This goes to show the power of the IFA and the farming lobbies in the EU. The stuff is lethal and you can still buy it in hardware stores like Woodies.
It really does make you despair, biodiversity only seems to be going in one direction and it’s not looking good.
Removal without any adequate alternatives would have been very harmful to crop production. Would basically have stopped the no-till/min-till practice.
Of course the Journal commenters who despise the Greens so much are trying to blame this on the Greens lol. The only Irish MEPs who tried to stop this were Greens.
You can smell this shit around here all spring and summer. its got a strange sweet smell, clearly is not good for you.
Seen the neighbour using it this summer down on hands and knees spraying into a corner , no mask , not even a breeze.
He’s not been looking great recently…
Absolutely nuts that they would choose to keep this stuff on the market. With soil biodiversity in the shitter (the corner stone of all our health) you would imagine they would try their best to improve the situation.
It is beyond me why anyone would spray that poison on the land or even in their gardens for that matter. Woodies stock it! Head melted with the sheer don’t give a fk attitude of people in power and the ignorance of regular people to it ill affects.
Roundup does the job though. There’s nothing like it. We’d be a different country without it. Poorer and messier.
What is the alternative for farmers? Even the more green minded conventional farmers have to use glyphosate to reduce weed banks in fields.
Good, weeds be dammed.
Glyphosate has an LD50 of approx 10500mg/kg.
(LD50 being the amount of a substance needed per kg of body mass to kill 50% of the test subjects)
The average* person in ireland is some 89kg.
You need then 10500mg x 89kg = 0.93kg approx.
You would need to eat a bag of sugar sized lump of the stuff to have a 50/50 lethal dose.
And that’s **PURE.**
Roundup for example is so dilute that you could put it on your cornflakes. Calm down.
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This goes to show the power of the IFA and the farming lobbies in the EU. The stuff is lethal and you can still buy it in hardware stores like Woodies.
It really does make you despair, biodiversity only seems to be going in one direction and it’s not looking good.
[https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/green-party-meps-call-on-ireland-to-vote-for-glyphosate-ban/](https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/green-party-meps-call-on-ireland-to-vote-for-glyphosate-ban/)
Our Green EU parliament members from Ireland urged Charlie McConalogue to vote against this but it was duly ignored.
That’s roundup, right?
These fuckwads would spray brawndo on their crops if they thought they might get a quick return from it.
A bit of sense keeping this vital component of food production available. You can read more facts about it [here](https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate)
Removal without any adequate alternatives would have been very harmful to crop production. Would basically have stopped the no-till/min-till practice.
Of course the Journal commenters who despise the Greens so much are trying to blame this on the Greens lol. The only Irish MEPs who tried to stop this were Greens.
You can smell this shit around here all spring and summer. its got a strange sweet smell, clearly is not good for you.
Seen the neighbour using it this summer down on hands and knees spraying into a corner , no mask , not even a breeze.
He’s not been looking great recently…
Absolutely nuts that they would choose to keep this stuff on the market. With soil biodiversity in the shitter (the corner stone of all our health) you would imagine they would try their best to improve the situation.
It is beyond me why anyone would spray that poison on the land or even in their gardens for that matter. Woodies stock it! Head melted with the sheer don’t give a fk attitude of people in power and the ignorance of regular people to it ill affects.
Roundup does the job though. There’s nothing like it. We’d be a different country without it. Poorer and messier.
What is the alternative for farmers? Even the more green minded conventional farmers have to use glyphosate to reduce weed banks in fields.
Good, weeds be dammed.
Glyphosate has an LD50 of approx 10500mg/kg.
(LD50 being the amount of a substance needed per kg of body mass to kill 50% of the test subjects)
The average* person in ireland is some 89kg.
You need then 10500mg x 89kg = 0.93kg approx.
You would need to eat a bag of sugar sized lump of the stuff to have a 50/50 lethal dose.
And that’s **PURE.**
Roundup for example is so dilute that you could put it on your cornflakes. Calm down.