Urea You may have read in some of my previous writing that urea is okay to use in small quantities. It is true that in very small amounts, the microbes eat it functions fairly well to build soil health. On the other hand, when used at the rates recommend by the toxic chemical pushers, there is far too much…
Roundup Resistant Weeds May 3, 2010 Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds By WILLIAM NEUMAN and ANDREW POLLACK DYERSBURG, Tenn. — For 15 years, Eddie Anderson, a farmer, has been a strict adherent of no-till agriculture, an environmentally friendly technique that all but eliminates plowing to curb erosion and the harmful runoff of fertilizers and pesticides. But not…
Roundup Reports http://www.naturescountrystore.com/roundup/index.html – RoundUp Herbicide has been touted by its maker, Monsanto, as safe and environmentally friendly. As such, it has become the most popular herbicide in use today. Advertising by Monsanto has led the public to believe that RoundUp is “safe as table salt,” a phrase used quite often by its proponents to describe it. Follow this link…
Roundup Pesticide Threat to Public Health Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide is aMajor Threat to Public Health From PANNA, Pesticide Action Network North AmericaFrom Rethinking Roundup August 5, 2005 A recent study of Roundup presents new evidence that the glyphosate-based herbicide is far more toxic than the active ingredient alone. The study, published in the June 2005 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives,…
Roundup Safety Assesment as Flaws THIRD WORLD NETWORK BIOSAFETY INFORMATION SERVICE28 July 2003 Dear Friends and colleagues, RE: Flaws in RR soybean safety assessment We wish to bring to you an important document which found that the safety assessment application made by Monsanto to the Japanese Health Ministry for approval of Roundup Ready soybeans were “inadequate and incomplete”. Monsanto…
NEW STUDIES: MONSANTO’S BEST SELLING “SAFE” PESTICIDE IS HIGHLY TOXIC Two new peer-reviewed scientific studies have further confirmed the toxicity of glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used herbicide. The June 2005 scientific journal “ Environmental Health Perspectives ” reports that glyphosate, sold by Monsanto under the brand name “Roundup,” damages human placental cells at exposure levels ten times less than…
Roundup Danish Water Contaminated Danish water contaminated by round-up, ban imposed September 15, 2003: Denmark has imposed a ban on the spraying of glyphosates today following the release of data which found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (RR) has been contaminating the drinking water resources of the country. The chemical has, against all expectations…
Roundup – Glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide used worldwide, including on most genetically modified plants that have been designed to tolerate it. Its residues may thus enter the food chain, and glyphosate is found as a contaminant in rivers. Some agricultural workers using glyphosate have pregnancy problems, but its mechanism of action in mammals is questioned. Here…
Roundup Dangers Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Scientific American Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human CellsScientific American, June 23, 2009Posted: 2009-07-12 17:54:44 Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one of Roundup’s inert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental…
Pyridine Carboxylic Acids The Herbicides of Concern Aminopyralid, clopyralid, fluroxypyr, picloram, and triclopyr are in a class of herbicides known as pyridine carboxylic acids. They are registered for application to pasture, grain crops, residential lawns, commercial turf, certain vegetables and fruits, and roadsides They are used to control a wide variety of broadleaf weeds including several toxic plants that…