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  7.  @AlanKelly-nm9lx  so, all organophosphates are bad? Think on that very, very carefully. Because cell membranes are organophosphates, specifically phospholipid membranes. DNA is also an organophosphate. So, in that simple statement, you're saying that every cell in the world is poisonous. Guess we're safer then eating rocks? Now, a couple of things to remember. First, from Paracelsus, "The dose makes the poison". Oxygen is poisonous in high concentrations and indeed, increase the pressure and concentration and you'll swiftly do that dead thing. It's one of the biggies in limitations on how deep divers can go. Too much water is lethal as well, upsetting the electrolyte balance that's necessary or cellular respiration. Some spices are literal nerve agents, similar in action to nerve gas. Tasty though in their diluted form we enjoy as a spice! And some things, such as well, insecticides that are commonly utilized are very literally derived from nerve agents, they're acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which leave acetylcholine bound to the receptor in nerve cells, leaving the cell turned on. Humans would suffocate with a lethal dosage, insects tend to starve to death, paralyzed. Yet, the Orkin guy came in, sprayed my apartment and somehow, I didn't end up on the floor doing the Funky Chicken. Oh yeah, the dose makes the poison. Big assed me can dilute any traces that I'm exposed to of that far less than 1% solution, bugs can't manage that dilution factor and they do that dead thing. And Mom taught me, wash your produce to get the insecticide off of the produce, even though it's usually washed coming in from the fields. Now, for glyphosate, another phosphorus containing herbicide, it blocks the shikimate pathway in plants, bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae and some protozoans, but not mammals or well, vertebrates or even insects. So, are you a microorganism or a plant? No? Then it's not toxic to you unless you get a dose high enough to drown in the shit. I've used it for weed control on concrete, in my garden, I use barrier crops that are toxic to pest insects and some that actually tend to repel pest insects, but that's a home garden plot, not a big assed farm that feeds tens of thousands of people. Heard the same bullshit arguments about fertilizers years ago, they old water as well as a colander. Now, want to argue about Monsanto's saving seeds for planting next year prohibition for farmers, yeah, that's just beyond wrong. But, spreading fear and misinformation, that's just as wrong. It's as bad as the bullshit that soybeans turn men into women, which ignores the fact that humans have been eating soybeans for quite a few thousands of years and obviously everyone didn't turn into a woman. That took an Executive Order's tortured illogic and poor language to accomplish, the ink on that drivel might just be dry by now... ;)
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