#pesticide regulations

[farmerstrend]

Kenya’s New Strategy to Eliminate Harmful Pesticides from the Market

Kenya’s new plan to phase out harmful pesticides aims to create a safer agriculture sector, protect public health, and promote sustainable farming practices. Discover how Kenya is taking action to withdraw dangerous pesticides from the market, ensuring safer food production and environmental protection. Kenya develops a comprehensive strategy to eliminate toxic pesticides, prioritizing the safety…

[dragonomatopoeia]

madelyn very considerately built time into our recording schedule for 'this segment of the recap will probably launch air straight into a five minute digression about labor protections and immigrants' rights' and i am running a mile with the inch she's given me. i'm so sorry madelyn. i have thoughts. and opinions. and sources.

[thoughtlessarse]

The former president’s crude appeals to masculinity culture clash with his lax approach toward PFAS and pesticides, which have been linked to lowered testosterone and sperm count. This month, the U.S. Air Force made a surprise announcement that it is refusing to comply with an order to clean up drinking water that it contaminated with PFAS “forever chemicals”—substances that have been linked to hormone disruption, liver damage, and a range of other health problems. The rationale for halting the cleanup was this year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine, in which courts typically deferred to the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies’ authority to interpret and enforce environmental and consumer safety rules. Overturning Chevron was one of the most consequential moves that former President Donald Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees have made to date. But there’s now strong evidence that the former president would go further than his own justices in a second term, giving industry a freer hand to pollute with PFAS, pesticides, microplastics, and other toxic substances that have been shown to have, among other severe health effects, significant negative impacts on male fertility. Trump is positioning himself as the candidate of unbridled masculinity. He’s depending on strong electoral support from young men. The former president sauntered into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to the tune of “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” and accepted the nomination following a speech in which Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt and declared him a “gladiator.” J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate, has cited falling fertility rates as an existential threat to the nation’s future. Yet—in the name of reducing bureaucratic red tape—Trump is proposing to deregulate substances that could make it harder to conceive children and could cause Americans’ testosterone levels to plummet. In seeking to shrink the administrative state, Trump could also shrink the testicles of American men. 

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On par for the anti-science folks. And some of them want to ban IVF, because real babies can only be conceived by a man dominating a woman or some such illogical shit. The Master Race, indeed.

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[seriousbusinessforhumans]

Mon 24 Apr 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge.

Instead of permanently yanking the products from the market after the 2020 order, the EPA only required industry to add further application instructions to the herbicides’ labels before reapproving the products.

A late 2021 EPA investigation found the same problems persist even with new directions added to the label, but the agency still allows Monsanto, BASF and other producers to continue using dicamba.

[barstoolblues]

if you type the word pesticide on this site there should be a mandatory “YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO SCIENCE DENIAL BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE” pop up that you cant get rid of

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

How is everyone here totally missing that wolves were in fact hunted to local extinction across huge swathes of the USA in order to protect livestock species? And that the US government still uses cyanide bombs, endangering people and pets, to target large predators for that same reason? Have some perspective here—y’all are not better, you’ve just had less time and a larger area of land to beat into submission. The culture around large predator conservation is shifting in both countries, but American livestock farmers are on the exact same side as English sport hunters. Given a button to irrevocably exterminate large predators, neither one would hesitate to push it.

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

[suicidepreventionday]

Preventing suicide by phasing out highly hazardous pesticides.

Self-poisoning with pesticides is among the most common means of suicide worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) are readily available. Multi-sectoral action is needed to phase out the use of HHPs to prevent suicide and other related issues of public health and environmental concern. This brochure aims to provide a brief overview of the issue of HHPs and approaches to phasing out HHPs to save lives, particularly suicides. It has been designed for a broad audience, including policy-makers (e.g. health, agriculture, and environment), pesticide regulators, local health and agricultural services, civil society organizations, academics, as well as the general public. It draws on the 2023 WHO/FAO Guidance on use of pesticide regulation to prevent suicide and the 2019 WHO/FAO publication. Preventing suicide: a resource for pesticide registrars and regulators

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USAmericans

Read the Project 2025 manifesto RIGHT NOW

It's MUCH worse than y'all have been hearing

There is so much here you'll have to look at it for yourself, but the climate policy alone is nightmare fuel.

The republican coalition wants to essentially end funding for green energy, dramatically promote and expand fossil fuel industries, and eliminate funding and regulations in all sectors promoting climate change mitigation. Task forces and offices related to clean energy and lowering carbon emissions will be eliminated and replaced with offices for promoting fossil fuels.

They want to LOG NATIONAL FORESTS TO "THIN" THE TREES TO STOP WILDFIRES.

THEY WANT TO FORCE OREGON AND CALIFORNIA TO LOG THEIR NATIONAL FORESTS AND TREAT THEM AS FOR TIMBER PRODUCTION

There are specific provisions in Project 2025 to essentially destroy the Endangered Species Act, causing it to defer to the rights of "economic development" and "private property." The plan includes delisting gray wolves, cutting the budget so that a "triage" system is used to determine which species will get protection, removing funding for research, removing experts and specialists from the decision-making process, and preventing "experimental" populations of animals from being established.

This is so much worse than I expected it to be and there's much more past that: They want to deregulate pesticides and remove much of the EPA's ability to regulate pollutants as well.

