"Paula" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:34:20 +0100, "Tumbleweed"
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"Paula" wrote in message
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You want to spray this poison on your plants and foods then OK, but
dont kid yourself about the harm its doing to us all.


So what, the same results (and in many cases much worse) applies to abouit
half of all chemicals in plants when they are tested for cancer causing
activity using the same methods.

Really, give us the peer reviewed data backing that wild statement up?



Sure, first hit is
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=73 (looks like it has been retyped
from the original, has a few typos)

FWIW this draws on many other peer revviwed studies, so its not a single
study but a summary of many.

Dunno why you think its wild, as I said you'd expect chemicals in plants to
be dangerous, very few plants 'want' to be eaten so they have evolved
defences against that. Being a frutarian is probably the lowest risk option.
Hope you dont eat lettuce or drink coffee, they are 100x more dangerous than
several banned 'chemicals' including DDT and Lindane and some non banned
ones as well.

But to put it in context the risks are still minute in all cases, people
like you like to rant about minute risks from man-made chemicals ...whilst
ignoring the relatively much larger (yet still tiny), risks from naturally
ocurring ones.

I noted the rants you made about glyphosphate (far safer than lettuce and
coffee) included such statements as the danger of eating the foliage, in an
article about spraying trees...what tree foliage do you eat then? And all
those studies were about people whose day to day life is spraying with
glyphospate, where the chances of exposure are obviously orders of magnitude
larger than the average person ...and even then one of the studies concluded
it was the wetting agent not the glyphosphate that was "dangerous"! ...I
hope you dont use Fairy Liquid!

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