Herbicide? Really?
warning consumers about the “hefty dose” of glyphosate in popular breakfast foods like cereal, oatmeal, and granola bars. The findings seem, at face value, very worrisome: of the 61 products tested, 31 had levels of glyphosate above the EWG’s acceptable threshold.
There’s no reason to believe that ingesting glyphosate at well under established EPA levels is unsafe., the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, according to the EPA, has low toxicity for humans. Poisons are both species- and dose-specific. A well known example of species specificity is theobromine in chocolate, which is toxic to dogs but not at all for humans . Antibiotics in the appropriate dosage kill bacteria, but not you. Just because herbicides kill plants very well, we can’t assume that means they kill humans just as well, or at all.
But we’re talking about long term, chronic toxicity, not an acute poisoning. I get that the question isn’t if eating one bowl of cereal will kill you. Though most people don’t contest the relativelyof an acute exposure to Roundup, the concern about Roundup’s effects is more regarding long-term carcinogenicity—that is, if eating a bowl of your favorite Roundup-tinged cereal every day will eventually give you cancer.
Glyphosate fear was recently in the news again when a jury ordered Monsanto pay $289 million to a groundskeeper who had developed cancer.
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