You might think that national wildlife refuges would be places where wildlife could take refuge from the environmental insanity of modern American agriculture.
But you’d be wrong.
Birds, insects, and other wildlife are sharing refuges with genetically engineered crops and being exposed to poisonous pesticides.
A lawsuit filed by environmental groups last week argues that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Midwestern division is violating federal law by allowing the use of pesticides and the planting of GMOs at wildlife refuges in four states without conducting thorough site-by-site environmental reviews.
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