Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents

Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by huxley on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:12AM (#14106502)

This is a zombie lie that never ever stops. You can't trust whatever psycho-website you got that misinformation from.

DDT was NEVER banned for public health purposes in Africa or anywhere in the Developing World.

It was restricted for use in agriculture to ensure --in part-- that it continued to be useful for public health. As far back as the late 1950s it was known that mosquitos easily developed resistance to DDT and other insecticides.

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by civilian on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:55PM (#14108724)

Link? My mom believes this zombie lie (and I assumed it was true too?)

I suppose I can farm some of my own links, but if you have more please LMK!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ddt-use-to-combat... (Article mentions that we are still using DDT in africa)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140224204808.h... (a single mutation is required to for mosquitos to become DDT resistant)

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by rhizome on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:43PM (#14109201)

I think their argument is more along the lines of "Mother Teresa campaigned against the birth control that would have eased the poverty she based her career on."

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