Round-Up Causes Cancer. Man Awarded $289 Million For Final Years Of Life Shortened By

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Monsanto caused Dwayne Johnson to get lymphoma.

That's the court ruling.

(CNN) San Francisco jurors just ruled that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal cancer.
So they awarded him $289 million in damages -- mostly to punish the agricultural company Monsanto.
Dewayne Johnson's victory Friday could set a massive precedent for thousands of other cases claiming Monsanto's famous herbicide causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Johnson's case was the first to go to trial because doctors said he was near death. And in California, dying plaintiffs can be granted expedited trials.

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You can call this fake news but Wall Street took notice.

Shares of Bayer, which owns Monsanto, plunged.

We should all learn to do our own organic farming and grow good food because we can't trust giant heartless corporations to provide safe food.

They grow GMO food in fields treated with cancer-causing Round-Up.

This is a bad problem.

We have to fix it.
 
Glyphosate, wonderful stuff. Lead in the water supply. We're quite exceptional. No wonder we have to engage in endless empirical war and occupation to export our way of life. Human beings are commodities in america.
 
Hello and welcome anonymoose,

anonymoose said:
I do it because it's one of my hobbies.
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Me too. Except I do it because I like getting non processed healthy food that I know where it came from.

"They grow GMO food in fields treated with cancer-causing Round-Up."

anonymoose said:
Where'd you get that from? Round-Up kills plant life. Nobody can grow food with that stuff around.
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That's what they do. And no, Round-Up does not kill all plant life. The commercial food crops are genetically engineered to be completely resistant to Round-Up. The GMO crops are not poisoned by exposure to Round-Up. That way, they can go and spray the entire field with the poison, killing everything except the cash crop. When they do this prior to plowing, so that no weed seeds will be alive, the field looks horrible and not natural-looking. Everything is this same brown-orange color. It looks awful, obviously something done by humans. Then they plow it all under and plant the crops. The GMO food on store shelves was grow in poison-laden fields.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
Glyphosate, wonderful stuff. Lead in the water supply. We're quite exceptional. No wonder we have to engage in endless empirical war and occupation to export our way of life. Human beings are commodities in america.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glyphosate-roundup-chemical-found-in-childrens-breakfast-foods/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/health/glyphosate-oat-products-ewg-study/index.html

Mmm I love the taste of a nice big bowl of weed killer-os in the morning.
 
Thanks for this thread. Reminds me I need to buy some. Once bermuda grass gets into a garden, it takes a ton to get it out.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello and welcome anonymoose,



Me too. Except I do it because I like getting non processed healthy food that I know where it came from.

"They grow GMO food in fields treated with cancer-causing Round-Up."



That's what they do. And no, Round-Up does not kill all plant life. The commercial food crops are genetically engineered to be completely resistant to Round-Up. The GMO crops are not poisoned by exposure to Round-Up. That way, they can go and spray the entire field with the poison, killing everything except the cash crop. When they do this prior to plowing, so that no weed seeds will be alive, the field looks horrible and not natural-looking. Everything is this same brown-orange color. It looks awful, obviously something done by humans. Then they plow it all under and plant the crops. The GMO food on store shelves was grow in poison-laden fields.
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You got a link to that? I find that hard to believe. I once made the mistake of using small squirts of roundup in my garden, targeting only the weeds. It fucked up my whole strawberry patch for at least a yr. Of course I have nothing engineered to resist roundup.
 
anonymoose said:
You got a link to that? I find that hard to believe. I once made the mistake of using small squirts of roundup in my garden, targeting only the weeds. It fucked up my whole strawberry patch for at least a yr. Of course I have nothing engineered to resist roundup.
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He's right.

"Roundup Ready crops are crops genetically modified to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup. Roundup is the brand-name of a herbicide produced by Monsanto. Its active ingredient glyphosate was patented in the 1970s. Roundup is widely used by both people in their backyards and farmers in their fields. Roundup Ready plants are resistant to Roundup, so farmers that plant these seeds must use Roundup to keep other weeds from growing in their fields.

The first Roundup Ready crops were developed in 1996, with the introduction of genetically modified soybeans that are resistant to Roundup. These crops were developed to help farmers control weeds. Because the new crops are resistant to Roundup, the herbicide can be used in the fields to eliminate unwanted foliage. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, cotton, and sorghum, with wheat under development."
http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html
 
Roundup, or at least the glyphosate in it, is the only thing that will kill running bamboo other than physically digging it out then digging up every new culm that pops up from the remaining underground rhizomes for the next year or two.

I say this from experience as someone who had a large running bamboo infestation in my backyard several years ago.

Once I got it all cut down and disposed of over the course of several weeks, Roundup helped keep it from coming back in force again.

Don't ever let that crap get started in your yard. It would take over the entire world if allowed to.

Evil plant.

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Nomad said:
Roundup, or at least the glyphosate in it, is the only thing that will kill running bamboo other than physically digging it out then digging up every new culm that pops up from the remaining underground rhizomes for the next year or two.

