Paraquat is linked to Parkinson’s. Why hasn’t the US banned it? | The Take
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- How did a chemical company keep a popular pesticide on the market despite mounting research showing a link to Parkinson’s disease? Syngenta denies the link, but the weedkiller Paraquat is banned in more than 50 countries. Now, thousands of Americans are suing Syngenta, the maker of Paraquat.
In this episode:
- Jeremy Raff, Producer of the Fault Lines film, “The Pesticide Playbook”
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, with Catherine Nouhan and our host Malika Bilal. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.
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I don't trust my country. It's a waste now anyway. The true American dream is GETTING OUT OF HERE! 😑
Anything that kills a tree or shrub overnight will kill you.
My manager sprayed it on the grass between the rolls of trees and shrubs while the wind was blowing and the next morning everything was dead. Black, melted, dead.
For the same reason glyphosate (RoundUp) is still on shelves, MONEY
It makes me so upset how many people have been hurt by it too. My close friend lost THREE family members all because they used it in the yard over the years. Another woman I met who was a cancer survivor gave me a grave warning about how much it matters what produce I eat to avoid pesticides 🫠 I love corporate profits being valued over human life!
Money first lives afterwards
Why we don't shop at Home Depot.
It comes as no surprise that in a place that hosts an economic system that relies upon the constant development of opportunities for predatory exploitation, in order to be at all functional, that the protection of those opportunities, once developed, becomes the paramount concern of those who are benefiting from the exploitation.
How awful it is that neither the corporations nor government agencies care enough about human health and well-being to ban this product. Just awful.
An causes skin cancer as well as internal organ failure and internal cancer a 50 year old study
Used in Australia as well,….
Money.
Yes
Money first
Greed and sins first... disgusting
Money is more important to them than human life.
Which is it? Herbicides & Pesticides are different chemicals & have different uses. Herbicides for weeds & pesticides for insects. As a farmer we have had to herbicides. Never have used Paraquat. Have known other older farmers in the 1980`s who suffered greatly from Parkinson`s that at one time were excellent horsewomen & farm operators who we worked for.
All those chemicals are deadly . In Europe they are banned.
Because they don’t care as long as corporations can make money
Silent Spring is a must read! You will understand why... money. It is sad. We put cancerous chemicals in everything and wonder why the environment is messed up and we have high rates of cancer!
Scary thought: There are still countries that use pesticides we have outlawed in the USA. Pesticides ard a true international menace.
A lot of golf course workers .Caddies especially.
Bangladesh ❤❤🇵🇸😍🇧🇩
I stopped using Paraquat years ago, it was having a bad effect on my erections... 🤨
Probsbly contains endocrine disruptors.
Paraquat also use in india at large scale
rfk jr only candidate talking bout this stuff
There's more things they make n tell us to buy use eat drink take that they know 💯 not safe and what does they don't care it's about making money and greed n vanity and then by making sick or disease or kill of bugs or plants or gets into our ecosystem n hurts our land n animals n water system it's win win for them they're corrupt but God himself stepping in and he said they need be careful n be true n truth with all these things too immediately
Banned,banning,&banner,those three words,they are different 👍 ☠️
Thank you Al Jazeera
So they can sell the medications for parkinsons.
It doesn't sell as much as the other ones. So It'll help.
America! F@CK Ya!! 😢
syngenta? not the atrazine "people"?!
Most regulatory agencies don't fully understand the risk benefit ratio.
You only have a small chance of being very sick, but i have a good chance of being very rich, isn't really how it works.
Oh they fully understand. Money is more important to them than any one human life.
Such a poor way of reporting . Why you made a video if there was no suitable content
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