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Ingesting this could probably do some nasty things to your gut biome - but remember that we're talking about an herbicide. If you ingested most herbicides you'd
by adrienthebo 8y ago
Ingesting this could probably do some nasty things to your gut biome - but remember that we're talking about an herbicide. If you ingested most herbicides you'd be dead shortly after, so this could be much safer.
Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.
- quxbar 8y agoI think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.
- gotocake 8y agoI think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos. Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.
- bluGill 8y agoHerbicides kill plants. Many of them are safe to drink, the only way to die is drink enough to drown.
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- someguydave 8y agoAgreed. It’s pesticides you don’t want to touch.
- goodcanadian 8y ago<pedantic> Herbicides are pesticides Insecticides are pesticides Pesticide is a blanket term </pedantic> And no, you don't want to touch insecticides; they are generally neurotoxins.
- someguydave 8y agoAh thanks for the pedantry - yes I meant insecticides in that case. I thought pesticide only meant insecticide.