Sen Green wants ban on Roundup

[bystander]

Politician pandering for votes from anti-GMO people. He thinks this has political momentum but this might just backfire on him.

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...bicide-use

[Bullwinkle]

not to worry

been using remedy for years - grin (joke)

[Richard Ha]

Maybe we should ban coffee while we're at it. Let's have some common sense about this.

[David M]

Here we go, yet another fear monger.

The organic police can't make it on benefit so they spread fear. After all these years, sadly it is working.

David


Ninole Resident
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[nativekamaaina]

Why dont we just ban breathing all together!!!

[kalakoa]

I hate to suggest "doing something useful", but what about the bean borer that's destroying our local coffee industry?

Or the albizia? Or the pigs/deer? Or whatever's killing the honeybees?

As always: rules/regulations are for the little people, big agribusiness will either buy themselves an exemption, or just pay the fines (if caught).

Sigh.

[robguz]

Wow, yet another anti-science kook in elected office on the island. And this time from someone who is supposed to be a scientist. Clearly, he didn't take any epidemiology classes in obtaining his MD. And "he thinks" it's implicated in honey bee colony collapse disorder. Sounds like a great scientific mind at work with that kind of evidence. Wrong pesticide, Doctor. Why on earth ban one of the most innocuous herbicides? There are far worse ones.

[Opihikaobob]

http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=2141053
(AN excerpt from the article below).
Here's where the glyphosate issue gets dicey
Glyphosate alone is not the most toxic pesticide ingredient, although it's commonly considered as such. But it's the only substance used for testing by the EPA and government agencies worldwide. So the EPA has allowed larger amounts of glyphosate usage even as it has been showing up in human blood.

RoundUp's extreme toxicity comes from combining glyphosate with chemical adjuvants to ensure rapid plant absorption of glyphosate. Glyphosate is considered the "active ingredient," while the adjuvants are considered "inert," pretty much like vaccines and their toxic adjuvants.
The RoundUp adjuvants aren't considered, while Monsanto claims proprietary rights to avoid revealing what those "inert" ingredients are. But the two-year Seralini rat study that produced premature deaths and horrific tumors after nine months did decipher what those adjuvants are. [5]

[bystander]

This is the same guy that said the majority of medical marijuana card holders are under age 25 which is a complete and utter lie. Just more fear mongering here. If I ever have to go the ER in Kona, I hope he's not my doctor.

[bystander]

quote:

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Using scientific instrumentation, the Seralini group isolated inert ingredients and noted their toxicity. RoundUp's glyphosate combination with certain chemical adjuvants create a toxic and carcinogenic cocktail that makes it's way up the food chain. [5a]

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That's from the rest of the article Bob posted. How vague can you get? What are these adjuvants and how do they combine to create this awful sounding "coctail"? Sounds like more fear mongering too me. Just check out the rest of that website.