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Monsanto Stunned - California Confirms 'Roundup' Will Be Labeled "Cancer Causing"
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
California just dealt Monsanto a blow as the state’s Environmental Protection Agency will now list glyphosate - the toxic main ingredient in the U.S.’ best-selling weedkiller, Roundup - as known to cause cancer.
Under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 — usually referred to as Proposition 65, its original name — chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm are required to be listed and published by the state. Chemicals also end up on the list if found to be carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) — a branch of the World Health Organization.
In March, the IARC released a report that found glyphosate to be a “probable carcinogen.”
Besides the “convincing evidence” the herbicide can cause cancer in lab animals, the report also found:
“Case-control studies of occupational exposure in the U.S.A., Canada, and Sweden reported increased risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma that persisted after adjustments to other pesticides.”
California’s decision to place glyphosate on the toxic chemicals list is the first of its kind. As Dr. Nathan Donley of the Center for Biological Diversity said in an email to Ecowatch, “As far as I’m aware, this is the first regulatory agency within the U.S. to determine that glyphosate is a carcinogen. So this is a very big deal.”
Now that California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has filed its “notice of intent to list” glyphosate as a known cancer agent, the public will have until October 5th to comment. There are no restrictions on sale or use associated with the listing.
Monsanto was seemingly baffled by the decision to place cancer-causing glyphosate on the state’s list of nearly 800 toxic chemicals. Spokesperson for the massive company, Charla Lord, told Agri-Pulse that
"Glyphosate is an effective and valuable tool for farmers and other users, including many in the state of California. During the upcoming comment period, we will provide detailed scientific information to OEHHA about the safety of glyphosate and work to ensure that any potential listing will not affect glyphosate use or sales in California.”
Roundup is sprayed on crops around the world, particularly with Monsanto’s Roundup-Ready varieties — genetically engineered to tolerate large doses of the herbicide to facilitate blanket application without harming crops. Controversy has surrounded this practice for years — especially since it was found farmers increased use of Roundup, rather than lessened it, as Monsanto had claimed.
Less than a week after the WHO issued its report naming glyphosate carcinogenic, Monsanto called for a retraction — and still maintains that Roundup is safe when used as directed.
On Thursday, an appeals court in Lyon, France, upheld a 2012 ruling in favor of farmer Paul Francois, who claimed he had been chemically poisoned and suffered neurological damage after inhaling Monsanto’s weedkiller, Lasso. Not surprisingly, the agrichemical giant plans to take its appeal to the highest court in France.
It’s still too early to tell whether other states will follow California’s lead.
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It's perfectly safe, you can drink it in fact
If they were serious, they would label Monsanto cancer causing.
Surprisingly I do believe that Brussels is considering an outright ban on glyphosate?
Central planners/psychopaths occasionally do something that actually makes sense.
Not often though.
What?
Who would not want to be ingesting mass quantities of food matter engineered to tolerate the deadly toxin Round-Up.?
That food can probably tolerate stomach acid too, and be able to scrub out your guts like a Brillo pad.
The Round-up glaze on my GMO sweet potatoes is like icing on the cake.
I suppose this is 'compensation' for the Californian legislature voting down a bill to label foods containing GMO.
Fuck Monsatan!
Monsanto needs to be Fundamentally Transformed.
pretty soon, Monsanto is going to have more class action defense lawyers on staff than it has prosecuting their patents. And that's a lot of effing lawyers.
cancercausing?
hah.
take *that,* weeds.
Glyphosate mey be relatively safe for mamalian cells in basic tox screens, because it's mechanism of action is to disrupt the Shikimate pathway...found only in plant cells.
...and...uh...also in bacteria which, it turns out, inhabit the human gut in numbers that exceed each human's own cell count. Now that we are dimly aware that gut bacteria really do matter in a huge number of ways to their host organism, potentialy including modulating various neurological and cancer control mechanisms, it seems rather pointless and hollow for Monsatan to keep harping on the fact that Glyphosate is "harmless to mamalian cells."
