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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: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday November 30 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)
FTFY
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday December 02 2017, @05:51AM
jmorris monster: problem with monsters, they think they are normal. Take Polyphemus, he did not know he was a cyclops! Heck, if all you have ever had is one eye, everything looks, rather, flat. And then we might consider Medusa. Yes, she was a Gorgon, snakes for hair and all that, but she still thought she might attract some hot dudes. Do we see where this is going, my fellow soylentils (and proud I am to call all of you that)? Yes, jmorris does not realize that he is jmorris.
And of course this replicates across so many conservative lines of thought, because there is so little thought with conservatives, and memes just blow them away, making them soft and wet targets for the alt-right operatives that have undertook to subvert the conservatives by appealing to racism and sexism and Jeff Sessionism. My Gawd, does this mean that Jeff Sessions does not realize he is Jeff Sessions? Mind blown. Conservative mind. Does not take much to blow it. A 14 year old is sufficient, according to some. But he would never see himself as a predatory pervert pedophile. Roy Moore is a devout Baptist! And that is different, how?
So back to our original point: jmorris is a monster. Lives in his mother's lake, close by Hrothgar's Hall. Had his arm ripped off by the Hero Beowulf Cluster! Jmorris, time to admit, you are are monster of the prior ages, something that schleps toward Bethlehem, but is already dead. In fact, the Republican party is dead. Conservativism as a political philosophy is dead. And thus jmorris is a monster, like Grendal, having outlived his own time, pulling for reactionary policies that are just not going to happen: a monster.
Own it, jmorris, this is what you are, and you are nothing but this. May Buddha have mercy on your soul. But Buddha doesn't believe in souls.