California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing
Last time roundup came up here I made the claim that it killed my dad (healthy guy, came from a healthy long lived family, he died about 15-20 years sooner than his relatives from the cancer that is associated with roundup, you can google &quot;non-hodgkin&#x27;s lymphoma roundup&quot; and you&#x27;ll see a zillion lawyers wanting to talk to you about it).<p>Yet hackernews people shouted me down saying that it wasn&#x27;t possible.  I&#x27;m not an oncologist, I have no idea who is right, it was my Dad who told me he was convinced it was roundup, so what do I know?  But it is weird that now the state of California sees it as carcinogen, the lawyers are salivating over it (not that they are oncologists either but they tend not to get excited unless they believe they will win), yet I&#x27;m sure people are going to reply that roundup is fine.<p>I don&#x27;t know what to believe.  It sure _seems_ like there is some bad juju in roundup, there shouldn&#x27;t be this much fuss if it is just a conspiracy theory.  But who are the people here that keep defending it?  It would be oh-so-nice if someone who was clearly objective and an expert could lay it out.  Does it cause cancer?  How much do you have to be exposed to to get cancer?  Do you have to eat it?  Or does just getting it on your skin or breathing the fumes do it?