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Scrivener7

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4. We've known for decades how bad Roundup and glyphosphate are. But Bayer owns the product,

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Sat Jan 21, 2023, 12:40 PM

Jan 2023

so it will never be banned.

(Cue the glyphosphate crusaders who always show up to defend the ubiquitous use of Roundup and Roundup-ready crops. To them, all that cancer is just a byproduct of our terrific modern agriculture.)

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People exposed to weedkiller chemical have cancer biomarkers in urine - study [View all] Wicked Blue Jan 2023 OP

Damn ... RKP5637 Jan 2023 #1

I eat organic. gab13by13 Jan 2023 #2

Most of the danger is from physical exposure. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2023 #6

I would never trust cilla4progress Jan 2023 #3

We've known for decades how bad Roundup and glyphosphate are. But Bayer owns the product, Scrivener7 Jan 2023 #4

Unfortunately for my wife, the sentence ends after the word cancer. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2023 #5

I'm so sorry about your wife Wicked Blue Jan 2023 #7

You were smarter than most... Ferrets are Cool Jan 2023 #8

A lot of things cause oxidative stress biomarkers. Obesity causes it. Smoking causes it NickB79 Jan 2023 #9