Kennedy's War on Pesticides Riles Farmers and a G.O.P. Senator

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : As Mr. Kennedy was testifying Tuesday before members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Ms. Hyde-Smith asserted that "1,500 studies and 50-plus years of review" of glyphosate by the Environmental Protection Agency and "other global health authorities have affirmed its safety when used as directed."
54% : The admonition from the senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, came as President Trump was preparing to release a report on Thursday from a commission, led by Mr. Kennedy and named for his movement, to examine the causes of childhood chronic disease.
53% : The president instructed the panel to study "the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism.

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