Here is an interesting piece which Australian gardeners should read: “Monsanto caught colluding with EPA in Roundup cancer cover-up”:
http://naturalnews.com/2017-03-23-monsanto-caught-colliding-with-epa-in-roundup-cancer-cover-up.html
Look, on these articles, it is best to play safe journalism and just quote from the source, and then give the standard disclaimer: they said it, not us:
“Monsanto and the EPA have been caught red-handed in the midst of a legal controversy. Unsealed court documents have shown that not only is the EPA severely lacking in the standards department, but that the federal agency colluded with one of the nation’s most menacing companies, Monsanto. And in doing so, the EPA helped to keep Monsanto’s star product, Roundup, on store shelves and safe from being reviewed for its cancer-causing effects.
Court documents show that the EPA declared that Roundup was safe for use without ever testing the entire formulation’s effects, and instead relied on the industry testing done on just the key active ingredient, glyphosate.
As you can see in the graphic below, not only does the EPA not require testing of the actual product in its entirety, Monsanto itself as not conducted any studies on the chronic carcinogenic studies related to Roundup’s formulation. While this alone is certainly more than enough cause for concern — both about Roundup’s safety and the EPA’s apparent lack of integrity — this revelation is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
While the EPA contends that glyphosate is safe, the World Health Organization and numerous independent studies on the chemical’s safety seem to disagree. The WHO made tremendous waves when they declared that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, and several independent investigations of the product’s safety have shown that it’s linked to liver damage, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, digestive disorders and other ailments.”
I stopped using Big Agri. chemicals long ago in my garden. No monocrops, self-supporting mini-permaculture, and fresh vegetables all year round. That’s the round-up: https://permacultureaustralia.org.au/