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Glyphosate Chemophobia Grips Sonoma County: Sprayers Don Hazmat Suits, Respirators After Switch to 'Safer' Organic Weed Killers
If you've followed the often acrimonious debate over GMOs in foods, you've probably seen pictures of farmers walking through corn and soy fields bedecked in hazardous material suits and respirators. Why do they wear protective gear? According to anti-GMO activists, they are protecting themselves from glyphosate, a chemical often paired with GMOs that they claim is a cancer-causing herbicide. These people wearing hazmat suits are actually Greenpeace activists ripping up genetically engineered plants in the Philippines in 2011. That's ironic in a tragic way as the plants being uprooted are engineered with the natural soil-...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news