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[…]stop growing sugar or mining for phosphorus fertilizer. But the one thing that we can do is stop spraying and killing the filter! So let’s just do that!”1 According to CNN, the FWC declined five requests for interviews or comments. They have also not stated what new ideas they received or when they might be tested. Sadly, for now, the airboats and helicopters keep […]
[…]prevent harm from glyphosate to an unpredictable bird or bee flying through the air at the time of spraying. PENDING ASSESSMENTS Surprisingly, the EPA does acknowledge some potential future changes in environmental use. Due to the case Center for Biological Diversity et al., v. United States Environmental Protection Agency et al., the EPA will need to do additional assessments on the impact to endangered species: Although the agency is not making a complete endangered species finding at this time, the mitigation described in this document is expected to reduce the extent of environmental exposure and may reduce risk to listed […]
Kellogg confirmed on Monday that the company has set a goal of phasing out the controversial weedkiller glyphosate from its oat and wheat supply chain by 2025. Kellogg, the maker of “Corn Flakes” cereal, Pop-Tarts, Eggo waffles, and other breakfast products, does not own or operate farms. Still, many of its suppliers have used the herbicide as a “drying agent a few weeks before harvest, particularly with wheat and oats,” the company said on its website. The company said: “Although this practice is not widespread in our wheat and oat supply chains, we are working with our suppliers to phase […]
[…]continue operating seven stores during bankruptcy. RELATED STORY: CNN: Kroger will start spraying produce with “Apeel,” funded by Rockefeller and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In 2003, Lucky’s was founded in Boulder, CO, by former chefs with farmers market-style stores and gourmet food. The stores captivated the interest of large grocery chains as it grew, including the mega-chain Kroger. In fact, in 2016, Kroger invested in Lucky’s, which at the time had 17 stores. Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said at the time: “Lucky’s approach is very much aligned with our efforts to provide affordable, fresh, organic and natural […]
California will soon battle over whether to list acetaminophen, one of the world’s most common over-the-counter drugs, as a carcinogen, mimicking other recent high-profile disputes over things like coffee and alcohol. Outside the U.S., acetaminophen is known as paracetamol and is used to treat pain and fevers. It has been available in the U.S. without a prescription since 1955. It is the foundation for more than 600 prescription and over-the-counter medications for adults and children found in popular brands like Theraflu, Excedrin, Sudafed, Robitussin, and Tylenol. RELATED STORY: Acetaminophen – Not Worth the Risk, by the Children’s Health Defense Team […]
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[…]ingredient in Roundup, to be harmful. RELATED STORY: Monsanto Pleads Guilty to Illegally Spraying Pesticides, Storing Hazardous Waste in Hawaii The former Steelers player is fortunately now cancer-free after undergoing extensive treatment. Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in June 2018, told PEOPLE in a statement Thursday that science does not back up claims that glyphosate can cause cancer. “We have great sympathy for any individual with cancer, but the extensive body of science on glyphosate-based herbicides over four decades supports the conclusion that Roundup does not cause NHL,” the company said. RELATED STORY: Glyphosate and Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults “Leading […]
[…]on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2014, and will have to pay $10.2 million in criminal fines for spraying and illegally storing the pesticide which has been classified as an “acute hazardous waste.” On Thursday, the Department of Justice said that Monsanto had sprayed Penncap-M, which contains the banned insecticide methyl parathion, on research crops in full knowledge that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had prohibited its use after 2013, reports Reuters. RELATED STORY: Glyphosate and Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of California struck a deal not to prosecute Monsanto—now a […]
Monsanto Pleads Guilty to Illegally Spraying Pesticides, Storing Hazardous Waste in […]
[…]vouched for Guyger’s good character, Long asked him if he was aware of her text about pepper spraying parade-goers. “That would be out of character,” MacPherson […]
When Will We Start Applying the Precautionary Principle to the Chemicals that Are Killing Our […]
[…]jet tanker aircraft. Next, the vast majority of the clearly visible jet aircraft particulate spraying is occurring in the Troposphere. #6 “Nozzles still need to be designed which can continuously blast out trillions of particles”. Yet another complete deception from CNBC. Retrofit spray nozzles are absolutely located on the wing pylons of most commercial carrier jet aircraft, and on military tankers. These nozzles are aimed directly into the jet exhaust stream to make the dispersion look like “condensation”. The “condensation trail” lie is perhaps the biggest deception ever perpetrated on populations around the world. ALL commercial aircraft and ALL military tankers […]
