GLYPHOSATE:Many people know the name but few know the story.

Glyphosate didn’t begin as a farming tool. It was first discovered in 1950 by a chemist named Henry Martin.
 But it wasn’t until the 1970s that a company began using it as a weed killer. They later sold it as Roundup, and since then, glyphosate has become one of the most widely used herbicides in the world.
At first, it was praised. They said it kills weeds quickly and breaks down easily in the soil. Farmers saw their farms clean and believed they had found a miracle.
But over time, stories began to change.
It started with the soil, how it was losing life. Farmers noticed their soil was becoming hard, crusty, and less fertile over the years. 

Scientists like Zaller et al., 2014 confirmed that glyphosate reduces soil microbial activity. That means the very tiny creatures that keep the soil rich were dying silently.
Then came the water. A 2014 study by Battaglin et al. found glyphosate in over 75% of rain and stream samples in farming regions of the U.S. Midwest. What we spray doesn’t always stay where we sprayed it.
And then came the health concerns. The World Health Organization’s cancer research arm (IARC) declared in 2015 that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” That one word probably gave rise to global lawsuits, with some farmers in the U.S. winning their case after developing cancers linked to long-term exposure.
Even breast milk samples tested in some areas showed traces of glyphosate (Moms Across America, 2014).
Now, many countries are restricting or banning glyphosate. But some farmers still use it daily, believing it is harmless just because the crops still grow.
Crops growing doesn’t mean the land is living.
We can’t keep saying we care about health and soil while ignoring what we feed both of them.
Glyphosate may have been made with good intent. But the harm it brings today should wake us up.
Let’s not trade short-term weed control for long-term catastrophe