Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by ch4s3 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:12PM
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Crop failures used to kill millions of people, and now that doesn't happen. Industrial agriculture is part of that story.
Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by mattnewton on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:09PM
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I think this is a false dichotomy where, if we don't use Monsanto, we will be forced back to the stone age. If herbicides are dangerous we should start putting resources towards further developing alternatives (like the weed-punching bot Bosch is working on)
Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by wdr1 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:20PM
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I don't think it was presented as a dichotomy. Just that you can't cherry pick the parts of the past that you like to support your theory.
Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by coddingtonbear on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:07PM
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It's important to keep in mind that there are a variety of things that are different now from the preceding 15ky of agriculture -- the most important statistic being the one demonstrated by this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Human_populat....
Re:New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
by davidw on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:25PM
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> humanity made it this far (15000+ years of agriculture) with
That's an argument to "the way it's always been done", which is not very effective.
http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Something-s-just-not-right...
All I do know is that humanity made it this far (15000+ years of agriculture) without such chemicals and we'll probably make it much further without them.
If you like Glyphosate, fair enough, enjoy! The rest of us might sit on the sidelines and watch this experiment unfold.