While the nation was watching the election, the EPA just approved another toxic herbicide for Monsanto
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As universities across the country hold cry-ins, counseling sessions,
and post-election therapy events for narcissistic, cry-baby college
students, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has quietly approved
Monsanto's new drift-prone herbicide, which will further poison,
emasculate, and weaken the population.
The soils are suffering
from persistent over farming, bio-solid toxins, and chemical-intense
agriculture. Soil and crops are so nutritionally depleted; the effect
can be witnessed in the panicky, easily manipulated, fragile-minded
behaviors of people.
EPA bows to Monsanto again, keeping farmers trapped in the herbicide-dependent agricultural cycle
The EPA is run by people who have worked for the biotech industry, who buckle under the pressure of the demands of multinational corporations like Monsanto. The EPA cannot protect anything if they lack the courage to say no to compounding use of damaging herbicides. The EPA has no discernment or integrity if the chemicals they approve are the very toxins that pollute the air, water, soil, and the people's health. The EPA disrespectfully keeps American farmers trapped in the horrid cycle of spraying new chemicals to battle nature.On the morning after the election, the EPA rushed a decision to allow a massive increase in the use of Monsanto's toxic dicamba-based herbicide - XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology. Monsanto says this herbicide is less "volatile" than previous dicamba-based compounds that have damaged crops and led to lawsuits in the past.
This product is destined to enter the marketplace at the start of the next growing season, but Monsanto still needs approval from individual states before they can sell it to the farmers.
"We chose to launch this year to allow growers to experience the industry-leading varieties of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans," Monsanto spokesman Dan Urnikis told Delta Farm Press. "They can plant with confidence this year in anticipation of the chemical approval for the 2017 growing season."
Herbicide drift wiping out various food crops across the country
Dicamba-based herbicides are a threat to the entire ecosystem and agricultural system because these chemicals vaporize from treated fields and drift to neighboring farms, fields, and woodlands. This causes crop damage to farms that don't use the corresponding genetically engineered seeds that are designed to withstand the chemical. This also causes damage to other species of wild plants and herbs and hurts organic farms that don't participate in the genetic engineering of food.This dicamba-based herbicide wiped out countless crops in 2016, including soybeans, tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, rice, cotton, peas, peanuts, alfalfa and even peaches. Missouri's largest peach producer, Bader Peaches, lost 30,000 trees this year because of herbicide drift. After approving XtendiMax for 2017, the EPA ruled that the herbicide cannot be applied by aircraft or when wind speed is greater than 15 mph.
Monsanto was already positioned for the EPA's approval of their newest herbicide
Monsanto has already positioned their company to monopolize on their drift-prone herbicide. They have already rolled out genetically engineered seeds, Bollgard II XtendFlex cotton and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans. These GE seeds will be sold en masse to farmers whose current seeds cannot withstand the damages of drifting dicamba-based herbicides and failed glyphosate herbicides. This is precisely how the biotech industry controls farmers and enslaves them to genetically modified seeds and continuous use of new herbicides.Monsanto faces bold ideological opposition from powerful groups such as the Center for Biological Diversity. Nathan Donley, a senior scientist for the center, says, "We can't spray our way out of this problem. We need to get off the pesticide treadmill," said in a prepared statement. "Pesticide resistant superweeds are a serious threat to our farmers, and piling on more pesticides will just result in superweeds resistant to more pesticides. We can't fight evolution – it's a losing strategy."
