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by anon491throw 2621 days ago
In the US, TSCA 1974 grandfathered in thousands of chemicals with zero proof of safety and no studies. I think Ralph Nader needs to hit this point every now and then to remind people that American chemicals are ridiculously under-regulated compared to Scandinavian and other Western countries. And if you're still using RoundUp, switch to table salt.. it will kill most plants but not kill you.
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Killing weeds with salt is a terrible idea unless you want no plants at all to grow in your yard. And probably still a bad idea even then because there is no easy way to take the salt back out of soil.
Often, that's desirable. Most recurring weeds grow in cracks between joints in concrete. Use good judgement, duh.
You can still grow coconut and seagrape.