On 06/29/2017 12:54 PM, trader_4 wrote:
I agree it's a tradeoff, but Roundup appears safe and it's benefits
are huge. The environmental extremists only look at anything that
appears to suggest there might be a problem, blow it all out of
proportion, and totally ignore the other side of the ledger, ie the
huge benefits.

For example, the whole Mississippi delta is an environmental disaster
because it's being filled in with silt carried down from the Midwest.
It's filled in 20 feet deep in many places. The source of most of
that is runoff from farms that are plowed. Farms can now use Roundup
to kill the weeds, then directly plant without plowing, reducing that
runoff by 95%. Yet you never hear about that, only that someone found
a cancer prone rat somewhere that when fed a gallon of glyphosate,
developed cancer. Meanwhile 10 other studies found no causation.

Regarding it's safety and more specifically the mostly false claim
that it's used as a dessicant prior to harvest:




http://www.snopes.com/monsanto-suppr...icide-in-food/


Thank God we have the "experts" at Snopes to settle this issue. LOL