#Acephate

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Nation of Change:

The EPA released its plan on Tuesday, nearly a week after a ProPublica investigation revealed the agency had laid out a justification for increasing the amount of acephate allowed on food by removing limits meant to protect children’s developing brains.

In calling for an end to all uses of the pesticide on food, the agency cited evidence that acephate harms workers who apply the chemical as well as the general public and young children, who may be exposed to the pesticide through contaminated drinking water.

Acephate, which was banned by the European Union more than 20 years ago, belongs to a class of chemicals called organophosphates. U.S. farmers have used these pesticides for decades because they efficiently kill aphids, fire ants and other pests. But what makes organophosphate pesticides good bug killers — their ability to interfere with signals sent between nerve cells — also makes them dangerous to people. Studies have linked acephate to reductions in IQ and verbal comprehension and autism with intellectual disability.

Environmental advocates, who have been pushing the agency to restrict and ban acephate for years, said they were not expecting the agency to make such a bold move.

“I’m surprised and very pleased,” said Patti Goldman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, who has been part of a farmworker led group that expressed concerns to EPA officials over the past years about the ongoing use of acephate and other organophosphates.

As much as 12 million pounds of acephate were used on soybeans, Brussels sprouts and other crops in 2019, according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey. The federal agency estimates that up to 30% of celery, 35% of lettuce and 20% of cauliflower and peppers were grown with acephate.

#EPA #acephate #pesticides #organophosphates

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[cringefailnarwhal]

"aceph*bia" only works against women and only because of women being seen as less if we don't have children. no sex = no children = shame = "aceph*bia"

#and aroph*bia just isn't a thing #find something else to be quirky about

[6amphetamines6goddess6]

I'm acephalizing myself but losers keep calling it "addictive behavior" "stimulant abuse" and "misuse of prescription medications"

[italwayshadtobeyou]

@thebackestofburners Re: my rewilding project, I belong to the Florida Native Plant Society, which advocates for replacing invasives with native and wildlife-friendly plants. They replace missing species in parks and so on. My personal, near-and-dear plan involves my back yard, so about an acre in central Florida. Like much of the state, it was pretty overtaken with invasive species when my family moved here in 2014: Tuberous sword ferns, red fire ants, camphor trees, philodendrons, sapodillas, etc. (I really wish people would learn that, just because something will grow in Florida, doesn't mean you should give it the chance.)

Even more alarming were the quantities of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that people dumped on their yard. That's a problem I started working on pretty quickly, doing spot treatments on fire ant nests and letting the other insects be. (Don't use acephate as fire ant killer! Plants take it up.) The situation very slowly improved: After about five years, I saw our first caterpillar, and I saw a few more bugs every year after.

The rest, I started working on a little a year ago, after my beloved dog, Piglet, died. She was so precious, and I wanted to give her remains back to the world in a way that made sense, so I found a native tree (pignut hickory), planted it over her grave, and started growing the rest of everything around that. I also got a few other native plants at the same nursery; I'd been intrigued by the "forest gardening" agricultural system found in some places, and thought that it might be a good way to replace the barren lawns and water-hogging ornamentals that take up so much space in Florida. And it seemed like something that would honor my wonderful pet.

I made myself a promise, right after Piglet died, that I'd live the rest of my life in a way that made the world more like one she'd deserved. I'm think I would've given up, if I hadn't been focused on that.

The soil was almost dead when I started. People don't realize it, but lots of plants are allelopathic, meaning that they secrete toxins to keep other plants from growing. (In their home environments, the other plants have evolved some defenses, and there's a balance. It's only a bad thing when you put the plants somewhere they don't belong.) Then there are plants kill, or just don't sustain, the local microbial communities that local plants are used to. Other times, people do grow native plants, but they plant them in a monoculture that can't function without constant fertilizing and watering, because ecosystems need more than one thing to work.

Anyway, I've been removing as many invasives, diversifying the grasses, and replacing microbes (I use BioOrganic's Mycorrhizal Inoculant Plus; it costs a lot, but a little goes a long way) as much as I can. I don't have use an irrigation system (not even soaker hoses, which, as far as I can tell, are always made of toxic rubber), and, outside of the useful-plants area where I built beds to absorb any excess, I only apply fertilizer after pulling out a nutrient-greedy invasive.

So I identify plants and find replacements that work with the soil type (acidic, alkalkine, rich, poor) and water table in my area. During the worst of the drought this spring, I was working 4-6 hours outside, 7 days a week. Currently, it's more like 2-3 hours.

