I understand that your higherups work very hard to protect us from health hazards. I genuinely believe that there was simply no evidence found that atrazine is any threat to our health, and even the environment.
" 2017, Health Canada concluded that the risks atrazine poses are not harmful to our health and the environment."
Let me then show you some evidence. Even if you are not in charge of Health Canada, you're likely exposed to more atrazine than you wish to be.
"atrazine is commonly detected in Toronto’s municipal drinking water sources and has been found in Montreal tap water with levels that exceed the EU contamination standard"
It was reported by Alex Jones that the chemicals in our water turn the frogs gay:
Let's see read some science:
"The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. As a result, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations. Previous studies showed that atrazine adversely affects amphibian larval development. The Present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians. Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs. Atrazine-exposed males suffered from depressed testosterone, decreased breeding gland size, demasculinized/feminized laryngeal development, suppressed mating behavior, reduced spermatogenesis, and decreased fertility. These data are consistent with effects of atrazine observed in other vertebrate classes. The present findings exemplify the role that atrazine and other endocrine-disrupting pesticides likely play in global amphibian declines... Approximately 80 million pounds are applied annually in the United States alone... Atrazine can be transported more than 1,000 km from the point of application via rainfall and, as a result, contaminates otherwise pristine habitats, even in remote areas where it is not used (2, 3). In fact, more than a half million pounds of atrazine are precipitated in rainfall each year in the United States (2)."
"Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. and probably the world. It can be present at several parts per million in agricultural runoff and can reach 40 parts per billion (ppb) in precipitation... In Exp. 1, we exposed larvae to atrazine at nominal concentrations of 0.01, 0.1, 1.0, 10.0, and 25 parts per billion (ppb)... At all doses tested (except 0.01 ppb), atrazine produced gonadal abnormalities. Up to 20% of the animals (16–20%) had multiple gonads (up to 6 in a single animal) or were hermaphrodites (with multiple testes and ovaries; Fig. 2). These abnormalities were never observed in control animals in the current experiments or in over 10,000 observations of control animals in our laboratory over the last 6 years."
Whether we are allowed to think for ourselves or not, we all see that atrazine contributed well to the decline of fertility. Total sperm counts dropping 1.6% per year for the past five decades, and low testosterone levels in young men, which did not appear to be attributable to observed changes in explanatory factors, including health and lifestyle characteristics such as smoking and obesity. We get it you're not interested in raising the population, but the quality of life plummets with low T, as well as cognitive function. And lower serum testosterone is independently associated with higher all-cause and cancer-related, but not CVD-related, mortality in middle-aged to older men.
Now is it still not funny?
And to the African interviewer, if you're reading, they were also African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) so it may explain something for you.
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