US Criticizes Vietnam's Ban on Suspected Cancer-Causing Herbicides
Source: VOA News
April 12, 2019 0:21 AM
VOA News
The Trump administration says Vietnams decision to ban herbicides with an ingredient suspected of causing cancer will hurt, not help farmers.
Glyphosate is a chief ingredient in the best-selling herbicide Roundup. Vietnam says it will stop importing Roundup and all other weed killers with the chemical in June.
U.S. agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue says he is disappointed in Vietnams decision, saying it will have devastating impacts.
If were going to feed 10 billion people by 2050, farmers worldwide need all the tools and technologies at our disposal, he said Thursday.
Read more: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-criticizes-vietnam-s-ban-on-suspected-cancer-causing-herbicides-/4872784.html
SHRED
(28,136 posts)They are sick of it.
Literally.
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)But we're in such a hurry.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)Something about the US .gov lecturing the Vietnamese on the safety of foilage-targeting chemicals.......
susanna
(5,231 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,449 posts)Of course this is not surprising since Agent Orange (Drumpf) believes that asbestos is a wonderful thing and should be brought back 😡
patphil
(6,207 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)The arrogance in doing so is mind-boggling.
oldsoftie
(12,597 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Socal31
(2,484 posts)I heard the NRC is going to lecture Fallujah on the safety of depleted uranium.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)oldsoftie
(12,597 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)and the sooner they're Gone the World will be better.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Really doesn't seem like any of our business to tell them what herbicides they should and shouldn't allow.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)It's their choice, not ours.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)can't mess with the ol' profits, now can we?
benfranklin1776
(6,449 posts)You got it! Follow the rancid money trail as always!
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Someone complained about it and asked for some words to be said. It has to be it. I hope I am wrong and maybe someone can explain how that's wrong, but I can't think of anything else that seem plausible.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/why-insect-populations-are-plummeting-and-why-it-matters/
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
Insects Are Dying Off at an Alarming Rate
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-global-insect-populations-have-crashed-last-decade-180971474/
watoos
(7,142 posts)my cousin has been in a wheelchair for 45 years with MS-like symptoms from Agent Orange.
I would never use Roundup and I eat organic foods and I'm not telling anyone else what to do, eat what you want. When food doesn't spoil that should tell people something. My potatoes , if left long enough will have eyes start to grow from them, GMO potatoes can't grow eyes.
Google Fox v Monsanto, a husband and wife who worked for a Fox affiliate in Florida did a story on farming. They exposed all of the use of Glyphosate, steroids, antibiotics and more. They submitted their report that were going to air on TV. Monsanto got involved and edited their report. The reporters refused to air the edited version because it was a lie. Fox fired them. They sued in court and won, the 1st case, they lost the appeal case. The decision basically said that the Fox employees were obligated to report the lies on TV, that they were insubordinate and Fox had every right to fire them.
Bon Apatite
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Yet all too typical.
MBS
(9,688 posts)It's bad enough when this regime bans U.S. states (see the recent "executive order" from having stricter environmental regulations than what's left of the federal environmental regulations that he's so zealously dismantled. Now he's criticizing other countries for trying to ensure a healthy ecosystem for its citizens? WTF?
logosoco
(3,208 posts)you have to use toxic substances on food NOW so it will be possible to feed people 30 YEARS from now.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Let's see them get behind THAT!
oldsoftie
(12,597 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)As Vietnam embraces American culture, the US food gang is back in force - McDonalds, Starbucks, KFC, Coca-Cola.
And Monsanto.
Well, Monsanto does not exactly advertise its presence because it is more on the Apocalypse Now side of things. Actually, when it comes to the food chain, Monsanto is more like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death.
As Monsanto rides roughshod over farmers, buys off politicians and pays off scientists, the Four Horsemen could easily be symbolic for the four GM crops they control: GM corn, cotton, soybeans and canola (rapeseed).
Archae
(46,345 posts)Fact is, life itself causes cancer.
Last July I had cancer surgery.