So TF what?
Thank you for that serfs up. I take it you are a biologist?
Excellent info, serf's up. THank you.
That is a lucid, informed comment based on science. Now can you link it to some "Zionist Plot"?
IF NOT, you are wasting your breath here friend.
FUCK YOU, Jew Hater.
Now that was a weird collision! +1
No endorsements included, but how interesting to see that one.
Anti GMO against Zionism. Assuming the best on the latter, of course,
Long as we're all against the conspiracy of climate change and peak oil, it might still work
ZH is a cutting-edge place.
Meh, it's getting to the point where it's impossible to tell the playas without a scorecard!
Fuck Monsanto. The cocksuckers want to control the world food supply so they can make a profit.
Always makes me laugh when you hear how Roundup is "so safe you can drink it" yet when asked to prove it, here's what happens........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM
Bah, I fail to see what's so difficult to understand: Any chemical that can kill weeds, some of the hardiest organisms on Earth, is probably NOT healthy for other organisms to ingest!
Then there's that. Good thing the co-opted FDA and DAG require citizens without legal "standing" to prove that substances actually cause harm before banning them.
And, in the meantime, relies on the manufacturer's "research" for their ruling on the matter.
America, Land of the "Free."
A theory has been posited that the long game for the design and deployment of GMO organisms is the proprietary colonization of the bacterial gut of the human consumer and farm animal product so that only GMO food can be received and processed by them.
Just a theory though. A frightening Franken-food psychopath cartel gambit theory but still just a theory.
Spot on, Serf's Up. This poison kills and disrupts gut bacteria, and other bacterium.
There's a reason why Monsanto is consistently voted the world's most evil company.
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O4, do you really believe this?
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Ha, you can say that again!
Where are the dead bodies? Life expectancy keeps increasing. Partly because of a stable food supply, which partly happend because of better seed and weed control, made possible by chemical companies.
Where is Erin Brockovich?
Silly Californians. Don't they know the only way to kill Monsanto's generically engineered crops are to use RoundUp?
Funny thing about Roundup or glyphosate is that weeds have developed resistance to it almost as fast as Monsanto has genetically engineered "Roundup resistant" crops.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
I heard a rumor that Monsanto’s replacement for Round-Up is to be caked “Ranch Hand”.
They have good thematic sense in their marketing department and the name "Ranch Hand" has sentimental value to them.
Nope. 2,4-D (a major component of Agent Orange). It has already been approved by the EPA as, have been 2,4-D Ready crops.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/business/altered-to-withstand-herbi...
Bring back DDT !!!
Hilarious! Wish I could locate that pic of the guy with the hand growing out of his real hand, with the new one full of cancer.
Well, hilarious is a weird kind of way.
One of my good friends is agent orange deformed.
That means that TPTB have found something deadlier than Glysophate to cull the herds.
+100
Yup. It's called, 'mandatory vaccinations.'
Avoid the polio vaccine.
Avoid public pools. Especially avoid public pools where little kids wear diapers!
Glyphosate will be an adjuvant replacing mercury in the mandatory vaccines.
What you need to know about nano food
http://www.theguardian.com/what-is-nano/what-you-need-know-about-nano-food
Nano food report (PDF)
https://www.organicconsumers.org/sites/default/files/nano_food_report.pdf
Nano foods aren't regulated at all. No additional testing, nothing. The particles penetrate your cell membranes.
Nanoparticles in foods and personal care products are so small that they can easily bypass our bodies' defensive mechanisms and enter into the blood stream, and pennetrate blood and cell membranes. Not sure how this is supposed to be considered good or safe for our health, except by the twsited Monsanto folks that run our FDA and idiot MSM reporters.
Because clearly after 30 years of reducing the fat content of food people are less fat, so it's worth the risk! Brawndo the Fat Mutilator will save the obesity epidemic! And maybe it already has!
