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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by adrienthebo on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:13PM (#19080161)
Ingesting this could probably do some nasty things to your gut biome - but remember that we're talking about an herbicide. If you ingested most herbicides you'd be dead shortly after, so this could be much safer.

Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.

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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by quxbar on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:15PM (#19080713)
I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.
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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by gotocake on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:47PM (#19082189)
I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.

Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.

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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by bluGill on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:12PM (#19081153)
Herbicides kill plants. Many of them are safe to drink, the only way to die is drink enough to drown.
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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by someguydave on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:04AM (#19083305)
Agreed. It’s pesticides you don’t want to touch.
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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by goodcanadian on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:47AM (#19083630)
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Herbicides are pesticides

Insecticides are pesticides

Pesticide is a blanket term

</pedantic>

And no, you don't want to touch insecticides; they are generally neurotoxins.

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Re:Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide by someguydave on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:05AM (#19122314)
Ah thanks for the pedantry - yes I meant insecticides in that case. I thought pesticide only meant insecticide.
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