Great read. Thanks.  Additionally, this is very concerning.  Sheesh. 

I live just south of the Missisquoi reserve mentioned in the study.  I can guarantee it's all from agriculture  (runoff).  There are no large populations (human wastes) along that river in either Vermont or Canada.  However there is a huge amount of cows...  The enormous blue/green algae blooms in the summer due to waste & silted in river/creek mouths (decreased water flow) together with the chemicals in said runoff are a huge problem. Agriculture up here is wreaking havoc on the environment/Lake Champlain.

The world is awakening to glyphosate toxicity

The world is starting to wake to the toxic reality of glyphosate. Is this the begging of the end for the herbicide? Just recently The International Agency for Research on Cancer listed glyphosate as a Group 2A carcinogen. Even the American Cancer Society declared the herbicide a Group 2A carcinogen. In Beijing China, a resident named Yang Xiao-lu filed suit against the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture requesting the toxicology report for glyphosate when it was registered with the Chinese government. The Ministry responded by saying the toxicology report contained "trade secrets."

Delving further into history, we find that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stated in a memo dated October 30, 1991 that glyphosate was deemed a possible carcinogen by the agency in 1985. By 1991 the memo was changed, listing glyphosate as not carcinogenic, despite three scientist's refusal to sign the document. The data clearly shows that there was a significant increase in tumors in laboratory animals on glyphosate but since higher doses of glyphosate didn't render greater tumors, the EPA let the herbicide pass as not carcinogenic.

All this falsification of data is coming to light along with the fact that glyphosate is literally breaking down the human immune system by destroying specific enzymes in the human gut microbiome. Glyphosate is acting as a vector for mental disease by breaking down beneficial bacteria in the human gut, allowing other toxins to infiltrate the blood and bypass the blood-brain barrier.

Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/049609_Monsanto_false_advertising_glyphosate.html#ixzz3wy3LZTON

"I believe it's just the earth going through its cycles it's done for millions of years"

A quote from BigBill and his locked thread in the everything else sections.

 

I'm going with that

On 1/9/2016 at 2:59 PM, ww2farmer said:

but when those products are used in accordance with the instructions on the label...

and who exactly wrote this bible of a label that you trust our fish, children and health with?  I'll bet you $1 I can guess

 

I remember reading this study years ago and it's just as disturbing to read now as then.  The truth is our water 'treatment' plants aren't equipped to deal with the wide array of chemicals that enter them. Technically we should have many different treatment plants to treat different levels of waste water.  And obviously the EPA needs to grow a set.  Europe is far ahead of us.  Many countries and regions are requiring new industrial plants to be closed systems.  They must be self sustainable and cannot continually bring in resources and dispose of them.  They must produce their own electricity, clean their own water for re-use etc.  Gone are the days of industrial plants built on a river that take in clean water and dump contaminated.  It will be nice when we finally have those regulations.

Maybe that's what's wrong with me............too much exposure to glyposate for the last 20 years. I'll never win an argument on this, being a lowly dirt farmer, who's obviously been brainwashed by the chemical industry. I'll let you superior intellects figure out how to save the world while I continue to kill, rape,and pillage in the name of agriculture. 

Causality aside, which locker room will they be required to use?