I thought they already had banned it, or am I thinking of GMO's? They should ban glyphosate products, and so should we.

Glyphosate's cancer risk is right up there with shift work and some other non-risks.

France PRIDES themselves on producing a known carcinogenic product: wine! When will the ban the production of it?

Farmers are reminding the government that without glyphosate, they will either have to use far more toxic herbicides for weed control on no-till or start tilling again.

Farmers managed just fine before round-up came on the market, and not with toxic weed killers. They used to cultivate the rows. Since glyphosates became widespread we've witnessed the extinction and near extinction of too many species of insects to count. Honeybees are suffering from colony collapse, and without these pollinators we will be in dire straits. Many birds species are equally threatened as death spreads up the chain of life forms. Monarch butterflies have lost their source of breeding plant (milkweed) and birds are dying from ingesting contaminated insects. Ditto with reptiles and amphibians. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see these effects are getting into our food supply with ill effects on the horizon. The increasing advertisements from personal injury lawyers looking for farm workers who have developed cancer to put together class action suits, on TV and on the net, are testimony to the leading edge of the damage done by glyphosates. The only reason these poisons have not been banned here is the obscene amount of money that props up Monsanto and their lobbyists.

lazy, you seem to be unaware that most of the plants that glyphosates targeted have developed immunities to it and it is much less effective now.

Farmers did not manage so well on some weeds before glyposhate. Canada Thistles were horrid here in the Mid West.

Glyphsosates are still very effective for grasses.

Many of us organic growers have done quite well without the need to use these plant poisons such as glyphosate by using good practices that may cost a bit more in labor but are less expensive than the plant poisons.

Using, and recommending the use of, these plant poisons indicates that person is not an organic grower.

FYI, glyphosate is not banned in the EU. Also one GM corn is permitted, as well as two other GMO crops (one I think is canola, the other, not sure, sugarbeet?). And AFAIK, Roundup is heavily used by farmers.

The following was stated: "Canada Thistles were horrid here in the Mid West."

I came across a reference (when doing my Nebraska genealogy) that in Nebraska during hard times the Canadian thistles were used as food. Unfortunately, I did not save it, but here is a general reference.

"Uses[edit]

Like other Cirsium species, the roots are edible, though rarely used, not least because of their propensity to induce flatulence in some people. The taproot is considered the most nutritious.[citation needed] The leaves are also edible, though the spines make their preparation for food too tedious to be worthwhile. The stalks, however, are also edible and more easily de-spined.[36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_arvense