Still, if it's a choice between salt and vinegar and roundup then it's pretty clear which is more likely to be harmful.
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Over a dozen international and national health agencies have reviewed the safety of glyphosate, some repeatedly, and have found it unlikely to cause cancer and safe when used according to its label.
Juries deciding against Monsanto/Bayer doesn't alter that fact.
The European Food Safety Authority looked at 21 human studies and found no evidence for an association between cancer and glyphosate use. The IARC looked at 19 human trials and found no statistically significant evidence for an association with cancer. It did find three small studies that suggested an association with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (not statistically significant).
How many of these studies have you read Matt, and which one should I look at to become better informed?
I hadn't heard of the salt and vinegar routine. What proportions are used (salt to vinegar) to make an effective weedkiller? I intend to try it on my block paved drive the joints of which are a magnet for weeds
white vinegar stay safe , don't piss on them though as it is a feed
I'm not sure that was the point being made.
Bayer have set aside so much money because a jury (not scientists) decided that there was a link between glysophate and cancer. That doesn't mean there is a scientific link.
Bayer, however, continue to sell Roundup, and they haven't amended the labelling. Shops continue to stock Roundup. And scientific studies continue to fail to conclude that glysophate is carcinogenic.
Of course, the jury service is a completely infallible system, and no jury ever has wrongfully convicted anyone.
You say recently, but the article has it's 2nd birthday tomorrow.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a8488226.html
This link isn't as old, and shows Roundup is still stocked at Homebase
https://www.homebase.co.uk/search/pr...directFrom=Any
Ingredients still include 170g/l of glysophate.