(07-30-2017, 06:48 PM)Jags Wrote:

(07-30-2017, 01:47 AM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: On the danger-meter of what gets sprayed in fields it's pretty far down the list. I believe it's a Cat 3 chemical.

Also, I would consider it inaccurate to say it's sprayed ON crops. If it is coming into contact with something you're actually trying to grow, it's incedental. All though, depending on how your sprayer is calibrated it can be very easy to have happen.

So in other words, it's not that dangerous and whatever trace amounts in food only give you the same amount of cancer as everything else in our foods?  If so, I'm not worried.  

I kinda feel bad putting it that way with some of the threads on the sideline, but that kinda seems like this ages norm.

Pretty much. If I lined up the 50 most popular ag chemicals I could think of and you asked me to rank them from most dangerous to least dangerous, I might put Glyphosate at 50. 

And it doesn't even go on the actual crop or fume. Much worse stuff gets sprayed directly onto food, IMO. Actual stomach poison (for critters), for instance. 

I think Glyphosate/Roundup have become a touchstone for people because it's Monsanto's most widely used and well known product. 

Also, think about this. There are many chemicals that ag professionals have to get on-going training and certification to buy or handle. https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-saf...applicator If Joe Homegarden can walk into Home Depot and buy a gallon to use willy-hilly, it's probably not that bad.

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