Just finished reading this thread. Seems to me that even those defending Glyphosate as completely safe would be ok with "as long as you don't drink it" added to the safety statement. My concern is for the pollinators and other insects which do actually swim in it and drink it. Around my place we have some beautiful blooming bushes which used to be so alive with bees that you could hear them from a distance. This year, so far, I have seen less than 20 bees, no joke. And there are far less birds, but whether it is connected is conjecture. I know that there have been bee mites and such things attacking the bees, but the other pollinators are missing too, various winged buzzing insects which aren't bees but love blooms. There is apparently a connection between glyphosate and the breakdown of the gut wall of insects (use any search engine, type "insect gut glyphosate"). I understand that our modern food supply is largely dependent on no-till ag and glyphosate, but I just wonder if we haven't already caused more harm than we realize. Bugs are at the bottom, we are at the top, if they go, so do we, eventually.
