California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight
Source: Reuters
Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday.
Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision "unwarranted on the basis of science and the law."
The listing is the latest legal setback for the seeds and chemicals company, which has faced increasing litigation over glyphosate since the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said that it is "probably carcinogenic" in a controversial ruling in 2015.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1
The famed Proposition 65 List names a wide range of "known" carcinogens, including nitrous oxide, wood dust, ethanol in alcoholic beverages, chloroform, testosterone and the ever-terrifying progesterone.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Nothing good about pouring a few ounces of spirits into your body every week. In my experience, it causes long term depression.
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)Grins
(7,239 posts)Back in 2015, Reich-wing shill at the very Reich-wing bought-and-paid-for "Heartland Institute, Dr. Patrick Moore, interviewed by a French TV reporter said that glyphosate was totally safe, so safe that you can drink a whole QUART...and it wont hurt you.
At which time the French interviewer produced a full glass of it!!!
Canal+: You want to drink some? We have some here.
Moore: Id be happy to actually. Not really, but, I know it wouldnt hurt me.
Canal+: If you say so. I have some.
Moore: No, no. Im not stupid. People try to commit suicide with it and fail regularly.
Canal+: No, no. Lets tell the truth.
Moore: Its not dangerous to humans. No, its not.
Canal+: So are you ready to drink a glass of glyphosate?
Moore: No. I'M NOT AN IDIOT.
True. You're liar paid to lie.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)This is a toughie. Organic matter in the soil is preserved if we don't plough and turn over the soil. I don't know how else they can kill off last year's crop and the weeds between the plants.
Organic farming is much more intensively cultivated to remove weeds. Maybe that is the answer. More labor input. Maybe a mower can take out the leftover stubble from the crop.
haele
(12,684 posts)I know, farming is tough work and old-fashioned farming requires hiring seasonal workers, but it can still be done, even on high-yield corporate farms.
Just from watching the various inventive ways the County fire risk abatement program is run, I can tell you that letting just four goats out in a field is a good way to clear out a couple acres to almost dirt in a day...
FWIW, a co-worker has two milking goats under a "city agriculture" permit, and is part of a group that rents their goats out to various developers, local communities, and the county to clear brush and weeds - fire dangers - from easements and empty lots during the late spring/early summer.
I'd personally feel a lot better about farm subsidies if I knew a good amount of the money was going to put people to work, instead of going into a corporate bank account.
Haele
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Because I can do that with a sprayer and some roundup. Otherwise that shit takes over my low-water excruciatingly correct landscaping.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)that was sending a signal.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Who could have guessed?