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We know that sunshine is carcinogenic. Is a farm worker more likely to contract cancer from the 8 hours/day exposure to sunshine, or to glyphosate? I personal
by kbutler 12y ago
We know that sunshine is carcinogenic.
Is a farm worker more likely to contract cancer from the 8 hours/day exposure to sunshine, or to glyphosate?
I personally have no idea, but I think it would be an interesting measure.
- kbutler 12y agoI can't edit my post above, but here is the International Agency for Research on Cancer list of "known" carcinogens (group 1, including "solar radiation") and "probable" carcinogens (group 2A, including glyphosate). http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/ClassificationsGroupOrder.pdf http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/Classifications...
- kbutler 12y agoI can't edit my post above, but here is the International Agency for Research on Cancer list of "known" carcinogens (group 1, including "solar radiation") and "probable" carcinogens (group 2A, including glyphosate). http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/ClassificationsGroupOrder.pdf http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/Classifications...
- dragonwriter 12y agoEr, why? The choice isn't between sunlight and no glyphosphate and glyphosphate and no sunshine, so there is no real reason to compare them except to make irrelevant propaganda points.
- jp555 12y agoDifficult to test. What if some workers are chronicly sleep deprived and that contribution was the tipping point for some of them, but not all sleep deprived workers? What if some workers are chronicly anxious, causing sustained elevated stress hormones that combined with other factors put them over the tipping point? So many possible confounding variables