto to prove a point.

 

If you have a field of wheat that you have been working hard on all year only to see it taken over with greenery before harvest to make it unharvestable.

 

If you have chosen not to use Roundup for noble "I hate chemicals" reasons you will begin to feel a bit like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

[skyhuck]

Strange how most people will take "supplements" basically chemicals, or medicines, mainly chemicals without too much fuss. These are directly ingested.

And yet they complain about farm chemicals which have been through just the same rigorous testing procedure, and which they are ingesting only in tiny diluted doses.

Not to mention the amount of bleach, detergents, fly spray and other chemicals that the average housewife splashes at random every day.

 

Roundup was always deemed to be one of the safest chemicals and wasused in waterways (not sure now) as it was said to be harmless to fish.

 

A glass of neat Roundup was drunk in front of an audience by the chairman of Monsanto to prove a point.

 

If you have a field of wheat that you have been working hard on all year only to see it taken over with greenery before harvest to make it unharvestable.

 

If you have chosen not to use Roundup for noble "I hate chemicals" reasons you will begin to feel a bit like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

 

Supplements are simply the vitamins and minerals naturally found in healthy foods and known to be good for you, the main reason many take them is because modern faming practises produce food with less of these vital elements in them.

 

As for the glass of Roundup, I could smoke a full carton of cigarets in one go and do myself no harm whatsoever, but try smoking a few each day for 60 years and see how you feel, plus I bet no one would drink Roundup today:sneaky2:

[Billhook]

Supplements are simply the vitamins and minerals naturally found in healthy foods and known to be good for you, the main reason many take them is because modern faming practises produce food with less of these vital elements in them.

 

As for the glass of Roundup, I could smoke a full carton of cigarets in one go and do myself no harm whatsoever, but try smoking a few each day for 60 years and see how you feel, plus I bet no one would drink Roundup today:sneaky2:

 

 

Doctorsresearch.com

 

 

For decades the ‘natural’ health industry has been touting thousands of vitamin supplements. The truth is that most vitamins in supplements are made or processed with petroleum derivatives or hydrogenated sugars [1-5]. Even though they are often called natural, most non-food vitamins are isolated substances which are crystalline in structure [1]. Vitamins naturally in food are not crystalline and never isolated. Vitamins found in any real food are chemically and structurally different from those commonly found in ‘natural vitamin’ formulas. Since they are different, naturopaths should consider non-food vitamins as vitamin analogues (imitations) and not actually vitamins.

 

 

A lot of insecticides are produced by mashing chrysanthemum plants to make pyrethrum type products.

The humble aspirin comes from willow but is synthesised in chemical process, so although the active ingredient has been identified, it is then made artificially and is a chemical.

Do not forget that not all natural products are fantastic. Wheat without seed treatment can produce the ergot fungus which is an alkaloid poison which has killed thousands in the past.

 

Every schoolchild is taught about the terrible effects of DDT when it went into the food chain

What they are not told is that hundred of thousands of African people were saved from starvation by simply going over areas of locusts at their flightless stage, armed with nothing more than a branch and a bucket to spread the chemical to kill the locusts.

Malaria was very nearly wiped out worldwide just before the ban and has killed more people than all the wars put together since.

[daveindales]

Reading the comments on this thread it seems many have become married to a wolf in sheeps clothing.

Fact is that chemical farming is destroying so much in the great outdoors and if we continue the way we are heading it's a seriously grim picture for our children.

 

We've ready lost so much, and for what?.... to fund massive corporations like Monsanto.

 

It's not too late.

 

I neather agree or disagree with what your saying. But people often blame products such as glyphosate without thinking of their own environmental impact. For example, the computer or phone you wrote this post on, had to be manufactured, by various industrial processes, the power needed to recharge it has to be produced, and finally it has to be disposed of. All of this is not going to do the environment any good.

[woodyguy]

Sorry to disagree but where are you getting this junk??

 

For decades the ‘natural’ health industry has been touting thousands of vitamin supplements. The truth is that most vitamins in supplements are made or processed with petroleum derivatives or hydrogenated sugars [1-5]. Even though they are often called natural, most non-food vitamins are isolated substances which are crystalline in structure [1]. Vitamins naturally in food are not crystalline and never isolated. Vitamins found in any real food are chemically and structurally different from those commonly found in ‘natural vitamin’ formulas. Since they are different, naturopaths should consider non-food vitamins as vitamin analogues (imitations) and not actually vitamins.

 

Your body can't tell the difference between naturally occurring and chemically synthesised vitamins. They take part in biochemical pathways in your body. Folic acid in cabbage is the same as folic acid in the pills given to pregnant women to prevent spina bifida. End of story.

[s.varty]

Population, and unrestrained breeding is the REAL problem.

 

Spot on:thumbup1: We have got to a point where if we want cheap and plentiful supply of food then we have to have chemicals/fertilizers same as with battery hens/cattle/pigs etc. This is the 21st century and we have to farm accordingly sadly.