Info here on the use of glyphosate to hasten crop ripening - if you scroll down to the bit about residues in food you'll find that wholemeal bread contains higher residues than white - obvious really.
So those of us who want nice healthy wholemeal bread will have to pay up and eat organic
While the 374 to 225 vote is non-binding on the Commission and EU governments, it will nonetheless carry strong moral weight since it comes from the EU's only elected body directly representing EU citizens and will force a discussion of the issues raised.
PF - scientists employed by commercial companies think with commercial brains and their salary and pension in mind. The scientists I met when teaching English conversation to help them in collaborative EU projects and international conferences are government research or university employees with no commercial prejudice and they're the kind that find glyphosate and neonicitinoids worrying.
Dove - I use organic flour for baking and buy organic wholemeal or spelt bread but we don't eat it very often. Make my own cakes and biscuits so I know what's in them.
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 was contemplating cleaning the greenhouse the other day and I got to thinking about all the chemicals that I used when I started gardening back in the dark ages. It was perfectly normal to spray everything in sight, smoke the greenhouse to get rid of bugs, and use artificial fertilisers. Over the years all the things have been banned or restricted but most gardeners are still managing to grow wonderful crops without a coating of toxic gunk over the produce and with an awareness of the creatures that share our territory, or maybe that should be the creatures who tolerate us in their space. Organic, once considered the province of nutters, is now mainstream. So another chemical is going to be banned......if that saves a lot of people and animals from suffering health problems/death, that can only be a good thing.
That will p*** Montana off bigtime. However every one else is making it. Back to the banned Root Out /"compost accellerator" which came up on one of these forums last year.
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Info here on the use of glyphosate to hasten crop ripening - if you scroll down to the bit about residues in food you'll find that wholemeal bread contains higher residues than white - obvious really.
So those of us who want nice healthy wholemeal bread will have to pay up and eat organic
http://www.glyphosate.eu/system/files/sidebox-files/clarification_of_pre-harvest_uses_of_glyphsate_en_0.pdf
and that information was published by the company promoting its use.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Isn't glyphosate the treatment to kill Japanese knotweed ?
The sooner we are out of that stupid club the better we will all be
While the 374 to 225 vote is non-binding on the Commission and EU governments, it will nonetheless carry strong moral weight since it comes from the EU's only elected body directly representing EU citizens and will force a discussion of the issues raised.
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2987554/european_parliament_votes_to_ban_most_uses_of_glyphosate.html
Not quite banned.
I'd be happy if they banned tobacco altogether.
PF - scientists employed by commercial companies think with commercial brains and their salary and pension in mind. The scientists I met when teaching English conversation to help them in collaborative EU projects and international conferences are government research or university employees with no commercial prejudice and they're the kind that find glyphosate and neonicitinoids worrying.
Dove - I use organic flour for baking and buy organic wholemeal or spelt bread but we don't eat it very often. Make my own cakes and biscuits so I know what's in them.
I've just got hold of enough to see me through the next few years. Probably discover later that it degrades in the bottle and won't last that long.
I was contemplating cleaning the greenhouse the other day and I got to thinking about all the chemicals that I used when I started gardening back in the dark ages. It was perfectly normal to spray everything in sight, smoke the greenhouse to get rid of bugs, and use artificial fertilisers. Over the years all the things have been banned or restricted but most gardeners are still managing to grow wonderful crops without a coating of toxic gunk over the produce and with an awareness of the creatures that share our territory, or maybe that should be the creatures who tolerate us in their space. Organic, once considered the province of nutters, is now mainstream. So another chemical is going to be banned......if that saves a lot of people and animals from suffering health problems/death, that can only be a good thing.
That will p*** Montana off bigtime.
However every one else is making it. Back to the banned Root Out /"compost accellerator" which came up on one of these forums last year.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'