Critical Pesticide Program Cut

Gee, It couldn't possibly be Monsanto trying to throw up a roadblock so the truth about their holy money cow round-up doesn't get out. Could it?
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Critical Pesticide Program Cut

The USDA Is Eliminating a Program That Many Groups Rely on to Track Pesticide Use and Safety — but Why?



Every year the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts research on pesticide use and risk associated with various crops, such as corn, soybeans, cotton, and wheat, and the body then releases its data files. That data is used by chemical groups, trade groups, public interest groups and government agencies to track pesticide use and safety, and several advocates say it is the only reliable, publicly searchable database of its kind.

In 2007, however, the USDA scaled back its data collection, and only gathered information on cotton, apples and organic apples. Now, the USDA has announced it will completely eliminate the program in 2008, due to budget cuts, and won't be collecting any data.

This has many people concerned.

Letters to the secretary of agriculture have been signed by the various groups who rely on the USDA's information, including public interest groups such as Greenpeace, NRDC, the Organic Center and the World Wildlife Fund, and industry groups such as Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., Del Monte Foods and the American Soybean Association.

"It is almost unprecedented to have these diverse interests and stakeholders be on the same side of the issue, including the EPA and federal agencies," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist with the NRDC.

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But there is a new product, Checkmate, out and orders from Schwartzenneger are that it is to be sprayed on the citizens of most of all the San Francisco Bay area counties, and Santa Cruz.

It contains several carcinogens, and is placed inside a miniature container of urea and then aerially sprayed over those millions of people.

I raed that Roundup is the oesticide responsible for the bee population collapse. The bee decimation may be a strategy to encourage the purchase of gmo seed that Monsanto peddles.