2023-10-30
Glyphosate, the herbicide that remains undead - even though following court cases it has been removed from Roundup available for retail, it's still being sold to farmers and is widely used (allegedly) on grains (wheat, oats, barley etc) to make them easier to harvest.
Breakfast cereal anybody?
Granola bar?
Bread and Marmite, beans on toast?
In fact, usage is so widespread that there is practically nothing we can buy that isn't contaminated to some extent, even organic grains, fruit, and vegetables.
Of course, it's the extent that matters - organic tends to be much less contaminated than non-organic - and I'm sure that there is some non-organic produce that ranks equally low in glyphosate, it's just that it's not identifiable in the supermarket.
Well, we are all quite likely to survive breakfast, so how safe is it?
"Leukemia is now by far the most common cancer in kids"
Of course correlation does not prove causation, but "the precautionary principle" was never invalidated by Covid, even if it is now seemingly widely ignored by all regulatory authorities.
2023-10-31
And in case we think this is all old hat ...
"The verdict is part of a string of nine- and 10-figure judgments against the Bayer AG subsidiary in recent years"
Monsanto Ordered to Pay $175 Million to Cancer Patient
