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Johnny's avatar

About time! We can only hope that the scientists conducting and reviewing this study aren't in Monsonto's pockets and being paid off as has been the norm!

TeeJae's avatar

My first thought, as well. Special interests are far too entrenched in these agencies (especially EPA, FDA, CDC) that I'm not holding my breath. But hopefully they'll prove me wrong.

Priscilla King's avatar

All very well, so long as it leads to a reasonable result like "No glyphosate after New Year's Day, PERIOD. No glufosinate, PERIOD. No 'herbicide' sprays of any kind by 2028. No poison sprays of any kind at all by 2030. Minimum of five years in prison for anyone caught spraying glyphosate within a mile of anything a human might eat."

The Scam Doctor's avatar

No herbicides? Do you eat organic foods? Because they also use herbicides and pesticides

Doreene Close's avatar

there is a world of difference between natural pesticides used in organic farming and the chemical toxins used in all other farming.

The Scam Doctor's avatar

Youre right, organic pesticides in general are MORE toxic and used in higher doses. They're also not monitored as closely for residues on food, so you don't know how much is making it to your table

Priscilla King's avatar

That’s what the manufacturers say. However, some things that have been classified as “natural,” due to heavy industry lobbying, are as unnatural as glyphosate or synthetic monosodium glutamate, and some of them are extremely toxic to people and the environment.

Pyrethrins are concentrated extracts from natural flowers. The flowers kill insects that eat them and repel many insects that instinctively don’t want to eat them. The concentrated extracts can kill or injure larger animals, too, including humans.

We have to get back to our natural role as predators, not poisoners, in our food chain.

Priscilla King's avatar

They certainly do. The current "organic" label is a fraud--totally unreliable for those of us who HAVE TO eat around disabling glyphosate reactions. I've not dared to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables that I enjoyed, and miss, since about 2015.

The Scam Doctor's avatar

I’ve never heard of a disabling glyphosate reaction before, what are your symptoms?

Priscilla King's avatar

Primarily small, short-term ulceration of the digestive tract, but higher levels of exposure can also produce spasticity, partial paralysis of muscles. I can work through that, as a writer, by staying home and keeping a bucket handy. Narcolepsy is another common reaction I sometimes have--total disability for anyone who has to drive, which fortunately I almost never do.

Glyphosate reactions can include almost anything and very often seem like aggravation of something a person had before. I don't know exactly how that works but I know it does. It's very convenient for those who want to avoid noticing how many chronic conditions seem to flare up, and how many people take sick days, after spray poisoning in a neighborhood. I've asked hospitals for statistics and they say "We can't say, that's not something we're supposed to keep records of."

It's easier to say that, just from observation of people I know who talk about it, the ONE condition that's not DIRECTLY affected by glyphosate exposure seems to be sickle-cell anemia. People who have that are exposed often enough that they can't keep useful records of whether it shortens time between flares of that disease or not. I suspect it does. It does not trigger flares of that disease. Of arthritis, of cancer, of mental illness, of thyroid disease, of glaucoma, of black lung...yes. Absolutely yes.

Most people are STILL being deliberately confused about what "might be age, allergies, the weather, something going around," etc. etc. ad nauseam, but it is in fact glyphosate reactions. I once observed this in a crowd. Within one hour, about a hundred people went from enjoying perfect weather to blaming everything but the chemical vapors that had drifted past them for the way they all felt a need to go home.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Find this totally disingenuous that K and Z are suggesting that the

"best science" for the highly toxic cancer causing chemical glyphosate

is currently being put forward. The science is unequivocal and has been for at

least 15 years. Monocropping huge tracks of land is the opposite of regen Ag.

This is not progress, it is sidestepping.

Melissa Frey's avatar

I’m all about MAHA but this strikes me as a big waste of time and money. We have known since the Vietnam era that glyphosate is poisonous to humans, is a known carcinogen, etc. No one knows this better than RFK Jr himself. Knock off the press conferences and stop production and use of the stuff!

The Scam Doctor's avatar

Glyphosate is actually not a known carcinogen at any dose that a human is exposed to through food

julie remillet's avatar

Our crops will fail miserably if we just stop using it all together because the bugs are now super bugs, they can only be killed with glyphosate. I read that their researching a different weed and insect killer they can use. Also the glyphosate has been sprayed into the soil for so long the soil is contaminated as well

Allyson Peshek's avatar

Glyphosate is a broad spectrum weed killer, not an insect killer.

julie remillet's avatar

Thank you I did say weed killer but mistakenly also said insect killer

GABRIELLE TRAUB's avatar

They use far less chemicals on their crops in Europe and somehow they manage to survive.

julie remillet's avatar

Because their crops were never subjected to glyphosate.

julie remillet's avatar

Just do a simple search what are the effects if we suddenly stop using glyphosate on our food. Easy to look it up before saying I'm wrong

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julie remillet's avatar

I don't have to explain it to you look it up. the crops will fail if they don't have glyphosate they are resistant to anything else. So sorry for mistakenly saying it's an insect killer as well as a weed killer🙄

karen christie's avatar

Like more information is needed on the already known glyphosate.... This act of 'soft-shoeing' is...sad, pitiful. Weed-killer, if it was...safe, those white suits wouldn't be needed during application. This is Big Ag Money and We-The-People expect clear-spoken truths. Not this tippy-toeing.......

Truth Seeker's avatar

Exactly, total sidestep or as suggested "soft shoeing"

Alfalfa's avatar

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Biden. Fool me three times, shame on Obama. Fool me four times, shame on Soros. Fool me five times through ten times, shame on Fauci. Fool me 25 times, MAHA!

