Posted on 07/07/2025 10:25:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A comprehensive carcinogenicity study on the world's most used herbicide, glyphosate, involving scientists from Europe and the U.S., has found that low doses of the controversial weed killer cause multiple types of cancer in rats.
In this long-term study, glyphosate alone and two commercial glyphosate-based formulations, Roundup BioFlow used in the EU and Ranger Pro used in the U.S., were administered to rats via drinking water beginning in prenatal life, at doses of 0.5, 5, and 50 mg/kg body weight/day for 2 years.
These doses are currently considered safe by regulatory agencies and correspond to the EU Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) and the EU's No Observed Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL) for glyphosate.
In all three treatment groups, increased incidences of benign and malignant tumors at multiple anatomic sites were observed compared to controls. These tumors arose in hemolymphoreticular tissues (leukemia), skin, liver, thyroid, nervous system, ovary, mammary gland, adrenal glands, kidney, urinary bladder, bone, endocrine pancreas, uterus and spleen (hemangiosarcoma).
Increased incidences occurred in both sexes. Most of these involved tumors that are rare in Sprague Dawley rats (background incidence < 1%) with 40% of leukemias deaths in the treated groups occurring in early life and increased early deaths were also observed for other solid tumors.
"We observed early onset and early mortality for a number of rare malignant cancers, including leukemia, liver, ovary and nervous system tumors. Notably, approximately half of the deaths from leukemia seen in the glyphosate and GBHs treatment groups occurred at less than one year of age, comparable to less than 35–40 years of age in humans.
"By contrast, no case of leukemia was observed in the first year of age in more than 1,600 Sprague Dawley historical controls in carcinogenicity studies conducted by the National Toxicology Program (NTP)," stated Dr. Daniele Mandrioli.
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Those are legitimate concerns; even worse would be the unavailability of hybrid seeds.
Agent Orange was a blend of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (with a boatload of diesel fuel mixed in).
My comments were your garden, not commercial farms.
You used an awful lot of verbiage to adjust one word, while actually proving my numbers. (26 ml / 3.79 l = 6.86 ml/l)
We are “rounding up” after all. BG
In water based solutions, ml and mg are often interchanged outside the lab or other professional settings. You caught me being lazy.
Now I have to go mix up another batch, as some of the bindweed in the vegetable garden is STILL coming back. The blasted roots go 4+ feet down (I was playing on my mini-excavator and discovered this), so I’m fallowing and spraying the patch this year to try and deal with this nonsense. Also we’re sifting out all the larger stones so the tiller doesn’t break too many tines, they get expensive after the third set.
True,
And money is the best way to organize a society if you want efficiency, services and products designed to meet a customer’s wants, even keep corruption to a minimum.
But money is not just amoral, it has a seductive sinful attraction to it. Money tends to lead people into immorality.
People love to rationalize this immorality and at times even pretend it is virtuous.
Think big pharma and price gouging people.
War being profitable.
Porn being profitable.
Financial products where people are essentially “tricked,” in a legal way.
Years ago tobacco companies.
Casinos and gambling.
Using child labor abroad to make products sold in wealthy Western nations.
Companies manufacturing abroad in a way that is Un-environmental.
Companies manufacturing in nations where they used forced labor (still exists!).
It’s all about money: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_girls
We all want to make as much as we can. That’s cool. But that desire to increase the profitability often causes people to make decisions that are flat out immoral. Then they come up with their ethical and pseudo-scientific economic arguments for why their “greed” is actually a virtue.
I do not believe in legislating morality. Whose morality then becomes the issue.
But there are certain overarching moral concepts we all can agree on, and sadly even those limits are often not set in our society because those with the money, also influence the legislation and policy making/enforcement.
But there are certain overarching moral concepts we all can agree on, and sadly even those limits are often not set in our society because those with the money, also influence the legislation and policy making/enforcement.
There have been, and are, many societies which do not share some of those basic values. Aztecs had human sacrifices and were cannibals. Islam does not believe in treating non-Muslims as equal to Muslims. Murder, rape, and theft are acceptable in Islam, if practiced against non-Muslims.
Mix in some Mechamine - same percent as the glysophate.
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