昨天的最高法院判决反映出，大工业对政府的掌控几乎已完成。它确认了化工公司使用其农药、除草剂等产品伤害、致残甚至杀死你和你的孩子的权利，几乎完全免受惩罚。

这意味着你可以预期到越来越毒性的农药、除草剂、真菌剂、灭鼠剂等，因为它们越毒，就越能更好地杀死杂草、害虫等。然后，使用最有效产品（无论对人类多么有害）的农民将具有竞争优势。其结果将是，采用最有效产品（即最毒性）的农民将获得最大的作物产量。其他农民为了竞争，也将被迫采用更有害的产品。就这样，向底部的竞赛开始了。

我预计，在未来的几十年里，我们将回顾过去，并希望回到草甘膦的“更安全日子”。所以，底线是：你的政府已经抛弃了你和你的孩子。想想这个判决：9位最高法院法官中有7位站在化工公司一边反对公众，而特朗普的司法部在案件中介入，支持化工公司的一方。任何认为本届政府更关心你而非工业利润的人，此时此刻，都是妄想。

司法部可耻，特朗普政府可耻，最高法院可耻，因为他们让化工公司逃脱了用其产品伤害、致残和杀死美国人的罪责，而不是仅仅让正常的市場力量来保护我们和我们的孩子。现在，除了疫苗，我们还可以将农药等添加到那些可以几乎完全免责地伤害和杀死人的产品清单中。

下面是判决，在简而言之，它认为根据州法律提出的未能警告索赔（这是针对农药、除草剂等造成的伤害所提出的主要类型索赔）被EPA批准的标签所预先排除，以至于，如果伤害不在标签上，你的索赔就败诉（因为EPA没有将其作为伤害添加到标签上），而如果伤害在标签上，你的索赔也败诉（因为它已在标签上披露）。意思是无论正面反面他们都赢，你和你的孩子都输。

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Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision reflects that the capture of government by big industry is nearly complete. It affirmed the right of chemical companies to injure, maim, and even kill you and your children with their pesticides, herbicides, etc., with near complete impunity.

This means you can expect increasingly toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc., because the more toxic they are, the better they will kill weeds, pests, etc. And farmers that then use the most effective products, no matter how harmful to humans, will have a competitive advantage. The result will be that the farmer who adopts the most effective products (meaning most toxic) will have the largest crop yield. Other farmers, to compete, will then also be forced to adopt the more harmful product. With that, the race to the bottom has begun.

I expect that in the coming decades we will look back and wish to return to the “safer days” of glyphosate. So, bottom line: your government has abandoned you and your children. Think about this decision: 7 out of 9 Supreme Court judges sided with the chemical company against the public, and Trump’s DOJ intervened in the case on the side of the chemical company. Anyone who thinks this administration cares about you over industry profit is, at this point, delusional.

Shame on the DOJ, shame on the Trump admin, and shame on the Supreme Court for letting chemical companies get away with injuring, maiming, and killing Americans with their products instead of just allowing normal market forces to protect us and our children. Now, in addition to vaccines, we can add pesticides, etc., to the list of products that can injure and kill with near complete immunity.

Below is the decision and, in a nutshell, it holds that failure to warn claims brought under state law (which is the primary type of claim one would bring for harms from a pesticide, herbicide, etc.) are preempted by the EPA-approved label such that, if the harm is not on the label, your claim loses (since EPA didn’t add it to the label as a harm), and if the harm is on the label, your claim loses (since it has been disclosed on the label). Meaning heads or tail they win, and you and your children lose.

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