[…]would be proud of you if you put the health of the nation first and stopped selling GMO seeds and spraying Glyphosate (Roundup®) and other harsher pesticides.”1 In the emails, Goldstein noted that the group was making “a pretty nasty looking set of allegations” and that he had been “arguing for a week to beat the shit out of them.”1 RELATED STORY: Monsanto hit list exposed Using identical obscene language, one of the consultants Bruce Chassy, (then a professor at the University of Illinois) also supported attacking the moms’ group. The other consultant, Wayne Parrot, (a University of Georgia crop […]
[…]Journalists Although there was no reported evidence of harm caused to humans by the incident, spraying methyl parathion “would plainly violate” the ban, William Jordan, a former deputy director of EPA’s pesticides office, told POGO in an email. People spraying the pesticide, and likely their corporate employer, “would be liable for the violation.” “Monsanto is the expert at this, so it’s not like some farmer who may not be aware of the law,” added Fred Burnside, a former senior EPA criminal enforcement official. In his opinion, the apparent downgrading of charges by Main Justice in the Monsanto case “is odd […]
Glyphosate and Colorectal Cancer in Young […]
[…]it could have on the panther community. RELATED STORY: NBC: Florida Fish & Wildlife to stop spraying Roundup Statewide According to the FWC, the sad situation seems to be located in three general areas – Collier, Lee and Sarasota counties. One panther was photographed that may be affected in Charlotte County. The FWC is not sure what is causing the disorder. They are actively testing for numerous potential toxins such as rat poison (which has been found in 85 percent of tested mountain lions and bobcats in California) and pesticides. They are also considering nutritional deficiencies and infectious diseases. McRae […]
The Guardian: Administration won’t ban pesticide tied to childhood brain […]
[…]safe from those pesticides. The routine abuse of emergency exemptions has to stop.”1 This spraying will put our biodiversity at serious risk. For example, in Texas — where 5.8 million acres got an emergency exemption to spray — more than 800 native bee species and eight species of bumblebees reside. It is also a critical migration route for monarch butterflies. Burd stated: “Monarch butterflies and eight species of bumblebees do overlap with Texas counties where there is sulfoxaflor spraying. Even at subacute, very low doses, sufoxaflor will have a very dramatic effect on bumblebee reproduction.”1 Sulfoxaflor, made by Dow AgroSciences, […]
[…]linked to many negative health problems, including cancer. RELATED STORY: BIOSLUDGED: EPA allows spraying of highly toxic sewage sludge on food crops, documentary reveals Biosolids as fertilizer is a growing concern, as national news reports on the increasing ties between PFAS and food, all the way from packaging to dairy cows drinking water that is extremely contaminated. Several cities have already stopped applying biosolids to land because of contamination. Russell said due to little national research on PFAS, he and other scientists have a much more difficult job as they develop their own screening methodology, saying: “The awareness of this […]
Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state owned rail operator, is the country’s largest user of the toxic weedkiller glyphosate. Earlier this month, in a move that is great news, they announced they will STOP USING GLYPHOSATE and look instead for environmentally friendly alternative such as UV lights, hot water or electric shock. Deutsche Bahn typically purchases around 65 tons of the herbicide annually. Classified as most likely carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, Germany’s Environmental Minister Svenja Schulze was pleased upon hearing the news, telling WirtschaftsWoche: “Glyphosate kills insects which is why we are going to ban it in Germany.“1 RELATED STORY: […]
[…]Grain Problem Since commercial wheat and other grains today are NOT GMO plants, a direct spraying of an herbicide containing glyphosate would kill them. So how are these grains ending up with glyphosate residues in them? Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, explains why: There are two reasons that a farmer wants to [use glyphosate on non-GMO crops]. It is for late season weed control in situations where he has patches of green weeds in the field that came up late. [This is commonly done with wheat and barley.] It is a little slower to harvest […]
