[adrienthebo]

Ingesting this could probably do some nasty things to your gut biome - but remember that we're talking about an herbicide. If you ingested most herbicides you'd be dead shortly after, so this could be much safer.

Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.

[quxbar]

I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.

[gotocake]

I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.

Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.

[bluGill]

Herbicides kill plants. Many of them are safe to drink, the only way to die is drink enough to drown.

[someguydave]

Agreed. It’s pesticides you don’t want to touch.

[goodcanadian]

<pedantic>

Herbicides are pesticides

Insecticides are pesticides

Pesticide is a blanket term

</pedantic>

And no, you don't want to touch insecticides; they are generally neurotoxins.

[someguydave]

Ah thanks for the pedantry - yes I meant insecticides in that case. I thought pesticide only meant insecticide.