Posted on 08/08/2007 2:04:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
Can you tell us what patents cover DDT? Since the original patent was issued nearly seventy years ago I doubt that the "patent holders" have anything to gain by well thought out articles about the product.
“Ditch the tin foil hat, it’s making your brain overheat.”
Gosh, it’s really tin foil of me to assume those who might profit from something might fund studies and public relations campaign for that thing!
Oh, but I’m wrong. I should have said “pesticide companies” because the patent (Monsanto’s?) lapsed in 2004. Actually that’s helpful information, thanks. It’s probably non-American companies pushing for DDT, less likely to be sued sucessfully for deformities. Interestingly in 2005 WHO allowed DDT for indoor use, though they could’t be bribed enough money to say it was cheaper than the 10 or 11 other chemicals just as effective or even more than DDT.
The point is that the expiration of the DDT patent invalidates your argument.
For that matter, you didn’t even know enough about the subject to know that the patent for DDT *had* expired.
Talk less. Listen more.
“The point is that the expiration of the DDT patent invalidates your argument.”
Only so far as I said “patent holder” rather than “manufacturer. This minor defect has been jumped upon, I sense people suspect they’ve been duped into the DDT campaign.
“Talk less. Listen more.”
Yawn. Was there thread discussing the lapse of the patent? BTW, you ever work in pest control?
“But it also killed birds...”
Not true, and it did not make the eggshells thinner.
That was another one of their lies.
DDT was the most effective. India and Africa had almost eradicated malaria through the use of DDT right before the ban. Since the ban, malaria has become endemic in both regions once again.
“Life Site News is now a part of the DDT industry’s bizarre PR plan to get them money for their poison? “
lol, what DDT industry? No one has made DDT in a long time.
Anyime some idiot spouts this BS, I suggest that if he is so anxious to kill so many people, he should start with himself, his family, and everyone he knows.
They are also doing their darndest to try to stop the "green revolution" from advancing any further. Sometimes I wonder what they have against poor people in the Third World.
Can’t argue with that. Sounds appropriate to me.
sleeping sickness has also been spreading out of control in Africa — it is deadly
The human toll has been horrific.
The law of unintended consequences nailed them .
There has been tremendous bird loss due to West nile virus carried by mosquitos..
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I read her book and couldn't disagree more with your statement. Her primary concern was the health of the human population.
Right or wrong she strongly believed that the health of all were at risk due to DDT finding it's way into the food chain.
DDT also protects birds from Bird Flu.
10 or 11, you say? Name them. Also, please explain why the chemical companies who make DDT aren't the same ones making those chems.
And like Margaret Sanger she thought nothing of the deaths of people who she didn't think had "lives worth living."
I believe the environmentalists, who are also ZPG people, were pushing the argument against DDT as a way to reduce the population of Africa, and KEEP it reduced. Sure beats having to force birth control on them which they did, too, but with less success.
There’s no profit when the patent expires and India/China can then make it cheaper than can you.
Pppfffff. This is small numbers to the left considering the 40-50 million aborted babies. This is small stuff.
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