[…]Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, in food.”1Cur Although the bill would only ban late-harvest spraying of glyphosate on oats and require the federal government to test popular kids foods for the herbicide that’s been linked to cancer, it’s a start in the right direction. And it’s about time. Key provisions in DeLauro’s bill include:1 Prohibiting the spraying of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent on oats. Lowering by 300-fold the permissible level of glyphosate residues on oats, restoring the legally allowed level to just 0.1 parts per million, or ppm. Requiring the Department of Agriculture to regularly test fruits, vegetables and other […]
[…]Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, 46, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma after years of spraying school grounds in Benicia with a concentrated brand of the same herbicide. A judge later reduced Johnson’s damages to $78.5 million. Monsanto is appealing. Unlike Johnson, whose doctors have described his illness as terminal, Hardeman’s cancer is in remission. He testified that he sprayed Roundup for nearly 30 years to kill poison oak on his 56-acre tract in Forestville, often feeling the liquid on his hands or inhaling it.”1 A shame no one clued him in that this causes cancer. We’ve been writing about this for years. […]
[…]of drinking the highest amounts of the poison, and eating it in food, and living near a farm or spraying it in your yard- it adds up. And this is not math you want to contend with. Some of the companies tested told USA TODAY that the presence of the herbicide in “trace amounts” was beyond their control. (Others contested the accuracy of the study.) “Organic winery Frey Vineyards noted that, while no herbicides ‘have ever been used’ in its farming practices, ‘glyphosate in trace amounts is now found in rainwater because of its application to conventionally farmed agricultural land. […]
[…]and Virginia. RELATED STORY: CNN: Bees can be taught to add and subtract Speaking about the spraying, Nathan Donley, a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity said it was “beyond the pale”1 that during “a time of global insect decline”1 that this would take place. He went on to say, “The EPA is routinely misusing the ’emergency’ process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it’s too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews. The EPA is far too eager to find loopholes to approve harmful pesticides when it should be focusing on keeping people and wildlife safe from those pesticides. […]
[…]of dirty black water washes over it. RELATED STORY: NBC: Florida Fish & Wildlife to stop spraying Roundup Statewide Sadly, that actually happened and was filmed by a resident at West Avenue and Sixth Street in Miami. And it shows just how much of a problem exists; “during former Mayor Philip Levine’s tenure, the city installed stormwater pumps capable of sucking streets dry and preventing flooding. But critics — and scientists — say the pumps also deposit dirt, debris, oil runoff, dog excrement, and pesticides into Biscayne Bay.”1 Disgusting. How this is allowed to go on boggles the mind. How […]
[…]and environmentalists are rightly ecstatic. After all, FWC has been spraying more than a dozen classes of herbicide, including Roundup, to kill plants in our waterways1 for a long time. RELATED STORY: Reuters: Bayer asks California judge to suppress evidence in another Roundup cancer trial According to environmentalists, the spraying may be contributing to the state’s algae problem and fueling the red tide. However, at Lake Okeechobee, anglers say there’s another issue: the fish. RELATED STORY: Florida man does stunning rap about red tide and big sugar. Must watch. FWC says it will hold several public meetings so officials can gather […]
[…]grocery stores is like going on a field trip to the pharmacist, but another concern is how this spraying will “affect bees, which pollinate citrus flowers, as well as small mammals like rabbits. In the environment, antibiotics can change the chemistry of soil and water, knocking ecosystems out of balance.”5 RELATED STORY: How dirt could save humanity from an infectious apocalypse In the hopes of combating that issue, agricultural officials and growers will cycle between different antibiotics. But Keep Antibiotics Working says there’s no good science to show that would work and according to Donley, these drugs are nothing more than “a really […]
[…]we can stop it, make your voice heard. This very compelling 20-second time-lapse video of aerosol spraying in Yosemite National Park was taken on December 12th, 2018. Video footage credit: Chris Falkenstein RELATED STORY: Could Northern California’s “Wildfires” Be Directly Related To Geoengineering? *Article originally appeared at Geoengineering Watch. Reposted with […]
[…]the entire food system. But it doesn’t stop there for Bayer-Monsanto. The widespread practice of spraying glyphosate on wheat pre-harvest, is causing mass contamination of many food products like children’s breakfast cereals. So now, the companies using grain contaminated with glyphosate are being taken to court too. General Mill’s was the first in a multitude of this type of class action lawsuit for allowing glyphosate into products like Cheerios.”2 As we have said (and done- always gotta lead by example) many times over the last couple of years, we have the power to change our world and sometimes it’s as […]
