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RJ Rambler's avatar

Re Bees: stop using ROUNDUP to save the planet!

The main active ingredient of Roundup is the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate. Another ingredient of Roundup is the surfactant POEA (polyethoxylated tallow amine).

Monsanto also produced seeds which grow into plants genetically engineered to be tolerant to glyphosate, which are known as Roundup Ready crops. The genes contained in these seeds are patented. Such crops allow farmers to use glyphosate as a post-emergence herbicide against most broadleaf and cereal weeds.

The health impacts of the product as well as its effects on the environment have been at the center of substantial legal and scientific controversies. In June 2020, Bayer agreed to pay $9.6 billion to settle tens of thousands of claims, mostly alleging that glyphosate-based Roundup had caused cancer.-wikipedia

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CHop's avatar

That's exactly why I eat GMO free and buy organic sheets and clothing when possible.

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Fred's avatar

We hope. Not required to be listed in the good ole USA. /s EU is far ahead of us there.

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Tim R's avatar

Roundup is also used as a desiccant just before harvest of corn, soy and wheat crops to insure uniformity in the plants. You are eating it, friends! Those three crops are in everything we eat and every animal we eat (unless you are eating 100% pastured animals).

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YYR's avatar

Glyphosphate is in the water and soil pretty much everywhere now.

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Lil M.'s avatar

Yesterday, someone sent me a couple of emails about paraquat, another highly toxic herbicide that the EPA banned from golf courses, but still allows on crops. :(

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MaryAnn's avatar

IIrc, paraquat was used back in the day of “grow your own weed” 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Lil M.'s avatar

Interesting!

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Mary H.'s avatar

Check out https://wildpastures.com/reserve . They use only pasture raised animals without antibiotics, GMO etc. I have been purchasing Wild Pastures for almost a year and have been very happy with the quality. The chicken is amazing!

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Peace's avatar

What is Roundup's role in the recent bee collapse situation - does it directly impact the health of bees? Or simply killing off their food supply?

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char's avatar

I had 3 dead birds in one day. ''Someone'' was spraying Round up and they flew through it. Why else? It and other pesticides kill the bees, birds, us.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

Some days I think we are dealing with metaphysical evil,some days the Anti-Christ (as distributed social engineering not necessarily only a person), and some days I think it is a simulation, with "easter eggs" hidden to clue us in. The head of Monsanto in Australia is (or was) named "Adam Blight" The Harvard associated doctor persecuting Dr. Meryl Nass is named "Faust" and that list goes on and on. "Blight?" "Adam?" Can that be a coincidence?

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