Since glyphosate has been so widely used all around the world...

[NNadir]

...it's rather amazing that the world's life expectancy has been rising continuously.

Glyphosate was introduced in 1974. World Life Expectancy was 60.54 years that year. It was more than 10 years longer in 2020.

Life Expectancy.

One would think everyone in the world would have died from cancer, since it's so deadly, at least according to 12 jurors, all of whom, I'm sure, had Ph.Ds in toxicology.

Or is it possible that lawyers would have excluded any juror with any kind of scientific training?

I wonder if the risk of glyphosate cancer is higher than the risk of starving to death because of lower crop yields.

This whole business to me reeks of Greenpeace type thinking, getting hysterical because of selective attention and ignoring, in its entirety the big picture.

Of course, it is possible that life expectancy is going up because, um, people have food to eat; that is, I offer the unorthodox and apparently, I'm sure, odious opinion that having food to sustain good nutrition has a beneficial effect that outweighs the supposedly vast risk of cancer from glyphosate.

We are not immune on the left - as well I know - from choosing scientifically dubious positions that actually kill people if allowed to prevail.

You know, my doctor asked me if I wanted to stop taking valsartan because of the (recent) discovery of nitrosoamine impurities, the emergence of which is almost certainly a result of improved methods of chemical analysis.

I declined saying that my risk of cancer from nitroamines was lower than my risk of having a stroke from high blood pressure.

It would be asking way too much, way, way, way too much, to do what I did with respect to nitrosoamines - a common series of chemicals in foods, particularly pork products like bacon (I don't eat mammals and birds personally) - which is to weigh risk vs. benefit.

Of course, it is impossible to recognize benefits if one has inserted one's head in one's ass.

Don't worry, be happy, though. The "green revolution" of the 1950's and 1960's, which had nothing to do with the conversion of pristine wildernesses and habitats into industrial parks laced with asphalt for wind farms, is coming to an end soon enough, with or without glyphosate.

The world has a phosphate supply expected to last a few decades at most. The fact that glyphosate is a phosphorous compound will be dwarfed by the reality that there will be no more fertilizers left.

Let's make something clear, OK? It won't be bourgeois brats cheering for judgments against big bad corporate types who will starve to death if we are no longer able to feed 7 billion people.

It will be the poor.

The most disturbing trend in my long life on the political left is the growing disdain for the poor among us. We just act like they don't exist. They do, and their humanity is every bit as important as mine.