Seriously though, all this shit about reducing fat is the biggest scam. What is reducing fat going to do when people just sit on their asses all day? Under pure collectivism we have to all eat the shit food and become unhealthy together. There's a tradeoff when you remove the stuff in food that makes it taste good and have to replace it with something else. And besides, fat is good for you, it is what gave humans the ability to advance because the long-term energy of fat meant they did not have to spend so much time eating... Oh, well, I guess that's the reasoning for it: make people stupid and keep them eating constantly with low-nutrition food.
These people are impossibly sick, creating food that will rot holes in us.
Our bodies require certain fats and cholesterol in order to maintain healthy cells. What we don't need are plastic fats like Canola, soy and corn oils that actually plasticize our cell membranes and prevent proper absorption of nutrients. The starving cells signal the brain that they need more food. It probably contributes to obesity since many people just feed the body more things that it cannot use as food (which the body stores as fat) and very little of whatever nutrients are in that "food" can actually pennetrate the plasticized cell walls. Canola is the margarine of today. It is made from modified toxic Rapeseed, which was previously used for industrial oils before Canada decided it should become a cheap food product. It smells so bad that they process it with Hexane (a known carcinogen) to get the stench out and it goes rancid very easily and should not be used in cooking applications. However, just about every store and restaurant these days cook and fry with it. Since it doesn't harden when stored in the refrigerator like real olive oil, it is also used in most bottled salad dressings at all those "healthy" salad bars. Even many of the large-production brands of olive oil sold at grocery stores have copious amounts of Canola, soy and other cheap and toxic oils in them. I read a study done by U.C.Davis where they tested major brands of olive oi, including many from Italy, and most were not pure olive oil even when they did not list other oils on their labels.
Coconut oil for cooking
hemp seed oil for salads etc
don't want to heat hemp seed oil too much as it destroys its nutrional elements,about 165 degrees F max.
rancid oil is very bad for the body, fucks with your thyroid.
Awesome post. Thanks for the information.
Yes they started growing Canola around here a few years ago, it is the foulest, most putrid stinking shit I have ever smelled, absolutely disgusting!!
CG, The Debt-Money Monopolists are perched on top of the government and the media complex. The reporters aren't idiots. They are cold blooded operatives of their Debt-Money Monopolists masters.
Monsanto lobbyist says Roundup safe to drink. Refuses to drink a glass.
http://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM
One whiff of RoundUp will tell you: DO NOT DRINK ME!
I can't believe that CA did something that wasn't fucked. Usually they side with the worst of corporate America and penalize the average guy trying to scrape together a living.
CA uses the same system for determing the scientific correctness that they do for Dancing With the Stars. If it 'feeeeels' right, it must be true. If it is gay enough or 'natural' it is doubly true. If it is 'rad' it's like "totally truth doood."
'Hey man, this buzz is like cosmic and scientifically righteous', pass it back when yer done doctor einstein...
A broken clock is right twice a day. In this case, Clownifornia is right. Roundup is poisonous. If you don't believe it, then drink a glass.
I never understand that turn of phrase. If the clock is broken how does one know what time it is, in order to know that the time on the broken clock is in fact correct. And dont bother suggesting that one could sit around with yet another clock waiting for that clock to strike the time as per the broken clock, in order to determine that the time on the broken clock is correct... because thats just plain cuckoo.
As the Earth continues to spin on its axis...
Circadian rythm.
A clock face reprents a moment in time, time is recorded in 24 hr increments known as days.
each day is divided into 2 12 hr segments, known as PM and Am, a broken clock will display a time of day that will be correct once each am and pm, it matters not if you have another clock to calibrate the moment when this occurs.
"a broken clock is right twice a day" is always true
What if the clock was broken because during a power failure, it fell 15 minutes behind? Then it will always run 15 minutes behind and never be right.
This is a wind-up clock.
It's true.
California is the crazy state that banned the use of the word "illegal" and decreed that public school students would be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identities, not their anatomy at birth.
