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southern MN | According to the antiglyphosate testimonial/ studies, we all should be dead, cattle should be at a death rate of 45%, wildlife should be nonexistent, insects should all be gone.
Seriously, this is what the unconfirmed studies say must be happening right now, today.
Since that is not the case, and these studies are championed by folks that hate Monsanto, and are repeated and embellished upon by folks who think Roundup is the only farm chemical ever used ever.....
Your side of this has a steep hill to climb.
The stuff was invented many decades ago. It's mode of action is on a very plant specific part of living beings. It comes through all the real, scientific tests as a much safer, low risk herbicide than the rest we have available. It's been used in quantity for over 20 years, and there is nothing you can point at and say see, see, it's wrecking the world....
I don't suppose we should blindly believe Monsanto.
I don't suppose we should blindly believe some hack study that does bot follow sciebtific rules, with a goal of persecuting one company.
So what does that leave us with?
Observing the past 20 years, seems the science side is more right than the backyard hacks with an axe to grind?
Or, show some science that proves your side. Show a large scale observation based on good sampling.
Most certainly glyphosate is not safe.
Neither is a bucket of pure water.
Nothing in our life is safe.
Living is all about managing risk.
To date, glyphosate appears to be more safe than alternatives, from studies and from observation.
We can always learn more, improve. It's good to keep looking.
Would you feel better if we returned to higher rates of the more toxic, longer lasting herbicides we used to use? Would that be progress to you?
Not aiming all this at you, just trying to sort out what is it folks want?
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Landlord would like to know that roundup is safe