YvonneM's avatar

With each success, support for MAHA grows. 🇺🇸

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julie remillet's avatar

Just do a quick search we're not here to educate you

MAHArd's avatar

We all pity anyone you "educate"

Andy's avatar

Or maybe we could just lean on every other non-genocidal nation’s health data/research who has already banned the chemical or heavily restricted its use. Kennedy knows this is bad but I’m sure Trump will prevent any meaningful change to effectively protect some billionaire or another.

Sonia Nordenson's avatar

So you're TDS-afflicted? I'm sorry.

Claire Doody's avatar

All that MedBedding eradicated your common sense.

Doreene Close's avatar

that is just fact. Trump has betrayed MAHA, which got him elected, BIGLY.

Sonia Nordenson's avatar

Give him some more time. He has a few other important things also going on.

Diane Kerchner's avatar

Tragically this will educate which is needed but delay overdue elimination of this toxin from American industrialized AG. we need to continue this Republican agenda for yet another administration. Regenerative AG must become the norm in the US to save our lands and people and ecosystems!

Carolyn Singer's avatar

The problem is that whatever herbicide replaces it will be just as bad or worse. We need to support regenerative farming practices and move away from all toxic chemicals in farming.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Mono cropping is environmental disaster relying on NPK fertilizers

and ecosystem destruction.

Jef Spalding's avatar

This is encouraging news confirming what science has known for decades ago about glyphosate antibiotic pathway and cumulative toxicity.

Perhaps it might be wiser to attack the problems of new synthetic poisons at their source, before they are deveoped and economically entrenched. Bayer Monsanto has developed a new more insidious poison, icafolin, that destroys the tight junction cellular communication system in plants. This same system is found in virtually all multicellular organisms, like humans. Doesn't take a scientist to wonder what could possibly go wrong here either. After being poisoned for decades with Roundup, wouldn't the EPA and HHS be wise to communicate this information to our lawmakers and put an end to these cumulative poisonous before they turn into another glyphosate scandal?

Truth Seeker's avatar

No it is not encouraging, it is a redirect. Chemical ag is a total disaster.

Tony Swinehart's avatar

This must be banned because it does harm to every living thing this is a terrible chemical, herbicide

Marilinda Torres's avatar

No to all herbicides sprays to our food for our lifetime ❤️

Belinda Coleman's avatar

MAHA!! Couldn’t be happier!!

Truth Seeker's avatar

read the northbound comments

DarlaD's avatar

Thank you Secretary R.K.Jr.

you are fulfilling your Promises and it is a true privilege to watch you GO!!!

On this great Memorial of Padre Pio after Daily Mass we prayed for you and asked our Good Lord Jesus to watch over you and keep you safe.

Living in the State with the #1 Cancer (and we are feeding 92% population of the US; I believe if numbers are still current.. by the way with Pigs ( 🐷 more pigs than humans live here); Corn 🌽 (everywhere, dead or alive , nonorganic except rare small farms you have to drive to for an hour)

and Soy beans (to feed the pigs and other uses). Sadly I order our food from other States and we rarely eat out except vacations. I cook 3 meals a day and pack his lunch. If we made it through CAs droughts, fires, 🔥 Taxes, Corrupt Vaccine laws for the last 50 years we will try to escape here in 4 years without Cancer after opening up their Heart Program which was completely shut down after The Covid Plandemic. It is such a beautiful peaceful area but because of Glyphosate Spraying - you can see the planes ✈️ and the chem trails in the air ; there are no insects, bees, spiders or any bugs at all walking anywhere on the sidewalks or in our home. I’ve never seen a frog or lizard and we live on the Lake. That’s frightening. We drive through the cornfields for a few hours or anywhere on the Hyway and there is not one bug that hits our windshield. No bugs or lizards crawling on the ground, nothing flying around. After leaving Missouri where he restarted a Heart Program there; it is a BIG difference. Our windshield was always fully splattered just driving from St. Louis the City to home. It will be a miracle if we leave here without Cancer from the Glyphosate BigFarmHarm as there is NONE in any of our family history. We are taking a risk as the people here are so good and my husband is greatly needed and very busy.

We trust you are on it so we can hold on. It is obvious as you are a Man for the People. As we all know by now it is in the runoff and the water especially hosing down slaughterhouses as we are responsible for all the pork etc and the water has to go somewhere so it affects the vegetation and small farms growing their own food. Which the good people really try to do here. However; as you know Roundup is a FOREVER Chemical meaning that it is systemic. It doesn’t matter if you peel the potato, zucchini, Heirloom tomato or husk the corn or wash the Berries. Systemic poisoning goes all the way through the fruit or vegetable and then all the way through You, the Host. The crop may look perfect and beautiful but I’ll take the little white worms I used to see at the top of the corn that horrified me as a little girl in CA with the task of shucking the Corn for our family of seven. How I miss all the helpful insects flying or crawling around that I never thought I would. When we vacationed in Lake Tahoe many years in my youth their were always the giant legged spidery creatures flying that ate other spiders that us five little girls would scream for our father to come in and kill the “Icky Newman” as we named it. We’ll, I’ve never seen a spider in our house here or the other two we lived in first. There’s no beehives in the trees around us or flies or many birds. It’s like Funny Farm the movie with the Great Chevy Chase. Absolutely beautiful but really a facade. The flower beds on Main Street never drop their petals. Everything is preserved. God made our creepy crawling insects for a reason. Please help us stop the Glyphosate in this great State 🌽

Thank you 🙏 for answering your call and being The Man to step up! We are winning because of Y.O.U. ✝️❤️‍🔥✝️

#UNSTOPPABLE RFKJR

Bonnie V's avatar

This is a step in the right direction, but it begs the question "Why isn't the Department of Agriculture included in this joint technical working group?"

Claire Doody's avatar

Because it's another little meaningless show

WTTW's avatar

Ffs they should have shut it down before it became a thing

Fuck the epa