The case in front of the [US Supreme] court centers on whether Bayer, the German company that now owns Monsanto, can be shielded from lawsuits that have been filed in state courts over claims that the company failed to warn consumers about the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate.
The Trump administration’s decision to back the pesticide maker in the case, coming on the heels of an executive order supporting the expansion of domestic production of glyphosate, has angered the MAHA movement…
Just last month, leading scientists in the field of environmental health issued a consensus statement, saying that glyphosate can cause cancer and called for urgent action. Bayer disputes this.
Agreed in all your points. Minor correction, Roundup/glyphosate kills plants so its a herbicide. It’s the internet, that’s how the internet works.
To your point, I use it very sparingly after having learned about the cancer and lingering effect. However big farmers (owners of big farms, not specifically obese individuals) use it as a broadcast herbicide. You plant corn that is resistant to glyphosate, then you douse the entire field in glyphosate. In the process you cover yourself in glyphosate accidentally and it dries on your skin. Your skin soaks it and you get cancer.
I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding but your correction is incorrect. While you are on the right track saying a substance used to kill plants is called an herbicide, an herbicide is a type of pesticide. If you are using an herbicide to kill an unwanted plant, you are practicing pest control with a pesticide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide
Dam! You’re right!
We’ll I’ve been wrong most of my life, what’s one more little thing. Now I know better.