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Old 19-08-2003, 02:03 AM
Lar
 
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Default What's The Latest On Roundup Herbicide?

In article ,
says...
Number of physicians in the US = 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by
physicians per year = 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171
(U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services)

Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun
deaths per year (all age groups) = 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun
owner = 0.0000188 (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms)

Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than
gun owners.


So in other words you are stating with math that if you
have a tablespoon (14150 mg) of table salt with an LD50
of 3300, and since it takes just over 1/4 table spoon to
kill 50% of test animals that weigh 2.2 lbs (1kg) we are
to believe that since Roundup has a LD50 of 4900 it
would take just under 1/3 of a tablespoon to do the
same, that roundup is actually less toxic than salt?
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