There’s been so much diatribe, banter and impassioned discussion about weeds and how to control them, let’s look at what comes up when we “google” a few terms.
safety of roundup
- “Roundup® is touted as a safe, environmentally friendly and easy to use herbicide. It’s also denounced as a toxic, hazardous chemical. Which is right? Are there any alternatives to using Roundup?” – Green City – Blue Lake
- GMO myths and truths report – earthopensource
- “Roundup is tied to infertility and cancer; herbicide’s maker calls it safe” – The Washington Post
- Product information about Roundup – Monsanto
- Roundup herbicide toxicity – Nature’s Country Store
- “Questions Surround Safety of RoundUp” – ToxicFreeNC
- “Roundup Ready Crops: Cash crop or third world savior?” – web.mit.edu
- “Roundup herbicide causes smorgasbord of fatal diseases, new study concludes” – NaturalNews.com
- “The latest science on Roundup: It’s not doing your gut any favors” – Prevention
herbicides
- Herbicide factsheet – University of Rhode Island
- Natural herbicides: Are they effective – University of California Weed Science
- AG Answers, an Ohio State Extension and Purdue Extension Partnership
Columbia news, views & reviews 
Thank you for putting this information out there for people to read. First, the term, ‘cide’ means ‘kill.” You know, as in homicide, suicide and anything else that ends in -cide. So the herbicide Roundup is a killer of herbs and any other plant. It was introduced by Monsanto about 1996. “Oh great,” the farmers and home growers thought, “This will make my job far easier.” Soon, however, Monsanto, or as I like to call it, ‘Monsatin,’ heard from farmers and growers, who told them, ‘Roundup is great for killing weeds, but it also kills my crops!’ So Monsanto set their chemists to work in laboratories to develop ‘Roundup resistant’ seeds, hence, the term GMO arrived on the scene. As you probably know, GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. The EPA and USDA, without doing any testing, to Monsanto to put GMO canola seeds out into nature. Many farmers in Canada and the U.S. purchased these seeds. Unfortunately for non-GMO Canola, winds, bugs, rains, birds, etc., spread GMO pollen all over the place. It was really effective to, essentially wipe out nearly all of the Nature or God-given Canola. Monsanto didn’t stop with Canola, there is now GMO corn, soy, cotton-seed, and several others. The company isn’t going to stop, unless there is a public outrage. The European Union does not allow any GMO seeds on the continent, one would hope the U.S. and Canadian governments would put restrictions on GMO seeds, but it appears these govenments are no longer FOR THE PEOPLE, but rather FOR THE CORPORATIONS.
In my first post, I failed to proof-read it sufficiently. So here is a complete sentence to make sense of what the EPA and USDA told Monsanto: “The EPA and USDA, without doing any testing of giving any thought about what would happen if the seeds were put out in the wilds, granted Monsanto permission to sell GMO canola seeds.”
Oops, I did it again! In the sentence that begins “The EPA…,” after the word ‘testing,’ it should read ‘or,’ not ‘of.’
unrelated question. Can you explain the zone system used by Lancaster newspapers for news reporting?
The best place to get an insight into that would be to go to the source; you might try contacting one of the editors here: http://lancasteronline.com/pages/paper/daily/newsroom.php.
Online, the zone system appears to be aligned by school districts in the My(NameofSchooldistrict)News; 17 schools districts are listed here: http://lancasteronline.com/pages/member/index.php?action=mycommunity
In print, the “zone system” sectors the county into four “zones”: the east, the north, the south and the metro. There’s a map here: http://lancasteronline.com/pages/customercarecenter/ratecards/retail_zoned.php
Hope this helps point the way, Tiny.
thank you this is very helpful