Yes it is. So are MANY MANY MANY other nasty chemicals in some way shape or form though. Do something about those you can do something about, and leave the rest alone to fight their own battles. Ask yourself this, do you read food labels? Do you care what you put on your skin, soaps, shampoo, etc etc ALL these have chemicals in them, some alot more harmful than glyphosate. Perspective, is what it comes down to for me. I try & eat organic when possble, but also just veggy wash/peel my fruit and veg. I take detox steps to ensure chemicals that I might inevidably ingest, can be detoxed from my body. (binders such as humic or fulvic acid and chlorella may bind to glyphosate in the GI tract and help remove it.) Glyphosate is rapidly inactivated once in the soil.

oh dear

Agent Orange, almost, by another name. There aren't enough organic producers to feed the world, and in any case we have had numerous rorts with producers claiming organic. NZ in recent years had a "organic" egg producer who couldn't meet demand so they bought in battery hen eggs and sold them as organic. They were convicted AND FINED., but there you go.

It’s scary!

Monsanto. Also manufactured delightful products like Agent Orange and gm crops. Have destroyed many small farmers by forcing them to use their geneticically modified seeds, then forcing them to purchase the seeds year after year.

BINGO, someone is awake, Glyphosate is banned but you will find it by alternative name even in Reject shop, I used fire wand in summer and fire in winter to kill weeds, Boiling water also works well. AND YES they are poisoning us via water, poisons sprayed, air, so called food is full of fructos and canola veg oils, We wear plastic clothes, eat off plastic sit on plastic, but we are saving the world by using solar and wind.

Roundup was sued for using such products. Organic (I used my goat's feces in GA) is so much better. The chicken growers in GA use chicken feces on their pastures for fertilizer. But, if animals are eating contaminated grasses, is organic fertilizer still safe anymore? ;-?

That’s life. We are all Guinea pigs on a treadmill.

We are not being told a lot of things. Governments want us to get cancer and die.

Very well said, Angie. Thank you.

Part of the problem is again the over-population of the planet - there are simply far too many humans. Farmers have to increase yields to keep everyone fed, and to do that the farmers have to have better growing soil, better pastures, fewer weeds and pest insects, etc.

Yep been around for over 50 years, and poison all that time. Has been fazed out in the last 10 years.

I used round up for years and am still alive and kicking, every now and then someone comes up with something that is supposed to be bad for us but why worry thanks to the american population electing Trump and Musk we will all probably be wiped out soon

Unfortunately it is all about profits over people and the planet. Glycosate should be banned it causes cancers.

For years "Roundup" was the go to weed killer across Australia. Recently I found that "Bunnings" one of our big retailers of garden organics has removed all sign of Roundup from its shelves. Haven't got around to trying the current version of weed killer without glyphosphate yet. The lawn is growing so quickly with all the current rain that I don't think it would manage to kill anything before it got washed away.

glyphosate must be banned internationally. Manufacturers of this chemical and big pharma must wear the cost of ridding the world of this toxic chemical. Medical profession must speak out about its risk to health.

Hiring people to rip the weeds up would make food prices skyrocket unfortunately. But I have to agree. Best to clean fruit n veggies carefully or peel the skin to remove it. Glyphosate ain't the only nasty stuff they use either. Best thing you can do is grow your own produce as you know what goes on your plants or in the soil as organic foods can have sprays on them too.Edited 12-Feb-25 15:24pm

Nothing new, something we have to live with if you want to eat.

My dad has been using round up for years in his garden. He is a silly buggar and doesn’t use a mask or gloves, he is in his mid 80s and still doesn’t have cancer. If the dose makes the poison, then it would have to be a very high dose.

Any foods where Glyphosate is applied is not acceptable. I have and will continue to buy the organic alternative.

Goes to show you must wash your foods before you eat it. We worry about the sprays that farmers use because we live right next door. We have water tanks and we wonder how much goes into our drinking water which is filtered but can it get it all out. Hasn't killed us yet, still here and we do grow some of our own foods which doesn't get sprayed with any thing but water. Lots of grubs in our tomatoes but we just cut the bad bits off and eat the rest, after washing first of course.

Don't think I will worry about it at all. Too many other things to kill one these days.

While I think "organic" is just a scam in order to increase profits without doing anything, if I learned that farmers were using a known carcinogen, I'd be doing all that I could to get the substance banned.

There are other products available which actually work faster and better than this Glycophosphate, mopst hardware, garden centres and some Supermarkets stock one or two which claim to be biological in their action and, to date, have not been shown to be Carcinogenic.