What should I blame it on?
I don't smoke, drink, use chemicals on gardens and whatnot, so who should I sue?
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)Another highly toxic product is fabric softener, both liquid and dryer sheets.
watoos
(7,142 posts)the Owens Corning division made asbestos and they knew it caused asbestosis. They are still paying out claims to people. This is a fact, Hitler knew about the dangers of asbestos and he protected his workers against exposure to it.
I worked around methyl chloride, we used it as an adhesive to stick labels to glass bottles. I got cancer, can't prove where I got it from, but I got it fixed soon enough that I have been cancer free for 20 years.
That's one thing about cancer, sometimes it takes a while to kill you and a doctor rarely says how you got it.
I do organic and home grown food, I don't need to buy food that never spoils because it is full of preservatives and poison. Oh and the organic food tastes better.
Oh, here's another one. My friend who was born with 1 kidney got cancer in it. He went to the Cleveland clinic where the doctor told him he planned to take out 30% of his kidney. The doctor took out 70% of his kidney, because something else was attacking it, Prilosec. That's according to a surgeon from the Cleveland clinic. My friend is doing fine and doesn't even need dialysis. He stopped taking Prilosec for his heart burn though.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)The manufacturers know it as do the government agencies that are supposed to regulate such things. It's all about greed. Parabens are yet another thing that is in so many products that we put on our skin and it's absorbed into our bodies. The list goes on and on.
Isn't tRump trying to bring asbestos back into the country? I think he wants to import it from Russia if I remember correctly.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)Monsanto was one of the producers of Agent Orange. None of us have any reason to trust this company and their herbicides, least of all Vietnam.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)Now I'm curious how far up the chain from Perdue we'd have to go to find lobbyist money tied to Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, etc.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)>>U.S. agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue says he is disappointed in Vietnams decision, saying it will have devastating impacts.
It will simply be DEVESTATING to their profits - I do declare....
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)87 million lbs in 1987 to over 300 million lbs in 2014,,,,, that s just in teh USA. It all ends up in our water ... my little river that runs thru my front yard in the last 7 yrs has become a "Dead" drainage ditch void of almost all aquatic life.......But MonSanto doing great!
pecosbob
(7,543 posts)I think that's Monsanto's m.o.
watoos
(7,142 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)I even read they have been quietly trying to corner the marijuana seed market.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)California_Republic
(1,826 posts)JaxMan
(11 posts)It's the first step toward breaking U.S. corporate control over farming.
lostnfound
(16,189 posts)I believe glyphosate makes the eggs too permeable and frogs cant reproduce.
Frog species are going extinct from chytrid fungus in high numbers right now. Its not a good time.
Grins
(7,228 posts)Glyphosate is a key component in Monsanto's "Round-Up"
Four years ago, in an interview with a reporter from French television station Canal+, shill-Meister and grifting phony. Dr. Patrick Moore, claimed it was safe. In fact, so safe you could "drink it!"
So, on camera, the French reporter handed him a glass of it! And, as they say, hilarity ensued:
YouTube; about 2-minutes:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPo4up5crhAhWx1FkKHVY-At4QtwIILjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dp_sOIuTa920&usg=AOvVaw1K2kRW20Fxh3NE5nOMffVc
EttuBrute
(10 posts)I think it is very likely linked top the killing of beehives known as hive collapse. I have lost all mine three times and have given up. Very sad.
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Seeing what apparently happens to them at that location would be too painful to try again.
Hope we all live long enough to see this disaster reversed in our world.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Crazy.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Think we'll hear a speech from Trump saying "Mrs. Merkel, tear down those windmills."
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But honestly, I can imagine him saying that. And his Trumpers cheering!
procon
(15,805 posts)We continue to turn a blind eye on political corruption that allows the producers of dangerous substances to openly bribe the government to protect their greed.
People die.
The environment is polluted.
Our future is at risk.
Water is toxic.
The food supply is contaminated.
It won't stop until we get serious and demand and end to the money that is destroying the pitiful remains of our democracy.