GR: Here’s an example of a common industry ploy to discredit science using paid researchers. Monsanto knows Roundup causes cancer and endangers wildlife, but they don’t care. They use any means possible to continue selling their dangerous products. The tobacco industry tried and eventually failed to do this. The fossil-fuel industry has been doing this for more than 40 years.
Herbicides seem to offer a final solution for the human war on weeds. However, we shouldn’t be using using poisons to control weeds; we should be using mechanical techniques, biological controls, and better weed management strategies.
“The agrochemical and seed giant Monsanto, one of the world’s most controversial corporations, is attempting to take down a World Health Organization (WHO) agency that in 2015 linked the Monsanto product glyphosate to an increased risk of cancer in humans. That year, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found that the widely…
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In a sane, compassionate society, Monsanto would be labeled a terrorist organization along with Dow Chemical, DuPont Pioneer, Goldman Sachs, Merck, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citigroup, Smithfield Foods, Tyso Foods, IBM…
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True. A sane, compassionate society we are not.
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