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Monsanto always reminds me of their lobbyist that says it's even drinkable..

Guess if he drank it and then watch it: https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM

Oh come on - this is a disingenuous stunt masquerading as debate. Salt is safe to drink, but I'm not going to down a mystery glass filled with putative 5 molar solution of it on stage like a trained circus animal.

Normally I would agree, but the lobbyist said that someone could "drink a whole quart of it" without any ill effect.

I get the sentiment, and it makes for good TV, but you could also drink a whole quart of urine without any ill effect and you can be sure I would decline that opportunity.

Yeah, but if you JUST SAID you would be perfectly willing to do so to make a point, it (rightly) damages your credibility.

You're not a urine lobbyist, though, are you?

I could drink a glass of urine without any ill effect.

That doesn't mean I am waiting beside the urinal with my coffee cup ready.

Lol, I posted the same thing at nearly the exact same time.. amusing how the mind converges on certain things when you think of "Gross things to drink".

You're not trying to force your urine into substantial parts of the food chain.

And you're not lobbying (paying off governments at state and federal levels) to prevent that from showing up on food labels.

All of which Monsanto is trying to do with their products.

I would pass, the surfactants are likely to be at least as hard on your guts as the glyphosate (I wouldn't want to drink a bottle of dish soap, for example).

Wikipedia seems to say there is low risk of cancer, which is what he was being questioned about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Glyphosate_alone

If that's the point he was trying to make, I think he worded it poorly. If people were scared of trace quantities of Monster energy drinks leaking into their food, a representative could simultaneously claim that the product is safe for human consumption and decline to chug a quart all at once on live TV. Even if he were scared of having a heart attack, it doesn't matter since the topic is trace quantities being ingested over long periods of time which add up to a quart.

Drinkable != pleasant to drink.

That reminds me of this video from 1947 of someone eating DDT:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcXXbuR244

I forgot this interview. When are we going to remove these parts of the system ?

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