On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:07:36 -0500, "JimT" wrote:


"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
s.com...
On 9/12/2010 6:14 PM zzzzzzzzzz spake thus:

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:09:55 -0500, "JimT" wrote:

You didn't read it so you can't tell me one thing in that article that
is false, can you? If you were self assured in your stance you
would defend it, and counter the article with your knowledge. Right?

Nope. When an article starts off with a daft conclusion, there is no
reason to read further.

Got your mind made up just because that paper dares to state a conclusion,
eh?

Here's what it says about Roundup, ostensibly the subject of this
discussion:

Monsanto’s Notorious Pesticides

Roundup—Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate) is Monsanto’s flagship
weed killer (or herbicide), accounting for 67% of the company's
total sales or about $2.6 billion annually.1 The amount of Roundup
sold has grown by around 20% each year over the past five years.2
Monsanto has expanded its capacity to produce Roundup nearly
five-fold since 1992.3 While Monsanto maintains that Roundup is safe,
many others disagree, including the New York State Attorney General.
Based on its investigation, the Attorney General’s office filed a
lawsuit arguing that the company’s advertising inaccurately portrayed
Monsanto's glyphosate-containing products as safe and as not causing
any harmful effects to people or the environment. As part of an
out-of-court settlement, Monsanto agreed to discontinue use of terms
such as "biodegradable" and "environmentally friendly" in all
advertising of glyphosate-containing products in New York state and
paid US$50,000 toward the state's costs of pursuing the case.4 There
are a number of environmental and human health problems associated
with glyphosate. For example, in studies of people (mostly farmers)
exposed to glyphosate, exposure is associated with an increased risk
of miscarriages, premature birth and the cancer, non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma.5 In one case, Monsanto paid a US$225,000 fine for having
mislabeled Roundup containers on 75 separate occasions. It was the
largest settlement ever paid for violation of U.S. Worker Protection
Standards. The labels had claimed that the restricted entry period
after application of Roundup was four, rather than the actual 12
hours.6

So just what exactly about this do you disagree with? Keep in mind that
all those numbers I've left in the text are footnote references you can
check if you refer to the PDF.

Or you can just choose to take the company at their word. I suppose you
actually believe that BP is doing all it can to mitigate the effects from
its exploded oil rig, for example.


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The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

- Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)

Ehh...He's painted in a corner and he doesn't know how to get out.

In your dreams, idiot.

Declare the dissenters are idiots and claim victory.

I call them as they are. You *are* an illiterate idiot.