The coalition focused on making Americans healthier is frustrated with the Trump administration's stance on environmental toxins and most recently, its support of the company that makes the pesticide.

The case in front of the [US Supreme] court centers on whether Bayer, the German company that now owns Monsanto, can be shielded from lawsuits that have been filed in state courts over claims that the company failed to warn consumers about the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate.

The Trump administration’s decision to back the pesticide maker in the case, coming on the heels of an executive order supporting the expansion of domestic production of glyphosate, has angered the MAHA movement…

Just last month, leading scientists in the field of environmental health issued a consensus statement, saying that glyphosate can cause cancer and called for urgent action. Bayer disputes this.

  • kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip
    3·
    20 days ago

    I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding but your correction is incorrect. While you are on the right track saying a substance used to kill plants is called an herbicide, an herbicide is a type of pesticide. If you are using an herbicide to kill an unwanted plant, you are practicing pest control with a pesticide.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      3·
      20 days ago

      Dam! You’re right!

      We’ll I’ve been wrong most of my life, what’s one more little thing. Now I know better.