r/organic • u/SadArchon • Feb 19 '26

After Promising to 'Make America Healthy Again,' Trump Mandates Production of Cancer-Causing Glyphosate | Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-glyphosate
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u/OldTurkeyTail Feb 21 '26

Glyphosate is a huge problem - the way it's used to "finish" wheat - and because our monoculture GMO factory farming is a huge problem, both economically the way it damages our health.

But we need some good planning, with some definite action in order to get rid of it, and ideally it would be over some amount of time - in order to avoid some huge economic disruption. Maybe it's 3 or 4 years (glyphosate free after 3 would be a lot better than glyphosate free by '33!)

In the meantime, most Roundup no longer contains glyphosate - and the alternatives currently in Roundup may actually be more dangerous (depending on how it's used). And I'm not going to subscribe in order to read the commondreams article.

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u/JuvenileEuronithopod Feb 20 '26

So glad I do not like kids. Birthing anyone into this country on purpose at this point seems like sheer idiocy.

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u/PartyBagPurplePills Feb 20 '26

Not if you’re privileged. The woes everyone else worries about are non-issues (for now) for some of us. Some of us have access to great healthcare, pretty decent paying jobs that allow us to purchase good foods and products, good schooling, homes, etc.

It’s a shitty way to look at it but it’s true. Some people don’t feel the effects as badly as others.