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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Cancer-Causing Ingredient in Weedkiller Found in Cheerios

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Boxes of General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios cereal sit on display in a market .
According to the analysis, Honey Nut Cheerios cereal contained 147 ppb of glyphosate.

ALMOST TWO DOZEN CEREAL and snack products were found to contain glyphosate, the cancer causing ingredient in the weed killer Roundup.

An analysis released today by the Environmental Working Group's Children's Health Initiative found that 21 of General Mills' oat-based cereals and snacks were contaminated with glyphosate and all but four products contained levels higher than what EWG scientists consider safe for children. The nonprofit environmental research organization's benchmark for levels of the ingredient deemed safe for kids is no more than 160 parts per billion.

The product containing the lowest level of glyphosate was Nature Valley's Dark Chocolate & Nut version of Fruit & Nut Chewy Trail Mix Granola Bars, which measured at 76 ppb. The highest level of glyphosate, 833 ppb, was found in Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch.

Regular Honey Nut Cheerios contained 147 ppb. Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cheerios contained 729 ppb. Nature Valley's Maple Brown Sugar Crunchy Granola Bars measured glyphosate at 566 ppb, while its Soft-Baked Blueberry Oatmeal Squares measure at 206.

The ingredient used in the weedkiller, which is sprayed on oats before harvest as a drying agent, was classified as "probably carcinogenic to humans" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015. It was classified as a known carcinogenic by California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in 2017.

There have been several lawsuits brought against Roundup's manufacturer Bayer-Monsanto alleging that its weedkiller causes cancer and that the company has known about it for years. More than $2.2 billion has been awarded to victims.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-06-12/cancer-causing-ingredient-in-roundup-weedkiller-found-in-cheerios-nature-valley-products?fbclid=IwAR28FjzKicJaTDheg8wkk1vJzMitPkZu13HBrRCT6FGA_qJ90iCQpm_r8Ik
 
Yeah, eat your cereal for breakfast, kiddies. It is good for you.

I used to eat Cheerios all the time when I was a kid. Guess it is a real good thing I broke out of that habit a long time ago.

Not that everything I eat today would prove to be real good for my health, I guess. But sometimes reality just takes all the fun out of life.
 
I was fed Cheerios so much as a kid that I gag just looking at the box, lol.
 
The Environmental Working Group is not a scientific organization. It is an activist organization similar to Greenpeace (and about as unreliable). For more information on why you should take their findings with a heavy dosage of salt, you can read this article: https://www.salon.com/2016/02/07/my...the_food_we_feed_our_kids_heres_why_i_refuse/

The Environmental Working Group's "alarm" uses different units from EPA guidelines. EPA considers 30-100 parts per MILLION safe for human consumption, so the parts per BILLION the EWG reports are well within established safety tolerances.

For example, EWG says honeynut cheerios contains 147 ppb of glyphosate. This is 0.147 pp-million, well within safety levels. As typical of misinformation campaigns, changing units makes numbers seem huge when in reality they're negligible.

Here are the established safe crop residue levels for glyphosate established by the EPA: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrie...=L&pitd=20200213&r=SECTION&n=se40.26.180_1364

Here is the EPA's Q&A on glyphosate: https://www.fda.gov/food/pesticides/questions-and-answers-glyphosate

Here is more direct information glyphosate from the EPA, including extensive literature backing up claims: https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate
 
I have no respect for FDA either. Ecig hysteria. They were the ones to bring up nicotine is used in insecticides, created the artificial lung that could suck in for 100 seconds continuously at a much higher voltage rating and recorded the carcinogens. Yeah if you use a device for 100 seconds on a highly over energized device it will melt plastic and metal and cause cancer causing baddies, not to mention burn your lips, throat and tongue beyond recognition. Same "scientists" said how vegetable glycerin is what is used in car radiators. Actually they started using glycerin because pets and wild life were dying from drinking the old style fluid. Follow the money...
 
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