*******URGENT CALL TO ACTION*********
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IGNORING more than 60
members of Congress and the half million citizens who petitioned against
it, has officially approved a deadly new herbicide, Dow’s Enlist Duo,
made from a combination of Monsanto’s Roundup and Dow’s “Agent Orange
Chemical” 2,4-D.
-------------->WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!<---------------- b="">
We need every person who sees this post to take to the phones and call Dow, the EPA and the White House.
Dow Chemical: (800) 258-2436
Gina McCarthy, EPA Director: (202) 564-4700
EPA Pesticide Hotline: (800) 258-7378
White House Switchboard: (202) 456-1111 or (202) 456-1414
Suggested comments:
Simply put, Enlist Duo is a very bad idea. This will drive a massive
increase in pesticide use that threatens to destroy vulnerable crops,
while placing the burden of both increased costs and health risks on
farmers and rural communities.
2,4-D is a very toxic herbicide.
It is a suspected endocrine disruptor and has been linked to cancer and
reproductive harm. Children are particularly susceptible to its effects.
2,4-D is much more harmful to plant life than RoundUp (glyphosate).
Specialty crops (like grapes, tomatoes, beans and sweet corn) and non-GE
soy and cotton are extremely sensitive to 2,4-D.
2,4-D does and
will drift off of target crops. Both spray drift and volatilization
drift can devastate adjacent ecosystems and entire landscapes - in
addition to potentially affecting residential areas. Such damage poses a
very real threat to rural economies and farmers growing
non-2,4-D-resistant crops.
Conventional farmers will lose crops,
while organic farmers will lose both crops and certification, resulting
in an economic unraveling of already-stressed rural communities.
2,4-D-resistant “superweeds” will arise and spread. RoundUp-tolerant
“superweeds” have taken over farms and countryside in the Midwest and
Southeast, and widespread use of 2,4-D will spur more of the same.
The whole line about GMOs "feeding the world" is a pure front to sell
more pesticide. The fertility and productivity of soil is not improved
by adding poisons. The poisons destroy the microorganisms in soil that
make the rock minerals bioavailable, and they also destroy the subtle
bacterial balance that keeps the plants disease-free.
