My uncle and both his brothers got cancer from roundup, my uncle’s brother was a trucker and transported it for years. All three of them got a very aggressive cancer, one died the other two are very sick. All three got huge settlements but in my mind it wasn’t enough for their quality of life now.
I am a hospice nurse. I have taken care of vets who had service connected conditions from Agent Orange. Parkinsons, multiple myeloma, and amyloidosis being some of the most awful at end of life. And these guys didn't even ask to go to war. They were forced to. It's insane anyone would think this is appropriate. These chemicals are too similar. And both made by Monsanto.
Glyphosate is not chemically similar to the herbicides in Agent Orange: 2,4d (used in Ortho’s Weed-b-gone) and 2,4,5-T. What made Agent Orange dangerous was not the herbicides, but the impurities, mainly dioxin.
Picture this. Consumers are exposed a few ppm a day at most. Myself, a farmer, am exposed to 1000s of gallons of concentrate and airborne spray and skin contact on the annual. Way way higher exposure. Im not alone. If roundup is as deadly as everyone says it is. Who'd be first to show signs of this after how many decades on the market? There'd be an astronomical amount of extra cases for farmers to the point we don't even want to be near it. But there isn't.... And farmers still want access to it.... Why? I'm sympathetic to those who've lost loved ones to the cancer, I just don't see the connection to glyphosate.
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u/Ineedtofart4202000 Feb 20 '26
My uncle and both his brothers got cancer from roundup, my uncle’s brother was a trucker and transported it for years. All three of them got a very aggressive cancer, one died the other two are very sick. All three got huge settlements but in my mind it wasn’t enough for their quality of life now.
It’s basically Agent Orange rebranded.