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Has anyone here tried the bespoke home-made weed-icide made with vinegar + salt + dish-soap? If yes, was it effective? A cursory google search suggests the internet is divided on this.
works great! But you need to use it regularly, weeds will grow back after a few weeks.
it's doubly stupid because you can eat dandelions which are one of the many "weeds" people kill with this shit to protect their useless-at-best lawns. kill your lawn. plant native shit.
Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.
I was not aware of this story, but found that there is a Wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood... I don't think it's quite as clear as you put it, and Bayer was by no means the worst offender in this regard. Other related scandals are linked to at the bottom of the Wikipedia page, and the Canadian Red Cross (for example) seems to have behaved even more negligently.
5 years ago the guy at the local garden store use to tell me this stuff was so safe you could drink it. I had my doubts
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Has anyone tried not using any pesticides or herbicides on their yard? I haven’t dropped anything on my yard except for grass seed in 15 years and it’s fine. So what if there are some weeds on it.
I did. The neighbors lodged a complaint. They didn't buy my theory that the field of dandelions could be turned into wine.
Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.
> Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto. It's used because it's effective broad-spectrum herbicide. My understanding it's quite a bit less toxic than its predecessors, and I understand there's no equivalent replacement on the horizon. IIRC, the problem was they marketed it as practically non toxic to humans, which is definitely not the case.
Has their marketing stance changed? Or does Glyphosate continue to be marketed as a relatively safe solution?
Roundup is still for sale at Home Depot, they sell massive quantities of it every day.
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Is this an AI-generated comment? Nothing about the article mentions herbicide
Yep. Seems like OP saw "roundup" in the title and thought it was related to roundup the product.
Let me try that again.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03004...
Furthermore, evidence from recent studies shows a possible association between chronic pesticide exposure and an increased prevalence of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia.
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What about dementia and Alzheimer’s? https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/recent-...
In this context "Roundup" means "collection". None of these studies are about the herbicide Roundup.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03004...
Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.
> Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto. Farmers love glyphosate because it kills weeds very effectively. It’s hard to exaggerate how much of a neat thing glyphosate was considered in the agricultural world when it appeared. That’s the reason it is used. Now, the reason it is produced and sold is that it is profitable for Monsanto, and regulation hasn’t stopped Monsanto.
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Has anyone here tried the bespoke home-made weed-icide made with vinegar + salt + dish-soap? If yes, was it effective? A cursory google search suggests the internet is divided on this.
Has anyone tried not using any pesticides or herbicides on their yard? I haven’t dropped anything on my yard except for grass seed in 15 years and it’s fine. So what if there are some weeds on it.
The goal is to get the grass to generate roots and then this will turn into a nice lush carpet. The thicker the carpet the more competition for resources.
I mow at 6" to keep germinating weeds from getting easy sunlight.