GLYPHOSATE KILLS - 3 reasons to stop using roundup on your farm

Chris talks about why he doesn’t want to use glyphosate on his farm, but also why people might want to rethink trying to ban the use of glyphosate on farms.

[dennisboyd]

Thank you for eliminating the use of Glyphosate. The problem is that Glyphosate is in small amounts in most all food & drink which we eat at every meal, day after day month after month year after year. & The effect of eating Glyphosate is that we need a healthy gut microbiome to function properly but Glyphosate damages or kill our gut bacteria leading to low energy leaky gut & allergies. & When you take a look at GMO's like Round-up Ready corn
where the ground is sprayed Pryor to planting with Glyphosate & then as weeds appear the corn is sprayed & the weeds die but not the corn, it continues to mature in the soaked environment of Glyphosate taking in this herbicide which ends up in our food. Look at the Roundup Ready crops include soy, maize (corn), canola, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa. The other use Glyphosate has been sold for use as a desiccant which is spray on wheat or any crop you want to dry out fast, then we eat it.
& We wounder why we don't feel good.

[edstoffregen]

Let's keep this conversation going! So far, real, logic based, and courageous.

[maxmodo]

Video is Legit! glad to hear a farmers opinion.

[lebroncode]

And yes of course roundup is our affecting our gut biome and soil biome.

[clightningmi]

I farm on the prairies in Canada. 40 years ago we would till for weeds, seed and our ground would get so hard that the seed couldn't bust the crust and would die. Tillage was burying the trash plant fiber. We were ready to give up and seed our farmland to grass. We stopped tilling the ground and sprayed with roundup to kill the weeds before seeding. Now 40 years of roundup usage with no tillage our soil is covered with fiber and we get good germination and have good crops. 40 years of no tillage we have a cycle of the straw and fiber decaying and making top soil. Our ground is mellow and does not get hard. Roundup has saved my land.

[JohnDoe-jqwy]

Paraquat builds in tissues and fat; chance of causing parkinson's disease

[Iowa_Whitetail]

Good topic. I farm & there’s ups & downs on other side too…. Tillage, even minimal is speeding up our erosion. In iowa we’ve lost something like HALF our top soil in last 100 years. Tillage, erosion & run off have devastating impact on water pollution. Tillage also is extremely harmful on bacteria, fungus, earthworms & soil ecology. Tillage dries out soil & is contributing to increased drought & less carbon sequestration.
REAL SOLUTIONS may include not using Glyphosate. But until farming is changed to a regenerative model & agri-forestry is dominant- we are always going to have massive downsides from agriculture. CRP where prairies are restored, food from trees, smaller human populations & people growing their own food are some fundamentals that reduce all these massive downsides.
Great video & I think most agree Gly is not a without its consequences. Still need to discuss alternatives & the consequences of those too.

[Jeckhart]

As a farmer and an Eckhart....I support this message.

[jimmaag]

Just got done spraying the fence rows, nothing works better.

[frogland]

gramoxone paraquat was banned in the uk decades ago, there was a spate of farmer killing themselves (suicide)with it horrible death

[brucechapman]

I applaud this farmer’s general and overall concern about using chemicals like glyphosate, I’m afraid he’s no more credible with his information on glyphosate than many who propose banning this product. What makes his argument not convincing to me is his lack of credible evidence to support the many assertions he made. He acknowledged it’s a complex issue, which is good, but then proceeds to espouse views that he could not back up. Just saying ‘they say…..’ is not evidence. For sure, there is a debate around this herbicide active ingredient, and there’s a tome of critical literature review out there - pity some use was not made of that.

[mikeharrington]

A lively discussion point, and we know that Giant Agrichem doesn't freely reveal to the public the details of all its own tests that might reveal the full extent of the downsides we are concerned about

[stevenblue]

I've handled glyfosate ever since it came on the scene. It hasn't hurt me in any way. The slip and fall attorneys think they can cash in on this. Bunch of crap!

[armedfarm]

It's bull shit. It's a way for lawyers to make money. I never seen so much crap lawsuits & it's everything.
Sue the hell out of everything, all it does is raise the price for the people that need it.

[thesprtwalkr]

Science doesn't overrule nature

Best perspective I have heard from a natural grower

[mikearchibald]

Good comments but as a person who used to be in landscaping and have been fighting glyphosate for decades, its been farmers that get REALLY riled up when you talk about it. In a rural area we were almost literally threatened out of town just for talking about it.

This evidence has been overwhelming for years, and in many cases its the people IN those rural areas who get most affected. If you want to go through more studies I can provide books of them. For those interested about a decade ago there was a good documentary on Monsanto, pretty low budget, but very good.

I know maternity nurses who used to say she could tell when farms up river had switched pesticide formulations based on the birth defects. I know many microbiologists and they talk about how you can't even GET the formulation for roundup because its patented protected so its almost impossible to publish because they just ask where you got your samples from, and then threaten to sue you for using it for 'unlicensed uses'.

I live in a province in Canada where they AERIAL spray it on forests. A 'mysterious neurological disease' has been spreading in the province and the govenrment won't even admit that it exists. We had a chief medical officer who was hired and the first thing she did was start talking about gyphosates and she was gone within the month. The 'new' Chief Medical Officer just tows the party line. "No real evidence, no real problem".

[macrichardson]

Just know that eliminating Round up because of Glyphosate is not the end. Read your ingredients on all of your lawn chemicals. MOST brands include that ingredient it is not just dedicated to Round Up.

[RutherfordGeorge]

So what are you going to use instead of glyphosate ? I assume you are not going to pull weeds by hand. Let’s have a video on alternatives to glyphosate which you feel are safer for your soils.

[honuhalawahalepule]

Great heads up. You have described the tip of the glyphosate iceberg.
Just say 'NO' to this chemical, before we all go down with the ship. Thank you Sir for this important public service announcement!

[johngoddard]

Good info. The more you research it the more problems you'll find with health problems. Healthier food is important to me and my family. We will not use it on our farm anymore. Once you've been sick and there is no readily available medical help to resolve your issues or even identify the problem then your behaviors change. I don't think Monsanto meant to poison anyone, but they did cover up information in my opinion. Farmers will protest it's restriction, but it's causing nation wide and worldwide health problems that can't be solved easily or quickly. You'll no doubt will get great criticism for your video. My comments will Garner them also, but glyphosate kills and sickens more than temporarily and more than plants. Monsanto is now Bayer. And their stock price has plummeted. The damage awards are astronomical for the cases brought forth thus far. It's a chemical that I'll be telling my grandchildren, "yes it was sprayed nation wide, because they said it was safe."
I hate that it has such toxic and long term effects even though the are subtle and slow in occurring but it's damage is much greater than what the general public has been given.
No hate to farmers who use it. I did. I'm done with it. Every farm makes choices. Those choices impact the world. My neighbor just sprayed 30 acres uphill from me. Not what I would prefer, but we live in community and our actions effect the community. As time goes by your decision to not use it will be seen as intelligent, but may be seen as hostile for a while. Prayers for our farms and farmers. I'd say you'll get more than a little criticism for this video.