Bayer’s Push for Immunity from “Failure-to-Warn” Litigation Reaches the Supreme Court and the Farm Bill
May 7, 2026
The United States is at a critical moment regarding our ability to effectively regulate pesticides and
Pesticides & Health
Food and farming systems should cultivate life — not harm
Because our agrifood systems currently rely on massive amounts of pesticides in order to be productive and efficient, farmworkers, communities of color, rural communities and children are exposed to toxic cocktails of pesticides that we know cause irreversible health harms.
Cancer, developmental and neurological issues in children, endocrine disruption, reproductive harm, and Parkinson’s disease among other things are linked to pesticide exposure. In the United States, the regulatory system is such that pesticide corporations can provide their own research as evidence their products do not cause harm when used as directed, but this system allows for flawed research and doesn’t require companies to prove a product is truly safe in the context of compound lifetime exposures.
PAN advocates for the Precautionary Principle, a concept of agroecology that assumes a chemical is unsafe until proven otherwise, putting the onus on pesticide manufacturers to provide objective scientific research that proves their products will not cause harm before they are approved for use.
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EPA used flawed research to approve registration of glyphosate-based herbicides, but Trump’s latest executive order claims that glyphosate production is necessary for
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