I'm fairly certain that official California-speak is "the gender assigned at birth"; you know, the nurse/doctor/parents take a look between the infant's legs, then cavalierly check the box either "M" of "F".
Vicious, tyrranical bastards.
Every once in a while a few brain cells wake up in our corrupt legislature in California. Jerry Brown practically had a meltdown this week when they voted down SB350. It would have required us to reduce our gas usage by 50%, added a bunch of taxes, and various other horrible laws. The poor would have been hammered. They can't afford to live in major job centers like Silicon Valley or San Francisco so they live in the outskirts and have long commutes. Public transportation can often take hours just one direction, particularly if you have to use both trains and busses to get to your destination. It is completely impractible if you want to have a life or do anything besides work and commute.
http://focus.senate.ca.gov/climate/sb350-facts
I just happen to have a glass right here....bottoms up!
Bye-bye
I'll buy the gallon of Round-up, if you'll drink it in front of me, 6 hour time limit. Hell I'll even throw in 10oz rmc bar if you do it.
Don't forget the DDT chaser.
DDT - eh, no problem.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4264030/DDT-is-safe-just-ask-the-professor-who-ate-it-for-40-years.html
Stunning. I really had no idea about DDT. What they said in the article about a small use for indoors vs widespread distribution on crops makes sense.
Everything, or so it seems, is subject to the popular groupthink of propaganda. DDT bad, Roundup good and all of that.
Californians need to save up for higher taxes to pay for Jerry Brown's Hyper-Link Rail from the Mesican Border up to the various Safe Zones ... with stops along the way in Laguna Niguel, Irvine, Palo Alto. etc.
Keep the ban on ddt. I'd rather have wildlife in africa than more niggers.
When niggers are endangered and lions aren't, we can talk about preserving a few in zoos. They've proven they shouldn't be allowed outside of cages.
They'll ban it then it will be added to the list of items happily smuggled in from other states.
First drone store’s opening met with protests
http://tinyurl.com/qgle5xv
California couldn't even pass a law that stated whether or not a food contained frankenseeds, and you think that Monsanto is going to sit back and let them ban the shit altogether. Nigga please! A few millions in "donations" will make Roundup the preferred weed killer and food additive in the Sunshine State once again.
Indeed. What Willie Brown used to call a "juice bill."
Caramel coloring is on the list. Why not poison?
Time for Jerry Brown to double his security detail and avoid airplane travel.
Hooray for common sense, and if Roundup is potentially cancer causing then maybe eating GM crops that have been sprayed with the stuff is too.
Instead of being forced to label GM produce as Genetically Modified, why not just label it as 'Cancer Causing', and let the shopper decide.
Bet they don't want to do that.
New T, you are right. I would, in fact, like to force feed it to every fucking Monsanto exec (and especially their PR people) on a forced march on a very hot week.
My wife died of Non-Hodgins Lymphoma 19 months ago. We never used Round-up on our organic homestead, Maril was very much again it. Maybe we need a class-action lawsuit with about a zillion people in it.
To call these Monsanto execs 'Fuckers' is to do a disservice to fuckers. "Scumbags" is maybe a bit closer, but pond scum performs a valuable environmental service. Cocksuckers is always a favorite, but I've had cocksuckers that performed a real service and seemed to enjoy it almost as much as I did. 'Hell's Spawn' is maybe closer, burt I'm not a Christian, I'm a Buddhist, so I guess I will have to go with 'Hungry Ghosts'. May all these Monsanto execs (especially thier PR guys) rot in that special hell where they are always (spiritually) hungry, but can never eat. (Actually, they are already there, and just are not aware of it yet.)
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How is this possible?! I thought they bought off all the politicians & judges?
You mean to tell me the common folk still matter?
New Study: Huge Increase in US Chronic Diseases Linked to Glyphosate Herbicideshttp://sustainablepulse.com/2014/11/07/new-study-huge-increase-us-chroni...
