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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 be dead shortly after, so this could be much safer.

Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.

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I 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.

I 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.

Herbicides kill plants. Many of them are safe to drink, the only way to die is drink enough to drown.

Agreed. It’s pesticides you don’t want to touch.

Herbicides are pesticides

Insecticides are pesticides

Pesticide is a blanket term

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And no, you don't want to touch insecticides; they are generally neurotoxins.

Ah thanks for the pedantry - yes I meant insecticides in that case. I thought pesticide only meant insecticide.

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