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tecelote

(5,122 posts)
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 06:08 AM Jun 2017

California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight

Source: Reuters

Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday.





Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision "unwarranted on the basis of science and the law."

The listing is the latest legal setback for the seeds and chemicals company, which has faced increasing litigation over glyphosate since the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said that it is "probably carcinogenic" in a controversial ruling in 2015.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1

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Orrex

(63,216 posts)
1. Meh.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 07:01 AM
Jun 2017

The famed Proposition 65 List names a wide range of "known" carcinogens, including nitrous oxide, wood dust, ethanol in alcoholic beverages, chloroform, testosterone and the ever-terrifying progesterone.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
3. People who drink alcohol should contemplate the relative risk of glyphosate.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 07:53 AM
Jun 2017

Nothing good about pouring a few ounces of spirits into your body every week. In my experience, it causes long term depression.

Grins

(7,218 posts)
6. Bwahahahahha!!! Drink it!!
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 10:30 AM
Jun 2017

Back in 2015, Reich-wing shill at the very Reich-wing bought-and-paid-for "Heartland Institute, Dr. Patrick Moore, interviewed by a French TV reporter said that glyphosate was totally safe, so safe that “you can drink a whole QUART...and it won’t hurt you.”

At which time the French interviewer produced a full glass of it!!!

Canal+: You want to drink some? We have some here.

Moore: I’d be happy to actually. Not really, but, I know it wouldn’t hurt me.

Canal+: If you say so. I have some.

Moore: No, no. I’m not stupid. People try to commit suicide with it and fail regularly.

Canal+: No, no. Let’s tell the truth.

Moore: It’s not dangerous to humans. No, it’s not.

Canal+: So are you ready to drink a glass of glyphosate?

Moore: No. I'M NOT AN IDIOT.

True. You're liar paid to lie.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
2. I don't think farmers can do "no till farming" without Glyphosate
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 07:51 AM
Jun 2017

This is a toughie. Organic matter in the soil is preserved if we don't plough and turn over the soil. I don't know how else they can kill off last year's crop and the weeds between the plants.

Organic farming is much more intensively cultivated to remove weeds. Maybe that is the answer. More labor input. Maybe a mower can take out the leftover stubble from the crop.

haele

(12,660 posts)
7. Well, what was done prior to the introduction of Glyphosate?
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:48 AM
Jun 2017

I know, farming is tough work and old-fashioned farming requires hiring seasonal workers, but it can still be done, even on high-yield corporate farms.
Just from watching the various inventive ways the County fire risk abatement program is run, I can tell you that letting just four goats out in a field is a good way to clear out a couple acres to almost dirt in a day...
FWIW, a co-worker has two milking goats under a "city agriculture" permit, and is part of a group that rents their goats out to various developers, local communities, and the county to clear brush and weeds - fire dangers - from easements and empty lots during the late spring/early summer.

I'd personally feel a lot better about farm subsidies if I knew a good amount of the money was going to put people to work, instead of going into a corporate bank account.

Haele

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
9. Can they train them to eat bermuda grass and leave the rest of it alone?
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 06:14 PM
Jun 2017

Because I can do that with a sprayer and some roundup. Otherwise that shit takes over my low-water excruciatingly correct landscaping.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. Good move. When the carcinogenic crud started showing up in wine and tampons
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 08:09 AM
Jun 2017

that was sending a signal.

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