| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Chiswick-on-Sea! | |
| Posted by: | Kathleen Healy | |
| Date/Time: | 28/09/23 19:25:00 |
| Lots of things are poisonous in sufficient amounts or particular circumtances. Tests on animals can involve feeding them copious amounts of a substance to see how much it takes to make them very ill or kill them. These tests are controversial. There are many things that in typical or even more than typical exposure do not cause harm, but if ingested in very large amounts are very harmful. The list of things you use that could, harm you, if ingested in large amounts, or just ingested if that isn't how it is intended you'd use them, is a very long list. It includes Dish Washer tablets, green potatoes, cinnamon and just about everything under your sink pr in your garage. It is not intended that people ingest Glyphosate, although the evidence is that we do, as it is extensively used in agriculture and in our urine. It doesn't however seem to be causing us harm. Many plants are toxic; Yew, Laburnum, Ragwort. From a risk assessment point of view, good to teach children not to put random stuff into their mouth. This would include plants as well as chemicals. Many things that we all have in our homes and use regularly would fall into the category of very toxic if eaten. In a world ful of hazzards how do we function and make decisions about what to do and what to ban. There is a process called risk assessment. Authoritative bodies, the HSE and EU have risk asessed Glyphosate, looked at many studies and concluded it is safe for humans and the environment. The use of pesticides, chainsaws, flails, ferilizers, intensive animal farming and bulldozers, in industrial agriculture should be reduced. It is industrial agricutural practise that is inflicting great damage on the natural environment. Local Authorities banning a legal herbicide isn't going to help. |