In short: A leaked email from the National Farmers Federation is directing its members to stay silent on a story linking the common farm chemical paraquat to Parkinson’s disease.
But the leader of the Victorian state branch has ignored the directive, saying she believes a debate needs to be had about the safe use of the chemical and the health of farmers.
In a leaked email seen by the ABC, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) head office encourages its members to “avoid prolonging the story”.
“Essentially as we expected the story has had very little traction beyond the ABC online and Landline story and that’s how we’d like to keep it,” the email reads.
Thankyou maniacalmanicmania for publicising this across other forums. This issue deserves a lot more heat.