I say this from experience as someone who had a large running bamboo infestation in my backyard several years ago.

Once I got it all cut down and disposed of over the course of several weeks, Roundup helped keep it from coming back in force again.

Don't ever let that crap get started in your yard. It would take over the entire world if allowed to.

Evil plant.

.
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Sounds a lot like horsetails.
 
anonymoose said:
Sounds a lot like horsetails.
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Don't know what those are.

What I learned about running bamboo is that it is a member of the grass family and like grass, it spreads via a system of underground runners or rhizomes. Also, a clump or stand of bamboo stalks no matter how big or containing how many individual stalks, is all one plant.

Apparently, the best way to get rid of it, or at least the way I did it, is to cut down each stalk as close to the ground as you can get, then immediately pour Roundup down inside the hollow stump.

Lot of work when you take into account not only the initial work involved in cutting it down, but then you have to strip the stalks and, at an average length of 10' to 16' each, cut them into shorter lengths that can be put in trash cans or bundes on the curb to be picked up.

Took me about six months to finally get rid of the large stand that ran from end to end of my back fence.
 
Hello anonymoose,

anonymoose said:
You got a link to that? I find that hard to believe. I once made the mistake of using small squirts of roundup in my garden, targeting only the weeds. It fucked up my whole strawberry patch for at least a yr. Of course I have nothing engineered to resist roundup.
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Oh, man, it's been so long since I learned that; I don't no where to look for a link.

Lemm jus do a quik search...

Well, that didn't take long.

"Its use skyrocketed after seeds were genetically engineered to tolerate the chemical. Because these seeds produce plants that are not killed by glyphosate, farmers can apply the weed killer to entire fields without worrying about destroying crops. Between 1987 and 2012, annual U.S. farm use grew from less than 11 million pounds to nearly 300 million pounds.

“By far the vast use is on [genetically engineered] crops – corn, soy and cotton – that took off in the early to mid-nineties,” says Robert Gilliom, chief of surface water assessment for the US Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment Program.

In addition, some five million acres in California were treated with glyphosate in 2012 to grow almonds, peaches, onions, cantaloupe, cherries, sweet corn, citrus, grapes, and other edible crops."

NatGeo
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I think you got it. The strawberries croaked because they were not genetically engineered to withstand Roundup.
 
Hello TrippyHippy,

TrippyHippy said:
He's right.

"Roundup Ready crops are crops genetically modified to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup. Roundup is the brand-name of a herbicide produced by Monsanto. Its active ingredient glyphosate was patented in the 1970s. Roundup is widely used by both people in their backyards and farmers in their fields. Roundup Ready plants are resistant to Roundup, so farmers that plant these seeds must use Roundup to keep other weeds from growing in their fields.

The first Roundup Ready crops were developed in 1996, with the introduction of genetically modified soybeans that are resistant to Roundup. These crops were developed to help farmers control weeds. Because the new crops are resistant to Roundup, the herbicide can be used in the fields to eliminate unwanted foliage. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, cotton, and sorghum, with wheat under development."
http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html
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Sounds like that ship already sailed. Traces of glyphosate have now been found in Cheerios. It's in the wheat.
 
Nomad said:
Don't know what those are.
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Horsetail Plant
Aggressively-Spreading Weed, Water-Garden Accent
https://www.thespruce.com/horsetail-plant-aggressively-spreading-weed-4125786
Nomad said:
What I learned about running bamboo is that it is a member of the grass family and like grass, it spreads via a system of underground runners or rhizomes. Also, a clump or stand of bamboo stalks no matter how big or containing how many individual stalks, is all one plant.

Apparently, the best way to get rid of it, or at least the way I did it, is to cut down each stalk as close to the ground as you can get, then immediately pour Roundup down inside the hollow stump.

Lot of work when you take into account not only the initial work involved in cutting it down, but then you have to strip the stalks and, at an average length of 10' to 16' each, cut them into shorter lengths that can be put in trash cans or bundes on the curb to be picked up.

Took me about six months to finally get rid of the large stand that ran from end to end of my back fence.
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Even looks like miniature bamboo.
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anonymoose said:
You got a link to that? I find that hard to believe. I once made the mistake of using small squirts of roundup in my garden, targeting only the weeds. It fucked up my whole strawberry patch for at least a yr. Of course I have nothing engineered to resist roundup.
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It is well-reported that they have round-up resistant plants. They are in the process of changing things up because weeds are starting to adapt, so they are shifting formulas.

That is not where the real danger of roundup in your food supply lies though. It is the growers who finish off with roundup to kill the plants they are about to harvest so the wheat, for example, will be dry all at once and ready to be harvested all at once.
 
Kacper said:
It is well-reported that they have round-up resistant plants. They are in the process of changing things up because weeds are starting to adapt, so they are shifting formulas.

That is not where the real danger of roundup in your food supply lies though. It is the growers who finish off with roundup to kill the plants they are about to harvest so the wheat, for example, will be dry all at once and ready to be harvested all at once.
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And then they use cartoon characters to market the product to kids.

Fiendish.
 
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