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Sunshine ( Sunshine@piefed.ca ) M to Boycott US@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months ago

Trump Approves Toxic Cancer-Linked Forever Chemical Pesticides On Major Food Crops Never Before Used In America

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Trump Approves Toxic Cancer-Linked Forever Chemical Pesticides On Major Food Crops Never Before Used In America

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Sunshine ( Sunshine@piefed.ca ) M to Boycott US@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months ago
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The EPA has approved two new fluorinated pesticides for corn and soybeans, sparking controversy over health risks and legal challenges following a Supreme Court ruling limiting lawsuits against pesticide makers.
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  • Jo Miran ( JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 
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    The clearances landed five days after the Supreme Court sharply curtailed Americans’ ability to sue pesticide makers over cancer warnings,

    The level of corruption is staggering.

  • Corporal_Punishment ( Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ) 
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    Make America Toxic Again…

    And the Administration are genuinely bemused as to why we (UK and EU) refuse to import american food

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    • NottaLottaOcelot ( NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ) 
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      The genius is that with the reproductive toxicity, they won’t even have to think multiple generations ahead!

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    • Nonconfrontational ( Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ) 
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      I’ve got some bad news about climate change…

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        • Nonconfrontational ( Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ) 
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          That’s the spirit!

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    On the same day the agency broadened the use of bifenthrin, an older fluorinated insecticide, to coffee, kiwifruit, peas, kale and broccoli. It also approved the first US food use of chlormequat on wheat, barley and oats, a growth regulator already detected in the urine of roughly 90% of Americans and linked in studies to reduced fertility and reproductive toxicity.

    The approvals arrived after Kyle Kunkler, a former lobbyist for the American Soybean Association, was installed as deputy assistant administrator for pesticides. The soybean association had lobbied in favour of both new herbicides through the public docket. They mark the third and fourth PFAS pesticide clearances under the current administration, following cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram.

    I said elsewhere the termination of trade agreements with Mexico and Canada are funny, because now they lose a headache. UK, Israel, EU not so much.

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    Scary to see this around the same time Carney’s govt here in Canada decided to give themselves the power to overrule Health Canada bans on toxic pesticides if they ever feel like it.

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    BIO food for the wealthy and mass grown crops riddled with this toxic disease for everyone else.

  • prole ( prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Never let RFK Jr convince you that they give a shit about public health

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      Nobody believed a word that shaky voiced mother fucker had to say to begin with

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    It’s a pity that I was already boycotting anything American. This would have been a perfect reason to boycott American food.

  • NottaLottaOcelot ( NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ) 
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    If you have a local farm share program, I highly recommend signing up. We have gotten to know the lovely family growing our summer veggies and they send out weekly email updates about how the farm is doing, recipes for what we have in stock the next week, etc. It’s a great way to get closer in touch with where your food comes from, as well as reduce the rate that we are being pickled by PFAS

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    It’s cool that he can do shit like this… and still not go to jail.

    /s

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    That is a very klunky headline. Which was never before used in America: the major food crop or the forever chemical pesticides?

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