Children of the African Continent to Santa Claus: “All we want for Christmas is some DDT”

The Vitamin Press ^ | 12/17/2010 | Kip Hooker

[TheVitaminPress]

That is a really good question. One of the earlier posters suggested that the US (and I guess the UN as well) has used the carrot(of aid)to strongly discourage African nations from allowing the production of the item. This seems highly likely to me. I would like it very much if there were a well publicized counter to Silent Spring (my grandfather was a plant pathologist and was not shy about calling her work hokum and bunk)but I fear that any scientist producing it would either be ostracized -a la Global Warming debunkers- or ignored. Of course, given the internet, hiding these important facts has become harder and harder for them.

[TheVitaminPress]

Impossible. If the government/liberal propaganda is correct, you're not only dead, but you've deaded thousands of those around you, making it impossible for you to post this counterpoint.

ROFLMAO!

[RegulatorCountry]

My friends and I used to ride behind the trucks that fogged the neighborhoods with DDT in the 50's.

Did the same in the late 60's - early 70's. The tank trucks with sprayers on the back would come through on summer evenings, and we'd all hop on our bicycles and race to get in behind it. Smelled sort of sweet.

I don't remember ever being free of mosquitoes completely, though. Plenty of other insects as well, ants, wasps, hornets, spiders, we even had Rhinoceros Beetles then (not now for whatever reason). Don't remember Terminix hurting for business either, lol.

Plenty of birds for that matter, too, of every species native to the eastern temperate zone. Migratory patterns appear to have changed, Canada Geese no longer fly south. Seagulls are here in abundance, 200 miles inland, and were not at that time. Raptors actually have increased, to the point that it's not unusual at all to see a hawk or an owl, even the occasional eagle. Changes in hunting habits in a former agricultural area now suburban has everything to do with that, plus their being protected.