The case in front of the [US Supreme] court centers on whether Bayer, the German company that now owns Monsanto, can be shielded from lawsuits that have been filed in state courts over claims that the company failed to warn consumers about the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate.
The Trump administration’s decision to back the pesticide maker in the case, coming on the heels of an executive order supporting the expansion of domestic production of glyphosate, has angered the MAHA movement…
Just last month, leading scientists in the field of environmental health issued a consensus statement, saying that glyphosate can cause cancer and called for urgent action. Bayer disputes this.
I’m surprised that they’re surprised. MAHA aligned with MAGA because they supported deregulation. On things like raw milk. That’s where the interests align. Baffling to me that anyone who cared about MAHA thought that Trump’s EPA would do anything besides deregulation.
Leopards… obese… or something.
I’m surprised that they’re surprised.
Why? They’re clearly either outstanding idiots or gibbering loons. Or both.
Well, these dumbfucks need to take a good hard look at themselves and ask themselves why the fuck they thought this loser conman and crazy sidekick would do anything else but let them down?
Fucking idiots
Actually they are retarded, i watched a documentary where they interviewed a leader of a mothers health group who used to be long time Democrats and they joined the MAHA group to do away with chemicals in the children’s food, all voted for the 2024 Trump administration. Now they said they are confused about the direction of the Trump admin and broken promises. But they still want to believe the MAHA admin will figure things out and Trump will listen to the mothers about the future health of their babies… Lol wtf
Some people are so stuck in their social media brain rot bubbles these days
Link to vid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uuRBsnXR8
What the fuck is MAHA?
Make America Healthy Again
Okay, but is this the fucking RFK weirdos antivaxxers and crystal shills or actual doctors and dieticians?
The reasons America is unhealthy:
- the average person can’t afford to go to the doctor or dentist unless it’s an emergency
- car culture and sedimentary lifestyle
- the enshittification of the food supply. Everything is ultra processed, stuffed with addictive sugar, and filled with chemicals like titanium to make food appear whiter and better looking.
- pandering food subsidies like the corn subsidy massively overproducing high fructose sugars
- dual worker families who are so time starved they both don’t have time to cook healthily and have forgotten how
- food lobbies that for 50+ years have pushed unhealthy but profitable to them diets
- a severe lack of fibre which keeps you shitting more and eating more.
What the fuck is MAHA?
Make America Healthy AgainAnother word that sounds like dumbed-down baby-talk, just like “maga”. Only very special idiots think that following someone that denies vaccines and pitches eating beef tallow is going to make them healthy. Reminds me of all the maroons that were touting eating bacon as a “health food” under the banner of “paleo”, LOL.
No real meaning other than follow the likes of idiot influencers like RFK jr, just like “maga” has no real principles; it’s just follow the loudest moron in the room that blurts out the same shit they hear on the likes of Faux “News” and hate radio, so for now, that means, follow the conman idiot that had a game show about 20 years ago.
In Washington state they still sell it. I used it to kill this Thorny weed BlackBerry that just keeps appearing.
Basically a bird will eat a berry from elsewhere and drop it on your lawn or garden. Next thing you know this unstoppable weed takes over and you end up pulling it year after year without an end.
The proper way to get rid of it is carefully feeding it fire and or glyphosate.
I mean, the lawsuit isn’t about, “should glyphosate ever be used.” It’s about being able to sue a company for trying to hide the harmful side effects of overexposure to their product.
As someone who has worked professionally with pesticides for environmental and ecological restoration, glyphosate is Churchill’s democracy of pesticides - it is the worst pesticide aside from all other pesticides. There are pesticides I’ve used that I would rather take a shot of glyphosate than have them touch my skin.
The problem is not glyphosate’s use, especially at the consumer level. The problem here specifically is whether the company producing a poison is liable to those it hid potential harms from - and Trump administration’s intention to shield them from said liability.
The second problem, unrelated to this legal issue, is glyphosate’s overuse in the commercial setting. Modern industrial farming techniques basically use GMO varieties of crops which are resistant to glyphosate, and then douse their fields in the stuff because it will kill all the weeds while leaving their resistant cash crops intact. As a result, many of the foods we consume today are contaminated with larger doses of pesticide than they would be using traditional farming methods or spot treatment.
Are you talking about Roundup? Doesn’t that stuff pretty much salt the earth? Making the ground sterile for all growth for months?
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. With extreme overuse, maybe? Again I am talking about its use for consumer-level invasive species management or ecological/environmental applications. Glyphosate has very high sorption (basically, it binds to other molecules in the soil and becomes inactive as a pesticide). When compared with alternative pesticides it is far less dangerous and has very few if any long term effects on soil.
So pretty much no. Actually one of the main reasons it’s so prevalent in spot-treatment at the consumer level is because it has fast, noticeable effects, and then everything goes back to normal quickly.
Agreed in all your points. Minor correction, Roundup/glyphosate kills plants so its a herbicide. It’s the internet, that’s how the internet works.
To your point, I use it very sparingly after having learned about the cancer and lingering effect. However big farmers (owners of big farms, not specifically obese individuals) use it as a broadcast herbicide. You plant corn that is resistant to glyphosate, then you douse the entire field in glyphosate. In the process you cover yourself in glyphosate accidentally and it dries on your skin. Your skin soaks it and you get cancer.
I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding but your correction is incorrect. While you are on the right track saying a substance used to kill plants is called an herbicide, an herbicide is a type of pesticide. If you are using an herbicide to kill an unwanted plant, you are practicing pest control with a pesticide.
Dam! You’re right!
We’ll I’ve been wrong most of my life, what’s one more little thing. Now I know better.
mechanical removal is equivalent to chemical termination
