«The bill would bar people from suing pesticide manufacturers for failing to warn them of health risks, as long as the product labels are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). »

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/pesticide-lawsuits-cancer-gag-act

Oh, well, then, we can trust the EPA, can’t we?

«Bayer, the Germany-based owner of the former Monsanto Co, is the chief architect of the strategy, designed as a means to beat back thousands of lawsuits filed by farmers and others who blame their use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides for causing them to develop cancer.

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Along with the state legislative actions, the EPA last month opened a public comment period on a petition filed by the attorneys general of Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina and South Dakota seeking an amendment to federal law that would make it harder for people to sue pesticide makers.

The proposed modifications would bar any state labeling requirements that were “inconsistent” with the EPA’s conclusions regarding the safety of a pesticide.

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“Polling in Iowa would indicate that the general public is simply not going to fall for Bayer’s message,” Mertens said. “But legislators can be swayed in ways that voters cannot, so the fight is far from over.”

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“Polling in Iowa would indicate that the general public is simply not going to fall for Bayer’s message,” Mertens said. “But legislators can be swayed in ways that voters cannot, so the fight is far from over.”»

Factory food, bay-bee! (I feel like this also highlights a difference between farmers and farm labor. I bet it’s the farm labor that’s getting cancer. The landowners and business people, not so much.)

(Courtesy of The Tennessee Holler, @thetnholler.bsky.social.)

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