[HappyHunter]

Originally Posted by kiara

weed r herb ronkie doesnt want it! id try more round up coz i just asked my dad hes a horticulturist n he says it kills every thing! maybe dig it up then spray d ground?

Yeah, it kills everything - anything that has such an effect on one living thing - whether it is plant or animal - has an effect on everything.

No point in being environmentally friendly in one way and spraying poison on the earth now is there?

Try this for size:

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An epidemiological study in the Ontario farming populations showed that glyphosate exposure nearly doubled the risk of late spontaneous abortions, and Seralini and his research team decided to find out more about the effects of the herbicide on cells from the human placenta.

The French team used human placental cell lines, in which very weak doses of glyphosate showed toxic effects and, at still weaker concentrations, endocrinal disturbances.

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'The most shocking insight coming out of this was that Roundup, something designed to kill plants, was extremely lethal to amphibians,' Relyea, who conducted the research at the university's Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, said in a statement released by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. 'We added Roundup, and the next day we looked in the tanks and there were dead tadpoles all over the bottom.'

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In 2002 a scientific team led by Robert Belle had shown that Roundup acted on one of the key stages of cellular division, which can potentially lead to cancer in the long term

Belle is from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) biological station in Roscoff (Finistere, Brittany, France) and his team has been studying the impact of glyphosate formulations on sea-urchin cells for several years. They used a recognised model for the study of early stages of cancer genesis, which had earned Tim Hunt the 2001 Nobel Prize in medicine.

The team has recently demonstrated in Toxicological Science (December 2004) that a 'control point' for DNA damage was affected by Roundup, while glyphosate alone had no effect. 'We have shown that it's a definite risk factor, but we have not evaluated the number of cancers potentially induced, nor the time frame within which they would declare themselves,' Belle acknowledges.

There is, indeed, direct evidence that glyphosate inhibits an important process called [/b]'RNA transcription'[/b] in animals, at a concentration well below the level that is recommended for commercial spray application. Transcription was inhibited and embryonic development delayed in sea urchins following exposure to low levels of the herbicide and/or the surfactant polyethoxylated tallowamine. This means that sprayers who inhale the chemical are exposed to health hazards.

There is also new research that shows that a brief exposure to commercial glyphosate caused liver damage in rats, as indicated by the leakage of intracellular liver enzymes. The research indicates that glyphosate and its surfactant in Roundup were also found to act in synergy to increase damage to the liver.
http://www.biosafety-info.net/article.php?aid=267

Further reading:

http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~sustain/glob.../burry298.html

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organ...Herbicide.aspx

Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Threatens Public Health
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Mons...undup92502.cfm

Homemade Pet Friendly Weed Killer
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orga...eed-killer.htm