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Re: Roundup

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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:58 pm

That looks bad. Almost as bad as eating fried colorectal tumors.
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Re: Roundup

Post by rainbow » Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:27 am

Tero wrote:
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That looks bad. Almost as bad as eating fried colorectal tumors.
It depends on how you cook them.



I'd imagine :ask:
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Re: Roundup

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:01 pm

It also depends where you buy them. A typical American point of view and full of hormones.
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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:35 am

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Shares in Germany’s Bayer’s fell more than 12 percent on Wednesday after a second U.S. jury ruled its Roundup weed killer caused cancer.
Bayer, which denies allegations that glyphosate or Roundup cause cancer, said it was disappointed with the jury’s initial decision. Bayer acquired Monsanto, the longtime maker of Roundup, for $63 billion last year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Chemicals Agency and other regulators have found that glyphosate is not likely carcinogenic to humans. But the World Health Organization’s cancer arm in 2015 reached a different conclusion, classifying glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-baye ... reddit.com
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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:23 pm

Chlorobenzene does not cause cancer either!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ing-farmer

LD50 (median dose)
2290 mg/kg (rat, oral)
2250 mg/kg (rabbit, oral)
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Re: Roundup

Post by rainbow » Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:40 am

Tero wrote:
Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:23 pm
Chlorobenzene does not cause cancer either!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ing-farmer

LD50 (median dose)
2290 mg/kg (rat, oral)
2250 mg/kg (rabbit, oral)
Wrong.
https://www.fishersci.com/shop/msdsprox ... reId=10652

Substituted benzene compounds are often carcinogenic, but they are also quite common natural products. Animal tests at high dosages, show that these compounds can cause tumours.
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Re: Roundup

Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:39 am

Roundup is now German owned and it is open season on Europe.
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Re: Roundup

Post by JimC » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:51 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
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Roundup is now German owned and it is open season on Europe.
The German chemical industry can tailor poison for every need - those gas chambers were quite easy, really...
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Re: Roundup

Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:03 am

JimC wrote:
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Roundup is now German owned and it is open season on Europe.
The German chemical industry can tailor poison for every need - those gas chambers were quite easy, really...
What I am getting at Jim is Roundup can now be openly criticised in America now. Monsanto was part of the American industries which got away with murder.
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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:20 am

Rainbow, read the Guardian link. The court awarded the man compensation. Though it was not cancer. He will get that later.
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Re: Roundup

Post by rainbow » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:18 am

Tero wrote:
Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:20 am
Rainbow, read the Guardian link. The court awarded the man compensation. Though it was not cancer. He will get that later.
I did read it.

What part do you think I missed?

I'm a bit confused by the importance given by court cases to this debate. The people making the judgement aren't scientifically trained. The scientific literature out there shows that Glyphosate is not a very dangerous chemical.
Chlorobenzene is far more hazardous.
...but like any chemical it needs to be treated with care. If the judgement is that the producers and marketers didn't explain the safety measures, then fair enough.
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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:24 am

what concerns Fitsanakis, whose work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, are the findings of previous studies that the commercially available product is much more toxic to cells and animals in the lab than glyphosate alone. “The data are overwhelmingly in agreement that glyphosate by itself is relatively nontoxic,” she says.

Instead of trying to tease out which of the chemicals in the mixture are doing what, Fitsanakis has decided to look at the effects of glyphosate-based herbicides in the formulations farmers use.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opin ... ndup-30308
Notably, also glyphosate was not harmless: a realistic concentration of 2 mg/l resulted in reduced growth rate, escape swimming speed and fat content. Our results therefore indicate that the toxicity of Roundup cannot be fully attributed to its surfactant, thereby suggesting that also the new generation of glyphosate-based herbicides with other mixtures of surfactants likely will have adverse effects on non-target aquatic organisms.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5X17303156

The main problem is that farmers are buying expensive modified patented seed, and are unwilling to lower the use of roundup and other farm chemicals. Since it is never classified "organic" they use as much as they are allowed. Crop insurance also demands the use of these.
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Re: Roundup

Post by rainbow » Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:46 am

From your source:
For instance, Germany’s authorities found in 2015 that the surfactant polyethoxylated tallowamine (POE tallowamine) contributed a large amount of toxicity to the herbicides it was used in, such as Roundup. This led to an EU-wide reassessment by the EFSA, which concluded that “a likely explanation for the poisoning occurrences observed in humans is that it is mostly driven by the POE-tallowamine component of the formulation.” The E.U. subsequently decided to ban the use of the co-formulant. Its use is allowed in the U.S.
There is a problem as you can see. If glyphosate is banned, other formulations will take its place. Possibly they will be worse, and very likely they will not be as well tested.
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Re: Roundup

Post by Tero » Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:13 pm

Other than banning it, you could restrict the use, and require farmers using it to have PPE to wear while out spreading it. Now it is just "harmless."
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