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Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by egberts1 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:57AM (#33894352)
Spoken like a true defender of Monsanto.

What it was designed for often has a few unintended consequences like many products do, chemically, electrically, or mechanically.

Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by jqpabc123 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:44AM (#33894845)
Spoken like a true defender of technical incompetence.

Erroneous labeling only distracts from any further argument.

When the author clearly doesn't even know/understand the difference between "pesticide" and "herbicide", why trust/bother with anything further they have to say?

Monsanto may well be a disciple of Satan but a proven lack of basic insight on the issue doesn't help validate the opinion.

Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by dugword on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:27AM (#33895429)
Herbicide is a subclass of pesticide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide

> Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests.[1] This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampricide.

Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by jqpabc123 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:13AM (#33896082)
I stand corrected.

Still, "herbicide" is a more specific and accurate description of Roundup.

Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by egberts1 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:35AM (#33896435)
You are still intentionally ignoring any and all spillover effects of an herbicide into other types of -cides.
Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by thulle on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:54AM (#33895781)
Disregarding a 100 page report because it uses "pesticide" as the general term containing both actual pesticides and herbicides seem disingenuous.
Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by annadiru on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:53AM (#33896734)
Page volume in scientific reporting is not at all an indicator of quality or validity. Disclaimer: I haven't read the report yet. Just sayin'
Re:How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf] by egberts1 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:55PM (#33899352)
Agreed but the conciseness of volume evidence body despite "misuse" of the -icde suffix should not discount all of the article.