Roundup - safe to drink (if you want cancer).

[SteveA]

Monsanto Asks World Health Organization to “Retract” Cancer Link | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

[woodyguy]

A rather more rational and evidence based discussion of the report.

Widely Used Herbicide Linked to Cancer - Scientific American

[Typhke]

Not really surprising imo. And just like car producing companies (or gun companies) trying to keep the safety obligations as low as possible, there will always be lobbies. Just like chainsaw companies try/tried to hold off the environment changes, strato saws. Just as damaging, just harder to see a link (at this time).

 

By the way, glyphosate is used in a ton load of other products too, and as long as we keep buying it, cuz it just works better than most alternatives, it will be available. Maybe in smaller portions and it will be prohibited somewhere in the future, but that will still take ages.

 

Same story for a lot of medicines (that are freely available), they turn out to be just as bad. The same for x-rays. I don't know if they advise women to get scans for breast cancer in the UK, but there are studies showing that the scanning can just as well cause cancers for cells that are genetically more receptive for it.

[Treemover]

When I worked in Canada for a farmer spraying with the stuff; he said a rep used to drink it neat as proof how safe it was! Funny reps never came back??

[tree79]

When I worked in Canada for a farmer spraying with the stuff; he said a rep used to drink it neat as proof how safe it was! Funny reps never came back??

 

there was a rep in the uk that used to do that to. I don't hes around either

[oldwoodcutter]

there was a rep in the uk that used to do that to. I don't hes around either

 

But at least no weeds grow on his grave.

[Goaty]

History repeating itself. Will we ever learn?

 

In Bill Brysons book "A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING" he mentions when lead became industrial in a big way, the factories that made it had people keeling over and dying in large numbers.

A Dr drank some lead solution and they analysed his waste, no lead in it.

They didn't realise at the time, the body absorbs lead and keeps it! It took nearly a century to get it out of petrol, paint etc.

 

Trust no manufacturer.

[SteveA]

A rather more rational and evidence based discussion of the report.

Widely Used Herbicide Linked to Cancer - Scientific American

 

Followed by conflicts of interest.... The Amazing Revolving Door - Monsanto, FDA And EPA

[woodyguy]

Certainly agree that the revolving door in USA and here stinks. But you haven't posted a link for a revolving door into Scientific American who published the article that looked rationally at the evidence.

[Woodworks]

I don't remotely trust chemical companies.

 

A good friend ran a firm that would independently test chemicals before release onto the market. He did one study that showed that a particular product was very harmful to beneficial insects. He wrote his report and sent it off to them. They came back and basically said rewrite it changing the facts or we will never give you work again! This was the final straw for him so gave up working in the industry. Got loads more horror stories from him on how they operate and it ain't pretty.