DoomsdaysCWDec 12

A Month After #Trump Doubles Down on #Atrazine, #WHO Dubs It ‘Probably #Carcinogenic to Humans’

“It is outrageously irresponsible that we still allow use of this dangerous #poison in the United States,” said the Center for Biological Diversity’s environmental health science director.

Jessica Corbett
Nov 21, 2025

"Just a month after the Trump administration doubled down on the alleged safety of atrazine, a United Nations agency said on Friday that the pesticide—which is banned by dozens of countries but commonly used on #corn, #sugarcane, and #sorghum in the United States—probably causes #cancer.

" 'It is outrageously irresponsible that we still allow use of this dangerous poison in the United States,' said Nathan Donley, the Center for Biological Diversity’s environmental health science director, in a Friday statement. 'This finding is just the latest indictment of the industry-controlled US #pesticide oversight process that is failing to protect people and #wildlife from chemicals linked to numerous health harms.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/atrazine-herbicide

#CommonDreams #EPAFail #Bayer
#ToxicPesticides #Monocrops
#Monocrap #BigAg #BigChem #Poison #USPol #WorldPol #Pesticides #CenterForBiologlicalDiversity

A Month After Trump Doubles Down on Atrazine, WHO Dubs It 'Probably Carcinogenic to Humans' | Common Dreams

After the Trump administration doubled down on the alleged safety of atrazine, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said that the pesticide probably causes cancer.

Common Dreams
Show threadAsbestosFeb 16
@DoomsdaysCW
A venn diagram of the people who support atrazine or any pesticide "everything causes cancer" and the people who think vaccines are dangerous
is the exact same circle.
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 16
@Asbestos True. But this stuff was going on way before RFKJr and the Antivax movement. Also, having been vaccine-injured (smallpox vaccine reaction, ended up in the hospital on IV benadryl), I think that "one size does not fit all," and that vaccines should be spaced out and given separately, not lumped together.
Show threadAsbestos
@DoomsdaysCW
the risk assessment of maga types spending thousands on guns and hundreds of hours practicing for the extremely rare chance that someone will break into their house, but willingly expose themselves to all sorts of things that present a risk that's orders of magnitude higher.
of course this is all filtered through what we personally worry about
Feb 16 at 12:53amWeb