RE: I don't like Roundup. Or Monsanto. Do you?
Roundup, the chemical Glyphosate, is a poison. It is the most widely used pesticide by volume in the world.
Glyphosate is not a pesticide, it's an herbicide. Kills plants.
This means even eating organic is proving difficult to avoid exposure to the toxicity of Roundup.
Evidence in the literature is not particularly strong for the toxicity of glyphosate. To be honest, the vast majority of publications indicate its relatively safe, so even if you are being biased in favor of its hazards the data is certainly far from conclusive.
The report declared "glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen” in 2015.
A lot of things are, including red meat, alcohol, hell even Vitamin C can be carcinogenic under the right circumstances.
Monsanto is a $50 billion dollar company
Monsanto doesn't even own monsanto anymore, they were bought out by Bayer.
Meh.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s definition of a pesticide, (YES) a herbicide (or weed killer) IS a pesticide. I guess no scientists work at the EPA.
I'm fine with you comparing roundup to red meat, and alcohol, but vitamin C is a bit far don't you think? If a person eats a bottle of vitamin C's they might urinate neon. If they drink a bottle of roundup, they...
Last I heard they are calling it a merger between Bayer and Monsanto, and I don't think it's finalized. Doesn't change the volume of their business.
No, because it just illustrates my point that anything can be bad. Is it slightly hyperbolic? Sure. But I find the glyphosate crusade to be hyperbolic as well. Its not apples to apples in comparison of the level of exaggeration, but I'm still going to call a spade a spade when I see it (IMO).