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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by tomp on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:46AM (#17773784)
For a long time, the story of pro-GMO advocates was "RoundUp is safer than other weed-killers because it's applied when the plant is still young and not growing edible parts yet, so there won't be any of it in your food".

Looks like they were wrong.

(Note that I'm not saying that RoundUp is worse than other stuff, or that there's more of it in our food that of other stuff.)

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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by randomdata on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:56AM (#17773834)
They may not be wrong. The article says that glyphosate was found present in all but two of the 45 oat-derived products. There are no GMO oats available on the market.

Glyphosate is sometimes used on wheat and oats when the plant is at the end of its lifecycle when it is fine, if not desirable, if it kills the crop. We can reasonably conclude that the traces showed up because of the crop being non-GMO, delaying application until the plants are old.

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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by zeroego on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:41PM (#17777422)
>There are no GMO oats available on the market

That's not true at all. Many companies offer Non-GMO oats. There's is a big difference between crops being sprayed with glyphosate and crops coming from non-GMO seeds.

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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by tptacek on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:30PM (#17778189)
Wait, didn't you two just say the same thing? He said there are no GMO oats available. You said companies offer non-GMO oats, which are not GMO oats.
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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by zeroego on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:32PM (#17778581)
Ah you're correct, I'm sorry I misread.
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Re:Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfa... by randomdata on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:16AM (#17780241)
> There's is a big difference between crops being sprayed with glyphosate and crops coming from non-GMO seeds.

Being a grain farmer, I know. :)

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