"glyphosate" is a good thing, it naturally comes from nature. Our own bodies even produce glyphosate. Glyphosate is an innocent bystander kidnapped by Monsanto as a chelator to bind their weed killing chemicals to plants. It's those chemicals that are bad not the glyphosate.
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I reckon the glyphosate isn't the worst chemical in the mix, but it's a carcinogen, and it's most of the volume of the mix. Roundup has dioxin in it, a byproduct of manufacture of the active ingredient. No amount of dioxin is safe.
The point is not so much a battle of toxicity between carcinogens, but the ubiquity of the chemical pollution of our food. Eskimos didn't get exposed to it by spraying their lawns. They got it from their food, which they bought off the shelves, just like the rest of us.
Glyphosate isn't a chemical it's an organic compound. That's why Monsanto can sit in court and try claim their product doesn't harm people because it's a natural compound. Sort of how the left claims that hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for people with covid...it's basically true but it's a half truth, alone it doesn't, you have to have the zinc which is what stops the virus from replicating in the cells, hydroxychloroquine only helps the zinc break through into the cells...making it also a chelator as the zinc binds to it. Zinc on it's own can't bring on it's own the quantity needed in the cells to stop the replication. Polyethoxylatd tallou amind or polyalkaxylated surfactants such as polyoxyethylene alkylamine in round up are contaminated with 1,4-dioxane. In round up levels can be as high as 350 ppm. 1,4-dioxane is a carcinogenic and is known to damage the liver, kidneys, brain and lungs.
Arsenic occurs naturally. I still don't want it in my food. The point being food that I grow myself I will not drench in glyphosate, dioxin, or arsenic.
Industrial agriculture does drench it's products in such things, and that's why glyphosate is found in the cord blood of Eskimos.
Again, the body naturally produces glyphosate, not that what was found in the Eskimos cord blood was naturally occurring the issue is with you and many millions of others labeling glyphosate as the culprit in Round Up when it is not, it's an innocent bystander who got caught up in the fray and the reason behind it is because by Monsanto choosing to let a naturally occurring organic compound mask the underlying poisons they put in their product is in essence allowing them to use the argument that their product is safe....if everyone stopped blaming glyphosate and addressed the real poisons added head on it takes their argument away.
No.
Have you ever heard of hydrolysis? It's being poisoned by too much pure water. Drenching our food in chemicals is toxic. Glyphosate is a carcinogen when in quantity that is present in our foods. That does not reduce the far worse toxicity of the other chemicals in RoundUp.
It's the development model of centralized institutions that is the actual carcinogen, that causes Big Ag to plant vast acreages of monocultures it is economically profitable to drench in herbicide. Decentralization of food production, each household growing it's own food with aquaponics, is the solution.
Arguing about the relative toxicity of the chemicals in our mass produced simulated foods is not useful to that technological advance. Eliminating the industrial manufacturing model is. All that is necessary to do that is stop buying chemical sludge with some claimed nutritional content in it.
Aquaponics, growing our own food, is the solution. Decentralization is the solution to all political, environmental, and developmental problems in the world today.
Wrong. I studied the issue extensively, I have two pages written down on it. Glyphosate in large doses hasn't been studied enough to even warrant suggesting that, like steroids, large introductions into the body could disrupt the bodies own ability to produce it. Now, with that said, if it hasn't been studied enough to determine that then it hasn't been studied enough to label it as causing cancer. Back to the drawing board for you.
Regardless that you maintain your views on glyphosate, I have pointed out in every reply to you that was not the focus of my post, and indeed my point stands even if I did simply agree that glyphosate was less dangerous than water.
It's a diversion from the issue, which is that dependence on centralization and overlords produces penury, and potentially genocide, while independence based on individual possession and use of distributed means of production creates both freedom and prosperity.
Wealth is independent means.
May you never suffer hydrolysis.