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glyphosate has been scientifically tested and found harmless. There are a number of organic chemicals that have been tested to equal (or lesser) standards and found harmful.


The WHO says glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic," which is not harmless at all.

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/faq/en/


The weight of scientific evidence is on the other side. The WHO had to ignore a lot of evidence and cherry pick which studies to use to get that result. In short I would call it scientific fraud that they make this claim.


Also from that page

>JMPR’s risk assessment found out that based on the weight-of-evidence approach these compounds are unlikely to cause cancer in people via dietary exposure.


I await the day where the human genome is fully sequenced (even the so called "junk parts") and we find out many of the encoded proteins are teratogenic. News Alert: "human body produces carcinogens!"




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