Re: Roundup Safety issues

Sal (sals@rain.org)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:44:33 -0700

Just as important as safety is soil life. I think roundup kills the soil
food web life which I feel is needed for true sustainable ag. it is easy to
test and see if this is true. Just take a soil sample before roundup and
send it off to
http://www.soilfoodweb.com/index.html
and test for soil life then spray roundup and test again after 2 weeks or so
and see if it kills soil life. I want to do thing on my land that promote
good soil life not kill it. I heard that herbicides kill soil life better
than they kill weeds that is what does not end up in our drinking water.

check out a organic growers web page
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Teuton <fteuton@total.net>
To: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu <sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu>
Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Roundup Safety issues

>> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:55:07 -0500
>> From: "Wilson, Dale" <WILSONDO@phibred.com>
>> Subject: RE: Roundup Safety issues
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>> > Dr. Trotter posted a query a while back on no-till which begged a
>> > question I have been laboring over. For those who use Roundup
>> > and those
>> > who refuse to use it, how do you interpret the science of Roundup
>> > safety, both in terms of human health and also environmental
>> > consequences?
>>
>> Anything that is not peer-reviewed is immediately suspect. If it is
>> peer-reviewed, what is the nature of the community? I tend to discount
>> sources that are intentionally polemic. I would take a source like "J.
>> Pesticide Reform" with a grain of salt, just like I would Monsanto trade
>> literature. Journals published by long-standing scientific societies
>> with a tradition of scholarship are probably reliable. Ultimately one
>> has to dig in the literature, read the papers, and judge for themselves.
>
>Thanks for your response, Dale. I posted the URLs above.
>>
>> Dale Wilson
>>
>
>
>
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