For foodies, some processed food with substitute ingredients can be bad and others can be good, depending on whether there is an agreeable social cause that undergirds the product. More Chemophobia The United Nations, an organization only trusted by about a third of Americans, according to Harvard's Institute of Politics, has declared the herbicide glyphosate to be a "probable" carcinogen. First, it is important to note that it is unethical to test toxicity directly on humans and all other approaches can be fallible. Second, glyphosate is not something directly consumed (half-life is over long before crops are harvested) like known carcinogens such as drinking alcohol or even probable carcinogens such as acrylamides in many cooked starche...