Texans delay ‘Agent Orange’ spraying on border

Texans delay ‘Agent Orange’ spraying on border

Did you know that American authorities want to spray a toxic herbicide over 1.1 million acres of land on the US-Mexico border?

Leave it to some pissed off Texans to throw a cog in that machine.

This, from the latest edition of Texas’ most muckrakin’ weekly, the Lone Star Iconoclast:

The residents here dodged a bullet when the U.S. Border Patrol delayed the spraying of a toxic herbicide along the Rio Grande.

The herbicide, the U.S. agency said, is meant to eradicate a wild plant that supposedly protects illegal entities from detection on the riverbanks.

However, U.S. citizens living near the 1.1 mile spray area took a legal stand to halt the $2.1 million pilot program before it began last week because they haven’t been educated on the effects of the poison, they said.

“When our government comes and says it’s safe, we have to think back to the many times they said something was safe and it turn out not to be safe,” said the citizens’ petition obtained by Pro8News.

via The Raw Story » Texans delay ‘Agent Orange’ spraying on border.