I'm not even going to pretend to be smart enough to understand half of this but no way I believe it's true. Like many others, friends and family, I was working in the fields for years with direct exposure to roundup every year. That plus eating the food had to raise my exposure way past a normal persons. If any of this is true why aren't we seeing a landslide in autistic farm kids?
I totally agree. I am a retired farmer and have lived through everything from the days of zero herbicide usage to today's practices. I have seen all of the "flavor of the day" predictions and "proven" causes of _______( fill in the blank). Most are hyped to the max and then fade away. Today organic is the best and RoundUp is the devil causing autism.
I handled every "poison" on the farm for decades. Years of it with zero safety equipment, no hand washing before eating my brown bag lunch in the field, etc. I have literally 'taken a bath' in herbicides due to ruptured hoses while pumping, etc. I used RoundUp from the day it was introduced. We have eaten food "contaminated" by these things, including today's evil GMOs. All my friends and neighbors have similar stories. To the best of my knowledge we have no higher rate of cancer, autism in our children, etc. than the general public. What I have seen and personally experienced is skin cancer from years of sun exposure, lung problems from breathing dusts & molds, etc...all naturally occurring.
I do not profess to be all knowing. I am not saying that all things proclaimed are wrong. What I do know is that we are the best fed while spending the least % of income, healthiest people to ever walk the face of this planet. If we did away with evil "factory farms", GMOs, all herbicides, hybrid seeds, went back to raising all livestock as free range raised with zero modern practices, etc as we are told today would be the best, there is absolutely no way enough food could be produced to feed the population of our country or planet.
I am am not saying we do not need to study, monitor, research, investigate, etc. I am saying that I take what is reported in the media, the results of the latest study, and hyped by many people with a grain of salt.
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