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Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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Just don't get it in your body and you'll be fine. (This includes eating foods sprayed with it without washing. Maybe also foods grown in contaminated soil; I didn't read the article or study thoroughly.)
Personally I use Natria weed killer (https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/natria-grass-weed-control-with-root-killer-1-gal-707201a), active ingredients: Ammoniated soap of fatty acids, Maleic Hydrazide. I still wouldn't get it in your body, but I'm pretty sure it's less harmful and breaks down into harmless components much quicker.
Of course it's also less effective, so it might take multiple applications, but that's to be expected.
Yall should try a stirrup hoe or hula hoe.
I would, but that doesn't work for stuff coming up through cracks in concrete, or through chain link fence. Most of the stuff I spray is stuff I can't pull.
I had some oriental bittersweet coming up, and for that I dug down and pulled as much as I can, didn't even bother spraying. But there's also Virginia creeper and black swallow-wort around here mixed in with other stuff, including on the property line that I can't physically reach to pull. So that stuff I spray. (The neighbors basically let it grow wild, so they dgaf, I just keep it minimal.)
For that sort of stuff, I recommend vinegar or propane. lMO the only reason to use a fancy commercial herbicide is when you need it to be selective, e.g. when you're trying to get rid of broad leaf lawn weeds without killing the grass, too. (Edit: I'm not endorsing that as a good reason, BTW, as I'm more of a !nolawns@slrpnk.net sympathizer myself. I'm just saying that it's the only one that's even plausible.)