Séralini's team had found that rats fed for two years with a glyphosate-resistant type of maize (corn) made by Monsanto developed many more tumours and died earlier than did control animals. It also found that the rats developed tumours when Roundup was added to their drinking water.
http://www.nature.com/news/paper-claiming-gm-link-with-tumours-republish...
In the first ever testing on glyphosate herbicide in the breast milk of American women, Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse have found ‘high’ levels in 3 out of the 10 samples tested. The shocking results point to glyphosate levels building up in women’s bodies over a period of time, which has until now been refuted by both global regulatory authorities and the biotech industry.
The levels found in the breast milk testing of 76 ug/l to 166 ug/l are 760 to 1600 times higher than the European Drinking Water Directive allows for individual pesticides (Glyphosate is both a pesticide and herbicide)
http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/glyphosate_testing_results
Glyphosate.....its what plants crave!
GMO plants crave darkness and shun the light!
And now one more reason to not eat corn. Corn makes people fat. Corn makes cattle so large they can barely walk.
I posted this once before, but feel it is relevant here:
I once worked with Bacillus thuringiensis, the bacteria from which the gene coding for BT toxin was taken and inserted into corn.
Did you know that B. thuringiensis is nearly 100% identical to Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) at the chromosomal level? Well, now you do. Bet you won't see that on a box of corn flakes.
They used to spray B.t. on crops directly. BT toxin produced by B.t. is deadly to Lepidoptera (moths), as it destroys their intestinal lining when ingested. This wasn't so bad for people, though, as you could just wash off most of the bacteria, and it is non-toxic when ingested (not so, anthrax!).
But this wasn't good enough for the corporate scientists - why not just take the gene itself and put it into corn? Heck, people's guts are millions of times larger than an insect's, it won't be a problem! Then we don't have to spray it with B.t., which doesn't make us much money; we will just use a broad-spectrum pesticide that we already make a lot of money on: Roundup!
Well, there was a problem with that. Actually, many problems. First, in order to isolate the BT gene and test it, and also add genetic markers to make it easy to work with, they took that gene and put it into Eschericia coli...which is present in large numbers in the human GI tract. This matters, as I will explain later.
Second, people eat a LOT of corn. It is the second or third most ingested grain after wheat and rice, after all. So, people get a heavier dose of BT toxin than expected, as corn is in almost everything in one form or another (corn syrup, maltodextrin, etc.).
Third, nearly all corn these days is GMO. Very little non-GMO corn is produced in the US. And, GMO crops are routinely treated with Roundup, which contains glyphosate...which has just been implicated as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Roundup is a pesticide, but it *also* kills other things...such as gut bacteria...
...but, not E. coli bacteria that have taken up BT toxin DNA from food that people eat, for that DNA came from corn that is ALSO resistant to Roundup, and THAT DNA was also expressed in E. coli for study.
So, now you have E. coli bacteria in your gut that: 1. are now present in greater numbers, due to the effects of Roundup on your gut bacteria; 2. contain the DNA for producing BT toxin, which they got from corn and which has ALREADY been shown to produce BT toxin in that strain; and 3. this bacteria is also immune to the effects of Roundup.
So, now, chronic eaters of corn products have BT-producing bacteria factories in their guts. And, this BT toxin destroys the intestinal lining, leading to chronic problems as now complex food molecules can enter the bloodstream directly - molecules that are not natural, and which the body determines is a foreign entity that it makes antibodies to...so, now, when one eats corn their body ATTACKS ITSELF.
And, this will happen with almost ANY food that one eats a lot of. This is the genesis of 'Leaky Gut' syndrome, also known as Coeliac disease, and also the cause of many autoimmune disorders, such as lupus, arthritis, alopecia, etc.
Now, you know...the REST of the story.
Thanks for your post.
You sir, are a complete moron without any understanding of the actual science governing the real world in which we live. Idiots like you with a passing familiarity of the vocabulary of science without actual understand of the functioning of molecular machinery are what really wrong with America. Please die. If only consuming corn could do that, I would commend it to you.