[…]sewage contaminates our food supply As part of the 503 rule, the EPA allows for “the spreading, spraying, injection, or incorporation of sewage sludge” on cropland, including in areas where children play, even though it contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, various mutagenic and neurotoxic chemicals, and even pharmaceutical drug residues, all of which are classified by the EPA as “primary pollutants.” EPA tries to destroy Dr. Lewis for telling the ugly truth about biosludge Even so, the EPA has declared all of these primary pollutants to be “safe,” so long as they’re bound within the biosludge that’s being […]
[…]Medical Journal Nature.com read by millions per day worldwide!) which promotes the idea of spraying the stratosphere to “dim” the sun and is sick enough to state that it’s “only going to cost us just under ten BILLION dollars per year). WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR THE TRUTH! Zhen Dai, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her colleagues are currently testing whether or not calcium carbonate could potentially help our fight against global warming caused by greenhouse gas pollution. “The idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by […]
[…]and in various parts of Europe including Italy, France, Belgium, and Berlin. Precision pesticide-spraying—‘holistic’ and ‘sustainable’? Bayer describes its ForwardFarming project as “an initiative that works with independent farms around the world to help advance sustainable agriculture.” So, what is it exactly that Bayer is doing that’s sustainable? Promoting GPS technology that helps farmers spray pesticides with precision, glyphosate included. According to Bayer’s website, “digital farming techniques, such as GPS informed precision spraying . . . are all demonstrated on the fam.” These tools allow farmers “to take a holistic approach to sustainable farming.” Holistic approach? Don’t be fooled by […]
[…]levels, suggesting the origin is plant-based. ‘We know that glyphosate is only certified for spraying on crops, and it does not bio-accumulate in animals, so we would not expect it to come from feed animals that are the main protein sources in some of the products,’ Dr Hay said. ‘Our evidence suggests that it’s coming from plant material.’ The researchers said they were surprised that glyphosate was detected in the one GMO-free product tested. While the US Department of Agriculture requires that companies meet a common standard for meat and poultry that claims to be ‘Non-GMO’, the same is not […]
[…]Kitahata wrote. ). RELATED STORY: ‘Safer than table salt,’ Except it’s carcinogenic After spraying Roundup and a similar product at his job- for years- Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42. While many government regulators have rejected a link between the weed killer’s active ingredient glyphosate and cancer, the chemical was labeled as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the IARC in March of […]
[…]He’s taken almost $700,000 from Publix and he demanded mayors keep quiet about the spraying of Naled in our state, he’s a bad man.) Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been pointing out the part that Big Sugar has played in what’s happening to the ecosystem in Florida. And so have many others. In fact, you would think that politicians would be smarter about taking money from them. But no. At least not this guy. “This campaign season, only one person running for governor is still taking sugar’s money: Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. So far sugar companies and their affiliates have […]
[…]Francisco Bay Area school district, Johnson often used Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro, spraying “large quantities from a 50-gallon tank attached to a truck, and during gusty winds, the product would cover his face.” And at one point, when a hose broke, the poisonous weed killer soaked his entire body. Another time Johnson developed a rash and contacted the company but was never warned it could cause cancer. RELATED STORY: Day 6: Monsanto’s Head of Consumer Safety explains why he never returned plaintiff’s phone calls Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42. Something George […]
[…]new places and to stay alive for longer periods of time. We don’t want to have to resort to spraying potentially harmful pesticides over large swaths of land to kill mosquitoes, or quarantining people who enter the country from certain parts of the world, or exposing our children to vaccines that haven’t been tested thoroughly.” The combination of higher risks of flooding with an early spring, milder temperatures, growing populations of ticks and Lyme infected mice and more people being more active outdoors, may increase the number of people infected with Lyme disease. RELATED STORY: Professor and her students may […]
