Agent orange was ordered to be produced by the govt. they were told it wasn't very healthy, but the folks behind desks figured it only gets sprayed on the enemy so no big deal. They never figured in it has to be made somewhere by people, and our solders would be walking through it also.... Bad deal. One part of agent orange was to defoliate the jungles and crops quickly. The other part was to have a lasting effect to keep stuff from growing back for a while. So it was a combo of two separate herbicides.
It was a combination of two products, like a peanut butter n jelly sandwich has peanut butter and grape jelly.
Some people get deathly Sick from peanut allergies. They need to avoid peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches!
But they shouldn't be afraid of eating grape jelly.
Likewise, we humans need to stay away from the dioxins that are in the one part of agent orange - the 2,4,5-T. It can't hardly be made without dioxins forming in it. They are really bad. Fortunately this 2,4,5-T has been banned now for some time.
But the other part, the 2,4-D has need very heavily tested many times over, and appears to be pretty safe to humans. It does not form any dioxins while it is made. It is totally different than the other part of agent orange. It is the grape jelly part.
2,4-D has been tested and observed for a long time now, and appears to be fairly safe to humans and mammals. It is not at all related to the bad part of agent orange.
Roundup also has been tested quite a bit, and appears safer and breaks down faster than most any other weed killer. Often times the soap - the additives that make it stick to leaves and break down wax on the leaves so it can soak into the plant - test out as more dangerous than the actual Roundup does.
If we use weed killers, those 2 are so,e of the safest and most studied around. Some folks have made up quite an Internet story to the contrary, unfortunately those stories have gained a lot of traction.
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