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Re:Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's heal... by gwbas1c on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:37PM (#18302735)
I always wonder if there's a mindset of, "use it as long as we can get away with it."

We will need to significantly change our laws to fix this.

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Re:Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's heal... by ballenf on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:04PM (#18305390)
It's more like "use it until there's another product that we can sell at equal or higher profit. Then get those old organophosphates (now cheap) banned by backing critical research that was previously blocked."
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Re:Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's heal... by jlg23 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:33PM (#18304350)
Uhm, the idea behind of "use it as long as we can get away with it" is not the lack of laws but the lack of enforcement. No new law is going to change that.
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