Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - RE: [NAFEX] "Roundup" effects

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] "Roundup" effects
  • Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:23:27 +0000

Last thing I heard was a blaming of medical use of hormones-- human & animal-- what the body doesn't use, &/or the metabolites (right word?) end up in waterways. Or hormones plus pesticides, being a powerful double-wammy for amphibians.

Not counting the loss of quantity and quality of wetlands...


----Original Message Follows----
From: Heron Breen <>
To: nafex@
Subject: [NAFEX] "Roundup" effects
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:13:03 -0500

Hi Friends,
The Organic Consumer Association's online paper recently ran a blurb about Roundup
being extremely lethal to amphibians. Apparently the tests were supposed to show
its effects on algae, but the results were obvious as scientists continued the
study. Atrazine has also been recently found to be deadly to amphibians. Tadpoles
are the most affected stage of development in both cases. I would be makeing a leap
of intelligence to suppose herbicides could be at least partly responsible for the
decline in amphibians we all have read so much about in the last few years...What
do you think?
Heron Breen
zone 4, Maine






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page