I encourage anyone who wants to know more about glyphosate to watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqWwhggnbyw

Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab (BS in Biophysics, MS & EE in Electrical Engineering, PHD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and she has done research suggesting glyphosate is responsible for a whole host of human health issues due to broad spectrum effects on our gut microbes.

Glyphosate doesn't affect any human systems as many may point out, but according to Seneff it does kill a lot of our gut bacteria, and I've seen a lot of articles suggesting how important our gut bacteria are to our health. Seneff suggests that gut bacteria effects are only seen at around the 4 month or later mark in humans, but says every official study has been 3 months or less because they only examined it for toxicity.

There are a lot of take down articles claiming she is a quack, but none I've seen that really call into question the science of what she claims. Most take down articles accuse her of working too far outside her field, as if her BS in biophysics followed by her several advanced degrees shows her unable to gather research in biology. Some people think her claims about autism and glyphosate prove she is not worth listening to, but I disagree that a scientist who does original research should be broadly ignored because a subset of their claims are hard to swallow. Even if the autism connection is false, there are many other issues.

She points out that glyphosate use has grown exponentially in the last 15 years since it went out of patent, and runoff from glyphosate (which kills plants) is causing real harm to our ecosystems. She also says they have new harvest techniques where they just spray the poison on wheat crops before harvest. It kills the wheat but I guess makes harvest easier. So if her claims are correct, your food could have been directly sprayed with this stuff right before it was taken from the farm to the factory. She then points out that until recently no studies of glyphosate occurrence in food have been done, nor had any studies of glyphosate in humans been done. A recent study found something like a third of european food and a fifth of europeans to have measurable levels of glyphosate in their urine.

So there's this chemical that everyone swears up and down is SO SAFE that we don't even need to study it. Meanwhile we have a clearly brilliant woman who makes a compelling case that spraying this stuff left, right and center on our food may be a bad idea.

I do not think the people who say "we shouldn't look into it" have a leg to stand on. Seneff may not be right, but the ONLY way to know is to examine her claims and prove or disprove them. We should examine the data she presents in the youtube talk linked above and try to see if her claims hold water.

If you disagree with me or know more than me, that's fine. I'm just sharing what I know. I'm not saying we shut down your farm, I'm just saying we should have the facts. Her talk has at least convinced me some facts are missing, including long term studies of glyphosate's effect on our gut microbes. If you can point me to a study of this, please do.