New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
For many tasks involving herbicide, there's a choice between these chemicals or labor intensive and exhausting use of heavy machinery and hand tools. There <i>may</i> some day be a proven link between Roundup and cancer. But there is a known high risk using more labor intensive methods. Agricultural work is one of the most dangerous occupations and it's due to tractor rollovers, falls, and lacerations. Suspending the use of herbicide would mean hundreds (thousands?) more gruesome deaths per year.<p>I've got a small coffee farm with some wild areas that I'm clearing and I started out wanting to do everything "organic". After 1 year it was clear that prepping land the old fashioned way would be significantly more hazardous.