<story><title>Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>Things are often not black and white.&lt;p&gt;Farmers used to plough fields after harvest. This kills weeds. It also uses a lot of power, so burns a lot of diesel and releases CO2. Ploughing also allows carbon trapped in organic material in the soil to break down and releases yet more CO2 as well as destroying soil structure.&lt;p&gt;Low&amp;#x2F;no till farming seeds directly into last year&amp;#x27;s stubble. This uses much less diesel so releases much less CO2. Organic matter in the soil builds up,  trapping more carbon, and improving soil health. But now the weeds grow unchecked and destroy the crop.&lt;p&gt;A common variation of the above low till method it to &amp;#x27;cultivate&amp;#x27; (sort of scuff up) the surface of the soil after harvest. This causes weeds to germinate.  Then you spray them with glyphosate (Roundup), and can almost immediately start sowing your crop. This allows you to farm with much less carbon released, lower fertilizer usage (also reducing carbon).&lt;p&gt;Roundup allows farming with lower inputs and better soil health and less carbon released. That is why so many people defend its use.</text></comment>
<story><title>Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OfSanguineFire</author><text>&amp;gt; Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.&lt;p&gt;Farmers love glyphosate because it kills weeds very effectively. It’s hard to exaggerate how much of a neat thing glyphosate was considered in the agricultural world when it appeared. That’s the reason it is used. Now, the reason it is produced and sold is that it is profitable for Monsanto, and regulation hasn’t stopped Monsanto.</text></comment>