Glyphosate lobbying French style

[The_Swede]

May have been covered elsewhere but see link if not, certainly making their point in the traditional manner!

https://www.rt.com/business/404228-france-farmers-protest-glyphosate/

Slightly unfortunate headline attached to it but there normally is an agenda attached to an RT story.

 

[Roger Perry]

So how come they are protesting Monsanto when Bayer, a German corporation is the owner of the company.

 

[Formatted]

So how come they are protesting Monsanto when Bayer, a German corporation is the owner of the company.

They are protesting because they are worried the government is going to ban it

 

[Brisel]

May have been covered elsewhere but see link if not, certainly making their point in the traditional manner!

https://www.rt.com/business/404228-france-farmers-protest-glyphosate/

Slightly unfortunate headline attached to it but there normally is an agenda attached to an RT story.

@Forage Trader and @gone up the hill would weep if they saw all that straw being wasted...

 

[gone up the hill]

@Forage Trader and @gone up the hill would weep if they saw all that straw being wasted...

 

[neilo]

The comments below the article show an extraordinary amount of ignorance to any facts.

Not to self....... again. Never, ever, start reading comments below such articles.

 

[Brisel]

The comments below the article show an extraordinary amount of ignorance to any facts.

Not to self....... again. Never, ever, start reading comments below such articles.

Yes. Typed by keyboard warriors. Prats.





Oh, hang on a minute...

 

[Roger Perry]

But you are not allowed to grow GM crops in EU so what is the french gov so upset about, is it the practice of spraying the product on crops just prior to harvest they do not like and entering the food chain that way..?

 

[Pasty]

But you are not allowed to grow GM crops in EU so what is the french gov so upset about, is it the practice of spraying the product on crops just prior to harvest they do not like and entering the food chain that way..?

Mostly I think. Plus general over-use of everything and anything.

 

[le bon paysan]

Mostly I think. Plus general over-use of everything and anything.

Very little Glyphosate used pre-harvest on cereals here.Farmers have ever increasing regulations and the general public can buy, from the supermarket, and apply roundup . Then wonder why its residue shows up in their food. Watched someone spraying the pavement as I drove through town one day, presumably with glyphosate type spray, tipping down just 15 minutes later and I bet that went straight down the drain to the river.
Never mind, blame the farmers.

 

[Jungle Bill]

Could it be that if they ban Glyphosate in France they can then ban the import of any food grown using it?

 

[milkloss]

Could it be that if they ban Glyphosate in France they can then ban the import of any food grown using it?

They're not all that stupid so you might be on the right track. Probably the only reason we should have stayed.

 

[Brisel]

Could it be that if they ban Glyphosate in France they can then ban the import of any food grown using it?

It would be good to see a country actually doing this. I've seen too many pictures of anti GM protesters chomping on processed foods (made with GM soya) and swigging coffe from multinational corporates without a trace of irony!

 

[glasshouse]

But you are not allowed to grow GM crops in EU so what is the french gov so upset about, is it the practice of spraying the product on crops just prior to harvest they do not like and entering the food chain that way..?

Yes, the pre harvest use of roundup should be banned.

 

[neilo]

Yes, the pre harvest use of roundup should be banned.

Why so, other than to pander to the F*cktards?There's not a shred of evidence that it's at all harmful to human health.

 

[glasshouse]

Be

Why so, other than to pander to the F*cktards?There's not a shred of evidence that it's at all harmful to human health.

Because its totally unnecessary. Its a quick fix to cover up deficiencies in management.
Couch can be controlled post harvest just as well.
Pre harvest roundup is a ritual for contract farming companies, without it they would be f**ked.
Pre harvest roundup has allowed the farming treadmill to spin ever faster, without it production might drop and prices might just rise.

 

[czechmate]

Very little Glyphosate used pre-harvest on cereals here.Farmers have ever increasing regulations and the general public can buy, from the supermarket, and apply roundup . Then wonder why its residue shows up in their food. Watched someone spraying the pavement as I drove through town one day, presumably with glyphosate type spray, tipping down just 15 minutes later and I bet that went straight down the drain to the river.
Never mind, blame the farmers.

Maybe rog. The guy my son works for in uk has 5 tonnes in stock.
I don't know if you can go I to Mr Briquolage and buy 5 tonnes?
It's become so habitual to use it in the uk, I was worried about our use of it years ago and bought a swather for the osr back in 09 to cut our use down a bit

 

[czechmate]

Be

Because its totally unnecessary. Its a quick fix to cover up deficiencies in management.
Couch can be controlled post harvest just as well.
Pre harvest roundup is a ritual for contract farming companies, without it they would be fudgeed.
Pre harvest roundup has allowed the farming treadmill to spin ever faster, without it production might drop and prices might just rise.

There's the thing. My little enterprise in the uk of a few hundred acres, I would often leave half a field that wasn't quite fit and move to another field that was - and maybe only do half of that one too.
We operated next door to a contracting operation, they would sweep in with their 3 lexions and do the whole next door hundreds of acres in a day and move on to the next. To operate in this way with the uk climate, it is deemed necessary to spray desiccant .

Mr Monsanto says it fine to spray grass then graze after 5 days, or make hay, silage. How many on here would do that with their own animals? I won't.

 

[glasshouse]

Maybe rog. The guy my son works for in uk has 5 tonnes in stock.
I don't know if you can go I to Mr Briquolage and buy 5 tonnes?
It's become so habitual to use it in the uk, I was worried about our use of it years ago and bought a swather for the osr back in 09 to cut our use down a bit

pre harvest roundup has killed out the grasses in the hedgebacks, now colonised by brome, blackgrass, cleavers etc.
Brackling in barley and wheat is bad this yr, and twice as bad where roundup used and harvest delayed.
the efficiency of roundup will decline fast with overuse, just like penicillin is declining by overuse.

 

[Rob Holmes]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...de-use-is-false-says-top-government-scientist