These chemicals are benign and the media and activists have been scaring people for decades without justification.
I'm shocked Bayer lost and that the plaintiff was awarded anything. Glyphosate has not been shown to cause cancer. If it had, such literature would be paraded out as an evergreen example.
If you want to be afraid of chemical use, it's the overuse of antibiotics that should worry you.
If violence doesn't work, you are not using enough violence.
It also doesn’t always break down. Depends on if it binds with anything.
"Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with crops. Its herbicidal effectiveness was discovered by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. Monsanto brought it to market for agricultural use in 1974 under the trade name Roundup."
Sure they are.
“Pesticides” is a class that includes things intended affect animals (insecticides and rodenticides, for instance.)
> At this point, shouldn't we just reduce the possible points of failures instead of hoping the next miracle molecule doesn't kill us all twenty years later?
Probably not. We should probably improve our structures for evaluating, approving, and reevaluating once deployed agricultural chemicals of all types, but should we stop developing new technology in the field? No, we probably should not.