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> "A recent study showed that every human tested had the world's
> best selling herbicide , roundup, detectable in their urine at
> concentrations between five and twenty times the level considered
> safe for drinking water"

As written this comes across even less believable than the statements attributed to Albert Einstein who was a physicist with no interest in bees or pollination or....

Some specifics would lend credence to the above:

 a) What study?
 b) What level is unsafe for humans?
 c) What humans were tested?
 d) Were they city residents?
 e) Were they suburban residents?
 f) Were they agricultural employees?
 g) For what reason was the urine of humans being tested?

Now, if this was about a farmer who ran tests to see what level of exposure his milk cows had from insecticides in their feed...

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