A pending report from the Trump administration is pitting huge conservative farm groups against Trump’s US Department of Health and Human Services.
Farmers love atrazine because it’s relatively cheap and effective. They spray tens of millions of pounds of it each year to kill weeds. But the herbicide winds up in lots of drinking water sources, including the Missouri River.
It’s not acutely toxic, but has been linked to birth defects, and possibly some cancers.
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ “Make America Healthy Again” commission is reportedly set to release a report blaming atrazine and other farm chemicals for a host of chronic illnesses.
Powerful farm groups have banded together to counter the report, calling it a false, “baseless attack” on American agriculture.
