Re: Re: CULT: Preemergent vs. Postemergent herbicides and health

In a message dated 9/30/2005 7:52:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
GMason1052@aol.com writes:

<<Betty,  I suspect that like me you remember when people  would offer to  
/drink DDT to show how safe it  was.>>
George, I don't remember those offers, but I grew up on a farm. And  remember 
how many farmers thought it revolutionized farming and, in some cases,  
society.  _DDT  Updated_ (http://www.junkscience.com/news3/foxddt.htm)  
 
If I'm not mistaken it was in the spray used for mosquitoes when I was a  
child.  Grew up in AR near dredge ditches and two rivers with  backwaters.  
Mosquitoes that would via with the ones from TX are one on the  main reasons I 
didn't move back.  
 
Lots of sand that grew the pretty bitone irises I grew to love.   <vbg>  

 
 
Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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