And it's working! We have firebushes, beautyberries, Florida betony, creeping mint, frogfruit, a sassafrass, a sparkleberry, a coralbean, a flatwoods plum, purple lovegrass, coonties, hairypod cowpeas, blue sage, scarlet sage, and more. (The firebushes and beautyberries predated my project; I had simply insisted on those particular natives when we moved in.) One day this summer, I saw 3 kinds of bee in the yard! It used to be rare to see any bee, of any kind, here. I've seen 4 different kinds of butterfly on the same day. There are so many different textures and faint scents and colors where before there were only a handful. It's exhilarating, and it makes me feel like I'm doing right by Piglet.

Now, I know that not everyone has the option of turning an acre or more of land into rewilded territory. But there are some things that most people can learn and implement to make future reclamation less daunting.

When you see a plant you find appealing, check a resource like Plants for a Future (PFAF) or the USDA's PLANTS Database to see if it's native to your area. If it isn't, you should do further research to make sure it isn't harmful before you plant it.

PFAF is also a great resource if you're out of inspiration and want to browse the possibilities. You can search by habitat type or plant family.

Be very careful about following "trends" in gardening. For example, people copying "influencers'" succulents collections leads to overcollection in the wild.

Chlorine and chloramine kill good germs. I started out leaving big boxes of water to sit for 48 hours while the chlorine evaporated, but I've since moved on to hose-end filters, and they seem effective. However, if your utilities add chloramine rather than chlorine, evaporation won't work, and you'll need to look closely at the specs on your filters.

Try to dig up (preferably with a handheld tool, not a tiller or plough that causes deeper soil damage) at least some patches of lawn grass and replace them with different groundcover for diversity, and make sure that you let at least some of your grass go to seed for birds to eat.

Co-ops and extension services sometimes offer discounts on native seeds. But make sure that you understand the seeds' requirements: Many germinate better after scarification and/or cold stratification under specific circumstances.

If you can't afford native plants for your land just yet, try running a search for "wildlife-friendly" plants that you can grow in your area. This means plants that, although they originate somewhere else, aren't toxic to local plants and animals, and may provide food or shelter to them. For example, I have a form of wild coffee plant that likely originated in Africa, but thats berries can be eaten by birds.

Currently, I'm working on spreading cuttings throughout the yard, keeping them watered, and planting my late-summer vegetables. But I don't think that a caring lifestyle ends at the door. One of my big goals is be to retrofit our house with a composting toilet and start growing my own "toilet paper" leaves, thereby sparing our local aquifer, feeding my dirt, and keeping PFAS-contaminated toilet paper out of the ocean.

#not fandom #mine #in which i take questions #long post #personal

[bloonfroot]

that last fandom excursion of mine was fun for me cause I wasn’t ever involved in any of the drama I just got to sit and watch and post my funny screenshots. There was ONE incident, in which someone told me wanting to marry someone and not have sex with them is abuse because lmao aceph*bia right but other than that, smooth sailing. i think that’s the best time I’ve had in fandom in…. hell, ever.

#txt.exe

[justiceheartwatcher]

This Pesticide Is Linked to Autism and Lower Test Scores — the EPA Wants to Allow 10 Times More of It on Your Food •

The EPA recently proposed easing restrictions on acephate, a pesticide used on celery, tomatoes, cranberries, Brussels sprouts and other fruits and vegetables. The EU banned it 20 years ago.

[tsmom1219]

10 times as much of this toxic pesticide could end up on your tomatoes and celery under a new EPA proposal

Read the full story at ProPublica. Against the guidance of scientific advisory panels, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. “It’s exactly what we recommended against,” one panelist said.

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[unicornbeetle]

[be-a-muslim-1st]

@aceph

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[mariacallous]

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been tasked with using the best available science to regulate pesticides in order to ensure they are safe.

But a mounting body of evidence indicates that the agency long-heralded for its early decision to ban DDT has evolved into a more timid regulator that has not kept pace with the rest of the world to protect the health of people and wildlife.

