June 30, 2026
Greater Evils to Fight Than Roundup
Timothy Birdnow
I am not MAHA. I do not think we are less healthy now than we were in olden days; our life expectancy is WAY higher now than even when I was a child. I'm about at the life expectancy back then; now I've got a good twenty years left. We DO have more health problems from things like obesity, but why wouldn't we? Life is so much easier now than it was even when I was a boy. People who worked in mines or factories or did other forms of manual labor now code or do paper work, and entertainment now cconsists of using computers in some way rather than going out and playing bush-league softball or whatnot.
No, we are in a golden age. Even cancer is a coefficient of this golden age; there are so few stresses on the body that some of the cells are getting bored. In fact autoimmune diseases have been rising and that is a function of our success; the immune system has nothing better to do so it attacks anything that might be a threat - even if it is just another part of the body doing it's job.
No, we live in a medical golden age. Sickness and death are inevitable, but we don't want even that so we complain that it is caused by our own hand. It's not; it's usually a case of "shit happens".
So I do not agree with MAHA on most issues.
That said we come to the reason for this rather long soliloquy; the MAHA folks are furious at Trump's EPA over Roundup.
The Daily Signal dishes on the issue:
Despite the backlash since Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling shielding Monsanto from liability, the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead on glyphosate, telling the Daily Signal how it plans to navigate the Make America Healthy Again movement’s growing outrage.
In a 7-2 decision on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, will be shielded from liability over Roundup, its widely used brand of weed and grass killer. In response, MAHA activists are firing back at the Trump administration and Zeldin’s leadership at the EPA.
Roundup has been around for decades and has been studied repeatedly and found not wanting. It complied with EPA rules forcing it to disclose that if used improperly it could be hazardous to health. There is no reason to believe Monsanto did anything wrong and thus holds liability for anyone's problem.
A Missouri farmer set this whole thing in motion by suing Baer and Monsanto (Baer is the parent company) over his cancer. Wh9le I sympathize with him it's still a matter of "shit happens" and correlation is not causality. The guy got cancer. He used Roundup. It does not follow that therefore Roundup caused his cancer. There are thousands of other factors that might have contributed to his getting cancer. That is a non-sequitur. It is like saying "John drinks water. John has cancer. Water caused John's cancer".
Who knows; water MIGHT WELL have caused John's cancer; it could be the fluoride put in it or something. But you cannot say definitively that is the case. Frankly I'm more worried about fluoride in water than glyphosate, but I'm not a farmer, of course.
At any rate correlation is not causality.
The problem is the WHO declared glyphosate a carcinogenic in a report they issued and all the sharks smelled blood - and are now systematically picking the carcass of Monsanto.
I wrote about this a while back. The original draft of the report concluded there was no evidence Roundup caused cancer. Environmental activists got their grubby paws on the report and altered it to say it was wildly carcinogenic, pure evil in a spray can.
I don't believe it; we've had decades of review of this product and only now have figured out that it is dangerous.
And there is no good replacement for glyphosates. Eliminating them will raise the price of our food substantially.
Anyway the EPA under Lee Zelden isn't taking the WHO's word for it. They are conducting their own review:
"The EPA is committed to advancing science-based innovation and stewardship in pesticide use. Working closely with federal partners, the agency is promoting more sustainable practices, including steps to minimize reliance on preharvest desiccation applications of glyphosate,” a spokesperson at the EPA told the Daily Signal.
"This year, EPA is undertaking a comprehensive, transparent, and rigorous scientific review of glyphosate to evaluate its use and ensure decisions are fully aligned with the best available evidence and public health and environmental protections.”
That review is likely to find what previous EPA reviews found; there is no great danger from glyphosates if used properly. That is what all former EPA studies have concluded.
MAHA people are yelling about how they rely on "industry studies" and use the same complaints and tactics the Gang Green uses in Global Warming arguments (I'm still waiting for my check from Big Oil). It's always a deep, dark conspiracy but big corporations to kill their customers with dangerous products. And the remedy is always to sue and take money from a corporation which will just pass that cost along to everyone else - a stealth tax on the public for the benefit of a very small few.
In the end these sorts of campaigns wind up simply making food (or whatever product) less affordable and often of lower quality. Do people really want bugs on their food, eating holes in it? That's what happens when you restrict pesticides (glyphosates are a herbicide but the same holds true for pesticides). I used to work in produce and we bought "organic" vegetables; mealy and full of bugs. The fact is our food quality and quantity is in no small part dependent on our chemicals, and Roundup helped to give us this golden age we live in.
Anyway the MAHA people are popping their corks and I suppose that was inevitable; they were only in the MAGA movement because they were against the status quo, not because they had reasoned, well-thought-out positions on other issues. There was no way they could be satisfied since they are essentially environmentalist wacko's sans the Bolshevism. Not all, surely; there were a lot of folks who hated the Covid vaccine who are MAHA, for instance, and they are right insofar as the Covid vaccine was a sop to big pharma all along and it has proven dangerous. Of course it's dangerous; it was entirely experimental. Nobody had ever used an mRNA vaccine before and we could have taken the time to make a regular vaccine using dead Covid like we do with other diseases. Covid vaccine mandates were a massive clinical experiment using the public as a huge test group.
That said, I get the MAHA folks where some things are concerned (like the Covid stuff, or the over-reliance on vaccinations in general) but they are wrong to go after RoTheundup. There are other, better hills to die on. Roundup isn't a hill on a battlefield at all; it's a parking lot in an Aldis store.
The Bible speaks much about discernment, the ability to see good and evil in everyday things. What is lacking in this is discernment. There are greater evils to fight than Roundup.
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