SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Science Mag reports that the active ingredient in Monsanto's Round-Up weed killer and similar products is perfectly, er, probably, um, maybe safe enough for another 5 years.
The commission's Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF), made up of representatives from the commission's 28 member nations, couldn't agree on the length of a renewed license. PAFF initially proposed a 15-year renewal, then a 9-year renewal, and eventually settled on an 18-month extension.
Over the past 2 months, the committee again debated an extension, but no proposal secured the necessary "qualified majority" of PAFF members. But today [Nov 27] 18 countries voted in favor of a 5-year renewal, including Germany and three others that had abstained in the previous vote.
The case against glyphosate wasn't helped by the International Agency for Research on Cancer including it on its dubiously regarded Group 2A (probable carcinogens) along with Red Meat and Shift Work.
Stéphane Travert, agriculture minister of France (France voted for NO extension), sounded heroically determined on public radio when he proclaimed:
"These are 5 years during which we will work to search for alternatives, 5 years during which we will mobilize research and innovation so that tomorrow we can modify agricultural practices for our farmers and for the environment."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:21AM
(posting this after 5 hours of staying with this comment opened, I wonder how it'll go)
Oh, wow. I reckon Australia is doomed, doomed I tell ya. No other than his sanctity jmorris, The Prophet, said so.
You see, the first case of weed resistance to glyphosate in Australia happened in 1996 (that's more than 20 years ago, if you are intellectually lazy**). No less than 15 invasive weeds are now resistant to glyphosate here [glyphosateresistance.org.au], including one that invades [wa.gov.au] grain crops - wheat being the first or second agro export of Australia by value.
But yeah, sure, be afraid, be very afraid, without glyphosate you'll die of hunger, so maybe you better to learn to eat those weeds with a side of glyphosate, no other solution exists.
---
** (shite, a total disregard for anything that doesn't fit the narrative coming from The Prophet; and there are modders who swallow it hook, sinker and line. Clearly, there areintellectually lazies on this site).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford