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Thanks for your thoughtful response, Shelley. Yes the problem of "truth" is hard to define. Glyphosate evolved out of excess chemicals left over from the "agent orange" of Vietnam. It's like a race for existence, who will win, the unconscious money mongers or the conscious caring of our future.

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Just having the opportunity to settle for the greater benefit/risk ratio would satisfy me. I don’t taint anyone’s food or property with my use of glyphosate. But your point; if farmers use it, it’s not until their harvest is sold to someone else that the innocent could be subjected to what might be a cancer-causing agent in large enough quantities. Food makers are not about to tell farmers to quit using something that would affect the abundance or price of the product they require. Fluoride is waste product and I believe manufactured vitamin E is also a waste product from making paint and the hyped scare of mercury in fish has the vitamin market now synthesizing the lanolin in sheep’s wool to make their D3 products. And, oh sure, let’s get a 3rd party lab to find if the D3 level in that little pill is really 5,000 units of absorbable D3. It’s all a gamble D D.

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