Momma Politico: The World According to Perry

Donnie will do anything to help Nazis and invalidate the opposition.

Stay classy, Monsanto!!

New versions of the herbicide dicamba developed by Monsanto and BASF, according to farmers, have drifted across fields to crops unable to withstand it, a charge authorities are investigating.  

As the crisis intensifies, new details provided to Reuters by independent researchers and regulators, and previously unreported testimony by a company employee, demonstrate the unusual way Monsanto introduced its product. The approach, in which Monsanto prevented key independent testing of its product, went unchallenged by the Environmental Protection Agency and nearly every state regulator.  

Typically, when a company develops a new agricultural product, it commissions its own tests and shares the results and data with regulators. It also provides product samples to universities for additional scrutiny. Regulators and university researchers then work together to determine the safety of the product.  

In this case, Monsanto denied requests by university researchers to study its XtendiMax with VaporGrip for volatility - a measure of its tendency to vaporize and drift across fields.  

“The UVA lawn never looked like this. And this is only a quarter of the people here. Hundreds more marching. This is America, not the tiki torches.”

This is part of an ongoing BuzzFeed News investigation. Read more here: Part One: Poison In The System Part Two: From Russia With Blood Part Three: The Man Who Knew Too Much Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag

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