Perhaps you would care to explain why you say that.
He works for Monsanto, DUH.
I'll take your insults as merely a lack of research on your part. Here's a few links to bring you up to speed:
http://www.sott.net/article/295828-Leaky-Gut-The-syndrome-linked-to-auto...
http://www.sott.net/article/299867-Modern-processed-diets-are-coding-DNA...
http://www.sott.net/article/299333-Is-the-inflammation-caused-by-gluten-...
http://www.sott.net/article/161754-Gastrointestinal-Leaky-gut-molecular-...
http://www.sott.net/article/295408-Which-comes-first-The-leaky-gut-or-th...
http://www.sott.net/article/251175-Immune-System-Compensates-for-Leaky-G...
http://www.naturalnews.com/037493_GMO_toxins_pregnant_women.html
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/09/14/glyphosate...
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/10/10/study-gmo-toxins-found-nearl...
I almost DIED because of the harm corn did to me. It was BECAUSE of that that I did an about-face on GMO's, because I got my start working on them. Strange how sickness can make one face the TRUTH, sometimes...
I remember reading a study a couple of years ago involving livestock that had been fed Bt GMO grains and they found a large number of the bacteria in the animals' intestinal tracts had been genetically modified, producing Bt, even after the animals were no longer fed GMO grains. I also read several studies regarding how the Cauliflower Mosaic virus continued its job of horizontal gene transfer. I posted the links to zerohedge in one of my old comments.
Thanks for your post on BT.
I was very familiar with the glyphosate issue with gut bacteria.
Glyphosate is routinely used in our area as a harvest aid for non GMO crops. A potentially heavier dose because there is no time for the environment to breakdown the chemical than what would possibly be in a GMO crop cycle.
The whole issue of GMO/non GMO is a smoke screen sleight of hand.
Anyway, good post, will check on it.
I am curious, can you still use it as a harvest aid and qualify to call your crops organic? I thought it wasn't allowed. I had also read that RoundUp is used as a harvest aid for wheat. Apparently it evens the ripeness of the wheat if sprayed shortly before harvest. Considering it is systemic, I would image that wheat would have absorbed RoundUp into its kernels. Monsanto has a description on how to use this process on their website. I have only purchased unbromiated organice flour for several years now. I know it is not perfect to buy organic, but was hoping it would contain significantly fewer toxins and chemicals, particularly not Bt and Roundup.
No, you cannot spray roundup on crops that are organic. However, some people may not spray their organic fields, but their neighbors do. Crop duster's spray drifts. We had an entire windbreak die from spray drift when I was a kid. Now I live more than 20 miles from any large ag area where I have eliminated most risk of contamination.
Know your farmer. He's more important than your doctor.
About a year ago my husband was diagnosed with Lupus, so we've been doing a lot of reading up on it lately. He just turned 40 and he's always been very fit and healthy. There does indeed appear to be a LOT more cases of Lupus and Lupus-like conditions showing up lately. Thanks for your informative post IV. I found it fascinating!
Yep, Force feed someone nothing but kelloggs for 2yrs they'll get tumours and die. Never heard of a balanced diet being healthy? Feed lab rats weird unbalanced diets of anything and they'll get sick! Proves nothing when the scientists have an 'agenda', as so many do.
Got that right.
Monsanto itself is a cancer.
coming soon, a New Monsanto ad campaign:
CANCER IS GOOD FOR YOU!! (goes well with "radiation is good for you!)
monsanto motto: " You really didn't want to be old anyways."
After eating our GMO plants and glyphosate drenched crops you definitely won't want to get old.
And, if you do, Obamacare will nip that delusion right in the bud.
I have been eating that stuff for 20 years. I'm now 70. In good health.
Just a personal observation: People in their 70s now seem to have mostly escaped the impact from the modern food system. I don't know if that is due to earlier establishment of good gut flora during a time before most nasties were being used. I don't know.
