Subject: Re: [permaculture] Roundup, Glyphosate for newbies
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:13:11 -0500
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Peter Suter <peter.suter@activ8.net.au>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My son is in his second year of a Diploma in Conservation and Land
> Management course here in Victoria, Australia.
>
> He has been through the safe use of chemicals course and has a good
> understanding of the potential dangers of using pesticides, fungicides etc.
>
> However, for Roundup, they were told they didn't need to use *any* of the
> safe handling practices or procedures; and set about spraying without any
> protection whatsoever, including getting the raw chemical all over his legs
> and not taking any action.
>
LIES LIES LIES!!!!!!!!!
It is dangerous as pure hell.
It can affect serotonin uptake in the brain leading to the severest kind of
chronic depression. This has happened to Midwest farmers
drinking well water contaminated with roundup; many committed suicide. F+++
monsanto and all their products. It is carcinogenic.
Read through this archive of posts from Professor Joe Cummins; many will
contain information, news, alerts and warnings about roundup.
I hope others will share the workload supplying documentation about the
severe risks
from any kind of contact with roundup/glyphosate.
>
> He loves this course, trusts his teachers and won't listen to me.
>
> They are not to be trusted. He needs to wake up, drop the course, switch
schools, find a different profession, create his own educational
curriculum, take online courses, take a PDC,
become a permaculture professional, do nothing...go out into the bush and
live with some knowledgeable Aborigines, do whatever it takes to extricate
himself from a career that may demand that he work in proximity to any of
the categories of pesticides.....go to New Zealand and visit Steve Hart,
ask his advice.
> Can some of you kind folks please post some info that would help to get his
> thinking on to an actual realistic basis?
>
> What I have given you should be all he needs to become well informed about
the risks posed by roundup and any other pesticide. Upshot: stay well away
from and and all of them.