y0din

My grandad, who was a farmer, used to say that the sellers of Roundup (the weed killer from roundup.com) would drink it during sales pitches to prove it wasn’t toxic to humans. So it wasn’t just farmers making questionable decisions—some of the misinformation came from the sellers themselves.

These days, it’s labeled as unsafe to use without gloves, and the high-concentration version sold to farmers isn’t even available to the general public anymore, at least where I live.

It just gives some context on why certain practices exist—bad or misleading information played a big role in shaping them and it is or was not always just the farmers alone.

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it probably runs as root… all things considered…