The Pesticide Industry's Toxic Lobby

This article points to another written by Sharon Lerner at the intercept[1], which shows that, since the EPA was founded in 1974, ALL of the directors of its Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention went on to work for the pesticide industry.

All of them! The agency has worked to rubber stamp the pesticide industry’s proposals from the day it was founded.

What a rotten country we live in.

1. https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/epa-pesticides-exposure-...

Related ~100 pg report from Dec 2022. We'll researched and well articulated, in my opinion at least.

In history books it's appropriately shocking to see those photos of kids playing in clouds of DEET sprayed by trucks, 1950s and 60s, yet today we're many orders of magnitude beyond that with glyphosate.

https://foe.org/resources/merchants-of-poison/

> The Pesticide Industry's Toxic Lobby

Every lobby is toxic.

Even the ALCU? The NAACP? The AFL-CIO? The NRA? The Innocence Project? I suspect like most things in life, the situation is far more complex than can be captured in a simple 4 word rote expression.