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One thing I've noticed with regard to all of the safety claims made about glyphosate is that it only claims that it's safe with respect to humans directly. Th
by pohl 4y ago
One thing I've noticed with regard to all of the safety claims made about glyphosate is that it only claims that it's safe with respect to humans directly.
They never discuss what it might do to your gut biome. That seems like a curious omission, to me, for a substance like this.
Shouldn't that be a standard part of the risk analysis?
- Dylan16807 4y agoYes that should be part of the full regulatory analysis, but then you're talking about active effect concentrations, which are generally going to be much higher than possible carcinogen concentrations.
- gruez 4y ago>Shouldn't that be a standard part of the risk analysis? To be fair all this stuff about "gut biome" causing everything from depression to obesity only got popular around the last few years, not a decade or two ago when the bulk of the studies were being done.