Posted on 07/04/2007 1:11:29 PM PDT by Coleus
That is absolute nonsense and you should know better than to post a lie such as that here in FR! DDT has nothing hazardous in common with PCB's and Dioxins and was used extensively during the 50's and 60's throughout the United States with absolutely no deleterious effect on humans whatsoever. In fact there are many FReepers still alive and on site who remember the days in their respective east coast communities when the "mosquito trucks" would drive thru their neighborhoods spraying DDT to kill the damn things.
The banning of DDT was the worst thing to ever happen to 3rd world countries and it was based on distorted facts and out and out lies. In fact I would go so far as to say that the banning of DDT was the beginning of the Enrovironmental Waco movement based on junk science!
If you want the truth about DDT then go to Junkscience.com or to the following article from the American Spectator:
Well shucks, given the state of most of the African communities these days, they don't even have the ability to maintain their water treatment plants let alone feed themselves so the construction of plants capable of manufacturing DDT is kinda on the back burner at this time........Most of these people are just trying to figure out how to stay alive!.........Sheesh!
So to answer your question, yea, lets give it to them.
I used to work at a company that bought toluene in 5 gallon cans, four at a time, and used it as a paint thinner. I must have inhaled ten gallons of vapors from spray painting with it. That was twenty years ago and I still have a pulse.
Happy Independence Day!
The "mosquito trucks" drove through my street weekly when I lived in Honolulu, HI from 1960-1962. I often played in the "fog" that was sprayed.
That is largely the fault of the criminals in their society. They had good water systems before the thieves ripped them out to sell the plumbing to scrap metal dealers. Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Farmer Dean, We have us a winner.
You can send down the DDT in guilded buckets too.
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