> Uhm, glyphosate doesn't affect pollinators. It does affect pollinators, show in some examples of recent research [1][2], and effects on other non-insect anim

> Uhm, glyphosate doesn't affect pollinators. It does affect pollinators, show in some examples of recent research [1][2], and effects on other non-insect animal species like frogs [3] and fish [4][5]. We may not know why it does yet, but there is plenty of evidence. This is just a tiny sampling. > And drift that reduces "critical forage"? That's not even part of the glyphosate controversy. This is very much part of the controversy. As one example, glyphosate has been linked to decline of milkweed habitat, significantly impacting monarch butterflies. The NRDC petitioned the EPA in 2015 to restrict the use because of this [6]. Just because of the widespread application in agricultural and urban areas, drift and runoff contaminate large areas of habitat, impacting countless non-target species of both plant and animal. One could also draw the conclusion that glyphosate-tolerant corn and soy have been particularly responsible for the conversion of over 150 million acres of land (almost the size of Texas) into food or biofuel development in the last ~25 years. This land is no longer animal/pollinator friendly and is leading to a rapid decline in plant/pollinator relationships. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063858 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063858 [2] http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/218/17/2799.full.pdf http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/218/17/2799.full.pd... [3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/11-0189.1/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/11-0189.1/abstrac... [4] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es404258h http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es404258h [5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17933590 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17933590 [6] https://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150624 https://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150624