Janice Weiner
As of this posting, the transcript was not available on the Iowa Press page. Here is a snippet from the conversation. Video below.
Erin Murphy:
The governor was sitting in that chair last week and she told us that she would like to see the pesticide bill make it to her desk in hopes that that can still happen in the future. That bill passed the Iowa Senate with Republican support, was not considered in the Iowa House yet again. Democrats voted against that. Is that a debate you assume you’ll be having again next year?
Janice Weiner: I hope not… because we’ve already seen it 2 years in a row and it passed the senate on a razor thin margin…I heard what the governor said and she’s entitled to her opinion but she’s not entitled to her own facts. And the fact is this bill is not just about labeling. It’s about holding foreign pesticide companies harmless, and we should not take away Iowans’ day in court. And I think that’s why we saw it stall yet again.
Murphy: The common pushback on that is if this product continues to face lawsuits and is ultimately pulled from the shelves it’s going to put Iowa farmers in a very difficult position. Do you not share that concern?
Weiner: The product is not going to go away. There are already generic versions. There’s a lot of opportunity out there on the market. The product is not going anywhere.
Blog For Iowa 
Discussions about glyphosate in Iowa often drive me crazy. There is a huge difference between using it in very small amounts and very carefully, which is how many natural area managers use it, and industrial agriculture spraying large quantities on rowcrops every year, against the advice of researchers, to the point that many weeds have developed resistance to glyphosate and more are doing so. Of course cancer is very important. But cancer is only one of the issues that is important when it comes to pesticide use in Iowa.
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