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# DEADLINE TOMORROW: Help Stop ‘Agent Orange’ Crops!
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/help_stop_agent_orange_crops_0729140158/
- Published: 2014-07-29T14:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:29:42.000Z
- Description: The alert asks readers to urge their members of Congress to sign a DeFazio-Pingree letter against Dow's Enlist corn and soy, engineered to tolerate 2,4-D. USDA acknowledges approval could push annual 2,4-D use from 26 million to 176 million pounds.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

## Dear Readers,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) want to approve Dow’s new Enlist-brand corn and soy crops that are engineered to resist a deadly herbicide, concocted from a combination of Monsanto’s Roundup and Dow’s 2,4-D herbicide. (2,4-D is one of the chemicals used to create Agent Orange, used by the U.S. Army to defoliate jungles and destroy food crops during the Vietnam War).

Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) are trying to stop them. But they need your help today.

[**Please contact your Congress members today and ask them to sign on to a letter by Reps. DeFazio and Pingree asking the USDA and EPA to reject Dow’s “Agent Orange” crops!**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jFvnEQOL9U22Vv2Yzzf7Z4Ibcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org) **(You can check the list below to see if your Congress member has already signed).**

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) [signaled](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SSVCBHDsBbgLU%2BDclZPFvoIbcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org) it will approve Dow’s new Enlist-brand corn and soy crops, even though the agency [admits](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bNypcFd5TMwlRfWXEKh8y4Ibcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org) that if the new crops are approved, the annual use of the herbicide 2,4-D would jump from 26 million pounds to 176 million pounds.

In their [letter to the USDA and EPA](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QvAa5GnQV2fS7VKK6UBIsoIbcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org), Reps. DeFazio and Pingree argue that the agencies are ignoring the science that shows that 2,4-D-resistant crops pose “significant threats to farmers through genetic contamination and herbicide drift, which can damage neighboring crops, wild plants and pollinator habitat.”

They conclude: “The risks of approving 2,4-D crops are simply too great to jeopardize public health, the environment and the long - term health and safety of our food supply.”

[**Please contact your Congress members today and ask them to sign on to a letter by Reps. DeFazio and Pingree asking the USDA and EPA to reject Dow’s “Agent Orange” crops!**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vQXVhumST25nTDcLKrgcsIIbcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org)

**More** [**here**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hlLcrnhPLzex6HeJXS0VT4Ibcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org) **and** [**here**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=10VtM%2FJ%2FeMUw2AhdXe7XZ4Ibcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org)**.**  

[**Read the Dear Colleague letter**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L6bLsP%2Bryto02wq90NtHSYIbcc461bk%2B&ref=foodconsumer.org)

**Congress members who have already signed:**

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)  
Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.)  
Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.)  
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.)  
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.)  
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)  
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)  
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)  
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)  
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Paul Grijalva (D-Ariz.)  
Rep. James Langevin (D-R.I.)  
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)  
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Mary Kaptur (D-Ohio)  
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)  
Rep. Mike Michaud, (D-Maine)  
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.)  
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.)  
Rep. Janet Napolitano (D-N.Y.)  
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-District of Columbia)  
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.)  
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)  
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)  
Rep. Bobby Rush (D- Ill.)  
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)  
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.)  
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)  
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.)  
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.)  
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)  
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)

\- Katherine, Melinda and the OCA Team