News Roundup

What's all this I'm getting in my newsfeed about traces of the pesticide Roundup being found in wine samples? Anybody got some inside skinny on this?

[Robin Garr]

It doesn't surprise me, Tom, but at this point I'm not sure how much to worry about it. Naturally news coverage is polarized.

Here's an "Oh, the horror" story from an environmental group:
http://winewaterwatch.org/2018/02/round ... es-tested/

Here's a "don't worry, folks" story from the California wine industry trade organization Wine Institute:
https://www.wineinstitute.org/the-facts

Fair and balanced? You decide.

It doesn't surprise me, Tom, but at this point I'm not sure how much to worry about it. Naturally news coverage is polarized.

Here's an "Oh, the horror" story from an environmental group:
http://winewaterwatch.org/2018/02/round ... es-tested/

Here's a "don't worry, folks" story from the California wine industry trade organization Wine Institute:
https://www.wineinstitute.org/the-facts

Fair and balanced? You decide.

Awwww, Robin....until I see it on FoxNews...it's just not true!!!
Tom

[David M. Bueker]

Drinking a lot of industrial, central valley supermarket wines? If so, then perhaps you might care. Maybe. If you're paranoid.

Of course your house is probably built on land that was contaminated by much worse stuff than Roundup.

Given what we used to use in agriculture, and what was used in other fields (e.g. industrial solvents), I have a really hard time getting excited about Roundup.

It doesn't surprise me, Tom, but at this point I'm not sure how much to worry about it. Naturally news coverage is polarized.

Here's an "Oh, the horror" story from an environmental group:
http://winewaterwatch.org/2018/02/round ... es-tested/

Here's a "don't worry, folks" story from the California wine industry trade organization Wine Institute:
https://www.wineinstitute.org/the-facts

Fair and balanced? You decide.

Thanks for the links, Robin! Lol - fwiw, one of the reasons I'm asking is so that my own news segments ARE fair and balanced, and perhaps less polarizing. I know, I know, I'll never get anywhere in this business with that attitude....

"Drinking a lot of industrial, central valley supermarket wines......."

A lot???? Over a 140 glasses a day over 70 years just to reach the level that the California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has deemed as “No Significant Risk Level”

Salute

[David M. Bueker]

"Drinking a lot of industrial, central valley supermarket wines......."

A lot???? Over a 140 glasses a day over 70 years just to reach the level that the California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has deemed as “No Significant Risk Level”

Salute

I know...but hey, maybe he bathes in the stuff.

The dangers of glyphosate are one of an increasing number of subjects on which it is impossible to get a balanced unemotional view. Scientists who claim that it is less carcinogenic than alcohol get accused of being victims of lobbying by Monsanto and Bayer.

I read an article in RVF by a contributor claiming that he could identify pesticides and herbicides in the taste of a wine. Alex R, whom I haven't seen here lately, wrote a letter, which was published, debunking this claim.

I try to avoid following the anti-glyphosate trendiness and even use it on my own weeds when my wife is not looking and the dogs are indoors long enough for it to dry.

[David M. Bueker]

I always chuckle at the paranoia of people who live around me. They all have houses built on what used to be tobacco fields. The fields were regularly doused with stuff that makes Roundup look like water.

Roundup is a lot less toxic than Bordeaux mixture, the old-school traditional treatment for rot, mildew, and oidium.

-Paul W.

[David M. Bueker]

Roundup is a lot less toxic than Bordeaux mixture, the old-school traditional treatment for rot, mildew, and oidium.

-Paul W.

That can be used by all the organic folks!