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With everything that has occurred over the past 20 years, from the collapse of bee colonies, to the alarming decrease in fertility and disruptions to our endocr

With everything that has occurred over the past 20 years, from the collapse of bee colonies, to the alarming decrease in fertility and disruptions to our endocrine systems, I think it’s clear that something is going on. Pesticides would logically seem a good place to start eliminating until we better understand what these chemicals are doing to our bodies overtime.

viggity 6y ago
Except glyphostate has been around since 1950, in heavy use since the late 1990s, and most importantly of all - it is a herbicide. Not a pesticide. It is not the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder.
- floor2 6y ago
  It's marketed as a herbicide, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact elsewhere. For instance, we know that the gut microbiome has wide-ranging effects from digestive disorders to arthritis and auto-immune problems to obesity as well as mood and cognition. Here's a university study showing 54% of the bacteria in human gut microbiome are sensitive to glyphosate: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.h... It may be the case that the skyrocketing rates of obesity or depression/anxiety or other chronic conditions have roots in chemicals like glyphosate disrupting gut microbiome or endocrine systems.
- cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  nit: glyphosate is a pesticide. just not an insecticide. the "pests" are the weeds pesticide == (herbicide || insecticide)
hatchershoes 6y ago
> I think it’s clear that something is going on. I'd start at compulsory water fluoridation. Here's a pretty decent synopsis (though now dated): https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard85.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http://archive.le... . Bonus: Edward Bernays makes a special guest appearance in this tragedy.
- sushid 6y ago
  How on earth did you link the content of the article to colony collapse disorder? The author seems to be a tin-foil hat wearer who talks about why we started to fluoridate our water --nothing about bees.

viggity 6y ago

Except glyphostate has been around since 1950, in heavy use since the late 1990s, and most importantly of all - it is a herbicide. Not a pesticide. It is not the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder.

floor2 6y ago
It's marketed as a herbicide, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact elsewhere. For instance, we know that the gut microbiome has wide-ranging effects from digestive disorders to arthritis and auto-immune problems to obesity as well as mood and cognition. Here's a university study showing 54% of the bacteria in human gut microbiome are sensitive to glyphosate: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.h... It may be the case that the skyrocketing rates of obesity or depression/anxiety or other chronic conditions have roots in chemicals like glyphosate disrupting gut microbiome or endocrine systems.
cmrdporcupine 6y ago
nit: glyphosate is a pesticide. just not an insecticide. the "pests" are the weeds pesticide == (herbicide || insecticide)

hatchershoes 6y ago

> I think it’s clear that something is going on. I'd start at compulsory water fluoridation. Here's a pretty decent synopsis (though now dated): https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard85.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http://archive.le... . Bonus: Edward Bernays makes a special guest appearance in this tragedy.

sushid 6y ago
How on earth did you link the content of the article to colony collapse disorder? The author seems to be a tin-foil hat wearer who talks about why we started to fluoridate our water --nothing about bees.