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Stop the Madness. Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s Toxic 5 Herbicide GMO Corn.
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Tell the USDA: Stop the Madness. Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s Toxic 5 Herbicide GMO Corn.
Bayer-Monsanto is piling on the poison to unimaginable levels. Industrial agriculture is out of control and must be stopped.
In 1996, the USDA allowed Monsanto to bring the first genetically engineered crop to market, unleashing a monsoon of poison into the American landscape. Monsanto’s glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops and its glyphosate-based weedkiller, Roundup, were adopted by conventional farmers across the country. Roundup Ready GMOs and glyphosate use quickly skyrocketed.
Today, hundreds of millions of pounds of this genotoxic carcinogen are lathered on American soil. Glyphosate has become so ubiquitous in our environment that recent studies show the toxic chemical is now falling down in the rain, contaminating everything, including us. It’s found in the urine of most Americans.
But Nature has outwitted Monsanto and the GMO/agrichemical industry at every turn. An army of weeds have developed resistance to Roundup, becoming “superweeds.” In an attempt to control the herbicide-resistant weed problem Monsanto caused, Bayer-Monsanto, and others in the industry, developed new GMO crops able to tolerate multiple toxic herbicides.
In recent years, Monsanto gained approval for GMO crops that are tolerant of both glyphosate and dicamba. Dow followed with GMO crops able to tolerate both glyphosate and 2,4-D. The agrichemical industry and their farmers are waging chemical warfare against Nature, putting farmers on what health experts have coined the “chemical treadmill,” a path of escalating, never-ending use of poisons.
As the herbicide-resistant weed problem continues to grow, so does conventional farmers’ chemical addiction.
Bayer-Monsanto created this superweed problem. And now, the company wants to throw the kitchen sink at it. Bayer wants the USDA to deregulate their MON-87429 corn, genetically engineered to tolerate five different herbicides. You heard that right. FIVE toxic herbicides! 2,4-D, dicamba, glufosinate, glyphosate, and quizalofop.
No one has studied the combined toxicity of these five chemicals when used together. Studies tell us that the chemical cocktail effect of the pesticide combination is likely to be far more toxic than the individual pesticides, which are already linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, kidney and liver damage, autism, birth defects, reproductive problems, developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity and widespread environmental harms.
Earlier this year and for the SECOND time in less than four years, a federal court has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), responsible for chemical registrations, to ban dicamba herbicide. The U.S. District Court of Arizona determined that the EPA unlawfully approved dicamba for use on GMO soybeans and cotton designed to withstand the herbicide. The court acknowledged dicamba as an effective herbicide, but said “its toxicity is not limited to weeds; it kills broadleaf plants, generally, including desirable plants, bushes, and trees. Dicamba easily moves off-field due to wind drift during spraying and is volatile, meaning it evaporates into a gas during spraying if there is a temperature inversion or even hot weather can cause it to vaporize after spraying."
Following the USDA’s approval of dicamba-tolerant crops in 2016, millions of acres of non-GMO and organic crops, private gardens, and trees have been damaged by dicamba drift year after year.
Read related articles about dicamba:
The District Court of Arizona’s 2024 order to vacate the registration for dicamba herbicide means that if the USDA approves Bayer's MON-87429 5-herbicide corn, the agency would be encouraging GMO farmers to break the law by using illegal dicamba formulations, and may be breaking the law itself.
Our conventional agricultural system has reached a breaking point. We don’t need more GMOs and toxic pesticides that contaminate our organic crops, our environment, or our bodies. Tell the USDA to end this madness. Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s MON-87429 corn.
Study References:
Multi-omics phenotyping of the gut-liver axis allows health risk predictability from in vivo subchronic toxicity tests of a low-dose pesticide mixture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.25.266528v1
The risk of chemical cocktail effects and how to deal with the issue https://sci-hub.se/http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206268
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