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Will Regulators Catch the Drift? NFFC v. EPA and Breathing New Life Into Pesticide Regulation

October 14, 2021
Will Regulators Catch the Drift? NFFC v. EPA and Breathing New Life Into Pesticide Regulation

In the past half-century, U.S. agriculture has become dramatically more industrialized, consolidated, and bifurcated between livestock and crop agriculture, resulting in significant negative environmental, health, and socioeconomic effects. One pillar propping up this unsustainable industrial model is heavy reliance on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, chemical inputs necessary for large monoculture production. In the most recent twenty-first-century version of this ever-entrenching paradigm, pesticide companies sell a seed/pesticide cropping system, comprised of crops genetically engineered to resist multiple pesticides, allowing "over the top" spraying at new times of the year and in new ways. These crop systems have significantly increased the pesticide load on our foods and into our environment, creating huge externalized environmental and health costs. GET THE FULL ARTICLE >>