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I do not really buy this reasoning. Glyphosate has been proven to be harmful [ source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl
by rb229 4y ago
I do not really buy this reasoning. Glyphosate has been proven to be harmful [ source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate ]. Other things might be worse, sure, but that does not mean we can allow Glyohosate to be used without thinking about the risks.
- epgui 4y agoRisk is not all-or-nothing, and I am not saying glyphosate should be used without worrying about the risks. I am saying people have their relative risk assessment all wrong. There are different degrees of risk, and believe it or not, the known risks of glyphosate are dwarfed by the known risks of other alternatives. Show me someone who can come up with a better herbicide, and I will show you a wealthy person.
- higgins 4y agoShortlist of those other herbicides?
- epgui 4y agoI personally don't know of any that we know is better than glyphosate, so literally any herbicide. I admit that there very well could be better options that I don't know about (especially if there are new ones that emerged in the last 10-20 years), but I think it's no exaggeration to say that almost anything else is worse.
- deelowe 4y agoThey’re asking for a list of the more concerning ones.
- epgui 4y agoI understand that. I responded with "essentially the list of all other herbicides". I don't know where you could find a complete list, but let me google that for you... this might be a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Herbicides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Herbicides
- deelowe 4y agoThey said “short list” not all.
- appletrotter 4y agoThey now have instructions that would allow them to assemble their short list. Just pick a couple that look interesting from the larger one.
- deelowe 4y agoSo your claim is that there are much worse things people should focus on but you refuse to point out which these are? This whole discussion seems extremely hyperbolic…
- epgui 4y agoIt sounds to me like you just don't want to believe it could be true that nearly any other thing could be worst. Other commenters have provided good short lists. Do you want me to repeat them?
- colechristensen 4y ago* Atrazine * 2,4-D * Dicamba * Trifluralin * Pendimethylin Go find a herbicide that doesn’t have a list of health concerns and environmental effects… which anybody uses.
- chemeng 4y agoAtrazine, cyanazine, trifluralin come to mind
- seiferteric 4y agoYour own link disagrees with you. I think you are proving OPs point. Paraquat is an entirely different beast and is known to bad but people lump glyphosate in with really nasty stuff for no real reason.