Product
warnings also include 'avoid spraying it on
water that contains fish and other aquatic
life.'
Yet all the residue that is indiscriminately
sprayed directly or drifted onto the ground
eventually drains off into lakes and riversor
leaches into our aquifers. Your drinking water. According
to Californians for Alternatives to Toxics,
weed killing sprays residues contain varying
amounts of: |
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glyphosate |
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polyethoxethyleneamine |
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isopropylamine
(the other remaining 81.27% of ingredients
are withheld as 'trade secrets'. |
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(these
ingredients are printed next to the recommendation
you use a shield to protect your good plants)!
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| Toxicology—breakdown products and effects of and/or
exposure to these chemicals also include: |
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skin
and severe eye irritation (see link below) |
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inhibits
enzymes involved in the detoxification of
the body |
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formaldehyde
- known carcinogen also responsible for gene
mutations is also a reproductive toxicant |
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nitrosoglyphosate
contaminant of a chemical family with carcinogens |
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changes
in kidney, liver, and animal thymus functions |
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polyethoxethyleneamine
irritates skin, causes gastrointestinal problems.
POEA is contaminated during the manufacturing
process with 1,4 dioxane, a probable human
carcinogen |
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in
animal tests glyphosate and POEA mixtures
have caused cardiac arrest |
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isopropylamine is extrememly destructive to
tissue of the mucous membranes and upper respiratory
tract.
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fate and effects: |
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Glyphosate's
formaldehyde is listed as a toxic air contaminant. |
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Ground
spray overspray drift effects plants as far
as 131 feet away. |
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Residues
have been detected 1,300 feet from use area. |
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Glyphosate
has been found in surface water as a result
of agricultural run-off and in ground water |
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Glyphosate-based
sprays are all highly toxic to fish and other
aquatic organisms. |
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Glyphosate
inhibits growth of mycorrhizal fungi essential
to ecosystems that enhance plant survival |
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Labs
contracted by manufacturer for toxicological
analysis on glyphosate have been documented
as falsifying test data for the US Congress.
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If
it's inert, why would a lab do that?
For more information copy and paste this site
into your browser:http://www.alternatives2toxic.org/round.htm
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So
How Green a Gardener Are you?
You can continue to use chemical weed sprays
(with its patent expired, glyphosate is in
most all brands of weed sprays) or useorganic
sprays that are not quite perfected, but getting
there. Either way, with the IsoWeeder, you
concentrate the killing spraysOn the Weed
& Only the Weed! Not on the environment!
IsoWeeder really is the Safest and Greenest
way to use herbicides. |
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Be
Really Green! Buy your IsoWeeder today.
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