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I quit a job in the industry during the era the studies started coming out when I found out about the bosses ties to Monsanto. The real kicker for me was during my digging into them, although largely due to corporate buyout name games, they were the ones responsible for agent orange, with Nam vets in my family I couldn't stay.

Use the most natural chemicals you can for crop/yard control. The same warning applies to the neurotoxins that are bug killers.



Natural doesn’t mean anything when it comes to safety of a substance. There are quite a few dangerous substances used for “organic” weed and pest control. Well controlled synthetics can indeed be safer.

Or if it’s your yard, don’t do anything to it. You don’t need to.


Least-toxic would probably ve the correct terminology, you are correct.




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