I do know that people in their 50s and younger are getting Chrons disease and IBS symptoms by the thousands now. Cancer rates have gone parabolic in younger and younger people. So saying you're 70 and have been eating it 20 years and you're fine is stupid. Look at the epidemiological data. Correlation does not equal causation, but that's one hell of a fucking correlation. I want no part of it.
I think there is much truth in that Sgt. I'm 76, my wife was 69 when she died, and we both tried to be organic food eaters as much as possible when I hit 30 and she 25. But so much of the Roundup etc started about then that it has become obiquitous in our food chain, and very hard to escape from.
And yes, I am a tin-hat wearing radical that wants to
1. Total ban Roundup
2. String every Monsanto exec, and every so-called 'scientist' that puplished paid for studies that this shit is good for us way up high by their balls until dead.
+1000
monsanto motto: " You really didn't want to be old anyways."
Life expectancy in the US is still rising. But maybe killing off useless eaters with high food prices is a very good thing. It is what the oilgarchs want. We should do everything in our power to help them.
What the fuck makes you so special that you consider yourself a "non useless eater"? Maybe you should start by offing yourself so we don't have to wade through your illogical arguments.
Does the "M" in "MSimon" stand for Monsanto?
Some new evidence that this is fucking with the honeybees as well.
Same as it ever was...
Can 97 million folks not in the labor force become polinators?
Yes. In fact, this is exactly what is now done in China. Seriously, google it, those fuckers killed the honeybee a long time ago.
Agro business in California is HUGE, so the decision will set national precedent.
I guess it's $10.00 for a dozen eggs next week?
Get independent minded. Grow your own food. Keep chickens yourself. I have omelets every day. And my chicken tastes...well....just like chicken. All organic.
“Case-control studies of occupational exposure in the U.S.A., Canada, and Sweden reported increased risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma that persisted after adjustments to other pesticides.”
Born and raised in Mississippi. 60's -90's. Grew up from 5yrs old to 18 right next door to a large cotton field. Could eventually tell you what they were spraying just from the smell of the various chemicals. Actually worked in the cotton biz for an entomologist out in the fields doing worm and bug checks. Got sprayed by various pesticides, Roundup and defoliant.
Got a little touch of the Lymphoma myself back in the late 90's. So did my uncle. I, thank God, made it through. Uncle didn't. My dad died of cancer as well. Girlfriend of mine in college, who grew up on a cotton farm as well, is now a cancer survivor.
So drink up Monsanto, you motherfuckers.
I already grow my own stuff.
I might get some chickens though.
2 different types of protein for the price of one. I love my chickens. And who needs pesticides? All 15 of mine are like poultry Terminators when it comes to bugs.
Worm castings vs chicken shit for fertilizer?
Why choose ? I blend horse, pig and chicken crap. I let no waste go to waste. Gotta experiment though. And chicken would be the leanest part of the mix. It can burn if you are not careful. A little goes a long way of all that stuff. Composting, like wiskey making, is an art of the patient.
Diversity is great. The more stuff you can put in a compost, the better, including roadkill. If it has lived, it can live again. Carbon also will bind up virtually all poisionous substances (wood chips, straw, etc). You're aiming for a carbon/nitrogen ratio of 25/1 for compost anyway. I wouldn't put too much chicken shit directly on plants unless you have them mulched. Chicken shit is pretty hot. Duck shit is pretty awesome too. I was using our ducks to mow our lawn this year on and off, and our grass is beautiful!! It's a bit less hot and more diluted.
Regarding worms: compost worms are awesome!! They're not the same as earthworms. You can take an old bathtub, fill it about half way with cow manure, then top dress it with your daily food scraps and maybe a lid depending on climate. Keep it moist and put a bucket under where the drain used to be. Beautiful worm juice. Awesome stuff. There's virtually no mess either.
I raise red wigglers and blue wigglers. The blue ones are very difficult to get in Texas. I was lucky.
