Diquat is also thought to be a neurotoxin, carcinogen and linked to Parkinson’s disease.

Fucking hell is the United States ever going to be able to recover after this blatant corruption by corporations?

Same old story, all over again: bad thing bad, replace with even worse thing

Makes me wonder how we ever made any progress sometimes

I'm sure RFK Jr. is on the case and will fix it. Any day now...

“Why are young Americans getting colon cancer so often?”

An entirely safe substance that is a poison for something else is hard to come by

Stop the research! Stop testing! Nothing to see here.

Is nobody going to mention that the chemical is called "dick wad"?

The list of dangerous and deadly things banned everywhere else, but still legal in the US is amazingly long. And it is not only pesticides, supplements, paints, building materials, but mostly food.

But: Kinder Surprise is still highly illegal in America.

Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries.

Notice Canada is not listed as a country that bans diquat. It is legal and available here.

The largest billboard on my way to work says stop punishing farmers–don't ban glysophate. I've been complaining about the toxic state of the missouri river since highschool. People don't care. For killing weeds on gravel, dillute some white vinegar and add dish soap to kill weeds. It's a cost effective and environmentally friendly weed killer. That, and blocking light with cardboard.

The trolls will be here claiming that it isn't proven in 3...2...1...

The research further scrutinizes how the substance harms the kidneys, lungs and liver. Diquat “causes irreversible structural and functional damage to the kidneys” because it can destroy kidney cells’ membranes and interfere with cell signals. The effects on the liver are similar, and the ingredient causes the production of proteins that inflame the organ.

Meanwhile, it seems to attack the lungs by triggering inflammation that damages the organ’s tissue. More broadly, the inflammation caused by diquat may cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, a scenario in which organ systems begin to fail.

Ah shit the grass killer I have has diquat. But the weed killer variant from the same brand doesn't have it, which is interesting.

Sounds like secretary brainworm will be all over this before you can say brainworm. This is the kind of thing that is right up his alley. Harmful chemicals in our food supply? He is so against that, and will certainly do something for this very very very soon. I have complete faith.

/s 😭

Whoa whoa! Slow down! We haven't even gotten rid of food dyes, flouride, vaccines, and seed oils yet. Gotta get at the back of the MAHA Train!

I hope washing veggies prevents consuming this stuff otherwise rip.

also some weeds are becoming resistant to glyphospate, they will have to keep using ever increasing toxic herbicide to combat it.

So the only thing that I haven't been able to figure out - is the danger from glyphosphate and now diquat the vapor after spraying or consumption of plants in close proximity?

who’d ever’ve thought it?

So glad to live in the EU. Not a paradise by any stretch of the imagination, but just not that hellbent on killing its own citizens for corporate profits. Yet.

Trickle Down Economics in practice, amirite

Agrochemicals in the food supply is a real issue, you can't see it, you can't taste it.. it's insidious

Glyphosate is no angel but one reason it’s so popular is that its ill effects are relatively benign.

So that must be that 'more nature friendly' stuff they sprayed around our village a few weeks ago. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw two guys and a tractor with a tank full of poison do the work that one guy with a strimmer could have done in the same amount of time - including spraying flowers in front of peoples houses and the soil around the few trees of the village. I wrote a message to the municipal environment guy and he answered that 'of course they care for the environment, they have some new stuff, not as bad as roundup.' I hope we can stop them next year before this happens again. The shit that's done in the name of fire safety is just insane.

Looking forward to the new world order where China is in charge.

I don't see how the United States can recover if we keep doing things like this. We're literally shooting ourselves in the head.

You would think extensive testing would be done before we allow stuff to be used for food lol

@remington @rayckeith another good reason not to eat US produce.