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Made me want to find some promo videos for Roundup aka glyphosate and I found this gem:

https://youtu.be/EnxnYIAPa10

There is some debate as to whether or not glyphosate presents a direct cancer risk, but certainly the more I learn about regenerative farming, biocides like this seem to cause more harm than good. Really I’m talking about the mass use of glyphosate in farming - the uses in this linked video aren’t that bad - but the confident and carefree voice over reminded me of the asbestos video.

Anyway in another 50 years time we may look back on videos like this the same way we look at the asbestos video.



Looking around at all the enormously fat people, I suspect it's more likely to be thyroid and biome problems than cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915086/

https://www.gmoscience.org/glyphosate-and-roundup-disrupt-th...

I'm happy to pay more for, say, beans which aren't soaked in glyphosate. It's really bonkers how Monsanto has succeeded in putting this shit everywhere.




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