Monsanto loses Roundup lawsuit

[lilranch2001]

I doubt I will quit using Roundup any time soon!

 

[Diggin It]

We live in a very unhealthy world, do unhealthy things and then when the inivitable happens (Cancer) we go crying for help.

The big money question is, would the farmers have contracted some form of Cancer without ever having used the product? So far, (at least) three juries have said it was not inevitable.

 

[lilranch2001]

And juries are sooo reliable!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

The big money question is, would the farmers have contracted some form of Cancer without ever having used the product? So far, (at least) three juries have said it was not inevitable.

In the mid to late 70's I was working on a farm owned by a Rutgers University agricultural agent; we actually did some of the early field testing for Glyphospate before it became Round Up. So far, so good, here.

 

[Molalla1]

In the mid to late 70's I was working on a farm owned by a Rutgers University agricultural agent; we actually did some of the early field testing for Glyphospate before it became Round Up. So far, so good, here.

I must of lived a very lucky life . . . I think one of the most dangerous things I did farming in my youth was riding on the sprayer behind the tractor in the early 50's pulling up the wands at the row ends . . . spud fields, now they used some pretty bad stuff back then treating the spud fields . . . I was engulfed by it at row ends . . . no OHSA back then/hold your breath.

 

[Jstpssng]

In the mid to late 70's I was working on a farm owned by a Rutgers University agricultural agent; we actually did some of the early field testing for Glyphospate before it became Round Up. So far, so good, here.

Were you wearing PPE? Did you drink it? It's the long term exposure that people are concerned with, especially when consuming foods which were routinely sprayed.

 

[Molalla1]

Were you wearing PPE? Did you drink it? It's the long term exposure that people are concerned with, especially when consuming foods which were routinely sprayed.

PPE . . . :laughing: . . . what the he!! is that. Hold your breath was PPE. :thumbsup:

 

[Steppenwolfe]

PPE . . . :laughing: . . . what the he!! is that. Hold your breath was PPE. :thumbsup:

You mean no shirt, cut off jeans and sh*t kickers... Yeah, I was OSHA approved :confused2: I hate to admit this but we also used a little 2-4 D (DDT), Malathion, liquid 7, and who knows what else. Anyway, it is strange to this day I have no bugs or weeds growing on me...

 

[Industrial Toys]

What was more fun in the 60s than your parents renting a cabin up in cottage country and us kids running behind the man with the fogger?

 

[Big Barn]

You mean no shirt, cut off jeans and sh*t kickers... Yeah, I was OSHA approved :confused2: I hate to admit this but we also used a little 2-4 D (DDT), Malathion, liquid 7, and who knows what else. Anyway, it is strange to this day I have no bugs or weeds growing on me...

I think 2-4 D is a herbicide and not the same as DDT. We used DDT, Malathion and Aldrin also. Malathion was pretty mild. We’d inhale a big cloud of dust when we used a measuring can (quart motor oil tin with top cut off) to scoop DDT out of a 50 pound bag or pour it into the hopper of a duster.

Wiped our hands on our pants before eating a sandwich at lunch.

Ah good old days.