You people seem to think we’re joking about these chemicals.

Man, this shit is no joke.

This is real life. It’s a real, serious problem, and virtually no one even bothers talking about it.

The Guardian:

Pregnant women in a key US farm state are showing increasing amounts of a toxic weedkiller in their urine, a rise that comes alongside climbing use of the chemicals in agriculture, according to a study published on Friday.

The study, led by the Indiana University school of medicine, showed that 70% of pregnant women tested in Indiana between 2020 and 2022 had a herbicide called dicamba in their urine, up from 28% from a similar analysis for the period 2010-12. The earlier study included women in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.

Notably, the study also found that along with a larger percentage of women showing the presence of dicamba in their bodies, the concentrations of the weed-killing chemical increased more than fourfold.

Both studies found that 100% of the women tested had 2,4-dichloroacetic acid, better known as 2,4-D, in their urine; the more recent study showed detectable, but not significant, increases in concentration levels.

The findings add to a growing body of literature documenting human exposure to chemicals used in agriculture, and various known and potential health impacts. Many scientists have particular concerns about how farm chemicals affect pregnant women and their children, but say more research – and more regulatory scrutiny – is needed.

“These are two chemicals we’re concerned about because of their increasing use,” said Paul Winchester, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University school of medicine who was not involved in this study.

Winchester called the findings “sobering” and said that there was growing evidence that these chemicals can be harmful to fetuses. “Fetal DNA is being shaped by these exposures,” he said. “What we’re seeing in other chemicals that have had longer pathways of study is that this is not benign exposure.”

Why do weedkiller companies have a right to put these chemicals inside of the bodies of women?

How does that make sense?

What government could possibly allow something like this, other than a democracy?

See: Court Bans Three Weedkillers, Says EPA Broke the Law in Their Approval Process

About last week’s #Dicamba victory.. 🤔 Why did EPA approve Dicamba over the top usage in the first place? Does this ban the manufacturing of Dicamba or just the application?

CFS staff attorney Meredith Stevenson answers some of your questions on last week’s U.S. District Court… pic.twitter.com/bOibILkViJ

— Center for Food Safety (@CFSTrueFood) February 12, 2024

No one has so far been able to explain why it is legal for these corporations to pay the government to make it legal for them to create and distribute deadly chemicals.

One court is saying it is not actually legal.

The Guardian:

Dealing a blow to three of the world’s biggest agrochemical companies, a US court this week banned three weedkillers widely used in American agriculture, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke the law in allowing them to be on the market.

The ruling is specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers manufactured by Bayer, BASF and Syngenta, which have been blamed for millions of acres of crop damage and harm to endangered species and natural areas across the midwest and south.

This is the second time a federal court has banned these weedkillers since they were introduced for the 2017 growing season. In 2020, the ninth circuit court of appeals issued its own ban, but months later the Trump administration reapproved the weedkilling products, just one week before the presidential election at a press conference in the swing state of Georgia.

But a federal judge in Arizona ruled on Monday that the EPA made a crucial error in reapproving dicamba, finding the agency did not post it for public notice and comment as required by law. US district judge David Bury wrote in a 47-page ruling that it was a “very serious” violation and that if EPA had done a full analysis, it probably would not have made the same decision.

Bury wrote that the EPA did not allow many people who are deeply affected by the weedkiller – including specialty farmers, conservation groups and more – to comment.

The lawsuit was filed by farmer and conservation groups.

“Time and time again, the evidence has shown that dicamba cannot be used without causing massive and unprecedented harm to farms as well as endangering plants and pollinators,” said George Kimbrell, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, which litigated the case.

An EPA spokesman, Jeffrey Landis, said the agency was still reviewing the ruling but declined to comment further.

Dicamba was introduced to American agriculture in 1967, but was never widely used during warm months because it was well known that the chemical can volatilize and move long distances when temperatures climb. Volatilization is when dicamba particles turn from a liquid to a gas in the hours or days after the herbicide is applied, in effect turning into clouds of weedkiller and causing landscape-level damage.

Dicamba is also prone to drifting on the wind far from where it is applied. And it can move into drainage ditches and bodies of water as runoff during rain events.

This is the whole issue, really: if people want to poison themselves, then okay. But they should not be allowed to put these chemicals into the entire environment, and poison everyone.

We should all just be one issue anti-weedkiller voters.

The weedkiller that our captured regulatory agencies assured us for decades was safe. When I’m President the EPA will protect people, not pesticide manufacturers. #Kennedy24https://t.co/oZGVzzXMmC

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 31, 2023

No one has so far been able to explain why it is legal for these corporations to pay the government to make it legal for them to create and distribute deadly chemicals.

One court is saying it is not actually legal.

The Guardian:

Dealing a blow to three of the world’s biggest agrochemical companies, a US court this week banned three weedkillers widely used in American agriculture, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke the law in allowing them to be on the market.

The ruling is specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers manufactured by Bayer, BASF and Syngenta, which have been blamed for millions of acres of crop damage and harm to endangered species and natural areas across the midwest and south.

This is the second time a federal court has banned these weedkillers since they were introduced for the 2017 growing season. In 2020, the ninth circuit court of appeals issued its own ban, but months later the Trump administration reapproved the weedkilling products, just one week before the presidential election at a press conference in the swing state of Georgia.

But a federal judge in Arizona ruled on Monday that the EPA made a crucial error in reapproving dicamba, finding the agency did not post it for public notice and comment as required by law. US district judge David Bury wrote in a 47-page ruling that it was a “very serious” violation and that if EPA had done a full analysis, it probably would not have made the same decision.

Bury wrote that the EPA did not allow many people who are deeply affected by the weedkiller – including specialty farmers, conservation groups and more – to comment.

The lawsuit was filed by farmer and conservation groups.

“Time and time again, the evidence has shown that dicamba cannot be used without causing massive and unprecedented harm to farms as well as endangering plants and pollinators,” said George Kimbrell, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, which litigated the case.

An EPA spokesman, Jeffrey Landis, said the agency was still reviewing the ruling but declined to comment further.

Dicamba was introduced to American agriculture in 1967, but was never widely used during warm months because it was well known that the chemical can volatilize and move long distances when temperatures climb. Volatilization is when dicamba particles turn from a liquid to a gas in the hours or days after the herbicide is applied, in effect turning into clouds of weedkiller and causing landscape-level damage.

Dicamba is also prone to drifting on the wind far from where it is applied. And it can move into drainage ditches and bodies of water as runoff during rain events.

This is the whole issue, really: if people want to poison themselves, then okay. But they should not be allowed to put these chemicals into the entire environment, and poison everyone.

We should all just be one issue anti-weedkiller voters.

The weedkiller that our captured regulatory agencies assured us for decades was safe. When I’m President the EPA will protect people, not pesticide manufacturers. #Kennedy24https://t.co/oZGVzzXMmC

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 31, 2023