Comments on: Update On Importation Of Glyphosate Products

By: EdGal

EdGal — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:31:29 +0000

Absolutely NOT!
Maintain the Ban on ALL forms of glyphosphate fertilizers. Way to sneak in a terrible idea in silence!

By: thinker

thinker — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:38:47 +0000

Agreed! Should be banned outright.

While the jury is out deliberating and debating JUST HOW toxic glyphosate may be to people… our island meanwhile continues to be drenched and bathed in this stuff. Logic and health concern for people aside, there is the more tangible issue of toxicity to our ecosystem.

Consider our crab population. More specifically, the decimation of our crab population over the past few decades. While we are led to believe the introduction of the predator heron is single-handedly responsible for wiping out our crabs, consider also the amount of RoundUp W&E have been spraying on our roadsides for decades.

In 2014 a group of scientists studied the effects of RoundUp on a species of crab that similarly lives in brackish-water habitat to ours — the findings proved the effect of population damage due to significant reduction in viability and survival of egg larvae hatchings: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24831879

If I’m not mistaken, RoundUp is still inexcusably permissible under the current limbo legislation, because it is not a concentrated form of glyphosate.(!!!) What are the chances W&E are using less of it nowadays when it’s still PERFECTLY LEGAL to do so??

By: ImJustSayin

ImJustSayin — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:30:47 +0000

Probably carcinogenic to humans ?
senior research scientist from MIT has warned that of all children, a disquieting 50% will be autistic by 2025. What’s the culprit? Monsanto’s best selling Round-Up containing glyphosate is top on the list.
The overuse of glyphosate in our food supply is causing diseases like Alzheimer’s, autism, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and nutrition al deficiencies, among others. Stephanie Seneff, PhD, a research biologist who has published over 170 scholarly peer-reviewed articles, and has studied these diseases for more than three decades, points to GMOs as a major contributor to neurological diseases in children.
Currently, one in every 68 children in the US is born with autism. It is currently the fastest growing developmental disability, with rates having increased by almost 120% since the year 2000. In ten years, the cost of treating those affected by autism will cost us $400 billion annually, in addition to the untold emotional costs which families pay daily to live with and support a child with autism.
Dr. Seneff noted that the symptoms of glyphosate toxicity closely resemble those of autism. She also presented data at the conference which shows an oddly consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism.
The correlation between the two include biomarkers such as zinc and iron deficiency, low serum sulfate, seizures, and mitochondrial disorders.
GMO-glyphosate-autism. #wakeupworld

By: Concerned

Concerned — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:18:18 +0000

Now bann GMOs!!

By: AD

AD — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:38:21 +0000

I don’t believe that Monsanto is one of the most evil companies on the planet for nothing. Even if it doesn’t do immediate danger – ANY MONSANTO products should be banned from Bermuda like they are elsewhere in the world….come on BERMUDA!
Have a read here….
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/09/monsanto-roundup-herbicide.aspx

By: HeyBye

HeyBye — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:19:19 +0000

I agree ban these defoliants out right.
Look what was found out when these defoliants were used extensively during the Vietnam war by the Americans to kill off the jungle to reveal enemy positions.Generations of cancers and deformities in people and creatures.

In addition these poisons are being washed into our oceans with the rain run off, contaminating sea life and the food chain.

By: Unreal

Unreal — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:40:32 +0000

You have got to be an idiot if you are spraying this toxic sludge.

By: Kim Smith

Kim Smith — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:21:46 +0000

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them” – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer.

This saying is very applicable to this issue of chemical formulations. Let’s keep this issue in our sights. There really can be no doubt that chemicals are harmful and so this is of critical importance to us individually and collectively.

By: Pravda

Pravda — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:06:40 +0000

BERMUDA is on the banned list:
http://www.sott.net/article/297251-Down-with-Monsanto-Increasing-number-of-countries-banning-cancer-causing-glyphosate-and-GMO-s

By: Pravda

Pravda — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:48:50 +0000

TOTALLY outrageous that the Bermuda Government would allow this product to be used in ANY FORM in Bermuda.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:25:33 +0000

Just tax it like cigarettes – they are a carcinogenic too…

By: Kim Smith

Kim Smith — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:07:38 +0000

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them” – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer.

By: jrsmith

jrsmith — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:20:43 +0000

so why are other carcinogenic hazards banned?

By: sage

sage — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:10:46 +0000

Just ban it straight out, this is a joke, people made a run on stores and bought up all this garbage which were allowed to remain on shelves, we are poisoning our aquifer and cancer is only one concern. Use a machete and a hoe.