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Related: About this forum15 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-TV9There 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
Wait til the Bayer-Monsanto behemoth uses TPP ISDS to sue for 'lost future profits" from poisoning
stuffmatters
Jul 2016
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yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)1. quite worrisome indeed
It starts around July 10 where I come from.
larkrake
(1,674 posts)2. you think Monsanto cares? So much for labeling our food
God I hate these corporate legislators and lobbyists
IADEMO2004
(5,868 posts)3. Spraying ag chemicals on humans just has to be a criminal act. Right?
stuffmatters
(2,576 posts)4. Wait til the Bayer-Monsanto behemoth uses TPP ISDS to sue for 'lost future profits" from poisoning
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.