Glyhosate petition

[casemx 270]

Have you seen this EU just set it up

 

[BenB]

https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/stop-glyphosate

275,000 signatures so far. Warning: clicking the above link will raise your blood pressure by a few points

 

[Wiking]

Good thing the UK is leaving EU... Swexit next perhaps

 

[Gone Shooting]

Just set up a keep glypho petition and negate theirs ?

 

[casemx 270]

Where's the NFU when you need them

 

[Derky]

Leave the EU and keep using glyphosate and you kiss good bye to exports.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Leave the EU and keep using glyphosate and you kiss good bye to exports.

Maybe if we stop using glyphosate we won't produce enough to export anyway.

 

[Fish]

Leave the EU and keep using glyphosate and you kiss good bye to exports.

The eu banning glyphosate will not stop the en importing crops treated with glyphosate, after all they still import crops treated with other banned, in the ec, chemicals.

 

[SilliamWhale]

The eu banning glyphosate will not stop the en importing crops treated with glyphosate, after all they still import crops treated with other banned, in the ec, chemicals.

Which will highlight that if there were proper health concerns it would be banned across the board

 

[tw15]

Time to buy a swather me thinks. So the eu wont be buying wheat from across the pond then if the eu ban glyphosate.
Personally i think we all should be looking to not use it as a desiccant to help reduce the chances of traces being found in samples.
As for its use as a general weedkiller before a crop is planted i cant see that it could find its way into the produced crop.
Now if i can come up with a replacement for glyphosate ill be in the money

 

[shakerator]

Err roundup ready soybean meal ? Most common EU imported protein ?!!

 

[Farmer.sa]

I think this is really serious, and no one seems to be listening to the facts it's gone political now and I think there's a chance we could lose it. What ever your thoughts are it will change farming as we know it, if you tap glyphosate in google all you get is why it should be banned and this is a worry.
If it was proved to cause cancer and banned worldwide I would totally agree but this is not the case, so for those of you who haven't I suggest we all get writing to our/your local MEP

 

[tw15]

Err roundup ready soybean meal ? Most common EU imported protein ?!!

Well beans and protein crops will be in big demand.
Trouble is they wont think the whole impact out before reacting .
Farming is changing and faster than we might think by the way things are going.

 

[turbo]

Rats drinking glyphosate for 2 years before they found any problems,I would say it proves it safe

 

[glasshouse]

Time to buy a swather me thinks. So the eu wont be buying wheat from across the pond then if the eu ban glyphosate.
Personally i think we all should be looking to not use it as a desiccant to help reduce the chances of traces being found in samples.
As for its use as a general weedkiller before a crop is planted i cant see that it could find its way into the produced crop.
Now if i can come up with a replacement for glyphosate ill be in the money

its called a plough.

 

[Rob Holmes]

its called a plough.

...for couch?

 

[Will Blackburn]

Personally i think we all should be looking to not use it as a desiccant to help reduce the chances of traces being found in samples.

By the same token lets stop using all post-em chemistry.

Don't give them anything based on semantics!

 

[SilliamWhale]

its called a plough.

A rubbish alternative

 

[turbo]

A rubbish alternative

The only alternative

 

[SilliamWhale]

The only alternative

I suppose it is for the moment. It will be a folly though to return to wholesale ploughing just as no till is starting to really consolidate itself as a good system for agriculture and has good envionmental benefits