[sildur]

Plutonium is also a herbicide. If you spray it on plants, those plants die.

Sadly, plutonium has side effects for us. Glyphosate may also have them, long term or short term. I don’t want to act as guinea pig. If you want, good for you.

Thalidomide was safe once. Until it wasn’t.

[deelowe]

Salt kills plants. Should we ban that too? This debate is silly.

[PeterisP]

We've tested salt and know its effects on humans. It would make sense to require new things to be verified as safe before we start putting them in our food, and banned until that's done.

[klmr]

It would make sense, and is therefore done extensively. Glyphosate got approved in a much more lenient regulatory climate (almost half a century ago!) than what we have today but even so its initial approval required safety studies. Furthermore, it is subject to constant scrutiny and its recent reapproval by the EU was discussed heatedly, despite its stellar safety record in the decades it has been used.

[bencollier49]

We already did. Dumping saltwater is illegal in a lot of places.