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Those of you really upset over this do realize that B&J don't ADD this to their ice creams, right? It's residual from components IN the ice creams...or whatever foods we're eating.
Those of you really upset over this do realize that B&J don't ADD this to their ice creams, right? It's residual from components IN the ice creams...or whatever foods we're eating.
No one adds it, lol. It's from a pesticide that is on some of the ingredients. It's one of Monsanto's weed killers so it would probably have been sprayed onto the wheat or grass and that way it contaminates the ingredients (somehow.)
It was banned in Europe as are many of the additives that Americans eat. Lately it's been approved again in Europe as a weed killer. Probably no one knows for sure if it causes cancer and it's still controversial,still being studied.
But it's not completely safe used as a weed killer:
A classification that glyphosate causes serious eye damage and is toxic to aquatic life will remain in place.
Obviously, eating a tiny bit of weed killer a few times won't hurt you, but the concern is with someone eating it all their life and eating it in other foods like bread all their life. They are still not sure whether or not it causes cancer--previous studies said it did, the latest study says it doesn't, what will the next study say.
Do you have links to substantiate that? On their boxes they say "Non GMO."
No offense but I want proof before I give up my Cheerios.
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Topping the list is Cheerios, with glyphosate levels reaching over 1100 parts per billion, according to the report. A General Mills spokesman does not dispute the figures but notes that the amount of glyphosate apparently found in Cheerios is still well below the levels that the Environmental Protection Agency has deemed safe to consume.
[quote=in_newengland;49151785]No one adds it, lol. It's from a pesticide that is on some of the ingredients. It's one of Monsanto's weed killers so it would probably have been sprayed onto the wheat or grass and that way it contaminates the ingredients (somehow.)
It was banned in Europe as are many of the additives that Americans eat. Lately it's been approved again in Europe as a weed killer. Probably no one knows for sure if it causes cancer and it's still controversial,still being studied.
But it's not completely safe used as a weed killer:
A classification that glyphosate causes serious eye damage and is toxic to aquatic life will remain in place.
Obviously, eating a tiny bit of weed killer a few times won't hurt you, but the concern is with someone eating it all their life and eating it in other foods like bread all their life. They are still not sure whether or not it causes cancer--previous studies said it did, the latest study says it doesn't, what will the next study say.[/QUOTE]
Your point is???? Would you go buy some and eat it it knowing this????
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Of course. And if you wouldn't, well, that just leaves more for me.
(I don't eat Ben & Jerry's; there's a much better brand made locally to my area.)
God Bless the silly snowflakes. They honestly don't seem to know why we laugh at them.
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