Personally i wouldnt be stressed out by it,one of the most carcinogenic things in the world is used in abundance and they will never doing anything about,the whole world economy runs on it,diesal fumes,then i read the other day that in austopsies they were doing last year they were getting upto a teaspoon of microplastics out of peoples brains,lets face it,we are killing ourselves off,it wont happen in the next year or so but happens over time,probably thousands of years,then something else can rule the world

Unfortunately the company that produces this compound also paid for the lab to produce fake test results that cleared this as suitable for use. It has been almost banned several times by the EU but as we know politics and money go hand in hand and a large German company can put the squeeze on politicians that use their money to get elected

Eventually it or other dangerous chemicals end up in the water table under ground AKA Flint Michigan 😭

Not sure have not heard of it

Can’t be any worse than Coke or Pepsi

This is the first time I've heard of this, I guess it makes sense but it seems dangerous to me.

Yea I think instead of killing things with chemicals, we just pull them out of the ground, even if its employing more people to do so. Then put the weeds in either a burner or where the weed seeds die off and make compost. Then governments can give out free compost, we can start growing our own food again.Edited 12-Feb-25 11:59am

Lets go back to the old days when everything was natural

Now with all this plastic in every piece of Plankton, and Herbacides running into every thing they find usefull, how can anyone even proove something is organic anymore. We can get our unemployment levels even lower my jacking the tax up a bit more, and starting some organsization that tries to proove things are organic and companies aren't just trying to make an extra buck by calling it Organic. Edited 12-Feb-25 11:55am

I suppose I would prepher organic. Although if all these other places are using it with out a 2nd thought, then maybe in Australia it's more become a big part of the GST or something it's just money paying all these people to prove that it's bad, while paying all these others that it's fine, and there's nothing wrong with it. Maybe it certainly plays a big part in keeping unemployment levels down and other than that there's not much else that can be done with it here. That's why we have Neo's brother robots to do the farming and they can't get Cancer.

I don't know how to feel about this

I don't know a lot about this but have heard of it. These days, anything can make you sick. These meds that they advertise on television are prescribed for one illness but yet they list 10-12 side effects & the side effects sound like they would be rough. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't!

yes Angie not to be trusted at all

Have not heard of this chemical.

TY JANN R....

I think organic is better but I have never seen this were I live but I dont think it should be used there are better ones out there

It's the same with just about everything, carcinogenic scares people so they use organic products that don't work. I just had termites & spiders sprayed around the house and a week later the insects were back, organic is bullshite and that's according to the company who did the work .

Damned if they do and damned if they don,t.

Used in WA by Bunbury City Council spraying the parks.

I am not in farming so not sure of the use in our Australian community

Death has been reported when Glyphosate was ingested but studies have found when ingested on food products the levels are safe. I am far more concerned with GMO products which are in themselves herbicides and weedicides, they have to be in order to repel pests etc. They too are made by Monsanto.

Don't worry we have enough Chemicals in our Food, Water and Air to give us Cancer, so you won't be missing out not using this product!

The Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment have concluded that there is NO evidence that glyphosate poses a carcinogenic or genotoxic risk to humans. Link to APVMA - https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/nanoscience/chpt/australian-pesticides-veterinary-medicines-authority

We dot have that type in Australia .Michael

Yes would much rather pay more for organic foods.

Horrible stuff!!!! This is another cause of leaky gut syndrome and many other gut ailments along with cancer and a slew of other abnormalities throughout our bodies. I use natural weed killer and federalizers, I compost and have a worm bin. We need to fight this, I am elated to have Robert Kennedy ready to fight for us in the USA. MAHA!

Great stuff for people in the Medical Industry" and those with shares in Funeral homes..

Asbestos was always good for us and caused no harm to anyone, long or short term, according to James Hardie. How many died while it was fought in the courts and afterwards?

There are two forms used in Australia,the most toxic isn't used in round up but still used by farmers to kill weeds that are G.T (gylphosate tolerant). The most toxic is a product called Paraquat. The farmers " double dose",once during seeding and again in fallow. The study I read only focus mainly on round up version. But they also say Paraquat is banned in many countries. Aust standards say 0.03 mgs per kilo of body weight is the limit. Sounds high to me,they describe it as a cup full in an Olympic size swimming pool. Still not happy about it. Make your own decision.

Roundup has had some links as the main product sold, and I believe it has been band in Belgian, France and the Netherlands. Most conglomerates want kill us with one finger, insure us with another, feed us, take the income with home loans and personal loans, to keep us broke, desperate and locked into working for them, until we are either, physically or mentally incapable, then through us on the scrap heap afterwards. Conditions created by the industrial revolution, where you were paid with company coin, had to live in company houses, and shop at the company store. Not much has changed, just renamed, and diversified to make people believe that they are seperate companies, and not all controlled by certain people.Edited 12-Feb-25 08:16am

Disgusting greed

I am aware that the W,H,O has said that this chemical is probably carcinogenic. They won't say definitely, it would bring out class action across the world. There us also a belief it causes Parkinsons disease. I don't like chemicals, especially in my food,water. So I grow what I can,go to farmers markets etc. Strange when i looked into Australian standards and other related info that there is some conflicting stuff there. So it's banned for use in parks,playgrounds and near schools. But it's o.k to spray our food with it? I am sensitive to chemicals so I call B.S on that. Farming can be achieved without chemical use,but the way we farm has to change. Yes it would be harder work,more manual and food would appear as perfect, we would probably have to pay more. I don't care,ban it.

