On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 7:09:50 PM UTC-5, dpb wrote:
On 2/29/2020 5:02 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/29/2020 12:04 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , says...
That's right.Â* I've got old stuff in the ground for over 40 years but
that contained now banned arsenic.Â* I think now they have above ground
and below ground grades probably bases on copper additives.


It seems that most of the 'good stuff' has been banned.

I guess that Roundup (or its components) will be next on the list.Â* That
or the lawyers will price it out of business.


Â* Did you know they spray wheat with Roundup just before it's harvested
...

Nonsense.

NEVER seen it done here in the major wheat belt and it's certainly not
the norm anywhere. It _might_ be used for special needs in areas with
really short growing season or, more likely, in case of delayed harvest
such that weed growth might be interfering with cutting.

The likelihood any flour commercially grown has seen glyphosate is
essentially zero from US-produced wheat and I'd guess not much more than
that anywhere.

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It may not be from spraying before harvest, but somehow traces of
glyphosate are showing up in a lot of foods. And Monsanto has a huge
business selling genetically modified seeds so that the crops can be
sprayed with RU to kill weeds, but not the crop. So while they may
not be spraying it before harvest, they are spraying it on a lot
of crops during the season. Looks to me like
it's similar to any other chemical, pesticide used on crops. Some
traces will wind up in the food. The only question is how much and
what's a safe level. RU doesn't appear to be particularly dangerous,
the traces left probably aren't a problem. That's the opinion of the
FDA, etc anyway.