Roundup

[gary gaugler]

On Fri, 17 Mar 00 23:10:32 GMT, Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk (Neil Jones)
wrote:

>In article <38D298B8.B131B22D at gate.net> viceroy at gate.net "Anne Kilmer" writes:
>
>> Diane, 
>> Roundup is not friendly stuff. 
>> Read the instructions on the package. You see those warnings about not
>> using it near water? That's because it kills the critters in the water,
>> whether plant, animal or in between. Protista, they call them these
>> days. 
>> It also kills the little guys in the soil, and, despite the makers'
>> claims, does some damage to trees, shrubs and forbs whose roots it
>> touches. 
>> Anne Kilmer
>>   
>
>
>Anne is of course right. The poison in Roundup prevents certain 
>organisms with a particular metabolic pathway from producing proteins
>and they die. This includes a large range of soil organisms.
>For those who want more detail Glyphosate is chemically
>N-phosphonomethylglycine and it blocks the action of the enzyme
>5-enolpyruvykshikimate-3-phosphate Synthase which catalyses an important
>step in the synthesis of aromatic amino acids.
>It also hangs around in the environment for a while too.

Since when is a salt a poison?

Where is your data for saying that "it hangs around in the environment
for a while too?"  Exactly how long is "a while?"


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