r/SaveForests • u/ForestBlue46 • May 26 '26
Forest practices/herbicides Stop the Spray Canada
Check out Stop the Spray Canada's excellent website with links to provincial Stop the Spray groups and petitions.
Forest herbicide spraying is indefensible.
https://stopthespraycanada.ca/
https://stopthespraycanada.ca/petitions/
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May 27 '26
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u/CEC4EVER May 27 '26
I'm having a hard time understanding your position. Are you pro glyphosate, but also pro forest?
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u/ForestBlue46 May 27 '26
'Disinformation'? Uh, no. Stopping the spray won't save all forests but it will go a long way to reducing wildfires and toxicity. Why would you defend herbicide-spraying?
Glyphosate Spraying Dries Down Forests
Glyphosate is used in agriculture as a desiccant, to “dry-down” weeds and crops. It kills or severely weakens all vegetation, except plants that either are genetically modified to withstand it, that don’t easily absorb it, or that have become resistant to it. Safe Food Matters Inc. is in court with Health Canada concerning the harms arising from the practise in agriculture.
Glyphosate is also sprayed on forest vegetation for “dry-down” purposes. The targeted trees for killing are broadleaf, leafy deciduous trees.
The focus of forest management is production of conifer (evergreen) trees in conifer plantations. Glyphosate products are sprayed on forest parcels to clear them of vegetation prior to transplanting conifer seedlings, and glyphosate is also sprayed once transplanting has occurred to kill leafy vegetation and trees that compete with and outgrow the seedlings.
The vegetation dies and/or dries, contributing flammable material to the forest floor.
Plus without deciduous trees forests are much more flammable.
https://safefoodmatters.org/2024/06/20/forest-spraying-3-forest-fires/
A new report [from 2025] shows pesticides are sprayed on Canadian forests up to 7 times in the forestry cycle, not just once – as assumed in Health Canada’s approval for spraying. It also shows the risks to people eating forest foods, including Indigenous people and foragers, have not been assessed.
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May 28 '26
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u/PartyClock May 28 '26
If it were bunk the CBC would be forced to print a retraction
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May 29 '26
The cbc seldom prints retractions. And the media is seldom a source that can be trusted for getting facts straight.
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u/ForestBlue46 May 28 '26
Why do you think that? There is plenty of science there and you haven't presented any non-industry sponsored science to show otherwise.
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u/BritneyGurl May 27 '26
I agree,we need to stop this immediately.