Brazil's new administration already approved more than 160 pesticides in 6 months. So they are catching up quickly.<p><a href="https://g1.globo.com/economia/agronegocios/noticia/2019/05/21/governo-federal-aprova-registro-de-mais-31-agrotoxicos-somando-169-no-ano.ghtml" rel="nofollow">https://g1.globo.com/economia/agronegocios/noticia/2019/05/2...</a>
Pesticides are the ultimate culprits that harm human and all biological life. Unfortunately things like plastic ban occupy mindshare. Unlike plastics pesticides like Glyphosate get 'locked' into the body --- meaning your body cannot wash them out through its usual means --- resulting in cancer and what not.
One expects the US to be behind the EU, a place generally more concerned with the welfare of its citizens than the US, where corporate profits are King.<p>But when we fall behind Brazil and China, too, alarm bells should be ringing -- if they weren't, already, over US infant mortality soaring past that in dozens of other countries, or life expectancy reverting to a persistent downward trend.<p>You don't get declining life expectancy without really concerted mismanagement and corruption at the top.
Such pesticides and other toxic chemicals not only cause cancer, but they also explain the increasing infertility in the West as explainable by germline damage in both men and women. This should worry you a lot. Please refer to:<p>[1] Assessment of Glyphosate Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathologies and Sperm Epimutations: Generational Toxicology. (2019)<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011160" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011160</a><p>> The transgenerational pathologies observed include prostate disease, obesity, kidney disease, ovarian disease, and parturition (birth) abnormalities. Epigenetic analysis of the F1, F2 and F3 generation sperm identified differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs). A number of DMR associated genes were identified and previously shown to be involved in pathologies. Therefore, we propose glyphosate can induce the transgenerational inheritance of disease and germline (e.g. sperm) epimutations. Observations suggest the generational toxicology of glyphosate needs to be considered in the disease etiology of future generations.<p>[2] Environmental toxicant induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of ovarian pathology and granulosa cell epigenome and transcriptome alterations: ancestral origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome and primary ovarian insuffiency. (2018)<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30207508" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30207508</a><p>[3] The epigenetic impacts of endocrine disruptors on female reproduction across generations. (2019)<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077281" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077281</a>