One, represented by DDT, is known as the chlorinated hydrocarbons."
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Rachel Carson
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Rachel Carson
@SilentSpring50
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, first published 50 years ago on September 27, 1962. This book started to question our toxic legacy: who will take up the torch?
fields, farms and forests انضم Aralık 2011
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Modern insecticides are still more deadly. The vast majority fall into one of two large groups of chemicals.
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#OTA congratulates CCOF and OTCO on their planned merger- Advance Organic Together! ccof.org/pdf/marketing/…
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"...Anyone who has watched the dusters & sprayers of arsenical insecticides must have been impressed by their almost supreme carelessness"
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—said Dr. W.C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute, an authority on environmental cancer.
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"It is scarcely possible to handle arsenicals with more utter disregard of the general health than that which has been practiced…"
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Drifting arsenic dusts from blueberry lands have spread over neighboring farms, contaminating streams, poisoning bees & cows, human illness
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Farmer using #arsenic dusts over long periods afflicted w/ chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock poisoned by crops sprays / weed killers
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In the #arsenic-sprayed cotton country of southern US beekeeping as an industry has nearly died out.
#silentspring
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despite this record arsenical sprays and dusts are widely used. #arsenic
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Arsenic-contaminated environments have also caused sickness and death among horses, cows, goats, pigs, deer, fishes, and bees;
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Epidemics of chronic arsenical poisoning involving whole populations over long periods are on record.
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which was recognized nearly two centuries ago by an English physician.
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#Arsenic is present in English chimney soot & along with certain aromatic hydrocarbons is considered responsible for carcinogenic actions
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Since many of its compounds are tasteless, it has been a favourite agent of homicide from long before the time of the Borgias to the present
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…and in very small amounts in volcanoes, in the sea, and in spring water . Its relations to man are varied and historic. #Arsenic
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#Arsenic is a highly toxic mineral occurring widely in association with the ores of various metals...
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Chief among these is #arsenic, which is still the basic ingredient in a variety of weed and insect killers
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Although WWII marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, some persist.
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—we had better know something about their nature and their power.
#Pesticides
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