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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:55:37 -0500

On 02/23/2011 11:06 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
Frequently, local chemical farmers claim that they only use “less toxic”
pesticides or herbicides such as Monsanto’s Roundup.

A buddy of mine is a professional, PhD hydrologist. According to him, the "inert" ingredients listed anonymously on the Roundup label are in some cases *more* toxic/problematic than the glyphosate, the "active" ingredient itself. But they don't have to be listed on the label because that is "proprietary" information. And of course they are "inert," after all.

Another pig in a poke.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE SMALL-SCALE POULTRY FLOCK: An all-natural approach to raising
chickens and other fowl for home and market growers, will be published this
year by Chelsea Green Publishing (www.chelseagreen.com).





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