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Re:Europe still burns witches – if they’re named Monsanto by orwin on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:39AM (#15814990)
True. Glyphosate opponent target the fact that everybody ingest glyphosate (and that's supposed to be bad). But the dose we ingest (at least in western europe) is too small to be really dangerous, and i think this arguent is a bad one. However, i am concerned about farmer and gardener using the product, as well as kids living near them.

Most natural pesticide and herbicide show bad affect on young people brain developpement. I would be really surprised if a chemical, more potent one was harmless.

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Re:Europe still burns witches – if they’re named Monsanto by zaarn on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:21AM (#15815155)
It really depends, mostly on whether or not Glyphosate can cross the Blood-Brain barrier and how easily it does.

If it barely or not at all goes through then there should be less of an impact.

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