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  1. Undecider says:

    Well, of course. It’s all about the deployment of food as a weapon.

    1. Eileen Kuch says:

      Another criminal agency to abolish: USDA, on top of the IRS, NSA, CIA, Rothschild Central Bank aka “Federal Reserve”, and Dept of Education. Abolish them all.

      1. As well as the FDA = Fatal Defects Allowed

        1. Eileen Kuch says:

          Yes, the FDA, as well. Brilliantly said, buddy.

  2. And now the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” goes on the Senate floor in a couple days! A NON ENDING barrage of MASSIVE POISONING of the PLANET! You must call our Rep;s ASAP! and “STOP” the “FAST TRACK AUTHORITY”! AND the Corporate Take over of the world!

  3. Rick Carufel says:

    The only way to be sure if the food is safe the USDA people need to eat it for a year before they rules on it’s safety.

  4. Cindy Koch says:

    I find it despicable that glyphosate isn’t tested just because the FDA has deemed it safe!

  5. Ariel Gail MacLean says:

    There is a glaring hole in this story which I would like to address. In addition to the story behind the USDA’s unwillingness to test for glyphosate, this writer left out the fact that testing for the regulatory limits of pesticides does not point out that when one pesticide becomes innoculous to bugs – when insects develop resistence, and the farmer moves on to the latest new “solution,” this farmer generally continues previous applications of the old chemical up to the limit allowed by law, and then adds on top up to the limit for every new chemical that comes into his lineup of “inputs” for that given crop. For example, a couple years ago, EWG, the Environmental Working Group which is the only 3rd party lab (a Public Interest lab NOT funded by agricultural-chemical industry) which tests for chemicals in our food supply, found over 100 different pesticides and related chemicals in the vast majority of conventionally-grown celery sold in American grocery stores. This is re-tested every year and is published as The Dirty Dozen. The reason I am writing is to point out that not only does the USDA NOT test for Glyphosate (Round-up) in our food supply – the most prevalent agricultural chemical, it also does not admit to the fact that every stick of celery, and apple, and raisin, etc., is saturated with many more times the “allowable” level of hundreds of chemicals besides the one they are testing and reporting on. Conventional farmers are framed into needing to continue maximum levels of chemicals when resistence to a previous chemical happens with a crop, in order to even get a harvest at all. I am a retired sustainable farmer and have been intimately involved with growing vegetables for nearly 3/4 century and need to insist – this is another example of the public being misled, lied to, and endangered. USDA is not telling the whole story about the chemicals in our foodstream and people need to wake up to this, tune in to information sources such as EWG, and get better informed. It is MUCH worse than you think or than this article outlines. There is also the unchecked proliferation of other agricultural chemicals that EWG and the USDA do not even test for – EWG tests/talks about mostly pesticides. Conventional farming involves ever-increasing levels of many other categories of chemicals such as: herbicides, fungacides, synthetic fertilizers, hormones, and other pathogens used under no reporting, testing, or oversight mechanism whatsoever. USDA is also a partial sham, as it has turned into a lobbying effort by BIG ORGANIC AG producers getting the government (which is all to happy to comply) to permit another “allowable” chemical which the USDA Certified Organic Label can use in spite of knowledge it is still harmful and/or came from nature originally (bug juice which kills other bugs on contact via CNS damage is bad for animals too, or plant toxins which kill bugs and fungus’ which harm humans but since the “allowable” product came from another plant it gets approved under USDA Certified Organic). Last I checked there were a couple hundred of these questionable or known harmful alternative chemicals which are now “allowables.”
    Big Ag is Big Money. Doesn’t matter where it comes from. Meanwhile, buy “Organic” label for sure (less chemicalized) but invest in growing your own no matter where you live, or how busy you are, and this included kitchen gardening (sprouting) and intensive grow strategies. There will be a time soon when we will not be able to even afford “Organic.”

  6. IF you live near anyone in the USDA,tell all your friends who they are and then put it on the internet,so everyone knows…………….

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