Maybe you should have read the story that Denys pointed to, which
indicates a small application on a home periodically to keep the
mosquitos from coming in and biting and spreading disease, not as a
wholesale use as a pesticide.
At 10:40 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>DDT damage
>The Mexican Government plans to phase out DDT in malaria control
>over the next ten years in favour of an integrated pest management
>(IPM) approach. It is prioritizing a reduction in organochlorine
>pesticides such as DDT because of the link between organochlorines
>and cancers. The Government also plans to enhance the enforcement of
>restrictions against DDT use in agriculture, which continues despite
>being made illegal in 1990. The Ministry of Health reported
>organochlorine residues in 146 out of 439 samples examined between
>1993 and 1995. Food contamination could account for the occurrence
>of unexpectedly high levels of DDE, a breakdown product of DDT, in
>the breast milk of women in Mexico City. According to an
>Environmental Health Perspectives report, Mexico is the leading DDT
>user in Latin America, and breast cancer is the second leading cause
>of death among Mexican women.
>Pesticide Monitor, vol 5, no 2.
>
>
>
>
>-------------- Original message from Shawn Gordon
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>
> > about damn time, this has been bugging me for years. Note all the
> > critics comments. it "may" cause eagle egg shell thinning, it "may"
> > reduce the flow of milk in nursing mothers, it "may" cause babies to
> > have low birth weight, it "may" cause dogs to grow wings, ok I made
> > up the last one. With all these "may" comments, one thing we know,
> > it WILL reduce the cases of malaria but an insanely large margin.
> >
> > More environmentalist extremism at work, at least people finally woke up.
> >
> > At 06:15 AM 10/3/2006, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> > >Actually some good news for a change. It look like we are
> finally going to
> > >stop letting a couple million people die needlessly every year.
> > >
> > >http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWMxMDkyYzViMTNlODE3YmNjM2Y3
> OTc5YWNmNzU
> > >5MmQ=
> > >
> > >
> > >Denys
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf
> > >Of James B. Byrne
> > >Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:16 AM
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Mars
> > >
> > >On: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:33:06 -0500, Denys Beauchemin
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well let me see now, the environmentalist movement has so far killed
> > > > between 10 and 30 million people,
> > >
> > >Yes, they are really going to have to light a fire under themselves if
> > >they are ever going to catch up the the ideologues of nationalism and
> > >economic determinism who manage to accomplish far more killing than that
> > >every generation. Not that we are ever going to see how M. Beauchemin
> > >comes up with his figures, nor are we ever goinfg to see what the offsets
> > >were in terms of lives saved and injuries forstalled.
> > >
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> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shawn Gordon
> > President
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