"STOP EATING US GROWN FOOD. IT'S FULL of TOXIC CHEMICALS"
How US regulators embrace toxic pesticides & the corporations that make them.
As an increasing number of hazardous chemicals are banned around the world, they remain legal in the US.
Why are American regulators so slow to move, and who benefits from their inaction?
Dozens of pesticides, up to 85 in total, approved for widespread agricultural use in the United States have been banned elsewhere in the world.
For example, the US allows 11 different pesticides banned in China, and 17 that have been prohibited in Brazil.
The contrast is especially stark in Europe.
The recently banned pesticide chlorpyrifos has serious genotoxic and neurological effects, especially in children,
the European Food Safety Authority warned in a report published over the weekend.
The pesticide, which comes up for re-approval in January, does not comply with EU health regulations because a safe exposure level
cannot be established, even at the lowest experimental quantity.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration has elevated regulatory capture to an art form.
Not only was Pruitt named to head the EPA, but former Monsanto lawyer Aurelia Skipwith was appointed director of Fish and Wildlife Services,
while Alex Azar, former president of pharma giant Eli Lilly, runs the Department of Health and Human Services.
These appointments demonstrate to companies like Monsanto and Lilly, who have been caught time and again covering up evidence of their misdeeds,
that all is forgiven as long as they turn a profit. Not only has the EPA green-lighted chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, and sulfoxaflor –
a pesticide known to harm bees, which are dying at an unprecedented rate, posing a serious threat to the world’s food supplies –
but it has given up on the pretense of actually regulating agribusiness.
MORE AT:
rt.com/usa/466001-us-regulators-pesticides-corporations/
NOW YOU KNOW THAT TRUMP HAS NO MORALS.
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