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Serious scrutiny needed as EPA seeks input on cancer ties to Monsanto herbicide
?itok=cVESy4NTThe glyphosate geeks are gathering in Washington this week. After a two-month delay, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding four days of meetings aimed at examining the evidence that does or does not tie the worlds most widely used herbicide glyphosate to cancer.
Scientists, activists and agricultural industry leaders are all expected to show up to either defend or attack the chemical that is currently at the center of international controversy. More than 250,000 public comments have been filed with the EPA ahead of the Dec. 13-16 meetings, and the agency is girding for more than 10 hours of personally delivered public comments before a specially appointed scientific advisory panel gets down to work.
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That appears to be the path EPA has followed with glyphosate. Ever since the agency announced last July that it would hold these meetings, the agrichemical industrys trade group CropLife America has been working to make sure that the EPA repudiates the cancer concerns. CropLife first suggested the EPA scrap the meetings altogether, arguing there was no scientific justification for a review. The association then outlined criteria for the EPA to use in selecting scientists who might serve on the panel. And then after the panel was in place, CropLife told the EPA it should remove epidemiologist Dr. Peter Infante. CropLife considered him biased against the industry. The EPA responded by removing Infante as CropLife asked, and then refusing to explain its decision to the public, issuing a no comment to those who inquired about Infantes removal.
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Serious scrutiny needed as EPA seeks input on cancer ties to Monsanto herbicide (Original Post)
tecelote
Dec 2016
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. The Republicans will bury all the ugly news about GMOs & poisons
I've heard people speculate that the freaking GMO-poison combine has been a big factor in making Americans more dull, coarse and unthinking over the last 20 years as the GMO stuff has stealthily infiltrated almost every part of our diets.
Correlation is not causation, of course, I tell them. But they insist that all the same it is damn noteworthy.
I've "heard" people "speculate." Is that what passes for propaganda these days? Propaganda used to be so much more convincing before the poisons and GMOs addled their minds.
Archae
(46,356 posts)3. When (NOT if!) Roundup is found to not be a "cause" of cancer...
The hysterics, wild accusations and propaganda will still fly.