Wether or not the stuff is bad, I think it's a laughable over reaction to go on like it's the only way to kill weeds effectively. There are heaps of other products and methods so if the stuff is around or not I don't think we are going to be over run with unwanted Vegetation.
Other thing that seems ironic is The Glyo is the base of most weedkillers. Why just ban Roundup if they are all using the same base chemical?
There are products that work on different ingredients, I made something up myself copying what was on one product with salt as the main base.
Made a Shipload of it very cheap and it was quite effective on mongeral Neighbours entire back lawn. I believe the compound is quite long lasting too which was reassuring.
As for what the US allows and does not, I think they are a poor example to look at. You can have all sorts of guns and weapons, the standards of what you can legally register and put on the road in vehicles is insane, and the list of things that other countries regulate but is available there freely is extensive. Just as extensive is the list of things they ban but everyone else has available as a matter of course.
I was talking on a DIY forum the other day with some other skips and telling some yanks about something we use for a job. They never heard of it and then when they made some enquiries, that alone was likely to put them on a watch list. Here you can get it at Bunnings and well stocked supermarkets.
I have a friend in Cali that recently got rid of his gas BBQ because the police / fire brigade threatened him if they got another complaint from a neighbour they would fine him. He got an electric unit and they came back again pissed off but this time he was pissed and pushed back. They still werent happy about the " Emissions" the thing was making.
In one part of the country you have rednecks trying to roll more coal in their Diesel utes than a steam train and in another part you have the authorities that have banned everything bar farting.... But they are working on it!
They are safety obsessed in the sUeSA but it's nothing to do with looking after people, it's all about protecting ones arse and trying to prevent morons that make their personal safety someone else's responsibility from doing idiotic things and then blaming someone else for it and making them pay for something a reasonable person couldn't even have dreamt up no matter how pissed of their face they were.
I'm surprised they haven't converted their power system to 12 or 24V already. Got to do everything they can to defeat the process of natural selection and preserve the idiots so they can go on to breed and make the world more FKed up trying to cater to their stupidity.
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