I think this should be banned.

This has been said for over 2 decades but it apparently has not been "proven". My question is: is it not proven because it truly isn't proven OR, like the cover up for cigarettes being carcinogens, it has been proven but there has been a massive bribery paid for evidence to the contrary? (in other words, scientists being paid off by industry to say "according to their scientific research, it is not a carcingenic")?

I would definitely get organic

They need to stop

Apply it correctly and use it appropriately and it’s reasonably safe. There are many things that are carcinogenic or poisonous eg common salt. Would you put a plastic bag over your head and go play on the freeway???……no. The responsibility is yours

"Our evidence-based advice: You don't need to worry about pesticides on your food or in your garden. There is no strong evidence that being exposed to pesticides at low levels causes cancer." https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/cancer-myths-questions/do-pesticides-cause-cancer https://soilcrop.tamu.edu/department-updates/glyphosate-myths-facts-addressed/ “Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”― Bruce Ames Edited 12-Feb-25 06:05am

grow your own veg and you know what is been used around the veg.

It should be banned

It is all about money!! No concern for the health of the population - wicked.

sounds bad

weed compost is best and environmentally friendly

Glyphosate is one of many products used in the world that are cancer causing including pharmaceuticals as you say

That is why I grow my own vegetables!

Hi Angie. I reside in a high-rise-building which doesn't have 'green spaces' - no gardens for the tenants. Furthermore, I eat organic food (which is expensive). In addition, I am a vegetarian and a non-drinker for over four decades! However, I did know that glyphosate has been banned in some countries (not many).Edited 12-Feb-25 08:34am

I honestly don’t know

I hope you dont drink alcohol, eat bacon or various other carcinogens. Glyphosate has been proven safe time and time again, you are just fear mongering with no scientific back up.

I'm not sure what I would do.

HI THERE Helena H, TYVM....

HI, TY, Kiwi Jo

I've used Roundup. It was decades ago and it didn't affect me because I had very little exposure to it. I now know that Bayer has paid, and are still paying billions of dollars settling class-action lawsuits against them.

That is not right

Big pharm is all about money....!!!

I don't believe the Round Up lies re cancer which BTW we do not know the causes nor cures so how can we know how to treat it?

Big Pharma wants us sick. Plain and simple. Diabetes drugs and insulin, chemotherapy, pain meds, .... those are expensive and/or add up. If they can get us addicted that's even better for them. I recently watched a documentary about different drugs and anti-depressants. I remember this one story about a guy in college who killed himself after taking anti-depressants. The warning that the drug hadn't been tested on teenagers and could be potentially harmful to them was on page 15 or something in the online information sheets. WHO goes online to read 15-plus pages about a drug that you trusted your doctor to prescribe to treat your symptoms? Another documentary on the very addictive pain killer where the pharmaceutical company that created it was headed by a man who wanted all the dollars he could collect. He hired pretty women to flirt with and push doctors to prescribe the pills, the higher the dose prescribed, the higher the payouts to the girls and the doctors. It should've been shameful but they were all happy with the money. Anyway, pharma wants us sick so they can make their money on treating us. I remember a few years ago my Dad's friend went for a chemo treatment and the numbers on the bag didn't match up with the numbers on her wrist ID. They dumped out thousands of dollars of the chemicals because that mixture wasn't good to anyone. Can you imagine the money they make when multi millions or billions of people over the years have taken chemotherapy? At thousands of dollars a bag?! Mega billions! No wonder they want us sick with cancer. The love of money is the root of all evil. Big Pharma is definitely loving the money.

While its total ban has sadly not yet arrived....it has been banned in many countries in certain applications...America still uses it...which is one of several reasons that US produce fails to meet basic food safety requirements in the EU... now that the UK has left the EU..it can now buy dodgy cheap food from the US and even manufacture its own!!....nobody keeping an eye on them anymore... scary stuff... glad I don't live there... Edited 12-Feb-25 00:31am

Yes, I pay more and/or make my own. You can read about Monsanto and Roundup, scary stuff. If I use a landscaper, I tell them right up front to not use Roundup or chemicals. I buy natural weed killers and pest control, like Earth's Ally, Dr. Earth, Wondercide. Edited 12-Feb-25 00:21am