“Humans and animals do not use EPSP synthase. People fear glyphosate because they don’t know what it is.”
A great deal of flora in animal guts does require EPSPS. And we are just learning that gut flora affects nearly every body function.
Your gut is meant to have thousands of microorganisms in balance with one another. Eating preservatives, herbicides, pesticides and other poisons kills many of them. Upsetting the balance that can take years to restore. Those pills containing 20 bacteria are not even close to cutting it.
We must STOP spraying and using poisons. Including “organic” ones. I’ve grown my own produce for many years without poisons and simply let nature control the pests by encouraging predators and growing naturally strong plants with organic compost. Worst case, I get a few holes in my food. That’s how veggies were at the market when I was a kid.
Before I started growing my own I was sick every month and tired all the time. I had stomach issues no specialists could explain. Even with a balanced diet and exercise. Since I started growing, I have not been sick in years and feel more energy every year
“A great deal of flora in animal guts does require EPSPS. And we are just learning that gut flora affects nearly every body function.”
Right on.
But not in humans. Your body produces all the enzymes it needs. Now, let's clarify EPSPS in animals. First, The toxicities of glyphosate have been thoroughly studied in mammals over the short and long term. Bioaccumulation and elimination have also been studied. Glyphosate has a very low level of toxicity in mammals and is not retained to a significant degree in animal tissue. Glyphosate is practically non-toxic by ingestion. The LD50 is greater than 500mg per kg in rats. That's really high. Glyphosate is probably the safest and most effective herbicide available.
Animals do not contain the molecular target (EPSPS) of glyphosate. Yes, the intestinal flora of some animals do contain EPSP but that has also been studied extensively. The results show that glyphosate ingestion has no significant effect on rumen fermentation.
All the hand wringing about this product is just that. Glyphosate is so far and away safer than what we've used in the past that you'd think the chemical illiterates would be thankful for its development. But no, as they have done for centuries, they continue to gnash and wail over things they don't understand.
“We must STOP spraying and using poisons”
Yeah we tried that with DDT, and since they stopped spraying there has been a sharp increase in mosquito and tick borne diseases such as Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Lyme Disease, and others.