Re: Speaking of Herbicides, Pesticides and other K

Posted by Riverbend on February 02, 2005 at 13:14:41 from (208.160.33.136):

In Reply to: Speaking of Herbicides, Pesticides and other Kille posted by Allan in NE on February 02, 2005 at 09:11:40:

Hey Allen,

I grow organic vegetables for a living and love a good pesticide. Two years ago they came out with Spinosad for potato bugs on organic farms. I tried it and the next morning it looked like it rained dead CPB. Its great stuff.

Some of the current research says that pesticides and herbicides are more likely to ruin the unborn. To make it more complicated, it is usually some herbicide, nitrate (nitrite ?), and an insecticide that was the most effective in causing birth defects. Try http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/W-Porter-Endocrine.htm for more of that. None of those are particularly effective in killing adults. But then again, they never test them in combination. Maybe they do act as a trigger for chronic disease or cancer.

Above ground nuclear testing was and is a bad idea. Somebody in the physics department at Georgetown doesn't think that plutonium is 'the worlds most toxic element' i.e. http://www.physics.georgetown.edu/~urbach/sot/pffp_plutonium.pdf . I don't find that too comforting given that there are so few old urainum miners.

Greg

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