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Many breakfast cereals still contaminated by weed killer, environmental group (cnn.com)
12 points by pseudolus on June 12, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I hate it when I find traces of environmental group in my cereal.


One constantly hears the refrain, “...but people need to eat! 10 billion by 2050!”. And it makes one wonder if people need to: 1. Eat breakfast cereal...arguably a modern invention that was preceded by the survival of the human species from caveman to urbanite. 2. Poisoned cereal, or ‘tainted’ by glyphosate, as it were...by a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant and in this case, arguably an invention post-WW II. Bought to market in 1974. Incidentally, the population from 1974-2017 has doubled which ..regrettably and arguably...hasn’t really helped the environment. Regrets and arguments all around!




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