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Cairycat

(1,761 posts) Fri Jul 15, 2016, 10:53 AM Jul 2016

15 detasselers hospitalized after being exposed to herbicide

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/15-detasselers-hospitalized-after-being-exposed-to-herbicide-386956511.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KCRG-TV9

There was also an article about this in the Marshalltown Times-Republican (but I can't link to that). In neither of these articles does it say which herbicide was the culprit. I find this quite worrisome - if it has that bad an effect on agricultural workers, how does it affect those of us who ingest this herbicide via the food chain?

Side note - isn't this kind of early for detasseling? It's been ten years since i had a kid who detasseled, and it seems to me that was later in July, early August.

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15 detasselers hospitalized after being exposed to herbicide (Original Post) Cairycat Jul 2016 OP

quite worrisome indeed yourpaljoey Jul 2016 #1

you think Monsanto cares? So much for labeling our food larkrake Jul 2016 #2

Spraying ag chemicals on humans just has to be a criminal act. Right? IADEMO2004 Jul 2016 #3

Wait til the Bayer-Monsanto behemoth uses TPP ISDS to sue for 'lost future profits" from poisoning stuffmatters Jul 2016 #4

yourpaljoey

(2,166 posts)

1. quite worrisome indeed

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 10:59 AM

Jul 2016

It starts around July 10 where I come from.

larkrake

(1,674 posts)

2. you think Monsanto cares? So much for labeling our food

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 10:59 AM

Jul 2016

God I hate these corporate legislators and lobbyists

IADEMO2004

(5,885 posts)

3. Spraying ag chemicals on humans just has to be a criminal act. Right?

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 12:02 PM

Jul 2016

stuffmatters

(2,576 posts)

4. Wait til the Bayer-Monsanto behemoth uses TPP ISDS to sue for 'lost future profits" from poisoning

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 03:12 PM

Jul 2016

If there's ever going to be a law prohibiting these pesticides, better do it before TPP passes. The imminent Bayer-Montsanto
merger makes these lawsuits certain, won't even need to invert to use ISDS.

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