April 3rd, 2015, 10:36 pm
QuoteOriginally posted by: CollectorQuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: tagomaThe Environmental Protection Agency confirmed it will require a weed resistance management plan for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto?s immensely popular Roundup weed-killer.EPA say they will move against glyphosate ... no hurry to shorting MON, thenThe logic behind worrying about herbicide resistance has always confused me.Glyphosate resistance is only a problem if one thinks using glyphosate is a good idea.And if one thinks glyphosate is bad, then the sooner all weeds are glyphosate-resistance, the better.The Patent on Roundup (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) has expired (2010). Even some of these big chemical corporations likely happy if "world" need to switch to some new new Patented weed killer, where also way to little independent research have got time to figure out the health risk, so can be marketed as safe next 20 years or so) :-)That raises another issue of whether any observed glyphosate-related cancers are due to glyphosate or due to impurities in generic versions of glyphosate made by low-quality manufacturers. In the case of 2,4 D, for example, the actual herbicide is fairly non-toxic but the basic chemistry for producing it also makes really nasty byproducts such as dioxin. Unless the herbicide is properly purified, the result is toxic cocktail.