What products are you going to use as a weedkiller now after the latest research into roundup?

[PoisonPension]

If not weeding by hand, can you use neat vinegar?

[echt]

I imagine people are stockpiling glysophate as we post.

[shovetheholly]

The only time I've used it was on my allotment, when I first got it and it was absolutely full of bindweed.

I won't be doing so again after the latest findings.

Have you seen the documentary The World According to Monsanto? It is worth a watch (I've heard Food Inc is good too, but haven't seen it yet). Anyway, those guys are seriously, seriously evil in a way that you'd imagine would only be applicable in fiction to superbaddies.

[MyNightWithMaud]

I read the link on the other thread and note that the risk seems to be attached to agricultural usage, presumably for workers who have to use it all day, every day.

I generally rely on digging weeds out, but have used the paint-on version of glyphosate on bindweed and ground elder. I'll probably continue to do so, but I will (as now) be careful not to get it on my skin. I don't use sprays because of the risk of inhalation.

[Rhubarbgarden]

I don't mind admitting I am stockpiling glyphosate. I don't use it much, but in certain situations I find it essential.

[piggychops]

I understood it was the carrying agent which was the risk i.e. the agent that makes it stick to the leaves? Or am I really misinformed?
I have in the past bought generic glyphosate and was advised to add washing up liquid to it to make it stick. It was also about half the price of Roundup.

[piggychops]

www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/generalinformationaboutcarcinogens/known-and-probable-human-carcinogens
Glyphosate falls into the same category as "frying","shift work" and "hairdressing"

[MyNightWithMaud]

Hmm. That's further good for thought. Is the risk (such as it is) attached to glyphosate in general or Roundup in particular? I tend to use the two names interchangeably, but none of what I have in the shed is actually Roundup but is other brands containing glyphosate.

Coincidentally I saw today that Roundup has just been banned in the Netherlands.

[WatchOutForGoblins]

Totally off topic, but I have heard people mention Monsanto,, but mostly from the US. Are they big over here inthe UK?

[MyNightWithMaud]

I have never researched it, but I thought Monsanto were behind a lot of agribusiness in the UK and Europe.

::off to look on Wikipedia::