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Glyphosate and the EU
On 16/04/16 17:31, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Hils wrote: If it makes you feel happier. In the Netherlands only professionals, excluding local authorities are allowed to use it. Which seems to be the model towards which the EU is moving, but the proposals will mean that the average European gardener, allotment holder or smallholder won't be able to use glyphosate, since they won't be able to pay the "professionals" who will presumably be licensed by the state. I don't believe this issue has anything at all to do with the EU. Has the UK government given the OK to glyphosate? As far as I can see, most western governments, starting with the US, seem to believe glyphosate usage should be limited, if not banned. It's really a matter of the scientific advice they get, and is not a political issue. I doubt if many governments would like to legalize a weed-killer that they were told was harmful to humans. Alcohol? Tobacco? Government members do what they are paid to do by the highest bidders, which are generally corporate vested interests. Those interests, in this case primarily Monsanto, will be offering a lot more after investing so much in developing glyphosate-dependent GM crops. For decades Monsanto have built most of their development, marketing and lobbying around "research" which is looking not so much shaky as fraudulent. [1,2,3] There is certainly opposition to gyphosate use in the US, but it has had little impact so far: "In 2014, farmers sprayed enough glyphosate to apply ~1.0 kg/ha (0.8 pound/acre) on every hectare of U.S.-cultivated cropland and nearly 0.53 kg/ha (0.47 pounds/acre) on all cropland worldwide." [4] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8308903.stm 2. http://www.naturalnews.com/051450_gl..._Monsanto.html 3. http://theantimedia.org/lawsuit-accu...ty-of-roundup/ 4. http://enveurope.springeropen.com/ar...302-016-0070-0 |
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