In Argentina, the Milei Government continues to expand poisoning with pesticides and has just approved the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for the application of pesticides such as the carcinogen glyphosate, reports the investigative journalist Patricio Eleisegui. The measure comes at the request of agribusiness leaders from organisations such as the Rural Society, Carbap, Coninagro, CREA and the Agrarian Federation. The government's intention is to intensify industrial agriculture based on the GM + pesticides + no-till package with greater involvement of companies such as Bayer Monsanto, Corteva (Dow, DuPont, Pioneer), ChemChina (Syngenta), BASF and India's UPL. GMWatch on X

 

 

A new study found the amount of pesticides used on farms was strongly associated with the incidence of many cancers — not only for farmers and their families, but for entire communities. It comes on the heels of substantial lobbying by the pesticide industry this spring to limit its liability from lawsuits over their products’ health impacts. The just-released analysis showed that “agricultural pesticides can increase your risk for some cancers just as much as smoking,” says co-author Isain Zapata, an associate professor of research and statistics at Rocky Vista University in Colorado. For example, living in places with high pesticide use increased the risk of colon and pancreatic cancers by more than 80 percent, results that surprised even the researchers. “In my opinion, that’s crazy,” Zapata said, adding they were not expecting to find such a significant association. The Lever (subscribe for free to read full article)

 

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