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Pesticides are the ultimate culprits that harm human and all biological life. Unfortunately things like plastic ban occupy mindshare. Unlike plastics pesticides like Glyphosate get 'locked' into the body --- meaning your body cannot wash them out through its usual means --- resulting in cancer and what not.

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Is it really a zero sum game when two different issues are pitted against each other like this? Hopefully people will develop better intuition about other similar issues.

> Unlike plastics pesticides like Glyphosate get 'locked' into the body --- meaning your body cannot wash them out through its usual means --- resulting in cancer and what not.

This is utter nonsense. Glyphosate doesn't get "locked" into the body.

All those people who worry about plastic straws while wearing cotton t-shirts.

https://organiccotton.org/oc/Cotton-general/Impact-of-cotton...

https://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/cotton_environmental...

Microplastics do not wash out of your body...

edit: also glyphosate is not a pesticide

Glyphosate is absolutely a pesticide. It's an herbicide, which is a type of pesticide.

And AFAICT, glyphosate doesn't pose a significant risk to humans in the amounts people would normally be exposed to. It's really quite harmless. However, it can become more harmful when mixed with other chemicals, but honestly, the other chemicals are probably more harmful than it.

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