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To: thmathews <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 8:28 pm
Subject: FORWARD THIS: Reject the Next Generation of GMO Crops and Pesticides
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for taking action to reject the next generation of GMO crops and pesticides!
We need more to keep up the pressure to make sure that the Obama administration gets the message. Will you forward the email below to five of your friends?
TAKE ACTION! Reject the Next Generation
of GMO Crops and Pesticides
The U.S. Department of Agriculture could allow new GMO crops—resistant to an even stronger and more toxic herbicide—on the market without ANY government oversight.
Take Action Today!
Biotech corn will damage the environment and the people who grow it.
The USDA is poised to allow farmers to plant 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) resistant corn and soy. This would allow farmers to plant these crops wherever they please without any government oversight, disregarding the harms they will cause.
The toxic herbicide, 2,4-D, is associated with serious health impacts. New GMO crops have been created to resist 2,4-D so farmers could spray the herbicide without killing their corn and soy. But when the same herbicide is sprayed on a field repeatedly, a few naturally resistant weeds survive, reproduce and eventually take over. Because farmers did this with Monsanto’s Roundup-resistant crops, fields across the U.S. are now choked with Roundup-resistant weeds.
Industry’s solution is to genetically engineer crops to resist a different, more toxic herbicide, to kill those resistant weeds but not the crops.
But make no mistake, these GMO crops will, like their predecessors, lead to much greater use of even more dangerous chemicals, the development of more herbicide-resistant weeds, destruction and genetic contamination of neighboring crops, and severe economic impacts on other farmers.
The USDA projects approval of these crops will result in an up to 600 percent increase in 2,4-D use on crops, to as much as 176 million pounds per year, while independent scientists believe much greater increases are likely. Drifting 2,4-D already causes more crop injury events to neighboring farms than any other herbicide.
Please tell the USDA to deny approval use of these crops.
Sincerely,
Paul Achitoff
Managing Attorney
Mid-Pacific Office
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Bottom: Planes are used to drift pesticides over large fields. (David Kay / Shutterstock)
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