ב''ה,
No comment on my perspectives on the nature of reality when I'm prefixing everything with Hebrew in a manner somehow requisite for my heritage.
That said, we're all up against plenty, and there's plenty in this world that can do harm (and if any of you follow this down the general agricultural toxins rabbit hole, do your own research there's plenty unpleasant there).
Glyphosate has become a bogeyman because the popularization of "Roundup-Ready" soybean crops means the modern diet is seeing relatively a lot of glyphosate compared to uses prior to that mode of agriculture where the crop can keep being sprayed during the session became available, then commonplace.
There's some surface level compelling new research I'm looking at that seems to link glyphosate to both anxiety and Alzheimer's modalities.. probably in massive amounts but for the folks spraying the crops this often it's certainly a concern and, not really sure how concerned to be about the crops themselves, it was supposed to break down fast but, that was for once a season use, not this modern mess. Also if not already versed in this prepare to be confused that Roundup is a brand name for herbicides generally, as includes both the "simpler" glyphosate, and 2,4-D as is what it is itself but had that dioxin contamination issue as "Agent Orange."
Well, supposedly there may be more evidence recently that massive amounts of glyphosate aren't super great for healthy neurology, but where "massive" starts will require reading and trying to figure out what's in commercial crops and foods like TVP/TSP and tofu made from them.
Meanwhile if you give a shit, all this is quite a distraction from a different herbicide Paraquat being fairly strongly implicated as a Parkinson's toxin. Paraquat is used for ditch spraying all over USA, and as much as it isn't particularly food approved in any way that I'm aware of, seems far sketchier than the supposedly fragile glyphosate.
Maybe don't swim in the stuff, that is, particularly Paraquat, and if decades of use have been getting it into groundwater that one seems like really a bummer, while anyone working with it probably should at least be wearing gloves and such.
I'm not even going to include links because that just seems like news source doxxing these days, but if y'all find what has recently burbled to the top of my news, oh well, being industrially idiotic with any of these chemicals seems probably easy to be worse than any use of them that respects possible risks at all. The louder glyphosate is questioned the more the probability Paraquat did fuck some shit up for some people gets buried, too.
"Edit" since a further comment gets appended as an edit:
ב''ה,
Just going to add that seeing this stuff time and again raises some guilt for not being even louder when people I cared about were being idiots with them around the house - remember houses? - but, y'know, even fairly heavy household use is fairly tame compared to an entire town or highway department of spraying program let alone whatever is done to farm or ranch lands.
Wear gloves at least and maybe don't use it to beautify your wellhead/water well cap where rain might easily take it down the bore somehow.
No comment on my perspectives on the nature of reality when I'm prefixing everything with Hebrew in a manner somehow requisite for my heritage.
That said, we're all up against plenty, and there's plenty in this world that can do harm (and if any of you follow this down the general agricultural toxins rabbit hole, do your own research there's plenty unpleasant there).
Glyphosate has become a bogeyman because the popularization of "Roundup-Ready" soybean crops means the modern diet is seeing relatively a lot of glyphosate compared to uses prior to that mode of agriculture where the crop can keep being sprayed during the session became available, then commonplace.
There's some surface level compelling new research I'm looking at that seems to link glyphosate to both anxiety and Alzheimer's modalities.. probably in massive amounts but for the folks spraying the crops this often it's certainly a concern and, not really sure how concerned to be about the crops themselves, it was supposed to break down fast but, that was for once a season use, not this modern mess. Also if not already versed in this prepare to be confused that Roundup is a brand name for herbicides generally, as includes both the "simpler" glyphosate, and 2,4-D as is what it is itself but had that dioxin contamination issue as "Agent Orange."
Well, supposedly there may be more evidence recently that massive amounts of glyphosate aren't super great for healthy neurology, but where "massive" starts will require reading and trying to figure out what's in commercial crops and foods like TVP/TSP and tofu made from them.
Meanwhile if you give a shit, all this is quite a distraction from a different herbicide Paraquat being fairly strongly implicated as a Parkinson's toxin. Paraquat is used for ditch spraying all over USA, and as much as it isn't particularly food approved in any way that I'm aware of, seems far sketchier than the supposedly fragile glyphosate.
Maybe don't swim in the stuff, that is, particularly Paraquat, and if decades of use have been getting it into groundwater that one seems like really a bummer, while anyone working with it probably should at least be wearing gloves and such.
I'm not even going to include links because that just seems like news source doxxing these days, but if y'all find what has recently burbled to the top of my news, oh well, being industrially idiotic with any of these chemicals seems probably easy to be worse than any use of them that respects possible risks at all. The louder glyphosate is questioned the more the probability Paraquat did fuck some shit up for some people gets buried, too.
"Edit" since a further comment gets appended as an edit:
ב''ה,
Just going to add that seeing this stuff time and again raises some guilt for not being even louder when people I cared about were being idiots with them around the house - remember houses? - but, y'know, even fairly heavy household use is fairly tame compared to an entire town or highway department of spraying program let alone whatever is done to farm or ranch lands.
Wear gloves at least and maybe don't use it to beautify your wellhead/water well cap where rain might easily take it down the bore somehow.
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