Fields of grain / fields of gain
"Results In 3 Hours," boasts the website for Roundup Weed Killer, the most common glyphosate-based herbicide. And indeed, those results are pretty dramatic as you can see in the fields above. Everything on the land where the toxic herbicide was sprayed is dead, dry stubble.
The non-selective herbicide (it will kill most plants) is used on almost all U.S. corn, cotton, and soybeans crops and many people apply it to lawns and gardens. The manufacturer, once Monsanto, now Bayer, insists Roundup is safe. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has called glyphosate a “probable human carcinogen,” two dozen countries have banned or severely restricted it, and California added it to its list of cancer-causing chemicals. Here in smug, green Vermont, where these photos were taken, there are no restrictions.
Glyphosate is also used as a desiccant, sprayed on almost all non-organic US grain crops (as well as on beans, beets, potatoes, etc.) and corn before threshing so that the plants will be nicely dead and evenly dry for harvest. That means, yes, the grain in your non-organic bread, cookies, and beer may contain glyphosate residue.
And if you don't care for yourself or impacted birds, insects, and other wildlife, give a thought for regularly exposed agricultural workers who have a 41% higher risk of contracting non-Hodgkin lymphoma than people who used the herbicide infrequently or never.
Now why didn’t I think of that!!
Had absolutely no idea, perhaps I’ll just stop eating. I suspect cockroaches already rule.