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Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for systematic denial of harms and unethical marketing tactics
But republicans and their devious Plutocrat-in-Chief are all like FULL SPEED AHEAD with GMOs and GMOs' beverages of corporate choice: pesticides, herbicides, etc. Let us not forget antibiotics as they infest Meat Factories and the purely "coincidental" upswing in sales of "probiotics."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/un-experts-denounce-myth-pesticides-are-necessary-to-feed-the-world
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The report said: Chronic exposure to pesticides has been linked to cancer, Alzheimers and Parkinsons diseases, hormone disruption, developmental disorders and sterility.
Furthermore, the report said, recent Chinese government studies indicated that pesticide contamination meant farming could not continue on about 20% of arable land.
Archae
(46,345 posts)The rest of the post is pure horseshit.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)No doubt Comrade Casino's republican EPA, FDA & USDA stand in solidarity with you.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Did you even read it? It is a 24 page report written by two "human rights experts". Actual scientists had nothing to do with it. Most of the report has nothing to do with pesticides but human rights law.
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G17/017/85/PDF/G1701785.pdf?OpenElement
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)so diversionary tactics about who did the writing are irrelevant
Here you go: have a heaping helping of science with your hopefully pesticide-free breakfast product:
"There is a huge body of evidence on the relation between exposure to pesticides and elevated rate of chronic diseases such as different types of cancers, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson, Alzheimer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), birth defects, and reproductive disorders...."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X13000549
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The administration has big plans to slash environmental protections.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/trump-epa-budget-cuts
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Kickass republican pesticide parties dead ahead.
"...Perdues record demands closer attention. He is an adamant climate change denier.
"He also has close ties to agribusiness. As governor of Georgia, for example, he oversaw a dramatic expansion of factory farming..."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article136755458.html
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)OK, the New York Times has forced me to break my promise* about not kicking this thread any more, with their story today about republican USDA nominee & pesticide salesman Sonny Perdue's scuzzy record on "ethics."
Sonny Boy is obviously infested with republican-style so-called "ethics" - and if approved he will be in charge of the so-called "food" corporate industrial agriculture is slapping on to your dinner plate.
* promise revision ok'd by Comrade Jeff Sessions (R - revision miester)
Ethics Questions Dogged Agriculture Nominee
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/politics/sonny-perdue-georgia.html?emc=edit_th_20170309&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=47943027&_r=0
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, biocides or GMOs involved in this kick