[American in Israel]

If the roundup was not absorbed into the plant it would not stimulate growth. So its pretty clear that discarding the husk does not remove the glyphosate.

[Wissa]

If the roundup was not absorbed into the plant it would not stimulate growth. So its pretty clear that discarding the husk does not remove the glyphosate.

Huh? Glyphosate is used to KILL plants, not to stimulate growth.

[Wissa]

The bulk of glyphosate used in growing crops is used for soybean and corn production. Glyphosate kills most everything, so it's good at making the fields weed-free. If it kills the crops as well, it doesn't do much good though so they've managed to create genetically modified varieties of those crops that prevent the glyphosate from killing the soybean and corn plants. The glyphosate is applied to the fields fairly early in the season, to kill the weeds until the crops are sufficiently large to shade out the ground and manage their own weed-suppression themselves. The amount of glyphosate that is applied within days of harvest is going to be minimal, and will mostly fall on plants that are already dead at the end of the season.

So then the questions are 1) how much glyphosate winds up as residue in the seeds which are harvested, and 2) is whatever amount you can detect in the seeds harmful? I have no reason to doubt the claims that SOME trace of the glyphosate can be found in harvested crops, but I also have zero reason to believe that whatever glyphosate is there is in any way harmful. Or at least, anywhere close to being as harmful as the preservatives, and artificial colors, and artificial sweeteners, and "flavor enhancers", and the plastic that leaches into your food and drinks if you buy canned food or plastic bottles of water or cans of soda, and all the other thousand chemicals that the food industry puts into the crap people buy at their grocery stores. The added sugar alone that the food manufacturers put in the food nowadays is going to do multiple times more harm to people's health than any traces of glyphosate that may be in the food.