Re: Sci Am article on RoundUp

**"* O* <t*@earthlink.net>**

I have long suspected Roundup and am bothered by the over-reliance on it for
so-called "sustainable agriculture."
   When I was a young ag student, the agriculture professors made great fun
of organic gardening and of anything "organic".....but over the years a
large number of them now promote "sustainable agriculture," which as best I
can tell, is good old organic gardening-farming, with a huge dose of Roundup
tossed in.......especially in most of the no-till operations.
    I once saw a no-till farming machine, used to plant grain seed, that was
almost as big as my house....most of it being a humongous tank that held
thousands of gallons of Roundup.

    The longer I am interested in the connections between human health and
horticulture/agriculture, the more suspect I get about any and all synthetic
chemicals used to kill plants, insects, or fungus. The whole business is
complicated by the deep inroads the agricultural chemical mega-corporations
have long made into co-opting the ag students, their clubs (these guys buy
all the barbeque and beer for functions), and the professors, too.

Tom
www.allergyrfree-gardening.com


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Subject: Re: [GWL] Sci Am article on RoundUp


> hydrogen cyanide is also an organic molecule? as are thr poisons that
cuttlefish relatives use to subdue their prey
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
> To: Gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Sat, Jul 25, 2009 1:43 pm
> Subject: [GWL] Sci Am article on RoundUp
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> Has everyone read this?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weed-whacking-herbicide-p
>
> One thing that caught my attention was that POEA is an allowed ingredient
in
> organic foods.
>
> d
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