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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Here come the Freepers who defend poisoning the environment. They are, I expect, at least strongly overlapping with Freepers who love to defend pit bulls and those who advocate the intentional killing of neighbors’ cats.


52 posted on 09/25/2018 1:57:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Here come the Freepers who defend poisoning the environment.

Do you drive a car, or take some sort of other transportation that uses petroleum? If so, there are some who could just as justifiably accuse you of "poisoning the environment".

The development of glyphosate, and the genetic engineering of "Roundup-Ready" varieties of crops have dramatically increased food production, and I'm not aware of any evidence that anyone has been harmed from consumption of those crops. (Or at least, from the glyphosate residues in the crops.) Plenty of tinfoil hat types will make claims about how harmful glyphosate is, since it is produced by evil corporations, but I doubt the risk is anywhere close to being as great as what there is from consuming prescribed medications.

55 posted on 09/25/2018 2:27:04 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: 9YearLurker
I don't want to go to either extreme. I am avoiding food and liquids that I know were produced with Glyphosate (although it's difficult to be sure). Maybe I have an unjustified phobia, but I don't think it hurts to be careful. Biology is insanely complex.

I remember a doctor in Mexico who advised parents that kids eating dirt is healthy because it builds resistance. I would not go that far, especially with pigs roaming free.

The article I posted claims that Glyphosate may be a factor in the collapse of some bee colonies, but some bees' microbiota is resistant to the chemical than others.

56 posted on 09/25/2018 2:30:27 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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