'Safer' Roundup weed killer can still damage your organs

[mountaineer]

'Safer' Roundup weed killer can still damage your organs
Diquat is 200 times more toxic than glyphosate, per a report.
Emily Weaver   
July 7, 2025
BestLifeOnline

For avid golfers, living near a putting green may sound like a dream come true. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but studies show that living near a golf course can increase your risk of Parkinson’s disease by 126 percent due to the weed killers and pesticides, like Roundup, used on most fairways. While Roundup has taken strides to “cleanify” its formula, new research says there’s more work to be done.

In Oct. 2024, Roundup transitioned its residential formulas from being glyphosate-based to diquat-based. At the time, diquat was widely believed to be a safer alternative to glyphosate.  ...

In Feb. 2020, the EPA sided against International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) data and reported that glyphosate “is unlikely to be a human carcinogen.” Doubling down on their findings, the EPA reported that “there are no risks of concern to human health” and “the benefits of glyphosate outweigh the potential ecological risks when glyphosate is used in accordance with labels.”  ...

In response, the nonprofit organization Friends of the Earth released an analysis that proved all four substitutes “pose greater risk of long-term and/or reproductive health problems than glyphosate.” According to their findings, these chemicals have been associated with the following conditions:

    Birth and development abnormalities
    Reproductive dysfunction
    Kidney and liver damage
    Irritation, inflammation, and allergic reactions affecting the skin, eyes, and respiratory system

Most shockingly, diquat was dubbed “the worst offender” of the four weed killers. “It is 200 times more chronically toxic than glyphosate, is classified as a highly hazardous pesticide, and is banned in the European Union,” per the report. ...

[BobfromWB]

Just so everyone knows - there has been only one case of a person dying by glyphosate poisoning - as of 5 years ago. That person was one of 3 people know to have tried to commit suicide by drinking glyphosate. The other 2 had bad stomach aches.

Glyphosate targets plant genes - so unless a person has plant genes, it is harmless despite all the anecdotal claims to the contrary.

This comes from several lectures I attended where glyphosate was disgussd in detail - if one looks at various academic papers on this subject, you could find a reference.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Just so everyone knows - there has been only one case of a person dying by glyphosate poisoning - as of 5 years ago. That person was one of 3 people know to have tried to commit suicide by drinking glyphosate. The other 2 had bad stomach aches.

Glyphosate targets plant genes - so unless a person has plant genes, it is harmless despite all the anecdotal claims to the contrary.

This comes from several lectures I attended where glyphosate was disgussd in detail - if one looks at various academic papers on this subject, you could find a reference.

But ambulance chasers will not make any money.  Why are you targeting them?

BTW, i use Glyphosate all the time at my farm to kill unwanted weeds.

One in the early spring and again in the fall, a drone delivers it onto my hayfield.

Cows eat the grass and the hay that come off of it, and neither they nor me suffer any effects over years of doing this.

[mountaineer]

I've heard of people taking a swig without ill effects. Personal injury lawyers won't give up, though.

[BobfromWB]

But ambulance chasers will not make any money.  Why are you targeting them?

BTW, i use Glyphosate all the time at my farm to kill unwanted weeds.

One in the early spring and again in the fall, a drone delivers it onto my hayfield.

Cows eat the grass and the hay that come off of it, and neither they nor me suffer any effects over years of doing this.

The whole idea behind the anti-Glyphosate movement is to destroy modern agriculture, as a precedent to the destruction of Western civilization.