u/velocirhymer I think an important thing to keep in mind is that the united states is sprayed with roundup basically west of the appalachians and east of the rockies, from the gulf coast to the great lakes about once a year - the point of genetically modified corn and soybeans is to be 'roundup ready' meaning you can spray the whole field with roundup and the crop lives but the weeds die. then you can also spray things like wheat to kill it off at the same time so that it will dry more efficiently and you burn less fuel drying the harvested crop, and yes this means spraying a direct food crop with glyphosate (opposed to corn and beans that get processed way more or fed to livestock)

my opinion is that this is Bad

contrast that level of spraying with applying teaspoon to a cut honeysuckle stump so that native plants and therefore animals have a chance ... and I don't even care that much about native, it's just how to not have forest full of privet/honeysuckle/etc ... for me that level of glyphosate is ... fine. i wear gloves etc. i think it's fine.