Roundup: is it harmful for humans?

     Roundup is a product from Monsanto, it's a brand of  a herbicide made from glyphosate. Glyphosate is used to kill weeds, it's a board-spectrum systemic herbicide and an organophosphorus compound, means that it has negative effects on almost every plant with which it comes in contact. But on Mar. 20 2015, there was a research published by international agency for research on cancer stated that there is evidences shows that glyphosate lead to human cancer. After that, the U.S. environmental protection agency and the USDA suggest people to stop using products which has glyphosate.

     Monsanto has false advertising on roundup's safety. It claims itself "environmental friendly", encourage customers to use it on playground, golf courses, school yards and home gardens. A French court ruled those marketing claims were false advertising. In nearly 20 years of study, scientist has found that the consequence of roundup and glyphosate in our food, air and drink. A new U.S. geological survey has concluded that glyphosate was present in 75% of air and rainfall test sample. Also, they found that people who are sick have higher level of glyphosate than normal people. There are list of major health problem of glyphosate: attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer, Autism, a birth defect called Anencephaly and many kinds of cancer.

     Roundup overuse has already enable weeds and insects to build an immunity to its toxins. The Monsanto solved this problem with stronger pesticide. Although the country or region use the toxic pesticide may bring a short term economy benefit, the potential long term health risk would cost the government even much more money, which is not worth it. The best solution is to find another product which is more safe to human and truly environmental friendly. And there is another tip to kill the weeds, just put some newspaper, leaves and other compost ingredients totally cover the weeks for about six months, the weeds wound gone without any harmful herbicide use.


It's the picture of the Roundup herbicide product. You can still find it in many supermarkets. There is some people don't aware of the dangerous of using that in there garden.


It's a field just been weeding and ready to seeding. If this field has been using the toxic herbicide, the plants grown on it would still contain the toxic. Eventually, it will all go to human body.