A Frosty Mug of Glyphobia
When the news broke across the internet that beer was contaminated with glyphosate, my first response was to crack a cold can of Sierra Nevada and read the story. Soft-science activism has already concocted claims of physiologically-irrelevant detection of glyphosate in breast milk and fresh soybeans. I don't partake of such commodities under normal circumstances. But now beer ! You've crossed a line glyphosate. Them's fightin' words. Or perhaps not. Once again, we are reminded of two basic rules. Beer contains high amounts of a potent carcinogen that accounts for a tremendous number of deaths each year. 1. We are extremely good at detecting extremely little . 2. The dose makes the poison. How much glyphosate is there? Well according to this analysis: Yikes! Herbicides are detectable in my beer, and what's scary is that we can actually identify molecules that are almost not there. According to these data there is somewhere bet