Surely government and environmental agencies monitor these kind of things, maybe i'm being cynical, but them knowing, and them publicly publishing or doing anything about it are two different things, at the end of the day it all comes down to money...
There are scientists working on EU fundd projects doing studies on glyphosate in water courses - according to my lot who are government employed scientists who also do work for the EU. They're all agri-something specialists - milk, conatminants in feed, genetics, identifying horse meat in foodstuffs, water courses and management, red deer populations and so on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
There's not much the average man on the street (in the garden) can do about this apart from contact the various agencies seeking clarification on this subject, raising public awareness or boycotting the products, this is all assuming that the paper we have read is indeed genuine and factual...
One of the problems is that there's little government funded research nowadays - it's all funded by the big agri and chemical companies who have axes to grind
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There's a huge difference between normal muck and agri-chemicals and organo phosphates that induce genetic mutations that lead to illness or birth defects.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I spent my working life giving drugs to patients to keep them alive, knowing full well, that in the longer term the side effects of those drugs might kill them. Die now or later!
Also as we all know history repeats itself, particularly if we dont learn the lessons from it......I am thinking DDT.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Surely government and environmental agencies monitor these kind of things, maybe i'm being cynical, but them knowing, and them publicly publishing or doing anything about it are two different things, at the end of the day it all comes down to money...
Particularly when a big, amoral, industrial comany is involved.
There are scientists working on EU fundd projects doing studies on glyphosate in water courses - according to my lot who are government employed scientists who also do work for the EU. They're all agri-something specialists - milk, conatminants in feed, genetics, identifying horse meat in foodstuffs, water courses and management, red deer populations and so on.
There's not much the average man on the street (in the garden) can do about this apart from contact the various agencies seeking clarification on this subject, raising public awareness or boycotting the products, this is all assuming that the paper we have read is indeed genuine and factual...
One of the problems is that there's little government funded research nowadays - it's all funded by the big agri and chemical companies who have axes to grind
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quite so.
Now instead of all this talking about it we're off for a walk in the countryside.
I was going to add to this thread having had this discussion with my BIL who is bio chemist, but would rather have a walk in the countryside.
An old gardener told me that we all eat a stone of muck before we die, I'm happy to scoff stuff direct from my soil
Lovely picture Steve.
There's a huge difference between normal muck and agri-chemicals and organo phosphates that induce genetic mutations that lead to illness or birth defects.
Thanks KEF. It's Cwm Idwal in Snowdonia from below Devil's Kitchen.
I spent my working life giving drugs to patients to keep them alive, knowing full well, that in the longer term the side effects of those drugs might kill them. Die now or later!
Also as we all know history repeats itself, particularly if we dont learn the lessons from it......I am thinking DDT.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border