Inch by inch, step by step, we shape the future of the planet Earth. Thanks to all who fight to make America (and this beautiful planet) healthy again!
This is inconsequential outside of Vermont, and barely so there. "MAHA" had nothing to do with it; John Klar did.
Vermont accounts for less than 0.2% of US agricultural production and less than 100 pounds of paraquat were used there in only one county, Addison - and only until 2022. Yay!
Nationally, about 10M pounds per year are used, compared with ~300M of glyphosate, 80M of atrazine, and 50 to 60 million pounds each of half a dozen other herbicides.
I’m very happy about this however one wonders how difficult this will be for a state that is pushing out farmers with the highest property taxes in the country with absolutely nothing to show for it. Oh wait! Our schools are ranked 44th! So we got that going for us.
I remember... now 50 years later it comes out: In the 1970s, the U.S. government funded and supplied helicopters for a Mexican government program to spray marijuana and opium poppy fields with Paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide. To avoid losing their income, farmers harvested the crops before they withered, resulting in contaminated marijuana being sold to American consumers
Those spraying operations "came out" in 1978, in dedicated Congressional hearings and extensive media coverage. It's a cute and chronic toxicities were known at the time, which is why it was so politically contentious. Possible links to PD have been discussed for the last 20 years or more.
It's been EPA "Restricted Use" since the late 1970s (commercial ag use only by licensed operators, no spraying from air or backpack or under pressure, enclosed tractor cabs, mandatory buffer zones near residential areas. Regulations were tightened further in 2016, requiring respirator use and narrowing licensing.
Remember the consternation in 1977 when it was revealed that Colombia was spraying Paraquat on marijuana fields and it was getting baled up and shipped north, anyway?
Good news! Yay ❤️☺️🙏
Inch by inch, step by step, we shape the future of the planet Earth. Thanks to all who fight to make America (and this beautiful planet) healthy again!
This is inconsequential outside of Vermont, and barely so there. "MAHA" had nothing to do with it; John Klar did.
Vermont accounts for less than 0.2% of US agricultural production and less than 100 pounds of paraquat were used there in only one county, Addison - and only until 2022. Yay!
Nationally, about 10M pounds per year are used, compared with ~300M of glyphosate, 80M of atrazine, and 50 to 60 million pounds each of half a dozen other herbicides.
I’m very happy about this however one wonders how difficult this will be for a state that is pushing out farmers with the highest property taxes in the country with absolutely nothing to show for it. Oh wait! Our schools are ranked 44th! So we got that going for us.
It will be simple, because it's not actually used outside if a single Vermont county. Even there, it has t been used in 4 or 5 years.
I remember... now 50 years later it comes out: In the 1970s, the U.S. government funded and supplied helicopters for a Mexican government program to spray marijuana and opium poppy fields with Paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide. To avoid losing their income, farmers harvested the crops before they withered, resulting in contaminated marijuana being sold to American consumers
Those spraying operations "came out" in 1978, in dedicated Congressional hearings and extensive media coverage. It's a cute and chronic toxicities were known at the time, which is why it was so politically contentious. Possible links to PD have been discussed for the last 20 years or more.
It's been EPA "Restricted Use" since the late 1970s (commercial ag use only by licensed operators, no spraying from air or backpack or under pressure, enclosed tractor cabs, mandatory buffer zones near residential areas. Regulations were tightened further in 2016, requiring respirator use and narrowing licensing.
Remember the consternation in 1977 when it was revealed that Colombia was spraying Paraquat on marijuana fields and it was getting baled up and shipped north, anyway?
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Sure do. It was a running SNL punchline in 1978 and 1979.
The Big Lebowski, where Jeff Bridges as “The Dude” calls the Big Lebowski "human paraquat."