...on thousands of innocent children, peasant farmers, farm animals, wild animals, food crops, without warning, for profit--huge profit?
And this is just ONE of Monsanto's crimes. Please look into it. And I would not want Roundup anywhere near my garden, my house, my neighborhood or our communal water tables, nor in any drainage area to creeks, rivers and the ocean, nor in any bee habitat. And did you think of the soils, the earthworms, the beneficial microbes beneath the bricks? Or of the development of Roundup-resistant weeds--an exponentially growing disaster for U.S. and other farmers? We all have to find better ways to control our environment--if control is what we desire or need--without poisoning ourselves and our only home, Planet Earth. You are right to take precautions but it would be best not to use Roundup at all.
The following provides information on just one aspect of Monsanto's (and other chemical corporations') horrible project to addict U.S. and other householders and U.S. and other farmers to glyphosate and other, ultimately extremely harmful herbicides and pesticides. In deciding about a product like Roundup, we need to consider not only the short and long term potential impacts to ourselves and our communities, but also regional and global impacts, threats to the food chain itself and the POLITICAL influence of these huge corporations that results in the spread of these horrendous practices for the profit of the few. For instance, Monsanto is one of the worst offenders in trying to destroy ancient faming practices such as saving seeds. They are ACTIVELY seeking to destroy this ESSENTIAL traditional practice. And they are finally meeting effective resistance in some places, such as Mexico. (See the final article about Mexican beekeepers.)
US 'superweeds' epidemic shines spotlight on GMOs
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-superweeds-epidemic-spotlight-gmos.html
...Earlier this month, the USDA announced that, at the request of Dow Chemical, it would study allowing genetically engineered seeds on the market that can tolerate several herbicides at once—including a controversial weed killer 2,4-D that several scientific studies have blamed for cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.
To fight them, Mr. Anderson and farmers throughout the East, Midwest and South are being forced to spray fields with more toxic herbicides, pull weeds by hand and return to more labor-intensive methods like regular plowing.
Glyphosate-resistant weed problem extends to more species, more farms
http://farmindustrynews.com/ag-technology-solution-center/glyphosate-resistant-weed-problem-extends-more-species-more-farms
The area of U.S. cropland infested with glyphosate-resistant weeds has expanded to 61.2 million acres in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing. Nearly half of all U.S. farmers interviewed reported that glyphosate-resistant weeds were present on their farm in 2012, up from 34% of farmers in 2011. The survey also indicates that the rate at which glyphosate-resistant weeds are spreading is gaining momentum; increasing 25% in 2011 and 51% in 2012.
Sweet victory for Mexico beekeepers as Monsanto loses GM permit
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/aug/08/sweet-victory-beekeepers-monsanto-gm-soybeans
In withdrawing (Monsanto's) permit, the judge was convinced by the scientific evidence presented about the threats posed by GM soy crops to honey production in the Yucatán peninsula, which includes Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán states. Co-existence between honey production and GM soybeans is not possible, the judge ruled.
Every action we take--such as paying our hard-earned money to Monsanto for Roundup, cuz it's the "easy way" to control weeds (temporarily)--has consequences far beyond our lives and immediate environments. We've had to learn this the hard way on so many products pushed upon us by our Corporate Rulers--from DDT to antibiotic-drenched, tortured chickens, from oil and its many HUGE impacts, to tasteless, nutrition-less tomatoes, and more, so much more. Time after time, they lie to us, and our bribed, embedded government lies to us, and WE pay the price in so many ways.
It's not easy to live within a Corporate-run society and make the difficult, complicated choices about health-friendly, environment-friendly products. Monsanto, for instance, has successfully fought every effort to label--just to label!--their GMO products.
They don't want us to know! That should tell you everything you need to know about Monsanto. But there is one choice, to my mind, that is very simple:
Don't use Roundup!
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