Posted on 06/12/2005 9:44:58 PM PDT by Coleus
Edited on 06/12/2005 10:42:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
IN THE PANTHEON of poisons, DDT occupies a special place. It's the only pesticide celebrated with a Nobel Prize: Swiss chemist Paul Mueller won in 1948 for having discovered its insecticidal properties. But it's also the only pesticide condemned in pop song lyrics - Joni Mitchell's famous "Hey, farmer, farmer put away your DDT now" - for damaging the environment. Banned in the United States more than 30 years ago, it remains America's best known toxic substance. Like some sort of rap star, it's known just by its initials; it's the Notorious B.I.G. of pesticides.
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By banning use of DDT, thousands have died of malaria all over the world and millions are infected.
90 Million have died.
And I bet most of the victims are poor and black and the dems. just don't care. Yet they would rather save a bird or tree.
You got it.
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