On 6/8/2017 9:46 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 08 Jun 2017 09:42:04a, notbob told us...
>
>> On 2017-06-08, Wayne Boatwright >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Starting with a good sized wedge of iceberg lettuce previously
>>> soaked in ice water then spun in a salad spinner. Topping the
>>> lettuce with homemade very chunky blue cheese dressing, then
>>> finishing off with a goodly amount of diced roma tomato.....
>>
>> Sounds good. I've been eating more and more salads, of late.
>> Last night I had broccoli crowns, iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion,
>> and diced cucumber bits topped with some Italian dressing (all
>> organic).
>>
>> I'm trying to reduce my intake of glyphosate, mostly in the form
>> of wheat (that stuff containing gluten). It is now sprayed on
>> wheat (only!) jes prior to harvest. It acts as a "desiccant",
>> killing the wheat plant and forcing the plant to put its last
>> dying breath into greater seed production. This has nothing to do
>> with GMO's. This gives the farmer a bigger wheat crop yield while
>> giving the consumer more and more glyphosate to ingest. Some call
>> it "non-Celiac disease gluten sensetivity". I call it "eating
>> even MORE poison!"
>>
>> nb
>>
>
> I'll take your word for it, but it hasn't seemed to have had any
> effect on me, at least no yet.
>


of course not. Such use of glyphosate for desiccation is not very
common at all.