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USDA: Stop the Madness and Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s MON-87429 GMO Corn
Tell the USDA: Stop the Madness and Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s MON-87429 GMO Corn
Bayer-Monsanto is piling on the poison...
In 1996, the USDA allowed Monsanto to bring a genetically engineered crop to market that ended up unleashing a monsoon of poison into the American landscape. Monsanto’s glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops and its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, were adopted by farmers across the country. Within a handful of years, Roundup Ready GMOs and glyphosate use skyrocketed. Today, hundreds of millions of pounds of this genotoxic carcinogen is lathered on American soils. Glyphosate has become so ubiquitous in our environment that recent studies show the toxic chemical is now falling down in the rain and in the urine of most Americans.
But Nature has outwitted Monsanto and the GMO/agrichemical industry at every turn. Many weeds have developed resistance to Roundup - becoming superweeds - causing the industry to develop new GMO crops able to tolerate multiple toxic pesticides.
In recent years, Monsanto developed GMO crops that are tolerant of both glyphosate and dicamba. Dow developed GMO crops able to tolerate both glyphosate and 2,4-D. The agrichemical industry and their farmers are waging chemical warfare against Nature. The farmers are on what health experts have coined the “chemical treadmill,” a path of never ending and escalating use of poisons.
But now, Bayer-Monsanto wants to throw the kitchen sink at the superweed problem they created. Bayer wants the USDA to deregulate their MON-87429 corn, genetically engineered to tolerate five different pesticides. You heard that right. Not two. Not three. FIVE toxic pesticides! 2,4-D, dicamba, glufosinate, glyphosate, and quizalofop. And no one has studied the combined toxicity of these 5 chemicals when used together. The chemical cocktail effect tells us the combination is likely even more toxic than the individual pesticides, which are already linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, kidney and liver damage, autism, birth defects, reproductive problems, neurotoxicity and more.
We don’t need any more GMOs that contaminate our non-GMO and organic crops. And the nation certainly doesn't need any more persistent toxic chemicals in our environment or our bodies. Tell the USDA to end this madness. Reject Bayer-Monsanto’s MON-87429 corn.
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