Was the dangers of DDT overly exaggerated or erroneous?
Thus exposing millions of people to malaria?
BTW...how many of you heard about this? (That dangers of DDT are erroneous)
2007-07-07 10:39:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
The problem with DDT in lab tests was that if the spray on 24 bushels of apples were consumed in a day, as was the case with the lab rats, you would develop cancer.
I'm thinking, if you ate 24 bushels of apples in a day, you've got such an immediate fiber overload problem that you won't have to wait for the cancer to develop!
When they took it off the market, they replaced it with 5 chemicals - 3 of which I'm allergic to - so I can never eat thin-skinned fruit from the U.S. without playing some sort of allergy roulette.
I'm sure if they brought it back, they could improve the distribution methods, as well. We need not spray DDT in the same manner they did 30 years ago, with some poor farmer inhaling fumes daily.
But hey, how about that malathion spray they do in Massachusetts and California to prevent encephalitis? In CA in the early 90's when I lived there, they would report on the news that they were going to spray at 7:00 so move your cars inside for the night. It eats the paint off of cars. But what does it do to your LUNGS???
2007-07-08 13:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by staggerlee337 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish I had DDT to get rid of all the insects over here, I think my Uncle got nerve damage from it when he was young in the fields, been handicap since he was 19
2007-07-07 11:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by 144289 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many things on the market today that surpress DDT that it isn't necesary to "bring it back"
2007-07-07 10:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