Rather than bathtubs, I have old refrigerators and freezers in the barn. They are better insulated and less likely to have soap residue. If you have trouble with the wormbed overheating in the summer, throw on some ice cubes during the hot part of the day.
I also have honey bees.
My sister gave me a toy late last week and I set it up the same day. There are already seedlings sprouting. Great fun.
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Mix them, chicken shit is really nitrogen hot and it can burn plants easily.
My grandmother used to mix some aged chicken poop into the soil before planting onions.
So this study is saying if you are a field worker, work in the ag industry, like you did, there is increased incidence. But nothing for the rest of us. Sounds to me like proper protective clothing is the answer, because the rest of us would like to keep eating.
I take it the down voters are tired of eating.
Cotton is well known to be a very heavy insecticide/herbicide crop. I only by clothes that are at least fortified with polyester. But then there is the oil refinery risk.
Maybe if we shut down all that technology stuff we would live longer. But then again maybe not.
Plus 10,000 Jumbotron.
Give up your corporate job. Reduce your income and outgo to a few $K per year and focus on food production. If Russian peasants and Africans can do it why can't we?
Actually, corporate apologist asshole, that is the best comment you have made on this site tonght. That is EXACTLY what I did 45 years ago, and it was the best decision I ever made. Didn't focus on food production, though there is a garden and apple and peach trees that produce just fine - worked on family, homestead, and community growth.
Also fought (and stopped, with a bunch of other people) the fucking crazy 24D spraying of our local forests, and the resultant runoff into our local watershed creek, which we documented).
As near as I can tell, you are just a corporate shill, paid per post, so Fuck OFF.
Food for thought.
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Fuck the pesticide poison. Fuck the fat fuckers who push it. Fuck the money grubbing bastards who sell out their fellow neighbors for a paycheck. Fuck the 'farmers' who perpetuate the myth of 'food supply'. BURN THEM AT THE STAKE.
When you make your last purchase at a grocery store, i'll take you seriously.
what makes you think I shop at gmo grocery stores? You do know there's a choice between food and Monsanto, right? Or have you been eating the flouride and plastics?
If you're buying wheat, which is not offered in a GMO commercially anywhere in the world, or any of the myriad of wheat flour based derivative products found in none GMO stores, you're buying from the high yield commercial farmers you curse. Its derivative is in at least 80% of the center isle products, and of course all of the bakery.
Time for an overthrow of the government, eh Monsanto?
Its about time the guinea pigs won a small victory.
Vote positive if you hate Monsanto.
Vote negative if you love Monsanto.
Its about time the guinea pigs won a small victory.
Mass starvation is a very large victory. Not to be underestimated.
Monsanto has to be like the most evil corporation of evil corporations lol.
Monsanto if left to its own devices would cause world wide famine just so that it can sell its sterile gmo cancer seeds for a higher profit.
Monsanto is as close as you can get to a real-world personification of the third horseman of the apocalypse....
Beat me to it.
In comparison, Haliburton, to use just one example, is virtually fucking harmeless.
If Hillrey was a corporation she'd be monsanto.
Sterile and Greedy?
Funny that, she used to lawyer up for them. So did a couple Supreme Court judges.
Grifters like her and Slick Willy always go where the money is.
You of course avoid money at all costs. Good for you.
Me? I go where the money is. It makes it easier to get.
So, you rob banks, right? Good For You!
So your a lobbist for Monsanto?
She also used to lawyer up for BCCI. She has been practising being corrupt and devoid of morals and ethics for decades. She knows no other way.
Two years ago Monsanto wanted to purchase some equipment from my business. I said NO Thank You! The scientist I spoke to was shocked. As far as I know, I am not violating any discrimination laws, at least not yet.
Finally... if I were president, first thing I would do is seize all monsanto assets, arrest all the scum who work there, send them to prison for the rest of their lives and death penalty for the top ones.
Don't forget about their fellow traverlers over at the FDA and the EPA.