{"id":68802,"date":"2026-03-12T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/republican-farm-bill-criticized-as-agribusiness-giveaway-pesticide-industry-wishlist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:58:07","slug":"republican-farm-bill-criticized-as-agribusiness-giveaway-pesticide-industry-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/republican-farm-bill-criticized-as-agribusiness-giveaway-pesticide-industry-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: \u2018pesticide industry wishlist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say bill weakens safety reviews, boosts industry influence and shields pesticide makers from legal liability<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The newly proposed, Republican-led <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.house.gov\/farmbill\/\">farm bill<\/a> includes a range of provisions opponents say constitute a \u201cpesticide industry wishlist\u201d that would kill protections for humans, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/environment\">environment<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/endangeredspecies+wildlife\">wildlife and endangered species<\/a>, while also shielding industry from legal liability.<\/p>\n<p>Among other measures, they said the bill would delay safety reviews, give industry a prominent role in determining endangered species\u2019 protections and grant the US Department of Agriculture new veto power over health safeguards for children, farm workers and the public.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/republican-farm-bill-pesticide-environment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say bill weakens safety reviews, boosts industry influence and shields pesticide makers from legal liability Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The newly proposed, Republican-led farm bill includes a range of provisions opponents say constitute a \u201cpesticide industry wishlist\u201d that would kill protections for humans, &#8230; <a title=\"Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: \u2018pesticide industry wishlist\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/republican-farm-bill-criticized-as-agribusiness-giveaway-pesticide-industry-wishlist\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: \u2018pesticide industry wishlist\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}