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You'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.
by m00x 3y ago
You'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...
- positr0n 3y agoRound up or other herbicides are commonly used to uniformly kill and dry out mature wheat, corn, and other grains so harvesting and processing is easier.
- bumby 3y agoI read the OP as making a specific claim about agricultural (not botanical) fruit harvests, not like the grains you mentioned.
- m00x 3y agoTypically, yes that's the recommendation. That doesn't mean it won't be applied at any other time if there's weed issues during other periods of the cycle, or that the farmer will apply it at the right time. A lot of farmers don't know when to apply herbicides, or won't until there are issues to save money. I was working with a farmer who did most of it by hand or machine and he only needed to apply glyphosate twice in his 20 years as a farmer.