What do you guys make of this?

[pourfarmer]

Utter bullshit is what it is imo.
You should see what they spray on your fruit. Oh , but you can wash it off ......

My fruit? I'm a grain farmer

[sumdumguy]

Food imported from China - no thanx.

[pourfarmer]

My opinion, besides stated,is that glyphosate is a valuable pesticide. I use it in minute quantities, and flollow the label. My mom and paternal grandmother died from cancer before we ever used glyphosate. My Dad just passed at the age of 90 ultimately from heart failure. In the last decades he used to ride his quad around the fields we were spraying with glyphosate.

I am very suspicious of any disparaging comments re glyphosate. I trust Health Canada, but distrust any UN agency.

Glyphosate is far and away the most valuable tool we have in our arsenal. IMO.

Sorry to hear about your father. He likely had a healthy microbiome from years of eating food that wasnt sprayed preharvest. Some people aren't so lucky, many won't experience food without "safe" levels of glysophate residue. Thanks for your comment!

[hobbyfrmr]

None of the claims against glyphosate are scientifically proven.
Buy 2 sprayers and fil em up with double rate glyphosate all season long baaaaaby.

[Tucker]

Who wants to live forever anyway. "A long life is not a blessing." Super old guy told me that.

[pgluca]

It may be entirely marketing by scare tactics and conspiracy theories, but our consumers believe it. This battle has already been lost. Science isn't going to win this debate. We need to protect glyphosate as a preseeding or post harvest tool, by eliminating its use in any application where it can result in residues. If not, we risk losing it entirely, regardless of what common sense or science might say.

I suggest that the majority of people posting on this topic read your post 3 times. You are absolutely correct. Science has nothing to do with it. The battle was lost long ago. Be pragmatic and don't use it as a preharvest, there are other products that aren't on the radar on social media.

[blackpowder]

We overlook the dose when we hear poison or chemical. Heard the same way these days.
I remember Korean exchange students who skinned every piece of fruit they touched or they wouldn't eat it.
Hard to explain to a consumer why a sprayer going just before harvest. So we will see limits or bans placed on an essential tool with no replacement.
Don Huber's work regarding micros and glyphosate, tossed together in a tin foil hat, boiled with a poor image and voila!
Shit sandwich.

[Tucker]

Okay. Vape pens. Kids now can take the equivalent of a cigarette nicotine in one hit off a vape pen. Which can be as easily filled with THC. Omg the bogeyman weed. Why the **** are we getting all bent out of shape about tiny residues of glyphosate? You can almost drink the stuff full strength. It's salt. I am not going to go through the math again but I did in a prior post about the ****ing miniscule amounts of glyphosate you might get from a loaf of bread.

I'm a millionaire. Almost every farmer reading this site is as well. I'd rather be running a surf shop on a beach in maybe not Mexico now but I'd do great in Cuba. Push us. We'll leave and **** all you tree ****ing huggers.

[sumdumguy]

Okay. Vape pens. Kids now can take the equivalent of a cigarette nicotine in one hit off a vape pen. Which can be as easily filled with THC. Omg the bogeyman weed. Why the **** are we getting all bent out of shape about tiny residues of glyphosate? You can almost drink the stuff full strength. It's salt. I am not going to go through the math again but I did in a prior post about the ****ing miniscule amounts of glyphosate you might get from a loaf of bread.

I'm a millionaire. Almost every farmer reading this site is as well. I'd rather be running a surf shop on a beach in maybe not Mexico now but I'd do great in Cuba. Push us. We'll leave and **** all you tree ****ing huggers.

Tucker, I have a restaurant in Cuba - hell of a deal.

[farmaholic]

My fruit? I'm a grain farmer

Read between the bloody lines. I assume he means the raw fruit and vegetables people are buying and consuming. "Chemicals and poisons" applied on these tender skinned and fleshy little "healthy" alternatives at every stage of development. Wash them to your heart's content, you won't wash off what's been absorbed either.

Enjoy your chemical romance, no escaping it, you're surrounded by it in every aspect of your life....unless you are living in the stone-age in a cave. Even your house is killing you!

You are living in a synthetic world whether you want to or not!!! You can't escape and are doomed.

You can escape it by "leaving early" and taking all the brainwashed cult members with you, Kool-aid anyone?