Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: 109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace. [View all]NNadir
(33,512 posts)I am uninterested in "Monsanto employee admits..." links on the internet.
I'm sure you can go on...and on...and on... as many people with this bent never stop going on and on and on...but as I have personal knowledge and direct experience with Monsanto employees, scientist employees, and have met many of them both at their facility and at scientific meetings which they, and I, have attended.
The furor raised about glyphosate is fairly stupid in my opinion, particularly because glyphosate is an important element in "no till" farming.
Is glyphosate harmless and risk free? Maybe not. However an intelligent person balances risks and rewards, and chooses a combinatorially optimized solution. An unintelligent person isolates risks while ignoring benefits. In the last several decades glyphosate has become one of the most widely used herbicides on the planet. It has not resulted in a health crisis quite on the level of the health crises that occur in major famines.
This may or may not come as a surprise to some people lingering on certain kinds of websites muttering about "poisons" but, um, diesel exhaust is fairly toxic, an element of the air pollution that kills millions of people each year.
Many tractors are diesel devices. "No till" farming which is widely discussed in the scientific literature in the context of climate change minimizes the use of tractors. Unquestionably not running tractors has saved lives, almost certainly more lives than have been lost to "poison" glyphosate.
At the risk of being directed to another ridiculous website, I would argue that one could look it up.
Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend.