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> Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.

It's used because it's effective broad-spectrum herbicide. My understanding it's quite a bit less toxic than its predecessors, and I understand there's no equivalent replacement on the horizon.

IIRC, the problem was they marketed it as practically nontoxic to humans, which is definitely not the case.

parent tivert 3 years ago

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