Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
I find it disheartening that it takes studies of this nature to reshape regulations. Glyphosate (as Roundup) has been the bestselling herbicide on the market since 1980. Among bee-keepers, asserting that "roundup kills bees" is about as controversial as "rain makes things wet."<p>The US regulatory environment treats artificially prepared chemicals as innocent until proven guilty. A safer approach (recently adopted in Europe) would be to guarantee the safety of industrial, agricultural, and household chemicals before they are allowed to go to market.<p>On a potentially related note, sperm counts in the western world have been declining precipitously since 1990. I'd bet that glyphosate and/or other common poorly regulated chemicals have something to do with this.<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropp...</a>