That problematic trend was highlighted recently in two separate investigations by the EPA’s own watchdog. It found numerous scientific integrity and transparency failures prior to the decision to expand the use of a pesticide called dicamba that has subsequently caused damage to millions of acres of rural landscapes across the U.S. and its decision to downgrade the cancer classification of a pesticide called 1,3-D that is associated with serious harms to farmworkers.[1] [2]

My research has found that there has been a significant decline in the health-protective actions taken by the EPA’s pesticide office over the years.[3] In this article, I outline how our regulators’ failings are negatively impacting not only public health but also the nation’s agricultural economy. This is particularly evident when comparing U.S. pesticide regulations to other agricultural economies around the world and the barriers to trade that this can impose. I also propose potential policy solutions to ensure the EPA’s pesticide office is once again following the best-available science to fulfill its stated mission “to protect human health and the environment.”[4]

Out-of-the-Gate Success Runs Out of Steam

Pesticide regulation in the United States has an inspiring origin: Following a public health and environmental crisis spurred by the irresponsible use of pesticides, Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring” defied expectations to become a global call to action. The chilling story exposing the long-term environmental costs of the escalating use of unregulated pesticides inspired the formation of the EPA and initiated a legislative and regulatory framework on pesticides that was copied around the world. The benefits of the new regulatory framework soon became undeniable, spotlighted most notably by the fact that the American bald eagle, our national symbol, was saved from the brink of extinction.[5]

Yet, immediately, many companies accustomed to operating without regulatory oversight complained and fought back against even the most measured science-based rules to reduce dangerous pollution.[6] Throughout the years, the intense political pressure put on the EPA’s pesticide office and the popular trend of many of the agency’s employees going to work for the pesticide industry had tangible consequences.[7] The result is a pesticide regulator that has been increasingly unable to say “no” to any pesticide even when compelling independent research demonstrated the pesticide to have troubling health risks.

As a direct result of the EPA’s laissez-faire regulatory approach, in 2019 the U.S. used over 70 agricultural pesticides that were banned in the European Union, amounting to 322 million pounds used each year.[8] That means over a quarter of all U.S. agricultural pesticide use was from pesticides that all EU member states have prohibited. And with more recent bans on pesticides like chlorothalonil and the EU’s new farm-to-fork strategy which aims to cut pesticide use in half by 2030, that regulatory disparity is growing significantly by the year.[9] [10]

It is not just Europe that is embracing these prohibitions. The U.S. uses 26 and 40 million pounds of pesticides that Brazil and China have banned or are phasing out, respectively.[11] India is currently considering banning 27 highly hazardous pesticides, like atrazine, 2,4-D, and acephate, which the U.S. uses over 100 million pounds of each year.[12] [13] Atrazine is a known endocrine disruptor linked to fertility problems[14] [15]; 2,4-D is associated with certain cancers and birth defects in children[16] [17]; and acephate is a known neurotoxin in the same class of chemicals as those developed for use as nerve agents in World War II.[18]

China, Brazil, India, the EU, and the U.S. are the five largest agricultural producers in the world.[19] The U.S. is now falling behind all of them when it comes to eliminating the most harmful agricultural pesticides still in use (please see Appendix Table 1 for all pesticides that the EU, Brazil and China have prohibited but the U.S. still allowed as of 2019).

Worse yet, as the other four leading agricultural producers move forward with restrictions or bans on the most toxic pesticides, the U.S. pesticide approval process has in some cases moved us backward. The use of aldicarb, one of the few pesticides designated as “extremely hazardous” by the World Health Organization and banned in 125 different countries around the world, was recently expanded by the EPA.[20] [21] [22] This is the same pesticide that was responsible for the largest known outbreak of food-borne pesticide illness in the U.S. when over 1,300 people fell ill after eating contaminated watermelons in the 1980s.[23]

A federal court subsequently struck down the EPA’s recent expanded approval of aldicarb as being unlawful,[24] but the message from the agency was clear: Virtually no pesticide is too egregious for the EPA to keep it on the market.

As I detail later in this article, U.S. agricultural interests are now paying an economic price for their decades of routinely fighting back against nearly every effort to regulate even the worst pesticides. Meanwhile, other leading agricultural nations that worked to put in place commonsense measures over the years have not only better protected human and environmental health, but they have bolstered their long-term economic interests.

[tumsozluk]

These pesticides may increase cancer risk in children

These pesticides may increase cancer risk in children

Key takeaways: Higher cancer risk. Prenatal exposure to acephate and other pesticides can increase the risk of retinoblastoma, or eye cancer, in children. Environmental causes. Children with retinoblastoma are more likely to be born in neighborhoods near applications of specific chemicals. Past research has shown that pesticide exposure increases the risk of cancer. Now, UCLA-led research has…

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[bipeterparker]

i’ve only ever seen two groups of people that will constantly insert themselves on posts that are specifically about biphobia 😐 who wants to guess what groups they are

#like. i’m sorry but maybe just make your own posts??? the fuck #they’re always like ‘yeah but what about aceph*bia and p*nphobia huh. why didn’t you mentioned them #because it’s about BIPHOBIA HELLO #julianne shut up