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Re: Roundup
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Roundup
- From: German Poleo <gpoleo@agctr.lsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:42:24 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- References: <LYRIS-97277-3462-2001.08.03-15.37.52--gpoleo#agctr.lsu.edu@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Hi everyone
We do not have only to be aware of Roundup in crops but also in farm raise fish.
Farmers use that stuff to kill water weeds.
Germán
Randy wrote:
> Check it out, one of the primary benefits that Monsanto and the
> conventional government agencies are touting for no-tillage is the fact that
> the conventional no-till method supposedly keeps herbiicides and fertilizers
> from being leached from the field as readily as with clean tillage. Isnt
> this a tacit admittance that Roundup does not become inert in the soil and
> is therefore harmful, but will also be built up in ever larger quantities in
> these types of no-till fields?
>
> -J.D.
>
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