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[cherry]

I wonder if it has leeched into the water table?

[Cakers3]

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@cherry wrote:

I wonder if it has leeched into the water table?

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@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.

[Shanus]

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.

[cherry]

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)

[Snoopp]

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.

[Cakers3]

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@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)

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@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.

[Mominohio]

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@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.

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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.

[SilleeMee]

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@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.

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

[Mominohio]

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@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.

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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.

[Cakers3]

Bon appetit!