| | 27/March/20
| | Center for Food Safety sues EPA over glyphosate re-approval The Center for Food Safety (CFS), on behalf of a coalition of farmworkers, farmers, and conservationists, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its January 2020 re-approval of the pesticide glyphosate – the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticides. While EPA defends glyphosate, juries in several cases have found it to cause cancer, ruling in favour of those impacted by exposure. After a registration review process spanning over a decade, EPA allowed the continued marketing of the pesticide without fully assessing glyphosate’s hormone-disrupting potential or its effects on threatened and endangered species, according to CFS. New Food Seed treatment confusion With seed treatment use on the rise, farmers and regulators are becoming hard-pressed to keep track of the rising number of pesticide ingredients added to seeds before planting. As companies bundle more active ingredients together and treat seeds farther upstream from the farm, growers' knowledge of their personal on-farm pesticide inputs is becoming less accurate, a new study found. And they're not alone - US regulators don't have good data on how many pesticides are used in seed treatments, either. The result is that many farmers may be using more pesticides than they realized - and perhaps more than they need - at a time when profit margins are slim and uncertain. DTN Progressive Farmer Think exotic animals are to blame for the coronavirus? Think again Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the coronavirus, but the real blame lies elsewhere — with human assaults on the environment. Speculation about which wild creature originally harboured the virus obscures a more fundamental source of our growing vulnerability to pandemics: the accelerating pace of habitat loss. Although stories illustrated with pictures of wild animals as “the source” of deadly outbreaks might suggest otherwise, wild animals are not especially infested with deadly pathogens, poised to infect us. In fact, most of these microbes live harmlessly in these animals’ bodies. The problem is the way that cutting down forests and expanding towns, cities, and industrial activities creates pathways for animal microbes to adapt to the human body. The Nation DONATE TO GMWATCH __________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.gmwatch.org
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