EPA Quietly Approve Monsanto’s New Dicamba Herbicide

The US Environmental Protection Agency has quietly approved the use of Monsanto’s new herbicide, which the company claim is less “volatile” than all alternative dicamba-based compounds. The alternatives have already caused massive crop damage, lawsuits and even bloodshed in the past. The EPA approved usage of the toxic dicamba-based herbicide XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology on Wednesday, the day after the US Presidential election. The event went almost unnoticed by the media and activists who were preoccupied with the election and its fallout at the time. Breaking news: morning after the election, EPA rushes out decision that will massively increase use of toxic pesticide on GE crops #dicamba https://t.co/GRkYqMSSka — Lori Ann Burd (@LoriAnnBurd) November 9, 2016 RT reports: The company still needs to get approval from individual states before the product can be sold to farmers, but according to Monsanto’s spokesman Kyel Richard, it should be in the market by the start of next growing season. Dicamba is a decades-old herbicide, proven to be extremely volatile and drift-prone, vaporizing from treated fields and potentially affecting neighboring crops. Dicamba functions basically by increasing a plant’s growth rate to the point that it outgrows its nutrient capabilities and dies. The weed killer [...]

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