One sip of herbicide containing paraquat could kill, but farmers don’t want it banned

There are renewed concerns about a commonly used herbicide so deadly that just one sip could kill you.

When Julie Terry’s severely autistic son Damien accidentally drank a herbicide containing the chemical paraquat in 2017, she was told he had 12 hours to live.

“We were told that it’s approximately 10ml that would kill an adult male, which you know is not much more than a sip,” she said.

“So the doctors were pretty convinced that he wouldn’t…