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What Are the Dangers of Pesticides? The Banned Drug Fipronil Poisons Millions of Bees
Millions of bees have been poisoned by the banned pesticide fipronil! Reports of damage have come from the Puli and Caotun areas of central Taiwan, China. What exactly happened? Let's take a look together. Quick facts about fipronil: It is used as a pesticide, an animal drug and an environmental drug; it acts as a neurotoxin and has an immediate effect on insects.
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Glyphosate Roundup Cancer Case: US Court Orders Monsanto to Pay 2 Billion USD
On May 13 local time in the United States, a San Francisco court ordered German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer to pay 2.05 billion USD to a couple; the plaintiffs argued that they were diagnosed with cancer after using Roundup herbicide (also known as RangerPro, glyphosate) under Bayer's subsidiary Monsanto. This is already the
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Feeding sheep with picked scallions: over 80 died from poisoning; what should be done about pesticide poisoning?
Recently, in Shouguang, Shandong, a sheep farmer fed his own sheep with picked scallions, after which the flock successively showed poisoning symptoms such as convulsions and foaming at the mouth. Despite desperate efforts to save them, still...
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