In Arkansas, Backlash Against Pesticide Regulation Gets Personal
By Dan Charles, September 22, 2020

Vandals struck Terry Fuller's farm a few days ago, burning 367 bales of hay. Fuller is trying to limit use of a herbicide called dicamba, which has pitted farmers against each other. — Terry Fuller

Twice in the past two months, vandals have struck Terry Fuller's farm, destroying tractor engines and burning stacks of hay. Each attack came immediately after Fuller appeared before Arkansas's state legislature on behalf of a state agency that's investigating farmers suspected of illegally using a herbicide called dicamba. Fuller doesn't think it's a coincidence.

Fuller chairs a board of citizen-regulators called the Arkansas State Plant Board. It has imposed some of the country's tightest restrictions on the use of dicamba, a chemical that's provoked intense conflict - including one murder - in farming communities from Mississippi to Minnesota. Some farmers call it an essential weed-killing tool. Others consider it an intolerable agent of destruction, because it tends to evaporate from fields where it's sprayed and move with the wind, damaging other crops and wild vegetation.

Earlier this year, citing dicamba's widespread damage, a court revoked the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of the most important uses of dicamba. But the company Bayer, which created popular varieties of soybeans and cotton that are genetically modified to tolerate dicamba, is asking the EPA to put it back on the market next year.

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The Need To GROW documentary
by The GreenMedInfo Team, September 9, 2020

Our friends at Earth Conscious Films have created an inspiring, award-winning film about the solutions Earth so desperately needs!

It’s been buzzing at film festivals worldwide, winning several accolades for Best Documentary, and it’s available RIGHT NOW for a special, free global screening event.

The film is called The Need To GROW, and it’s a deeply moving 90-minute documentary —the kind that gives you chills, opens your heart, and leaves you informed about some of the most critical issues of our times.

This film focuses on soil, food, and the future of our species — told through the lens of three extraordinary characters, and their journeys as solutionaries. It’s narrated by celebrity activist Rosario Dawson. And it brings a non-divisive message about the stake we all have in humanity’s ability to sustainably grow food for future generations.

The Earth Conscious Films team spent over 5 years making this movie. This is a story that needs to be told — and it is told VERY well.

Don't miss The Need To GROW — watch right now for free!

P.S. This free, global screening event ends on September 14.

Source: The GreenMedInfo Daily Newsletter

AstraZeneca Shares Plunge as Human Trial for COVID-19 Vaccine Is Halted Due To "Adverse Reaction"
by Tyler Durden, September 8, 2020

The COVID-19 vaccine by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was in Phase 3 testing on humans at dozens of sites across the US, but has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom. There is no further information on the trial volunteer or their severe illness that may be due to vaccine injury. There are currently nine vaccine candidates in Phase 3 trials, and AstraZeneca is the first known to be put on hold. The unidentified injury has reportedly impacted vaccine trials by other manufacturers.

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University to Keep Over $400K in Tuition After Dismissing Students for Not Social Distancing
by Marc Fortier, September 6, 2020

Eleven first-year students at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts were recently dismissed for violating social distancing rules, and will not receive a refund on their $36,500-semester tuition for the study abroad program. The students were found at the Westin Hotel, where they were housed due to the pandemic, without face masks and flouting social distancing protocols. The students and their parents were notified they must vacate the Westin within 24 hours. Northeastern University will keep the $401,500 tuition money. Before leaving, the students are being required to undergo COVID-19 testing at Northeastern. Anyone testing positive will be moved into special housing at the university until they recover.

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Masks Forbidden in Church! - Orthodox Priest Explains Why
by Fr. Sasa Petrovic, September 3, 2020

We are witnessing unprecedented events in our country and around the world. The novel virus COVID-19 struck fear into the millions of people worldwide. In a response to the health crisis many countries have introduced various measures in order to control the spread of COVID-19. Many of those measures, however, are so irrational and tyrannical that they violate both man’s law and our inalienable God-given rights.

In Scripture, hiding one’s face always means, shame, distrust, unfavorable position, division and separation. Long ago, Arabs discovered that forcing people to cover their noses and mouths broke their wills and individuality, and depersonalized them. It made them submissive. Modern psychology explains it: without a face we don’t exist as independent beings. The mask is the beginning of deleting individuality.

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