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In reply to the discussion: Roundup’s Glyphosate, Found in 100% of California Wines Tested [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Now let me explain something to you: "oh noez it's in breast milk" is a dumb and dangerous argument.
Testing anything that metabolizes in fats tends to be done with breast milk because healthy bodes don't excrete fat otherwise, so other methods would be invasive and expensive. Testing breastmilk requires a squeezing motion and a cup. It's an easy way to look at body burden of any given substance, but breast milk isn't unusually at risk.
But when you start on with "oh noez it's in breast milk" you're both making a lazy emotional argument AND you're contributing to women's perception that their bodies are damaged or their kids are at risk. Which they're not, moms and kids are as healthy as human kind has ever seen. What's dangerous is discouraging breastfeeding by ignorant shouting about how contaminated breastmilk is.
And any substance involved in cotton cultivation will show up in tampons to some degree. Now one exciting thing about tampons is that women insert them while their bodies are engaged in their self-cleaning cycle! It's not exactly the ideal time to absorb some vanishingly small amount of a substance that doesn't appear to be particularly harmful even in modest doses. The only significant risks associated with tampons are vaginal infection and TSS.