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Toxic herbicides? Do they mean Roundup? It's rendered inert by contact with water. None remains in the soil, as I understand it. I believe they're using hyperb
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
Toxic herbicides? Do they mean Roundup? It's rendered inert by contact with water. None remains in the soil, as I understand it.
I believe they're using hyperbole to market their robot. But with field applications costing on the order of $10 per acre, it has to be a very cheap robot to run, to compete with that.
- londons_explore 5y ago> It's rendered inert by contact with water. None remains in the soil, as I understand it. There is a growing body of evidence that the main ingredient in roundup (glyphosate) is pretty harmless, but that the other non-active ingredients have a pretty substantial environmental and health risk, especially at high doses.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI don't normally ask for references but for this one I would prefer to see them as I have run across plenty of studies on nih.gov on endocrine disruption from glyphosates and articles about lobbyists and roundup. One can find some of these studies with a quick google search. [1] [1] - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=site%3Anih.gov+endocrine+disruption+glyphosates+&btnG=Google+Search&iflsig=ALs-wAMAAAAAYYkaOiIQcUgt8fyDV53qtncP_BtC9Muh&gbv=1 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=si...