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@domino-710 wrote:

This is not ' tin foil ' stuff.

 

Why are you still using Glyphosate when there are alternatives.

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While there are alternatives for home garden use, the only alternatives in the commercial setting are much worse than Roundup. The next cab off the rank after Roundup is Paraquat, a truly horrible chemical I wont touch.

https://www.healthline.com/health/paraquat-poisoning#:~:text=Even%20ingesting%20small%20to%20medium,... 

Farmers need to control large woody weeds such as Blackberries the size of buses, yellow broom bushes, Hoarhound and 1.5 metre high wooly thistles that the natural , organic hand pump sprayers sold in Bunnings would not even look at. 

Not exactly a novice - with ??? acres for adjisting horses - for the past 25 years.

Blackberry - Lantana etc.

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@domino-710 wrote:

This is not ' tin foil ' stuff.

 

Why are you still using Glyphosate when there are alternatives.

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There are some people / organisations who will throw the "Tin foil hat" insult at anti-pollution campaigners and people opposed to the use of agri-chemicals such as Roundup etc.. In the media the people who oppose or question the use of agri-chemicals are discredited with this conspiracy theorist tin-foil tag nonsense just as someone who questions or opposes the addition of fluoride to our water. . So chameleon54 was correct in the quotation.

Been gardening. ??? LOL

Cham is obviously not ' opposed ' to use - he's using.

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@domino-710 wrote:

Been gardening. ??? LOL

 

Cham is obviously not ' opposed ' to use - he's using.

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You laughed too soon. I know chameleon uses the stuff.

So - where's the ' tin foil hat '.

What would farmers have done pre- pesticides. 

Perhaps chained the offending growth to the back of their tractors and pulled them out roots and all ?

Round up is a threat to the world honey bee populations , it destroys friendly bacteria in their gut,  reducing their immunity and shortening their lifespan. 

Without bees,  large scale food production would not  be possible . 

Varying reports on the hazards of products depends on where the funding is coming from. 

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@feloniexyz wrote:

What would farmers have done pre- pesticides. 

 

Hacked at it by hand - and probably used fire.

 

Perhaps chained the offending growth to the back of their tractors and pulled them out roots and all ?

 

Pre-pesticides - they probably didn't have a tractor.

 

Round up is a threat to the world honey bee populations , it destroys friendly bacteria in their gut,  reducing their immunity and shortening their lifespan. 

 

Tell that to Cham - he uses it.

 

Without bees,  large scale food production would not  be possible . 

 

Varying reports on the hazards of products depends on where the funding is coming from. 

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Have another look - there is plenty of info out there to choose from - not much of it in this instance is tin hat stuff.

It is a choice to use it or an alternative - but perhaps convenience is a factor.

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@domino-710 wrote:

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Have another look - there is plenty of info out there to choose from - not much of it in this instance is tin hat stuff.

 

It is a choice to use it or an alternative - but perhaps convenience is a factor.

 

 

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Or cost?  It is cheaper to use?  I don't know, just wondering. 

Could be Bright - but if the cost outweighs the health issues - and the environmental issues ?????