{"id":274,"date":"2007-10-05T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T11:53:14","slug":"us-epa-intent-on-poisoning-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-epa-intent-on-poisoning-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"US EPA intent on poisoning Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                     While the <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=130\">USDA fails to enforce organic standards<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyinaction.org\/dia\/organizationsORG\/oca\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=15898\">EPA has decided to liberate a vile toxin on the American countryside<\/a>.\u00a0 The EPA approved a new chemical fumigant, methyl iodide, for                      use on food crops across the US. The                      pesticide vaporises quickly, allowing it to                      drift far distances. Although the state of California has                      categorized it as cancer causing, and the EPA admits it causes                      thyroid tumors, the Bush Administration has been advocating                      approval of the fumigant for the better part of two years.                      In a letter to the EPA leading chemists asked EPA not to approve                      methyl iodide without further scientific review. The chemical                      has been used to induce cancer in laboratory experiments and                      causes neurological and thyroid problems, as well as miscarriages                      in studies with laboratory animals. Farmworkers, families,                      rural workers, and the food supply will now be subjected to                      exposure to the carcinogen unless the EPA revokes the approval                      immediately.<\/p>\n<p>It is depressing that the organisations vested with responsibility to protect us, succumb to greed and the persuasion of lobbyists.\u00a0 Ask for clean food from your grocery or supermarket before you find yourself in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the USDA fails to enforce organic standards, the EPA has decided to liberate a vile toxin on the American countryside.\u00a0 The EPA approved a new chemical fumigant, methyl iodide, for use on food crops across the US. The pesticide vaporises quickly, allowing it to drift far distances. Although the state of California has categorized &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-epa-intent-on-poisoning-americans\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US EPA intent on poisoning Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}