Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment formally accused the Israeli military of “an act of ecocide” in April 2026, reporting $25 billion in damages, including the destruction of thousands of hectares of forest and extreme soil contamination that “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of the Lebanese south.
In industrial agriculture, glyphosate (Monsanto’s Roundup) is used on “Roundup-Ready” monocultures that are genetically modified to tolerate it. It’s a very specific and supposed to be heavily monitored and carefully controlled process.
That use on its own is controversial for a bunch of reasons, but the idea of using roundup as warfare outside a roundup ready monoculture is a whole other thing. This isn’t about spraying resistant GMOs of a monoculture, it’s about destroying all plants in an area. It’s actually a really fucked up and evil thing to do.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world
on 03 Jul 20:20
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Point of clarification: white phosphorus is not banned. It is allowed as illumination and for smokescreens. Only using it against personnel is a war crime.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 03 Jul 21:53
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Any justice they would be prosecuted zero hope for that with the current ruling system though.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
on 03 Jul 22:06
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The Jewish state has come full circle, using poisons made by bayer, to genocide other groups of people. For hose who are not aware, bayer is the company that manufactured and provided Zyklon B to the nazis for use in genociding the jews, queer people, Roma and the disabled in gas chambers.
israel is taking it further than the nazis, using these chemicals to burn civilian populations alive and destroy every living thing, plant and animal, in entire ecosystems. What they are doing, without exaggeration, makes the nazis look nice.
It’s ancient German tradition. They also delivered the know-how and precursor products to Iraq in the 80ies, which was used against Iran and Iraqi Kurds. Germany figured it’s easier to let people be genocided instead of doing it yourself.
dondelelcaro@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 06:38
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As near as I can tell, the report doesn’t claim that Bayer was the source of either the glyphosate or the phosphorus. Both are generic active ingredients made by multiple manufacturers in multiple countries. Bayer’s board even denied directly selling glyphosate to either the US or Israeli military.
That’s not to say that the source wasn’t Bayer, but there wasn’t any evidence presented in the articles to demonstrate it.
The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 06:39
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There was no reason at all to use airburst white phosphorus in some of the most densely populated civilian areas in the world Thats ridiculously evil, illegal and a war crime.
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White phosphorus bad -> ok. But glyphosate??? Probably the safest crop protection chemical ever - 30x means nothing. Article makes nonsense.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicidal_warfare
Making it so that an entire region can no longer plant local crops, and causing sudden large scale changes to local biodiversity, is bad.
On top of that:
www.cbc.ca/…/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363
If anyone is interested in learning more about this, see this video by Veritasium
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ
Note that there are also unfounded conspiracy theories around Glyphosphate, so keep an eye out for those when looking around
In industrial agriculture, glyphosate (Monsanto’s Roundup) is used on “Roundup-Ready” monocultures that are genetically modified to tolerate it. It’s a very specific and supposed to be heavily monitored and carefully controlled process.
That use on its own is controversial for a bunch of reasons, but the idea of using roundup as warfare outside a roundup ready monoculture is a whole other thing. This isn’t about spraying resistant GMOs of a monoculture, it’s about destroying all plants in an area. It’s actually a really fucked up and evil thing to do.
Germany is helping another genicide. Shocker.
Point of clarification: white phosphorus is not banned. It is allowed as illumination and for smokescreens. Only using it against personnel is a war crime.
Any justice they would be prosecuted zero hope for that with the current ruling system though.
The Jewish state has come full circle, using poisons made by bayer, to genocide other groups of people. For hose who are not aware, bayer is the company that manufactured and provided Zyklon B to the nazis for use in genociding the jews, queer people, Roma and the disabled in gas chambers.
israel is taking it further than the nazis, using these chemicals to burn civilian populations alive and destroy every living thing, plant and animal, in entire ecosystems. What they are doing, without exaggeration, makes the nazis look nice.
It’s ancient German tradition. They also delivered the know-how and precursor products to Iraq in the 80ies, which was used against Iran and Iraqi Kurds. Germany figured it’s easier to let people be genocided instead of doing it yourself.
There’s irony here I’m sure of it.
As near as I can tell, the report doesn’t claim that Bayer was the source of either the glyphosate or the phosphorus. Both are generic active ingredients made by multiple manufacturers in multiple countries. Bayer’s board even denied directly selling glyphosate to either the US or Israeli military.
That’s not to say that the source wasn’t Bayer, but there wasn’t any evidence presented in the articles to demonstrate it.
Nazis doing Nazi things.
There was no reason at all to use airburst white phosphorus in some of the most densely populated civilian areas in the world Thats ridiculously evil, illegal and a war crime.