[…]noticed pustulating lesions sprouting on the patches of his skin that were exposed while he was spraying Roundup on a school playground, our Plaintiff, the naively trusting Dewayne Johnson, reached out, not to the EPA, but to Monsanto to find out if there was any possible connection between Roundup and his skin rash. Goldstein ignored the call. He testified that under normal circumstances, his “custom and practice… would be to try and contact the patient myself.” He elected however to stonewall Johnson. A year later when Johnson left another message reporting his cancer diagnosis, Goldstein continued to ignore the calls. Goldstein […]
[…]Foer’s critically acclaimed book of the same name. RELATED STORY: New Zealand is aerial spraying pristine land and then having animals eat off it, experts are worried Portman narrates the film, which promotes the transition from industrial factory farming to more humane, and more environmentally sustainable and regenerative farming methods. From the “Eating Animals” website: “Eating Animals” is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic and public health consequences of factory farming. Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat and dairy […]
[…]paralysis of his right arm from exposure to 2,4-D herbicide and other chemicals. Martens dreaded spraying pesticides. “I knew I would feel rotten for a month after,” he says. His wife, Mary-Howell, would later write: “My husband was slowly being poisoned.” In 1991, the Martens decided to transition to organic because, according to Mary-Howell, they hated what pesticides “might be doing to us, our family, our land, and our environment.” The Martens have been farming organically ever since and operate Lakeview Organic Grain, which supplies organic feed, grains, and seeds. Saskatchewan farmer Gus Zelinski transitioned to organic after being hospitalized for pesticide poisoning. He inhaled […]
[…]treated waterways. Perhaps it’s time we add a 5th season to the four we already have, ariel spraying season. The DEP says that products labels on Vectobac 12AS are available upon request but if you live in the area, I’d learn all you can about the larvacide and any other spraying they plan on doing this summer. And take the necessary […]
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[…]for this practice too. “…The pit will fill up, so it has to be emptied. And it’s emptied by spraying the liquid waste…If you are familiar with a garden sprayer, they are gigantic versions of that. They are making droplets of fine mist out of this liquid waste and that can drift downwind into the neighboring communities,” explains Dr. Steve Wing of University of North Carolina. People living around the farm have to tolerate the horrible smell from the factory. It doesn’t just make people gag, it also carries health repercussions. “There are a number of studies of asthma and asthma symptoms […]
[…]help from the U.S. Department of Defense.RELATED STORY: Beekeeper’s Bees Die Right After Aerial Spraying for Mosquitos (and she’s not the only one!) Spraying with the pesticide “Permethrin,” which has been certified as “safe for use” by the EPA will be done first in: “Aguada, Añasco, Arecibo, Caguas, Canovanas, Cataño, Ceiba, Dorado, Fajardo, Florida, Guánica, Guaynabo, Isabela, Lares, Lajas, Loíza, Luquillo, Mayagüez, Moca, Rincón, Sábana Grande, San Juan, San Germán, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Toa Baja, Yauco, Yabucoa, and the islands of Vieques and Culebra.” But just what is this pesticide the EPA calls safe? “Permethrin is topical insecticide, which is […]
[…]spraying. Now let’s have other counties in Florida, TX, NY, CA and around the US that are spraying by air follow suit! Clay County, Florida- Clay County cited the nearly 1,000 percent increase in mosquitos, since Hurricane Irma, as their reason to start aerial spraying with naled. However, thanks to all our many friends who let the county know exactly how they felt, it seems we’ve been able to get them to back down: “Based on feedback we have received from the public, Clay County will NOT move forward with using the EPA approved chemical Naled for aerial mosquito control…” The […]
[…]910th Airlift Wing, this current effort is “expected to significantly surpass previous [spraying] missions in scope” (think Hurricanes Katrina and Rita). Once again, the government has chosen to ignore the many voices crying danger; the chemical they are going to douse Houston residents in is the Naled. (Don’t fret, the Air Force insists they won’t be using large enough amounts to cause harm to humans.) As you will remember from last year, the insecticide Naled is manufactured and sold by a strategic partner of Monsanto and banned in the EU because of the risks it poses to human health: “Naled is a known neurotoxin […]
[…]were only “alleged, alleged.” Things that make you go, hmmm… RELATED ARTICLE: Planes Spraying Climate Controlling Toxic Clouds: U.S. GOVERNMENT DENIES THEY EXIST “Geoengineering isn’t a new idea though, and government-funded programs such as the High-Frequencyency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was created in the early 1990s and was an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). HAARP was capable of “weaponizing” the weather and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Throughout the life of the program, it had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and […]