Florida tests show pesticide (glyphosate) in popular breads
(www.thenewlede.org)
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Monsanto, and its German owner Bayer, maintain that glyphosate does not pose a health risk, and government officials say that residues of glyphosate and other pesticides found in food products are almost always so low that they are not considered harmful.
But international scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization have classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans, and recent studies out of Europe have found glyphosate herbicides pose not just cancer, but other health risks.
You can find the results on Healthy Florida First
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Florida Man for the win?
I doubt it’s just Florida buddy
Oh for sure. I was just pleasantly surprised that the news was from there. Thanks Florida Man!
EU joins the chat. I wonder how spread it is over here.
It’s in literally all processed foods.
It’s in the flour, its on the veggies too
Ya, it’s in basically everything. Anything with wheat, oats, beans, soy etc etc etc. If you don’t eat organic items, you are eating glyphosate.
ewg.org/…/glyphosate-contamination-food-goes-far-…
Yes, plus, organic farms near non-organics can have the chemicals, too.
To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.
And organics have residues of the “natural” pesticides they use, which are often just as bad if not worse.
What’s an example of worse?
Presumably copper
The linked Healthy Florida First page gives measurements found but nowhere suggests what a reasonable limit is. The dose is the poison, people.
Imagine if they just published arsenic levels found in various fish but gave no context.
I wrote the above, and then I checked their site. They only have 3 categories, and arsenic is in the candy one. They give the safe consumption limit there. I guess they're implying no level of glyphosate is safe?
That's a weird goal. Do you think they just didn't proof read it?
Arsenic occurs naturally in many plants. Glyphosate does not.
So no, no amount of it is safe to consume.
How does that follow?
“Thing found” is very different from “dangerous levels of thing found”.
Yeah - I know you think that “there is no safe level” but that’s not true.
Also - “probably carcinogenic” is a pretty low bar for the WHO. See also “cooked meat” for things that are “probably carcinogenic”.
This is a big contributor to why cancer rates are elevated in Iowa. Lots of farm land means lots of chemicals sprayed. Fortunately our fearless governor, Kim Reynolds, and her band of merry assholes are trying to protect Monsanto from legal liability by making it illegal to sue them. It passed in the Senate but failed to get back through the house… So far. Not for lack of trying from Beyer and the aformentioned conservative ill running the state.