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For those worried about glyphosate toxicity, the best advice is not to drink it, especially the concentrate. We take a nice flask of tea down to the allotment instead.
Quote from: Melbourne12 on July 24, 2009, 10:42:08For those worried about glyphosate toxicity, the best advice is not to drink it, especially the concentrate. We take a nice flask of tea down to the allotment instead.do you work for monsanto?....etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
But bad science makes me laugh.
Quote from: Melbourne12 on July 26, 2009, 15:32:46But bad science makes me laugh.Laughing's good, but you don't have to be facile. Monsanto lied about the product when they brought it to market and it's been shown to be less benign than they made out. If you want to inform the debate then refute what you disagree with, 'cos most of us here are pretty open minded.
Melbourne, there's a good argument to be made in favour of glyphosate, but you're not making it. There isn't good evidence of acute toxicity, but you didn't say that, you made fun. However, there is evidence of problems with glyphosate, and tonybloke has referenced some reports, so if you're argument is stronger than name-calling, let's hear it.
How can you argue that the regulatory authorities are infallible when they ban products that previously they passed as fit for use? The best you can say for a licensed product is that it has not yet been found to be unacceptably harmful, or if it has then there's no less harmful alternative. History shows that it can take many years to discover the harmful effects, and the regulatory authorities are not always swift to act - the harmful surfactant in Roundup is a case in point......