Like many of the new meds advertised on prime time, ag-use chems (most all the same companies that bring us the pharmaceuticals) are introduced by hype and hard-fought laws protecting us have been watered-down by conservative politics. Registration and review policies are controlled now by manufacturing reps in who's interests these chemicals find little or no oversight to either quality or toxicity. Buyer beware.
I get a laugh out of the Round-up commercials that promise freedom and leasure for the applicator, considered smarter than his hard-working cheapskate neighbors, or the miracle once-a-month anti-arthritis pill that lets you run in the park with your devoted and loving golden retreiver (but quickly slurs in unintelligle whispered warnings that it causes Lymphoma cancers in some of it's users). There is no longer a federal oversight agency that tests for the quality of each med imported from China, only verification that the label matches the componants and rely instead on the companies' claims to effectiveness. And most of our meds are now produced there.
Round-up is simple glyphosphate, we're paying differening prices that compensate for the label and legal rights, period. It enters the plant and the claims are it breaks-down and literally becomes a beneficial food sources for ruminants. Why then has Monsanto had to redevelop the formula eighteen times in the last ten years? There are court records and medical files that we'll never be allowed to see, per agreements on settlements. That does not mean it's not toxic to us, as claims for label use are that ?No Scientific Literature is AVAILABLE that implicates the cause/effect from exposures to disease, human." Hmm.
We can break a leg and get a pill that will make our day - but would we go and climb with a broken leg? We can, as we won't know it's broke. That's the story, it makes for good profits. Many times in legal actions, it's asked that we prove it's bad but never in jurisprudence has a corporation been ordered to prove it's safe, as it should be in a democracy instead of a dictatorship.
