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Round up

goldensrbest — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:02:35 GMT

Just heard they found it in several cereals.

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cherry — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:05:49 GMT

They have ,and also in doritos and ritz crackers

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SilleeMee — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:29:55 GMT

I don't think there's a place on earth where they won't find it. I thought about that the other day after seeing the topic here about the cancer thing. I think if the investigators look for it then it will be found...everywhere.

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esmerelda — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:36:06 GMT

Processed foods… Which are being linked to cancer more and more every day.

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Allegheny — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:47:14 GMT

It pains me realizing all the things mankind has done and is still doing whether it was for progress or for profit. Look up plastics and micro plastics in the environment and human body. Then there are pesticides.

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novamc1 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:50:11 GMT

Processed foods aren't the only things that could have been exposed to Roundup.

Roundup is not used in processing food........it's used in growing it. Exposure starts long before any crop or livestock reaches a processing plant.

I personally used spray bottles of Roundup for years. It's the .best thing ever for spot-treating and killing weeds that would crop up in our landscaping beds.

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sidsmom — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:30:57 GMT

The majority of crops are used for animal/animal byproducts

consumption. Glyphosate is in the feed, which is consumed

by the animal. In turn, humans consume the muscle and/or byproduct

of said animal.

How is this different than the cereal/oats?

If there’s anything questionable in the feed, the animal consumes

large quantities of this item...so humans are consuming concentrated

amounts of anything questionable.

Moral of the story, there’s more to...

worry about eating animal/byproducts (concentrated amts)

than a bowl of Cheerios/oatmeal (negligible amts).

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Cakers3 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:15:14 GMT

@goldensrbest wrote:
Just heard they found it in several cereals.

@goldensrbest And there are "acceptable" levels of glysophate in these products.

The FDA has a list of the worst to those with just a trace.

All those "healthy" granola bars-people need to look this up.

Whether you are eating grains or meat-the issue is this horrible contamination in our lives is truly beyond acceptable.

This company has ruined organic farms, and bullied farmers into using their products.

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Krimpette — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:15:41 GMT

I've been having Cheerios for breakfast for as long as I can remember. I have no plans to stop.

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CherryHugs — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:39:03 GMT

This is awful. I like oats and cheerios and have read these have the round up. What is even safe anymore?!

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cherry — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:40:26 GMT

I wonder if it has leeched into the water table?

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Cakers3 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:44:40 GMT

@cherry wrote:
I wonder if it has leeched into the water table?

@cherryYes. Along with other herbicides and pesticides.

I'd post a link but the info is out that as recent as this summer from the USGS.

I am so freaking angry at what is happening to our planet.

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Shanus — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:45:20 GMT

If you live long enough and read various articles, eventually many things become unsafe. I can’t possibly cut them all out. Some may have already done their harm.

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cherry — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:47:17 GMT

I am sad that people seem not to think it is important to clean it up @Cakers3..That would benefit all of us, and create jobs, and new technology ,in the process, and perhaps stop global warming( but the jury is still out on that one for some)

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Snoopp — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:48:39 GMT

It's not only cancer we have to be concerned with. There are horrible neurological diseases that may be linked to pesticides. Do we really need this to grow our food? EU is banning it.

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Cakers3 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:50:06 GMT

@cherry wrote:
I am sad that people seem not to think it is important to clean it up @Cakers3..That would benefit all of us, and create jobs, and new technology ,in the process, and perhaps stop global warming( but the jury is still out on that one for some)

@cherry Deniers. Because they might have to put some effort into changing their life styles.

It's like the big row-di-dow over plastice straws. Yet the plastic lids still exist.

Mother Earth weeps.

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Mominohio — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:53:02 GMT

@novamc1 wrote:
Processed foods aren't the only things that could have been exposed to Roundup.

Roundup is not used in processing food........it's used in growing it. Exposure starts long before any crop or livestock reaches a processing plant.

I personally used spray bottles of Roundup for years. It's the .best thing ever for spot-treating and killing weeds that would crop up in our landscaping beds.

Yes. This has nothing to do with processed foods.

It is used in the very beginning of the food process, the growing of it. So even whole 'healthy' foods will/can show it, and probably in even higher amounts.

And I'm one of 'those people' who don't buy into the organic thing. In theory yes, but I don't believe it is followed throughout in practices, and I believe in the future, the whole lid will be blown off all that as well.

A lot of the use of chemicals in food growing came from the need to increase production, for profit yes ,but just as much to feed the masses. There is a huge world of starving people and the advances in agriculture, some of it because of pesticides use, has been life saving as well as health detrimental.

People have to understand that while the use of some of (most of?) the chemicals we have been using on crops might be/are harmful and need to be stopped/changed, there will be consequences for doing so in perhaps reduced yield, increased prices, and less availability of food to feed the world.

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SilleeMee — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:56:18 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
It's not only cancer we have to be concerned with. There are horrible neurological diseases that may be linked to pesticides. Do we really need this to grow our food? EU is banning it.

Roundup is a herbicide, not a pesticide. But still a chemical that may have ill effects.

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Mominohio — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:59:38 GMT

@Shanus wrote:
If you live long enough and read various articles, eventually many things become unsafe. I can’t possibly cut them all out. Some may have already done their harm.

And let's not forget that science changes. What is harmful and at what levels changes as science and time (and the politics of it all) change as well.

The best any of us can do is try to make some kind of informed decision using information that is available (correct and un biased as can be) at the time, realizing that the information will change over time, or even be argued with competing research and 'facts' and be confused and convoluted by those with political and financial agendas on all sides.

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Cakers3 — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:03:11 GMT

Bon appetit!