I found this NPR article to be a bit more informative:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/24/394912399/a-top-...
Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
GMOs have very little to do with weed killers.
Well not when it comes to Round-up Ready. It's Roundup Resistant GMO + Roundup = we kill everything in the field except the crops.
Well, BASF sells an herbicide resistant rice + herbicide combo developed using completely natural breeding techniques:
http://agproducts.basf.us/news-room/press-releases/current-p...
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#13I know that its hard for someone to understand who doesn't work with farm chemicals on a regular basis but Roundup is on the low side in terms of toxicity. Here's a copy of a Material Safety Data Sheet that all those who handle herbicides need to maintain for employee access: http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/pest/pmsds/Roundup.PDF Almost anything is toxic, even salt, if the dose is high enough. The question that must be…
Whats your point? That the WHO are scare-mongering? That Monsanto shouldn't be held accountable for knowingly marketing a poisonous, carcinogenic substance and profiting from it in the billions?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well not when it comes to Round-up Ready. It's Roundup Resistant GMO + Roundup = we kill everything in the field except the crops.
Your first comment seems to suggest that people who are pro-GMOs will be going against these findings. GMOs and weed killers are two parts of Monsanto's business model, but as far as the science behind the two goes there is virtually nothing in common.
.. except the marketing of Roundup as safe to use only in combination with other GMO products from Monsanto, that is.
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#15I know that its hard for someone to understand who doesn't work with farm chemicals on a regular basis but Roundup is on the low side in terms of toxicity. Here's a copy of a Material Safety Data Sheet that all those who handle herbicides need to maintain for employee access: http://greenhouse.ucdavis.edu/pest/pmsds/Roundup.PDF Almost anything is toxic, even salt, if the dose is high enough. The question that must be…
Whats your point? That the WHO are scare-mongering? That Monsanto shouldn't be held accountable for knowingly marketing a poisonous, carcinogenic substance and profiting from it in the billions?
You must get really worked up about the companies that make X-ray machines.
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#16This interview about the topic (Glyphosate by Monsanto) is also quite telling:
http://m.canalplus.fr/?vid=1122650 (English with French subtitles)
Interviewee: It is completely safe and you could even drink it
Interviewer: We got a glass of it here, you want to drink some
Interviewee: No, of course not, I'm not an idiot and the interview is over now.
Re: Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says
#17This interview about the topic (Glyphosate by Monsanto) is also quite telling: http://m.canalplus.fr/?vid=1122650 (English with French subtitles) Interviewee: It is completely safe and you could even drink it Interviewer: We got a glass of it here, you want to drink some Interviewee: No, of course not, I'm not an idiot and the interview is over now.
In his defence, it's probably not at all nice to drink
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#19It's not a matter of if something is carcinogenic, but how carcinogenic, at what dose and under which circumstances. The article doesn't go into details about whether it'd be carcinogenic at the levels you can get in food.
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#20Waiting for the pro-GMO crowd to come forward calling all this "anti-science"...
What do you want to hear?
Does Roundup "cause cancer"? Well, probably. You know what else causes cancer? Water. Oxygen. Sunrays. Coffee (on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; according to the news, it cures cancer on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). It all depends on exposure.
And yes, I'm willing to bet that all that "organic-certified" nasty crap people dump on their crops is even worse than Roundup.
Study itself may be fine (I haven't read it), but the article is total junk. If you were to believe this kind of reporting, then every goddamn thing around you will give you cancer for sure. And yes, a lot of people believe that, and then they go all kinds of crazy (from unsolicited food advice - "Hey, why would you drink that?! Don't you know it causes cancer?!" to anti-vaccine movements).