15 detasselers hospitalized after being exposed to herbicide

[Cairycat]

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/15-detasselers-hospitalized-after-being-exposed-to-herbicide-386956511.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KCRG-TV9

There was also an article about this in the Marshalltown Times-Republican (but I can't link to that). In neither of these articles does it say which herbicide was the culprit. I find this quite worrisome - if it has that bad an effect on agricultural workers, how does it affect those of us who ingest this herbicide via the food chain?

Side note - isn't this kind of early for detasseling? It's been ten years since i had a kid who detasseled, and it seems to me that was later in July, early August.

[yourpaljoey]

1. quite worrisome indeed

It starts around July 10 where I come from.

[larkrake]

2. you think Monsanto cares? So much for labeling our food

God I hate these corporate legislators and lobbyists

[IADEMO2004]

3. Spraying ag chemicals on humans just has to be a criminal act. Right?

[stuffmatters]

4. Wait til the Bayer-Monsanto behemoth uses TPP ISDS to sue for 'lost future profits" from poisoning

If there's ever going to be a law prohibiting these pesticides, better do it before TPP passes. The imminent Bayer-Montsanto
merger makes these lawsuits certain, won't even need to invert to use ISDS.