Speaking of Herbicides, Pesticides and other Kille

Posted by Allan in NE on February 02, 2005 at 09:11:40 from (148.63.132.164):

Mornin' Everyone,

I've never been a huge fan of using chemicals to farm with, but I guess at certain times they are necessary.

Always tried to be really careful when around the herbicides, even tried to stay clear away from the darned pesticides, if I could.

But, at around 1968 or thereabouts and up to about 1980, I started noticing a lot of the local farmers were dying of cancer. These guys were dropping like flies and they all were being killed by cancer.

Now, DDT was a big nasty and farmers used it a lot to control pests in the sugar beets and the potatoes, but I've always suspected that the really bad offender was from the fallout of the Nevada atomic testing that was going on back in the late 40s and early 50s.

This area lays downwind from these testing sites and it just seems odd that so many men in their 40s, 50s & 60s would be dropping like that and always from cancer.

I think these poor souls got more than they bargained for, for their labors. While they were out working their guts out in the fields, Uncle Sam was unwittingly poisoning them from the air.

When Mt. St. Helens erupted, eveything in western Nebraska turned white overnight, so stuff does travel with the winds.

Just a theory, anyone else notice this?

Allan

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