RE: mosquitos in water barrels
Thanks, Ron, for the reality check.
"The things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand."
- Steely Dan
In this so-called "Information Age" (where manual skills to craft things,
grow food etc. are being lost faster than we can plant heirloom seeds), it
seems we have become accustomed taking in "information" as sound bytes and
empirical facts. Not to mention the impersonal means by which it is
disseminated, compared to the oratory cultures where knowledge is stored in
songs and stories and activities shared in groups, not on hard drives taken
in by the greying eyeballs of a solitary person.
Sing and speak your wisdom to your kin!
Now, I will humbly step down from my produce crate (i.e. soap box) and go
fill it up.
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>
>
> Yup; Mario's right.
>
> The solution to Adam's quandary lies in the potential fallability
> of online
> data. The key in this case is to follow the URL to its source. While the
> "page" or URL that Adam cites does look pretty damning, looking
> at the base
> site, www.protector.pair.com, reveals a less than authoritative
> foundation.
> First, it's useful to be wary of the .com suffix, but, beyond
> that, reading the
> base site shows, at the least, a lack of scientific reliability
> as established
> by reference and citation. To put it simply, there's no reference or
> substantiation for the inclusion of BT on such a list. The list
> itself gives
> cause for pause: BT is not a trade name; also, it is listed as
> type I. What the
> heck is a type I? From what source was this extrapolated? Wha?
>
> In an organic growers' coop that I helped found, we relied on BT
> for several
> crops. It's accepted by organic certifying agencies and organizations.
> Granted, even a bacterial solution should be addressed as part of
> an integrated,
> natural approach to pest control, but lindane? nah.
>
> Happy BT,
> Ron
>
>
>
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