Weedkiller in the food chain? No thanks!

by LoopZilla | July 24, 2008 at 01:32 am | 275 views | 6 comments

Hormone based weedkiller has entered the food chain via farmyard manure in the UK.

RHS advice state that aminopyralid has passed into horse manure, and it affecting crops suchs as tomatoes, potatoes and beans

Here is a quote from The Guardian "Gardeners across Britain are reaping a bitter harvest of rotten potatoes, withered salads and deformed tomatoes after an industrial herbicide tainted their soil. Caroline Davies reports on how the food chain became contaminated and talks to the angry allotment owners whose plots have been destroyed"

Tomatoes can been seen to curl in a distinctive way... This is another example of the artificial control of food production.

Was a "simple" hormone OK? No. Is genetic modification of crops OK? No!

And who gave a licence this product to be used in UK?

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Caoimhin1
good stuff:

LoopZilla, I like this story. It's good stuff.

SOLARLIFE
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LoopZilla, thanks for defending our home grown tomatoes, interesting I had the same curling of tomatoe seedlings this year in southern france. I bought soil from the supermarket. 3 diiferent seedlings started to grow, suddenly curled and stopped growing. Can not say if it is the same reason; but strange.

liamssoft

A very worrying situation as almost all farms are using insecticides and weed killers. Sometimes the smell is so strong that the air feels like it is also contaminated.

liamssoft
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LoopZilla, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Paschen
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LoopZilla, I like this story. It's good stuff.

World_Groove
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July 24, 2008 at 01:32 am by LoopZilla, 275 views, 6 comments

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