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Re: Roundup
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: Roundup
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:10:44 -0400
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LYRIS-106819-3101-2001.08.02-14.47.45--rmhoward#omninet.net.au@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <120670@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:08:45 +0800, Bob <rmhoward@omninet.net.au>
wrote:
>Toby Hemenway wrote:
>> >Does it decompose
>> > into inert chemicals as touted by Monsanto?
>>
>> Under perfect laboratory conditions, it decomposes into inert chemicals in a
>> few days to weeks. In the field, it takes much longer (a half-life of over
>> 100 days), and in water, especially buried in river sediments, it can take
>> many years to decompose.
>Depends on the field - 100 days in soil with low organic matter - much quicker in soil
>with high organic content. Otherwise there's a lot of farmers who couldn't undertake
>minimum tillage. .
...... otherwise there are a lot of farmers who couldn't undertake
minimum tillage because they are too lazy or stupid or greedy or
any/all of the above.
...... Roundup is _required_ to do minimum tillage? Absurd.
What propaganda have you been reading?
>We should not jump to conclusions about the safety and hazard of Round up based upon
>reports from Columbia - who knows what those idiots from Air Amerika are mixing in
>with it.
The safety and hazards of using Roundup are already widely known;
noone needs the smoke screen of a faked-up drug war campaign of abuse
on the underprivileged in a foreign country to draw any conclusions or
assumptions about pesticide use.
L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org