Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Chemical Warfare in the Cornfields as the EPA Reconsiders the Controversial Herbicide, Atrazine

 from Politics of the Plate.
University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Hayes [who] worked as a consultant for Syngenta stated:
 “People are starting to realize that it’s not just a frog issue and that it’s not just my data. I can stack up thirty, forty, one hundred papers showing adverse effects of atrazine. We’re looking at sexual problems and cancer problems in rats, and fish, and alligators, and now there is new data coming out about birth defects in humans. All these different effects are showing up independently.”