New piece from me looking at the recent scary headlines about cereal and why they're mostly wrong: RoundUp Isn’t Poisoning Your Cheerioshttps://link.medium.com/xwOtGJHCBX
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Replying to @GidMK
What you've basically said is it's not absolutely proven Roundup in cereals causes cancer. Ever heard of the
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Replying to @Bla1s0
No what I'm saying is that, using the precautionary principal and extremely conservative margins of error, the risk of glyphosate in cereals is negligible/nonexistent
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Replying to @GidMK
You've said there is no evidence - in your opinion - that it causes cancer. The precautionary principle says evidence is needed that something doesn't cause harm. You've not provided that.
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Replying to @Bla1s0
There's string evidence that glyphosate doesn't cause harm in the doses found in cereal. You should really read the blog
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Replying to @GidMK
You've just done some calculations based on one study that says it does. You've not mentioned any studies that say it doesn't.
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I linked to four assessments by various international bodies - EU, California, EPA, AVMPA - which each included a systematic review and looked at dozens of studies. If you aren't going to read the blog, why bother arguing about it?
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