I agree there is a money motive for finding Monsanto liable, yes.Hello I'm not trying to stop you from eating poison at your own desire.I'm just striving to eat poison free and give my opinion to curious people that it is not safe.
Oh, and billions of dollars of settlement payments and paid for studies might have something to do with it being only a single government body. Just saying.
As to the rest?
Concern (a polite word for fear) is reasonable. But if the fear is not in proportion to the risk, it is IRRATIONAL.
The Dosage is the Poison. as has been known for several hundred years, at least, in the Western World, and much longer in the Easter world.
Every MSDS I linked in response to your earlier comment is deadly, dangerous, or downright lethal in sufficient dosage.
The Oral LD50 - that is, the dose expected to be lethal 50% of the time - is as follows:
90,000 mg/kg for Water in rats (6 liters in several hours reportedly lethal for humans)
3,000 mg/kg for Salt in rats (s we can say salt is 30x more toxic than water)
2,000 mg/kg for Vitamin A in rats (so Vitamin A is about 50% more lethal than Salt)
and Glyphosate? its 5,000 mg/kg in rats. (2.5x SAFER then Vitamin A. 1.66666666x safer than table salt).
Now someone can reasonably argue that you need water, salt, vitamin A to survive. You don't need Glyphosate. I'm certainly not rushing out to the farm store to grab a bottle to have with dinner. But if I did, its likely to be less lethal than an equal amount of Vodka (80 proof is around 2,000 mg/kg, similar to Vitamin A).
So while I might have some very mild concern about Glyphosate in my food, I'm much less concerned by it than the amount of Salt and certain Vitamins added to our foods.
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