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Glyphosate is used because it works.
by jaredhallen 3y ago
Glyphosate is used because it works.
- onemoresoop 3y agoIf it's causing problems it may actually work more for the party profiting than the rest. "It just works" is lazy...
- permalac 3y agoI use it to kill the driveway weeds, works like a charm.
- thghtihadanacct 3y agoWell, let us know if/when you or your kids get kidney disease or any of the other listed diseases associated with it. I feel knowing the dangers and using it anyway should auto opt-out one out of the class action settlement. Ever try a weed eater or gloves? Gasoline would work just as well, probably less toxic
- m00x 3y agoYou're a lot less likely to get roundup in your system from killing weeds outside than eating vegetables and fruits that have been bathed in it.
- robbiep 3y agoYou don’t spray roundup over vegetables and fruits
- m00x 3y agoFarms do.
- orwin 3y agoNo. It's a weedkiller. Putting it ON the fruits would be expensive and useless. In conventional/industrial agriculture, its used after harvest and before seeding. In intelligent agriculture , it's used a day before seeding.
- Qem 3y ago> No. It's a weedkiller. Putting it ON the fruits would be expensive and useless. So, why Monsanto went all the trouble of developing GMO crops resistant to it, if it is intended just for the weeds?
- robbiep 3y agoThere is roundup-ready Cotton, Soybeans, Corn and Canola, that I am aware of. My family grows Roundup-ready cotton. The other 2 are used for animal feed; in no case is any farmer going to be spraying it when it is fruiting, because once the weeds have got to that point you've already lost all the benefit of it being 'roundup ready' - where the purpose is for weeds to be killed so they don't take the moisture which is now conserved for the crop. There are no roundup-ready vegetables that I am aware of, or fruits.
- weberer 3y agoIts also sprayed on crops as a desiccant shortly before harvest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desiccants_(glyphosate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...
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- permalac 3y agoI'm not eating the weeds.
- thghtihadanacct 3y agoOf course, eating weeds is the only way to get exposed to environmental carcinogens ... that you just poured on your driveway. gotcha
- Turing_Machine 3y agoRight. Farmers and other end users don't give a crap whether it's "profitable for Monsanto" or not.
- qup 3y agoProbably half of them are buying the Tractor Supply knock-off brand, anyway.
- colordrops 3y agoIt "works". It kills weeds but there are externalities that are not accounted for with such a narrow view.
- m00x 3y agoNot only does it work, it's by far the safest herbicide we've used so far. People love to complain about herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, but they're the same people who would complain if their food was suddenly 8x the price because farm yields would go back to the pitiful amount it was before we had these chemicals. I've worked in agriculture for a couple years while doing my Biology undergrad. People who used chemicals had a HUGE increase in yields vs others. Be thankful we're not longer using things like Agent Orange and DDT.
- msandford 3y agoYeah that's all fair. But the problem is that since as the safety improves so does how people use it. More safe means we can use more since it's not as scary. It's so safe we can spray it on the wheat two weeks before harvest to make sure it's good and dry. Hopefully it doesn't rain!
- squidbeak 3y agoIt works at giving people chronic kidney disease and killing them. Probably it shouldn't be used or legal to use it.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoEvery alternative will kill even more people. Other herbicides are even more dangerous, and not using herbicide will cause food prices to go up. High food prices kill far more people than herbicides do.
- rnk 3y agoThere are other alternatives than use a herbicide that kills a certain number of people. The thing is that massive multi-billion dollar companies absolutely try to sabotage any consideration of the safety of their pesticides, because it's so much money to them. If you are a researcher, you'll be getting into a fraught area if you are doing a study to validate it's safety. It's similar to looking into climate science - the crazies will come for you, and probably the pseudo-non-climate-scientist people taking money from exxon.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago> There are other alternatives than use a herbicide that kills a certain number of people. Like what? What impact would that have on food prices? Glyphosate costs $10 / acre, or maybe 15 cents per bushel of wheat.
- thghtihadanacct 3y ago>Other herbicides are even more dangerous, and not using herbicide will cause food prices to go up ... This research brought to you by Mansanto :D