93% of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies - UC Cal

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58. As a scientist, I find this "alarming" post to border on absurd.

A modern LC/MS/MS can find nanogram quantities of pretty much everything common in the environment.

There is a difference between a detection limit and a toxicological limit. One can usually detect things like arsenic in most human tissues, but obviously everyone doesn't die of arsenic poisoning.

In fact, if one opens scientific papers frequently, and obviously the hysterics here don't engage in this practice very often, one can find all kinds of things in breast milk that are of far more concern.

For example: Perfluorinated carboxylic acids in human breast milk from Spain and estimation of infant's daily intake (Science of The Total Environment Volume 544, 15 February 2016, Pages 595–600.)

PFOS, perfluorooctanoic sulfonate is a decomposition product from things like Teflon, the now banned furniture product Scotchguard, and a number of similar products.

It is a far greater risk than glyphosate will ever be; and is of wide concern among environmental scientists because of its well known persistence, something glyphosate doesn't share.

Glyphosate is a very powerful tool in fighting climate change, which in general, people who despise science don't know very much about and about which they couldn't care less, at least if such concern extends beyond issuing mindless platitudes. Without glyphosphate one of the most important avenues for soil preservation and the elimination of fuel requirements for agriculture, no till farming, becomes impossible.

The longer I live, the more I learn how fear and ignorance are allowed to prevail at great harm to the environment and to humanity. This is just one more such case.

It's awful. Terrible really. A real tragedy.

Have a wonderful week.