Young Jewish Leadership PAC

A lawsuit in the “judicial hellhole” that is Madison County, Ill., against the makers of the world’s most widely used herbicide threatens to undermine our way of evaluating risks in this country. If the lawyers — and the anti-chemical, anti-business activists — get their way, American agriculture will be forced back to practices of the pre-industrial age. And that will be only the first step in the “environmentalist” agenda to roll back progress.

If you think that’s an exaggeration, think again. A finding against Syngenta, which manufacturers atrazine, would set a very dangerous precedent, with repercussions for farmers and anyone who enjoys their bounty. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), unfortunately, has now loaned its weight to the activists’ Luddite effort to restrict or ban a number of safe and useful agricultural chemicals in common use — with atrazine, the most effective weed-killer available, only one of the targets.

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