I’m still trying to figure out how much of this is incompetence and how much is a deliberate effort to destroy the Ag Research Service.
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That sounds reasonable, and you may know more about the situation than I do. I live in Washington, but on the opposite side of the mountains, so I’m just linking to what a local wrote about the situation in the Seattle Times.
I’m guessing the oyster farmers feel they have tried all the cost-effective solutions, and it looks like developments in the past century, like flood control on the Columbia River, have made the matters worse.
Various PNW economies have turned out to be unsustainable, all right. Old-growth logging, for sure, and maybe humans aren’t meant to eat so many oysters. Still, chlorpyrofos breaks down fairly quickly in water exposed to sunlight, so off-target impacts can be expected to be minimal-to-zero, and chlorpyrofos is much gentler on the environment than the sevin that was used for decades.
General freak-out about pesticides is what’s driving the concerns. I started this before you added your edit. Thanks for exploring further.
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DEEliberate, my friend. Sonny Perdue, Ag Secretary, made a fortune in the howlingly eco-destructive chicken business (think about that next time you are picking out your barbeque thighs, as brand does matter). So Sonny, after a profitable stint as governor of GA, has taken his pillaging experience to DC to take care of all those pesky fact-based communists that make us all look at what the world is actually like, instead of what we wish it were like because we can make the bottom line fatter, for his hero and Republican bastion of truth and justice and the American way, Donald John Trump.
Science and logic are the enemies of profit and belief in Jesus and Conservatism and wealth hegemony and Mitch McConnell and Franklin Graham and James Inhofe’s Senate snowball and the 1% of “scientists” who still maintain that climate change is an illusion.
They are out to KILL THE TRUTH, and the Ag Research Service is one of those things, like NOAA and the satellites that measure the thickness of the Greenland ice sheet, who deal in facts that are inconvenient for the average uneducated person to be educated about because then they might think, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and profit for Exxon and Pfizer and the other motherfuckers.
Sorry. Lost it there for a minute.
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