Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to herbicides
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<p>Use of glyphosate has risen 10-fold in 30 years, raising fears for public health</p><p>It was Scottish farmers in the 1980s who pioneered the practice of spraying glyphosate on their wheat just before harvest. Struggling in the damp glens to get their crop to dry evenly, they came up with the idea of accelerating the process by killing it a week or two before harvesting.</p><p>Glyphosate, then a revolutionary herbicide that killed everything plant-based but spare
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<p>Use of glyphosate has risen 10-fold in 30 years, raising fears for public health</p><p>It was Scottish farmers in the 1980s who pioneered the practice of spraying glyphosate on their wheat just before harvest. Struggling in the damp glens to get their crop to dry evenly, they came up with the idea of accelerating the process by killing it a week or two before harvesting.</p><p>Glyphosate, then a revolutionary herbicide that killed everything plant-based but spare
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