re: #215 Justanotherhuman

Roundup is not something you want to use on a regular basis.

I knew about Roundup 30 years ago and always preferred weeding to using herbicides and pesticides and using plants the encouraged the birds and bees and good insects. One reason I wasn’t keen on lawns but naturalized instead.

It’s not something that I’d trust Monsanto to actually tell the truth about.

AKA Glyphosate

Risks - Human

Human acute toxicity is dose related. Acute fatal toxicity has been reported in deliberate overdose.[46][51] Epidemiological studies have not found associations between long term low level exposure to glyphosate and any disease.[52][53][54]

The EPA considers glyphosate to be noncarcinogenic and relatively low in dermal and oral acute toxicity.[19] The EPA considered a “worst case” dietary risk model of an individual eating a lifetime of food derived entirely from glyphosate-sprayed fields with residues at their maximum levels. This model indicated that no adverse health effects would be expected under such conditions.[19]

Glyphosate is present in human urine samples from 18 European countries. Malta showed the highest test results with the chemical showing up in 90% of samples and the average for all countries was 43.9%. Diet was stated as the main source.[55]

The European Commission’s review of the data conducted in 2002 concluded that there was equivocal evidence of a relationship between glyphosate exposure during pregnancy and cardiovascular malformations; however, a review published in 2013 found that the evidence “fails to support a potential risk for increased cardiovascular defects as a result of glyphosate exposure during pregnancy.”[56]