In my class this spring semester we watched a documentary about glyphosate that was posted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The end of the movie talks about what a huge change it is going to be for agriculture across the country if glyphosate is no longer a part of the system. Today I read that workers are taking the first steps to rid themselves from reliance on the chemical. Rooting that out is going to be a difficult process but hopefully they can make progress!
Update: found another interesting article on the role of glyphosate in modern agriculture. "Desiccation makes it possible to cultivate massive tracts of farmland and feed billions of people profitably. Based on the evidence we have so far, we can’t prove that that there is any health cost to the practice. But neither can we say there isn’t a cost—and there are many reasons to think there might be one. "
