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  Green Girl Garden Care October 21, 2017 at 10:11pm

  Interesting
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  Richard Gadsby October 21, 2017 at 10:41pm

  A client of mine is high up in agrii uk (as in the company selling chemicals)
  I’ve spoken to him a couple of times on the glyphosate thing and word coming from Monsanto is that a ban is not on the cards yet as the goverments/agencies know something is needed and nothing is coming online that is as good/safer if that makes sense.
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  Gary RK October 22, 2017 at 5:28pm

  Further news...... where does the truth lie ?
  
  “In glyphosate review, WHO edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings ?
  
  When the International Agency for Research on Cancer assessed the best-selling weedkiller glyphosate, significant changes were made between a draft of its report and the published version. The agency won't say who made the changes or why.... “
  
  https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glypho...

  

  Glyphosate: WHO cancer agency edited out

  When the International Agency for Research on Cancer reviewed weedkiller glyphosate, significant changes happened between a draft report and the fina…
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  Progreen Weed Control October 24, 2017 at 4:01pm

  ..conspiracy theories ahoy ! Where are the comments I posted earlier? :)
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  Progreen Weed Control October 24, 2017 at 4:04pm

  Good article. Just wanted to commend the re-dressing of balance into the argument about glyphosate that was portrayed as GOOD vs BAD in some quarters
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    David Benson > Progreen Weed Control October 24, 2017 at 11:41pm

    autumn watch tonight that self centred chap Chris Peckham was on about glyphosate killing insects and wants banning. for me anything he says I take with a big pinch of salt    
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      Steven Mills > David Benson October 25, 2017 at 10:49am

      Any thoughts on what might actually be causing bee numbers to dwindle,if indeed,that is the case?
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        Gary RK > Steven Mills October 25, 2017 at 1:36pm

        Keeping an open mind, maybe issues like loss of habitation / farming techniques, change of planting schemes, pollution, climate and so on .....
        
        To pin an issue on 1 specific cause suggests we do not understand the world we live in well enough
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        Progreen Weed Control > Steven Mills October 25, 2017 at 3:07pm

        Varroa mite and sudden colony collapse are all part of it. So too the wide sale of hybridised flowering plants which are high on smell but low on nectar.....
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        Phil Voice > Steven Mills October 26, 2017 at 9:30am

        There's a greater concern for nicotine based insecticides and their affects of bees.

        https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139197-strongest-evidence-yet...

        The jury appears to be out on whether glyphosate kills bees. 

        https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/11/03/glyphosate-is-no-bee-...

        

        Strongest evidence yet that neonicotinoids are killing bees

        Studies in Europe and Canada show that controversial neonicotinoid insecticides have adverse effects on reproduction of honeybees and wild bees