Re: Sci Am article on RoundUp

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

Continuing this thread. Tom, it seems to me  the cutting edge  
research in organics is happening in Europe with much of it coming  
from the hydroponics industry. But here in the US we give it a deaf  
ear because of the pot issue. It's time we take closer look. Where is  
Tom Alexander when we need him?  BTW, take a look at the idiot TV  
talking head eating organic fertilizer on Tom's website  
www.growingedge.com. He should be arrested.

Nancy Szerlag
On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Tom Ogren wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: Re: [GWL] Sci Am article on RoundUp
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>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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