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EPA approves carcinogenic pesticide

Posted at 1:45 PM on 08 Oct 2007

Just when we think the U.S. EPA might have some sense, it goes and approves a carcinogenic pesticide, ignoring scientists' warnings that "pregnant women and the fetus, children, the elderly, farmworkers, and other people living near application sites would be at serious risk." As a substitute for ozone-depleting fumigant methyl bromide, California and Florida strawberry growers and other farmers will welcome in newly OK'd methyl iodide, which has caused thyroid tumors, neurological damage, and miscarriage in lab animals. But really, what do lab animals know?

source: Los Angeles Times

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junk policy

The USDA has $128 billion in assets, spends $77 billion annually plus $100 billion in loans, plus loan guarantees and crop insurance, and has 100,000 employees in 14,000 offices and field locations.
Can you imagine if these resources were put towards organic, biodynamic, permaculture, and other healthy and sustainable practices and technologies?
Can you imagine if the FDA were people-centric and not corporate-centric?
Can you imagine of corporations were reined in and didn't have such immense unelected power?
It could happen, but only if we whine enough and then push, cojole, threaten, vote, drag, and nudge them along.

We should also be buying as much organic as possible to avoid these toxic chemicals and not reward toxic corporations.

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by CyberBrook at 3:55 PM on 10 Oct 2007

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