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The dangers of weed killers - Glyphostae aka Roundup, the hidden killer.
In uk.rec.gardening Michael Saunby wrote:
: "Tim Tyler" wrote in message ... : Specific enzymes exist to detoxify plant toxins that were naturally in : our diet - and they have worked well enough to get us this far. : No they haven't. [...] ? Clearly we got here. Pesticides and herbicides can hardly take responsibility for that - since they are a recent phenomenon. : The same is not true of man-made insecticides, pesticides and fungicides. : Of course not - they've not evolved to harm anything that eats them, indeed : they've been designed not to. More to the point, they've been designed to make the chemical corps money. To that end, they are invisible to consumers - and likely do the minimum necessary to pass regulator's safety standards. : All in all it's better to eat meat - animals generally defend themselves by : running away rather than producing toxins, so all you need is a means of : catching them. Not logical. You can't conclude it's better to eat meat because it can run away. Meat is higher up the food chain for one thing - and thus will concentrate environmental toxins. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ |
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