Also included in the manifesto is that we should

withdraw from nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements, build more nuclear weapons, and resume nuclear weapons testing

The manifesto comprehensively outlines the scorched-earth elimination of abortion access, down to ensuring doctors aren't even trained to perform abortions. There are plans in here to disrupt abortion access GLOBALLY, not just domestically.

Not only that,the Republicans plan on reframing family planning programs around "fertility awareness" and "holistic family planning."

I can't even describe it all. I'm trying to give screenshots of the most important things but there's so much.

The foreign policy is a nightmare. They plan to push fossil fuels onto the Global South and promote the development of fossil fuel industry in the "developing world."

It is aggressive and antagonistic towards other nations, strongly pro-military, proposing that we INCREASE (!!!!!) defense spending, improve public opinion of the military and military recruitment, and increase the power to fund new weapons technology.

Just read the Department of Defense section. It's about greatly increasing and strengthening the military-industrial complex, collaborating more closely with weapons manufacturers, removing regulatory barriers to arming our allies and to inventing new military weapons, and recruiting more people into the military. They include provisions to develop AI technology for surveillance. And of course, continuing to support Israel is in there.

Elsewhere it proposes interfering in foreign countries with creepy pro-USA propaganda campaigns, even establishing international educational programs where faculty have to pledge to promote USA interests.

There's a line in here about getting rid of PBS because SESAME STREET is LEFTIST for God's sake.

HOW are people claiming democrats have the same policies. I feel like i'm losing my mind.

[safeday]

Examples of legislation addressing the combined risks of agro-chemical exposure with excessive heat.

Costa Rica: Decree N° 33507-MTSS Occupational Health Regulations in the management and the use of chemicals.

[toast1862]

man i was so excited about shigemoto being taken out of the picture and kana getting to be in charge. it seemed like such a great way to shift the focus and bring the actual magical girls into the larger political plot. but the next arc was entirely about getting shigemoto back, and it felt so rushed. like the author just could not stand having the real main character offscreen for too long. kana didn't even come up with the plan. some random guy who showed up just to have a man in the room making decisions did. why was he even added to the story except to take focus away. it just completely broke any illusion for me that the magical girls were important to the story as a whole.

and i like the story! it's kind of a sci fi political thriller with corporate maneuvering and conflicting incentives and a vicious cycle where the problems get bigger and the only solutions allowed to exist under capitalism are to do MORE, causing the problems to get worse, rather than cutting back and tailoring solutions to the problem. yknow, like throwing broad spectrum antibiotics at everything, causing antibioitic-resistant diseases, and developing stronger antibiotics to deal with it, etc etc. or herbicides or pesticides or even like. saving the environment. reduce your ecological footprint by buying this recycled product that we started a factory to produce, instead of buying less. but it's magical girls instead. like it's an interesting story!!!! but women don't get to participate in it

[systlin]

See attacking Iowa for its lack of hills is so dumb when the crazy amount of pesticide use and its influence on less regulations in environmental policy is right there (no hate to you)

No no, you're right.

But we DO have the Titty Out Civil War Union monument, so there are good aspects

[undergroundusa]

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Cultivating Sustainable Agriculture: Exploring the Agrochemical Market

The global agrochemicals market is projected to be worth USD 301.5 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 3.9%, according to P&S Intelligence. This development can be credited to the growing populace, which is propelling the need for food. Because of this, the demand for fertilizers among the agrarian community is growing in order to produce a higher volume of nutritious crops. Growing Demand for…

[probablyasocialecologist]

RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau has shown for the first time, in a joint study with BOKU University, that permaculture brings about a significant improvement in biodiversity, soil quality and carbon storage. In view of the challenges of climate change and species extinction, this type of agriculture proved to be a real alternative to conventional cultivation—and reconcile environmental protection and high yields. Permaculture uses natural cycles and ecosystems as blueprint. Food is produced in an agricultural ecosystem that is as self-regulating, natural and diverse as possible. For example, livestock farming is integrated into the cultivation of crops or the diversity of beneficial organisms is promoted in order to avoid the use of mineral fertilizers or pesticides. In a study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from RPTU and BOKU have now, for the first time, comprehensively investigated the effects of this planning and management concept on the environment.

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"Permaculture appears to be a much more ecologically sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture," said Julius Reiff . At the same time, the yields from permaculture are comparable to those of industrial agriculture, as the researchers' not yet published data shows. "In view of the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, the observed improvements would represent a real turnaround when applied to larger areas," says ecosystem analysis expert Martin Entling from RPTU.

4 July 2024

[theambitiouswoman]

Benefits of apple cider vinegar 🍏✨

• Skin toner: Clears & balances

• pH balance: Supports vaginal health in a diluted bath

• Face masks: Adds glow & fights acne

• Hair rinse: Boosts shine & reduces dandruff

• Salad dressing: Adds flavor & aids digestion

• Cleaning: Natural disinfectant

• Fruit & veggie wash: Removes dirt & pesticides

• Immune boost: Rich in antioxidants & antimicrobial

• Digestive aid: Supports gut health when taken diluted

• Appetite control: May help curb cravings

• Blood sugar balance: Helps regulate levels

• Sore throat relief: Mix with warm water to soothe

• Foot soak: Softens skin & fights odor

• Sunburn relief: Calms redness when diluted