Monsanto Roundup: It's your future edition

Thanks Jan! :)

Monsanto the World’s Most Evil Company: Google it

monsanto should be brought up crimes against humanity.

Pesticide what's that? Marigolds (and a few other plants) repel a few insects, just mix them in your garden... Hmmm and/or you can take some powdered garlic boil it in water strain the powder sludge out and use it to spray your plants daily (bugs hate it).

I know doesn't apply to industrial farming as well, but industrial farming sucks.

Just buy you some "heirloom" seeds (read up on them real well heirlooms are way more sensitive to stress), and grow your own.

Do that and don't support Monsanto by buying anything they have a hand in.

Now if everyone could see past working overtime to afford that new Lexus (or whatever), re-prioritize their lives, we could run Monsanto out of business

U Roc! Knowledge is power.

You are so snarky about this stuff.

....I fucking love it. Keep fighting the good fight, Jan.

I've been useing QuikPro by Roundup to kill the johnson grass around the house. I have to say it works real good. Beats useing a weed eater. Plus it has a stort half life Because after thirty or fourtyfive days I see new growth.

Keep up the good work Jan!

http://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=852

Here it is, straight from the Devil's, uh, I mean horse's mouth. Their "Triple Flex" pesticide just in time for the 2011 season. Ummm. ummm. good.

http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Clopyralid.htm

Oh, and take a look at the main ingredient. Makes you hungry, doesn't it?
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"The herbicide clopyralid is commonly sold under the brand names Transline, Stinger, and Confront. It is used to kill unwanted plants in lawn and turf, range, pasture, rights-of-way, sugarbeets, mint, and wheat. Clopyralid and the products containing it are irritating to eyes, some severely. The eye hazards of four clopyralid products include permanent impairment of vision or irreversible damage. In laboratory tests, clopyralid caused what a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewer called "substantial" reproductive problems. These include a reduction in the weight of fetuses carried by rabbits who ingested clopyralid, an increase in skeletal abnormalities in these fetuses at all doses tested, and an increase in the number of fetuses with hydrocephaly, accumulation of excess fluid around the brain. "Inert" ingredients in clopyralid products include cyclohexanone (produces tearing and burning of the eyes, vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness), triethylamine (a severe eye irritant and cause of chemical pneumonia), and polyethoxylated tallow amines (cause eye burns, nausea, and are acutely toxic to fish). Clopyralid is "persistent" in soil, according to an EPA review, and field studies have measured persistence as long as 14 months. It has the chemical characteristics that make it a likely water contaminant; despite its relatively low level of use it has been found in 2 of the 20 river basins studied by the U.S. Geological Survey. Potatoes are extremely sensitive to clopyralid with damage occurring when plants are exposed to 0.07 percent of typical agricultural rates. When tubers from these damaged plants were grown in unsprayed fields, the new generation of plants also showed damage symptoms."
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