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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/world@lemmy.world

Monsanto, and its German owner Bayer, maintain that glyphosate does not pose a health risk, and government officials say that residues of glyphosate and other pesticides found in food products are almost always so low that they are not considered harmful.

But international scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization have classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans, and recent studies out of Europe have found glyphosate herbicides pose not just cancer, but other health risks.

You can find the results on Healthy Florida First

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The supposed HFF website does not state their exact findings, nor have a scientific paper regarding their findings, nor have any sort of transparency like who's even operating and funding the website.

There is a link to a form supposedly allowing anyone to report about "bad" food, but that's suspicious.

Domain name is about 34 days old. https://whois.domaintools.com/exposingfoodtoxins.com

Very sketchy.

[-] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As far as I am aware, this is a new initiative from Florida's government, see:

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2026/florida-releases-bread-testing-results-under-healthy-florida-first-initiative

https://www.floridahealth.gov/2026/01/09/icymi-florida-releases-infant-formula-test-results-under-healthy-florida-first/

https://www.floridahealth.gov/2026/01/26/icymi-florida-releases-candy-testing-results-under-healthy-florida-first-initiative/

Governor Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced new food safety findings under the Healthy Florida First initiative, with the release of bread product testing results conducted by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to increase transparency for Florida families and reinforce accountability for everyday food products.

Those are definitely valid criticism that should have been addressed on their website

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They spend lots of time and money on worrying about ingredients; they could as well sell bags of chia seeds or space protein goo in jars.

Unless they provide more information, it feels like there's a profit motive in what appears to be meaningful activism against supposedly "harmful" food. Knowing DeSantis being a clone copy of Mussolini, I'd consider following the money.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

It’s in literally all processed foods.

[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

It's in the flour, its on the veggies too

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ya, it’s in basically everything. Anything with wheat, oats, beans, soy etc etc etc. If you don’t eat organic items, you are eating glyphosate.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2019/02/glyphosate-contamination-food-goes-far-beyond-oat-products

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And organics have residues of the "natural" pesticides they use, which are often just as bad if not worse.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yes, plus, organic farms near non-organics can have the chemicals, too.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

The linked Healthy Florida First page gives measurements found but nowhere suggests what a reasonable limit is. The dose is the poison, people.

Imagine if they just published arsenic levels found in various fish but gave no context.

I wrote the above, and then I checked their site. They only have 3 categories, and arsenic is in the candy one. They give the safe consumption limit there. I guess they're implying no level of glyphosate is safe?

Prioritize Nutrition as the Root Cause of Chronic Diseases

That's a weird goal. Do you think they just didn't proof read it?

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There are genuine research bodies, and then there are "research" bodies -- covertly funded by corporations -- that borderline scaring people into buying a specific product because it's "safer" or "recommended" by an equally sketchy group of supposed "professionals".

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Arsenic occurs naturally in many plants. Glyphosate does not.

So no, no amount of it is safe to consume.

[-] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So this is based on numbers from the same site that was putting out the arsenic levels in candy that was like 100x higher than the WHO numbers? The ones that said you could only have like 240 tiny Nerds per year?

At this point I’m more skeptical of what agenda is trying to be pushed from these tbh, because I’m not seeing any methodology to support any of these findings.

[-] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

because I’m not seeing any methodology to support any of these findings.

I agree, as another commenter mentioned, the information could have been better presented by the government of Florida, and more details provided to those that might want to dig in on the results from Florida Department of Health

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

theres at least 48 weeds species that are resistance to glyphosphate, only matter of time that becomes more species, grasses, horseweed, russian thistle are notable ones.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

"Thing found" is very different from "dangerous levels of thing found".

Yeah - I know you think that "there is no safe level" but that's not true.

Also - "probably carcinogenic" is a pretty low bar for the WHO. See also "cooked meat" for things that are "probably carcinogenic".

[-] xep@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago
[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'll answer your question with a question as I suspect you're not being serious.

What's the "safe level" of exposure to radiation from the Sun? A well known carcinogen.

[-] xep@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm dead serious, since you state that it's not true that there's no safe level, what is it?

My answer to your question is I don't know, but it's irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

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