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California will outlaw the use of a pesticide linked to developmental problems in humans after President Donald Trump's administration scrapped plans for a nationwide ban, state health officials said Wednesday.
The decision to ban chlorpyrifos in the agriculturally rich state follows "mounting evidence" of serious health effects for exposed children and other vulnerable people, two California health agencies said in a statement.
Toxic effects including "impaired brain and neurological development" occur at lower levels of the pesticide than previously thought, said the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).
Farmers using the product will have 15 days to challenge the ban notice in court before it comes into effect, the DPR told AFP.
Virtually all residential uses of the pesticide has been banned since the end of 2001 throughout the United States.
[...] The European Commission announced this month it will recommend chlorpyrifos does not have its license renewed when it expires in January, following a negative assessment by the EU's food safety watchdog. Eight European countries have already individually banned products containing the pesticide.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:34PM (3 children)
Any care for environment, in a normal human being, is but an extension of that; as in "my life and lives of those dear to me will be better if X", X being cleaner air/water/food (first and foremost), and more and varied wildlife to look at in the free time (if the first is ensured and there IS enough free time). Period.
A human at nonexistent mercy of some abusive power, has no time nor reason to care about those things. Worse, those things are what his abusers enjoy while he cannot, and deserve destruction for that sole reason. If his own life is bad, everyone else deserves no better.
Self-haters who prefer insects and plants to human beings, while certainly existing and being rather loud, do not matter much, as their own behaviour works against them influencing regular people or propagating their own genes.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 16 2019, @05:14PM (1 child)
Oh, mate, what a wonderfully eloquent follow-up on the "condition of the human"
Hurry up, present it to the Nature, maybe she cares and decides to suspend her reaction to the man's action (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @08:36PM
Now be informed that we of genus Homo do not care how accomplished in grimaces, red arse displays and other natural activities you lesser brethren are. Once you learn to understand written human language and respond in kind, you may try again.
When you do try, take note that no natural disaster to date harmed enough humans to even remotely compare with how many were done in by actions of fellow human beings given free reign.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:58PM
Not every human is a sociopath like you. Go ahead and re-read the definition before you get too offended.