Wasn’t the antidote to eat soil.
Paraquat
- Thread starter Tubbylew
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beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
My dad had a friend whose daughter did the same...
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Gesatop was simazine, that is why stuff didn't grow again.
No I didn't.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Dandelion and burdock more likely
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Thought he shot him self
, either way not good ☹beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
They use a fair bit of paraquat in the states for burning stumbles now they've got roundup resistance.
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
News report at the time said poisoning but yes ,you are correct ,,just googled it .Thought he shot him self
Apart from being poisons, both were very good products. Roundup will eventually get resistance around the world then the job will be really knackered.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Horrible stuff , used to find dead hares everywhere after harvest , glad its gone
I'm not quite done with mine yet, but am quite willing to give my knackered corpse to medical science when the day comes.
In poor taste I know, but the schoolboy "joke" at the time said that Everest double glazing, which Ted Moult advertised, was so good that nobody heard the gunshot.Thought he shot him self
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
- Location
- Cornwall
Anything with clay in, but you had to be quick!
DNBP was found in the artic circle or something horrible stuff, sulphuric was the safest chemical, if you survived using it, It wouldnt give you cancer or something 20 years later
ollie989898
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You can donate your body to the nearest medical school but it needs to be fresh- they don't accept bodies more than 1 week old. If you want your body cremated and returned to your family after a 3 year 'holiday' you can do this and get a free cremation into the bargain.
- Location
- Cornwall
Paraquat, Diquat and a mixture of the two, called Sprayseed, is still used a lot in Australia. Great products if used correctly, but no getting away from the fact they are both very, very toxic! Need a license to buy them over there.
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Parkinsons is such a complex condition and so poorly understood that it's impossible to know what causes it at the moment - even the apparent genetic susceptibility/hereditary possibilities are poorly understood. My dad has it & two of his siblings died from it, could it have been exposure to paraquat, genetics or purely chance? One thing I can say is that having seen what it does to plants - even in minute doses - there's no chance I'd give it a chance to touch my skin!
- Location
- Huntingdon
This is why we need old chemistry back now , to reduce resistance and keep cost of production down