Thread: Roundup - interesting new research

Most excellent long lasting defolient with no side effects (as long as you are far far away from the application area)........

Regards,
tote

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Now - please commence with the usual. Can I suggest:
"scientists will publish anything to get publicity"
"lots of things are bad for you"
"I have been drinking a cup of roundup a day for 50 years, and I and my kids are fine"

Another good one is that Monsanto are purposely importing and developing new weeds to boost product sales. Plenty of people out there perpetuating that one.

If it is found that round up is as toxic as reported and Monsato are aware of this I can see a repeat of the James Hardie cover up.

Dave

Going back to 1988, when I was in the Uni we use glyphosate 360 to suppress kikuyu
in the rotation of pastures in the dairy farms.

I just wonder if there is any residue of glyphosate in the milk.

Paraquat was one of the dangerous herbicides used as an alternative to glyphosate 360.
I remember that was particular dangerous to the person that was fumigating the crops. It causes cancer and Parkison among other diseases.

With all this talk of residual toxins in the environment, I'm a little stressed.

I'think that I need a coffee, soy latte of course, just for my health!

Originally Posted by Tote

Nope, I was just wrong about the esters, they are restricted, not banned.

Only restricted use time and temperature due to the active ingredient being able to be carried by inversion air currents to off-target plant species many kms away for several days after spraying in warm weather, often damaging grape vines which are very suscepible.

Long time ago I did equipment maintenance for a company that contracted to set out field trials for agricultural chemical makers. Some of this experimental stuff was frightening. The contractors technical staff wore full suits with breathing apparatus and sometimes remote air supply when applying some compounds and would warn us greasy fitters to get well away and don't let any of this stuff get on your skin, it will kill you. Machinery had to be hosed down before leaving the site in many cases and certainly before maintenance/repairs. The compounds were full strength and diluted and measured with laboratory precision. These were scientific trials after all.

My thoughts were that they are possibly going to sell this stuff to cane farmers with little English and who are illiterate or semi-literate in English at least.

One can imagine the scenario. Two Italian cane farmers in shorts and felt hat, barefoot, mixing the stuff up with water in a cut off fuel drum with their arms. "How mucha you putta in, Luigi" "Mario, I putta in duo billycans." " Mario, some she good, more she better. You putta in some more".

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

Another good one is that Monsanto are purposely importing and developing new weeds to boost product sales. Plenty of people out there perpetuating that one.

GM canola will be in pest proportions if its use becomes widespread and it is Roundup resistant. You only have to notice the amount of canola growing along roadsides and streams now from grain spilt from harvest trucks and carried down waterways