Your argument is a good one and reminds me of a current commercial with a bugger eating moron loudly asks, “How would you like to drink a glass of LEAD !!!” People are so easily persuaded by lying with pseudo science.
This is about money as much it is about enviro wackos. At least one lawsuit has found against Mosanto, manufacturer of Roundup, based on a bogus finding by a UN affiliated health organization that claimed that glyophosphate is a “probable” carcinogen. Hundreds of other lawsuits are in the queue. Billions of dollars are at stake and this effort is designed to win the popular argument and therefore taint the jury pool.
The fact that the biology of a dandelion has nothing to do with the biology of homo sapiens will be ignored in all of this.
And you know what— something FAR more disturbing is the ACTUAL ignoring by people who should know better of truly screwing with nature....
Example: the insertion of “fish genes” in row crop genetic manipulation-— true “frankenfood”. Never, ever in any natural situation, would a fish of any kind genetically combine say with a corn plant, or sorghum or whatever.
The net result IS a Nature impossible plant— that the “manipulator” by LAW (SCOTUS decided) may PATENT. Patent a “new life form”.
Far more worrisome than a measurable toxin that can be maintained and de natured and controlled. A life form that is actually impossible— and the “Law of Unintended Consequences” comes into play. Ignored as the “stuff of Sci-Fi”. Monsanto on the other side— blamed for creating corn seeds that do breed with next door non Monsanto seeds (like in India) which produce seed corn that is sterile hybrid— ie. cannot be saved back for next year’s crop, because it will not sprout/grow-— this has happened, and is a big deal for small farmers, and not some lib/commie concoction ( speaking as a conservative).