California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
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Re: California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
#2Seems to me that the evidence surrounding this isn't strong enough to warrant designating glyphosate as "cancer-causing" for humans, but the evidence surrounding the adverse effects in animals is pretty strong (based on my skimming of the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Humans).
Would like to hear thoughts from anyone close to the matter, I'm sure you have a different perspective than I.
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#3Would this affect produce in a grocery store? I thought the pesticide was supposed to be mostly gone by the time the product is harvested. I mean there are stories of farmers blasting it on crops later in the cycle but those seem to be an exception.
Re: California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
#4Would this affect produce in a grocery store? I thought the pesticide was supposed to be mostly gone by the time the product is harvested. I mean there are stories of farmers blasting it on crops later in the cycle but those seem to be an exception.
If anything I feel as if there might be some general warning placed in the front of a store in order to comply with the need to inform shoppers
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#5RoundUp - Kills Humans not the lawn
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#6Here's the current California Prop 65 list. It's... extensive.
https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65sing...
I don't think this means as much as the headline makes it sound like. In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings.
California cognitive dissonance: the science suggesting carcinogenicity of acrylamide, which is present --- in significant amounts --- in most cooked food and especially roasted meat and potatoes, is far firmer than the science suggesting that glyphosate is a human carcinogen. It'll be awhile before California Prop 65's a bag of potatoes, though, won't it? but see below, where it turns out I'm wrong about this
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#7Yeah I have the most benign products, that carry the Commiefornia warning. I am sure water and oxygen are on their list to label. It's really out of hand.
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#8Even when I've been outside of California I've noticed the "known to the State of California to cause..." warnings. I wonder why
Re: California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
#9Here's the current California Prop 65 list. It's... extensive. https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65sing... I don't think this means as much as the headline makes it sound like. In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings. California cognitive dissonance: the science suggesting carcinogenicity of acrylamide, which is present --- in significant amounts ---…
I just bought a bag of chips (from Costco in Maryland) that has a known-in-the-state-of-California warning about acrylamide.
Re: California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
#10Here's the current California Prop 65 list. It's... extensive. https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65sing... I don't think this means as much as the headline makes it sound like. In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings. California cognitive dissonance: the science suggesting carcinogenicity of acrylamide, which is present --- in significant amounts ---…
Yep. Just a clarification: supermarkets, restaurants, bars, and coffee houses already have a single sign warning about cancer-causing agents per Prop 65. The "bag of potatoes" in your example would not have to be individually labeled. The Prop 65 warnings are basically invisible to Californians because they are literally posted everywhere food is sold.