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> Given their recent behavior with round up (they let it be sprayed on crops at harvest — I’m surprised it doesn’t have to go on the ingredient list Source?
by hanniabu 3y ago
> Given their recent behavior with round up (they let it be sprayed on crops at harvest — I’m surprised it doesn’t have to go on the ingredient list
Source?
- hedora 3y agoA search for "roundup drying agent" will produce dozens of sources. Here's a link to a story about a bill from 2019 that would have banned the practice in the US (it did not pass): https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/bill-would-ban-late-harvest-spraying-roundup-weedkiller-oats https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/bill-would-ba... Note that the bill would restore the permissible residue levels to the previous limit, which is 1/300th the current limit. The limit was raised in order to allow the practice in the US.
- hanniabu 3y agoFuck i hate capitalism
- mike_ivanov 3y agoDude. Let me tell you a story. I was 13 years old, a schoolboy on a trip to the countryside to "help" farm workers to harvest cabbages. It was a routine thing those days because the centralized Soviet industrial-government apparatus couldn't properly plan even such trivial things. There were about a hundred kids on that field. As we went with our business, a tractor spraying DDT came from the other side of the field. It passed us no more than 20 meters away, spraying everything around with the clouds of white stuff. Everybody knew it was DDT, everybody knew it was poisonous at that time. Our teacher approached the tractor and asked the operator to wait until we are done; the guy basically told her to fuck off and went on with spraying. Now go ahead and tell me about capitalism, I'm all ears.
- hanniabu 3y agoI think you thought this story would somehow nullify that capitalism is bad
- mike_ivanov 3y agoThe point is that capitalism is irrelevant. It's about something else.
- baja_blast 3y agoI hate regulatory capture! The officials heading these agencies are often picked by the industry they are meant to regulate and often become highly paid lobbyists after they retire
- baja_blast 3y agoThat's interesting, I got downvoted. Is someone pro regulatory capture?
- mox1 3y agoThey are specifically doing this for Oats. So think Cheerios and such. Sucks and is really frustrating, buy Organic oats and oat derived products I guess...
- Danjoe4 3y agoYeah they're poisoning the food supply. You haven't heard? https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2018/10/roundup-breakfast-part-2-new-tests-weed-killer-found-all-kids#.W4W4kZMzrLZ https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2018/10/round... The government agencies are beyond incompetent. They are complicit and need to be destroyed.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoIs it incompetence or money