Movie plot: In a heroic effort to save the world’s soybean crop from dastardly evolving weeds the Environmental Protection Agency authorizes Big Ag – staring Bayer AG and BASF – to unleash the flawed herbicide dicamba in a desperate all-out assault. The EPA acknowledges the holy h-e-double-toothpicks of dicamba is risky but assures everyone they’ve “got a label” for that. Dicamba beats back the weed invaders, but collateral damage is huge to the nation’s peach, cotton, tobacco, tomato, and sunflower crops. EPA says it’s sorry about all the unwanted damage and swears to tweak dicamba rules of weed engagement and next time it will be difference (cue patriotic music and American flags).
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