Health & Fitness
If You Use Roundup, You Are Killing More Than Just Weeds
Using Roundup and other weed killers on your lawn is not as safe as it is made out to be. These weedkillers may be harming your health in many ways.
When I was a little boy my dad would recite this silly poem every year:
“Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is?”
And now it is spring, and the grass has riz, as well as the dandelions, and all the other weeds that we find distasteful in our lawns, gardens, and in the cracks of our sidewalks. Most people spray their lawns with herbicides like Roundup to get rid of the unwanted plants, thinking that except for the targeted plants, it is a safe thing to do. Indeed, even Monsanto says that the active ingredient in its product Roundup, glyophosphate is as safe as aspirin. But is it?