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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 ... : : "Tim Tyler" wrote in message : : In uk.rec.gardening Tumbleweed : : It makes reasonable sense: : : : : Our digestive tract has evolved to cope with natural toxins. : : : In which case we probably don't regard the food source as toxic at all. : : Or not - in which case the toxins remain toxic to humans, and we : : presumably have learned to avoid ingestion, or to process the food : : so as to reduce the toxicity to levels we consider : : acceptable. Similar to how we might deal with : : foods we know to have been treated with 'artificial' toxins, really. : : Our taste buds do their best to warn us about many plant toxins. : I've never tried raw soya but I reckon it's not good to eat. A lot of what : we eat today needs some processing, to grow it in large quanties requires : modern technologies. What alternative do you propose - starving people? What alternative? - to promoting pesticides as safe? Warning people that many pesticides are not safe - and encouraging them to eat certified-organic produce - or at the very least wash their fruit. : The plants are happy to cooperate in making themselves taste pungent. : : By contrast, the artificial toxins have been designed to be tasteless and : invisible to consumers. : And safe! Indeed - but that often appears to be a secondary requirement. Corporations want their products to sell. Only if there is significant damage which tracable back to them, and they can't claim innocence through ignorance - do they apparently get concerned. Safety typically comes through regulation and testing - not from the manufacturers - but DDT should have taught us that it is not an infallible system. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ |
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