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The Pesticide Industry's Toxic Lobby
A new study found the amount of pesticides used on farms was strongly associated with the incidence of cancer. It comes on the heels of substantial lobbying by the pesticide industry to limit its liability from lawsuits over their products’ health impacts.
He documented the company’s efforts using internal emails released during a lawsuit, showing Monsanto used ghostwriters and waged campaigns to influence editorial decisions at academic journals, with the apparent goal of “manipulat[ing] the regulatory process so that it could continue selling a product that the firm’s own research indicated might be dangerous.” In response to a request for comment, Bayer’s head of crop science communications and sustainability, Jessica Christiansen, wrote in an emailed statement, “We support a predictable and science-based regulatory system and the certainty and availability it provides to American farmers.” Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and Jim Costa (D-CA) worked closely with the company to draft the measure forestalling future payouts for glyphosate lawsuits, which was later added to the farm bill, which sets the country’s agriculture policy every five years and slated for a vote this fall.
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