{"id":48656,"date":"2019-09-26T06:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48656"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T11:42:00","slug":"pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48656","title":{"rendered":"Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph Source: United States Department of Agriculture \u2013 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a new paper published in King\u2019s Law Journal \u2013  \u2018The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures\u2019 \u2013 the authors Alessandra Arcuri<\/a> and Yogi Hale Hendlin<\/a> state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture\u2019s profits, the next generation of GMO crops are being keyed to the pesticide dicamba, sold commercially as XtendiMax\u00ae \u2013 and poised to be the next glyphosate. Regulatory agencies have historically been quick to approve products but slow to reconsider regulations after the decades of accumulated harms become apparent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They add that the entrenched asymmetries between public and ecological health and fast-to-market new chemicals is exacerbated by the seeming lack of institutionalised precautionary policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason, these \u2018entrenched asymmetries\u2019 result from the corporate capture of key policy-making bodies and their subversion by agri-food oligopolies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her new report, \u2018Why Does Bayer Crop Science Control Chemicals in Brexit Britain<\/a>\u2019, she states that Bayer is having secret meetings with the British government to determine which agrochemicals are to be used after Brexit once Britain is \u2018free\u2019 of EU restrictions and becomes as deregulated as the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such collusion comes as little surprise to Mason who says the government\u2019s \u2018strategy for UK life sciences\u2019 is already dependent on funding from pharmaceutical corporations and the pesticides industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSyngenta\u2019s parent company is AstraZeneca. In 2010, Syngenta and AstraZeneca were represented on the UK Advisory Committee on Pesticides and the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Foods, Consumer Products and the Environment. The founder of Syngenta, Michael Pragnell CBE, was the Chairman of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) from 2011-2017. CRUK started by giving money (\u00a3450 million\/year) to the Government\u2019s Strategy for UK Life Sciences and AstraZeneca provided 22 compounds to academic research to develop medicines. AstraZeneca manufactures six different anti-cancer drugs mainly aimed at breast and prostate cancer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual In a new paper published in King\u2019s Law Journal \u2013  \u2018The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures\u2019 \u2013 the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: \u201cAs the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture\u2019s profits, the next generation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,12141,6751,13900,5493,16952,4473,2080],"class_list":["post-48656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agribusiness","tag-bayer","tag-carcinogens","tag-colin-todhunter","tag-counterpunch","tag-dicamba","tag-glyphosate","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48656\/revisions\/48657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}