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but it's made of chemicals!
by fsckboy 3y ago
but it's made of chemicals!
- reducesuffering 3y agoFeel free to drink a cup of it then
- dehrmann 3y ago> Amongst mammals, glyphosate is considered to have "low to very low toxicity". The LD50 of glyphosate is 5,000 mg/kg for rats, 10,000 mg/kg in mice and 3,530 mg/kg in goats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate I wouldn't just go drink it for fun, but for what it is, it's surprisingly safe.
- reducesuffering 3y agoIf you wouldn’t drink a cup for fun, then do you know how many aggregate cups you’re getting per month from all the food you eat? They didn’t poof into existence. Every part of your food is from glysophate sprayed crops and animals that have food-chained them.
- bluGill 3y agoIt is in food in part per billion quantities. You don't get a cup over you lifetime.
- reducesuffering 3y agoYou've got a source for that? Looks like ~0.75 pounds per acre and a 3k pound per acre yield for soybeans. Of course not all of that ends up inside the edible part, but 1/4,000 is a long ways from 1/1,000,000,000
- bluGill 3y agoMost of what is applied doesn't end up in food
- TheBigSalad 3y agoI wouldn't drink a cup of salt water.