Excellent. I admire your optimism. So you're going with the im a farmer and I should be allowed to do what ever I want approach. I feel this will be popularNothing.
If they are stupid enough to ban it, work away, they will have to un-ban it quickly enough after.
It is one product I will never worry about losing. If they do ban it and then have to reintroduce it that might slow them down banning other products.
Or I could go down your route.Excellent. I admire your optimism. So you're going with the im a farmer and I should be allowed to do what ever I want approach. I feel this will be popular
You're completely missing my point. I enjoy ploughing, it's an incredible art.Or I could go down your route.
I am willing to give up anything I don't agree with and think others should stop as well, eg.
Smoking
Speeding
Keeping sheep
Manual labour
And direct drilling.
Fair enough but what you trade off to keep it as a compromise? How would demonstrate to joe public that you are a responsible user and what bigger picture benefits to the consumer of you being able to use it?I'd give up farming, set the place to a dairy man. There is enough hardship in tillage farming without the most vital tool we have been taken away.
Surely the first step for regulation should be to take it off the shelves for the general public and only allow Registered Professional Users to use it. You hear crazy stories of people applying a litre of glyphosate to tiny areas in gardens as the person has little or no knowledge and just take the "I'll just throw in a good splash approach".
Im getting fed up with all these social media know it alls, you have to believe the scientist's about global warming or your a luddite, then in the next sentence, you can't believe the science on roundup. Fucking idiots
Right great but consider this.The idea of giving up one thing or another in order to pacify these lunatics makes no sense whatsoever.
I’ll happily give up something if there’s proof as to why I should.
To give up glyphosate or something else in its place only goes to give these people credibility, to exchange something else in its place also would demonstrate that it can’t have been that bad in the first place.
It should be a black and white decision, nothing to do with seed dressing, fair city, Ryan Tubridys hair style or other such unrelated topics.
That's great Marco but where does that get is in securing the use of roundup going forward? I know they are idiots but even idiots have voicesIm getting fed up with all these social media know it alls, you have to believe the scientist's about global warming or your a luddite, then in the next sentence, you can't believe the science on roundup. Fucking idiots
Right great but consider this.
We don't live in a perfect world
Everything has its problems and potential downsides
It's much easier to justify something if delivers on a number of fronts despite any potential draw backs there are to it
I think it would be naive to say there are no downsides to glyphosate (only because it's very hard to get unbiased science to prove anything undisputedly) but that doesn't justify it being bannedI hear you,
But I’m not admitting there are any downsides to Glyphosate....
It’s not a perfect world for sure (e.g. smoking is legal....!), but I’m not for rolling over to them.
I suppose I'm a bit off topic as it's insecticides my post is about but be prepared for some wobblies to be thrown about them. There was a report on the Six One news about studies done in Germany on the decrease in the number of insects over the past 30 years. Apparently there has been a 76% decrease.