{"id":67,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/24-d-in-australia-healthy-environment-group-weed-this\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:10:28","slug":"24-d-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/24-d-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"2,4-D in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2,4-D<\/h2>\n
It is not banned\u00a0in Australia<\/strong>. It is being sprayed right here in your community within spray\u00a0drift distance of your child\u2019s school, kindergarten and child care\u00a0centre.<\/p>\n

2,4-D has special notoriety because it was one of the\u00a0active ingredients in Agent Orange.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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When determining a \u2018safe level\u2019 the traditional assumption is that the degree of\u00a0harm increases with the dose. This means that the more poison you receive, the\u00a0more harm it will do. This is not true for 2,4-D a hormone disrupting chemical.\u00a0\u00a0A very low dose may cause significant harm, a moderate dose may cause a lesser\u00a0degree of harm and a large dose again my cause significant\u00a0harm.<\/p>\n

The chemical industry works hard to maintain the\u00a0inertia of continued herbicide use and thus protect the status quo. The entire\u00a0procedure works like a game, but the rules are written by the companies that\u00a0manufacture herbicides. The winners sell more chemicals and the losers have much\u00a0more at stake: cancer and neurodevelopment disease for\u00a0example.<\/p>\n

The onus is on public health advocates to prove\u00a0that a product is harmful, this is backward the chemical companies should have\u00a0to prove a product is safe before it hits the market.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Canada 2,4-D is banned and was done so based on the \u201cPrecautionary Principle\u2019.\u00a0 That is, although it was not definitely proven that 2,4-D on lawns cause\u00a0specific cancers in people, it was known that many pesticides are linked to\u00a0health problems. The weight of evidence leaned in the favour of taking
\npreventive or precautionary action to protect human health and therefore support\u00a0the ban. Citizens in communities of all shapes and sizes right across Canada\u00a0overwhelming support pesticide bans. Better Safe than Sorry makes sense to a lot\u00a0of peopleand loudly and clearly they are choosing the safety of their children\u00a0over weed free lawns and paddocks.<\/p>\n

Anything\u00a0we can do to reduce risk of cancer by changing the things we can control, that\u00a0aren\u2019t necessary, that have no other clear health benefit, are things we should\u00a0be advocating for.<\/p>\n

Chemical companies tell us\u00a0we need all the answers before they stop selling pesticides that have been\u00a0linked to cancer in so many studies. But do we really want to take that chance\u00a0for the sake of stomping out a few weeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2,4-D It is not banned\u00a0in Australia. It is being sprayed right here in your community within spray\u00a0drift distance of your child\u2019s school, kindergarten and child care\u00a0centre. 2,4-D has special notoriety because it was one of the\u00a0active ingredients in Agent Orange. When determining a \u2018safe level\u2019 the traditional assumption is that the degree of\u00a0harm increases with<\/p>\n

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