About 1/3 of the pesticide office’s funding comes from industry. It’s alleged @EPA career managers are influenced by or have colluded with industry, and in some cases falsified science to make dangerous substances appear less toxic. “The culture is very in alliance with industry”
— GMWatch (@GMWatch) April 24, 2023
The entire environment is filled with deadly poison.
And these people on TV, and that retarded Swedish bitch with no tits, are going to tell you we need to strip the environment of the gas of life.
As they refuse to mention the poison.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge.
Instead of permanently yanking the products from the market after the 2020 order, the EPA only required industry to add further application instructions to the herbicides’ labels before reapproving the products.
A late 2021 EPA investigation found the same problems persist even with new directions added to the label, but the agency still allows Monsanto, BASF and other producers to continue using dicamba.
“The new litigation was prompted by the EPA’s decision to ignore the court’s ruling and move forward with reapproving the pesticide,” plaintiffs in the lawsuit wrote in a statement. “In re-approving dicamba, the EPA once again failed to weigh the true costs to farmers and the environment.”
The fillings are a continuation of the 2020 lawsuit, which was brought by the National Family Farm Coalition, Center for Food Safety, Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America. The groups are asking the court to again order the EPA to rescind approval of the controversial products.
The EPA’s move is another example of the agency “treating the pesticide industry not as regulated companies, but as clients”, said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director with the Center For Biological Diversity.
The EPA’s pesticide office is included in allegations that career managers are influenced by or have colluded with industry, and in some cases falsified science to make dangerous substances appear less toxic. About one-third of the pesticide office’s funding comes from industry fees.
The agency in 2016 approved the dicamba-based herbicide developed by Monsanto, which was to be used on genetically modified soybean and cotton crops that the company designed and are “dicamba-tolerant”.
The herbicides are sprayed over fields and efficiently kill weeds. However, they are also highly volatile and prone to drifting into neighboring fields when they are spread, or can lift off the ground and plants and travel up to a mile.
When that happens, the herbicide can damage or kill neighboring crops and plants that are not engineered to be dicamba-resistant. Most frequently, the substance impairs their ability to grow or flower, and it reduces height and yield of non-dicamba-resistant crops.
The results are “devastating” and destroying millions of acres as “as never before seen in the history of US agriculture”, the plaintiffs said.
The herbicide also impairs plants and flowers’ ability to produce nectar, which environmental groups say deprives pollinators of food. In some cases, direct dicamba exposure can kill insects, mammals and other animals, Donley said, and it is linked to reproductive harm and developmental problems in animals.
Peer-reviewed studies also found dicamba likely doubled the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Canadian farmers and increased rates of liver cancer in highly exposed US farmers.
Any poison that kills insects or small animals causes cancer in humans. That is always true.
These people will just say “yeah but not that much cancer.”
But what does it do to the quality of your life before you get the cancer development?
Like, what does it do to your energy levels?
No one asks and no studies are ever done.
It’s killing neighborhood ecosystems too as #lawn treatment companies like #WeedMan douse yards with this deadly #weedkiller. Dead hummingbird was one of the many creatures poisoned in my yard by a neighbor’s #WeedMan #Dicamba treatment. pic.twitter.com/FNRU8Eq9hS
— Lisa Moore (@LM30381758) March 6, 2023