Bayer and the pesticide industry are lying about the liability shield they seek. They are begging farmers to call Congress because we are trying to take away their chemicals. Except, we are NOT!
The hubris! Bayer is telling the people its products injure the most to contact Congress to take away their right to get benefits when injured or killed--because they have been sorely misled.
Bayer formed an organization called Modern Ag Alliance with most other pesticide manufacturers. Knowing they could not get anyone who understood the issue to support removing the industry’s pesticide liability, they crafted fake cover stories that were intended to pull the wool over our eyes, and get us to lobby on Bayer’s behalf! All via the Modern Ag Alliance, which is their new PR entity.
Honestly, I have never seen anything this blatantly evil get this far.
Everyone in the industry knows this is all about glyphosate liability and the 110,000 or more pending cases, mostly in people with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Bayer already spent $11 Billion on resolving the first 67,000 cases, their stock price has dropped by 2/3 since they bought Monsanto, and if they can’t make the liability go away, the pending cases could wind up bankrupting the company.
Bayer was one of I G Farben’s affiliated companies, and Farben was the creator of Zyklon B, the cyanide product used in Hitler’s gas chambers to kill millions. Does the apple fall far from the tree?
Here are the slides for a talk I gave to the MAHA Action call this afternoon.
The bill is only 9 lines long, but it refers to the pesticides regulation law FIFRA, which is over 100 pages long and that Bayer hopes no one will read.
Why can't we 'Roundup' these eugenicists?
Thank you Meryl for this excellent summation of the Bayer Bill pesticides regulation law FIFRA, which is over 100 pages long. During the 1970s I worked as Health & Safety officer for a British Columbia Reforestation Union facing some of the same Complex Synthetic Pesticides, particularly on 245-T, 24D, where getting informative information out to 10s of 1000s of workers & citizens was challenging. In the 1980s I was part of the successful Quebec Moratorium on Cosmetic Use of Complex-Synthetic Pesticides.
FARMERS GET BRUTALIZED TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING THROUGH FIGHTING AGAINST NATURE
Imagine putting children, spouse, family, neighbors, workers at known dangerous high risks of glyphosate & other complex-synthetic-chemical-pesticide cancers, tumors, organ, blood & neural system injuries for the very risky business of weather, soil-nutrient, mono-crop yields & unstable markets with marginal profit?
WORKING WITH NATURE PRODUCES MANY TIMES MORE
SYLVALIZATION (Latin 'sylva' = 'tree'). As empires spread along with inevitable man-make deserts, Oligarchs & their armies, hungry for the hardwood Oak weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. tore down huge indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors, produce ~ 100 time (10,000%) more food, materials, energy & water-cycle, because of:
a) Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' 2 - 8% photosynthesis. Agriculture’s all settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat')
b) Deep Polyculture roots descending many 10s of metres into the substrate mining minerals, pumping water, developing extensive nutrient colonies etc. being 100 times = 10,000% more productivity than agriculture. Actually, this calculation is very conservative. In my experience with both Polyculture & Agriculture such as a 50 square meter (7 by 7 metres) area under the pre-colonial average 100 year old Oak tree produced some 3 tonnes (3000 kg) of nuts/year with little labour except bring wastes to feed the tree. The same 50 sq. M of Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye will produce only 3 kgs of grains requiring intensive mechanical ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilizing, fencing & irrigation or drainage preparation.
c) Polyculture's nearly complete ~95% photosynthesis of solar energy into food, materials, energy & water-cycle, creates an energy vacuum which drives warm moist ocean winds inland. 60% of Moisture transfer from ocean to continent is through condensation of these winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surface. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snowfall. 2-D Agriculture only photosynthesizes 2-8% of solar energy, creating High-pressure airs which push wind from continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies