rollingthunder
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Agreed mate:t:
The European populations followed a similiar pattern fortunately the problem was identified. Although the Organochlorines concerned were banned and production in Europe and the US stopped that wasn’t the end of it. Manufacturers merely sold their unusable poisons to ‘3rd World markets’ which led to localised population crashes of species like African Fish Eagle in sub-saharan countries. DDT is still used in small quantities for local malaria control although it has long been acknowledged that continued use merely leads to short-term gains whilst resistant individuals outbreed and survive to pass on their genes...
As Ian Malcom said in Jurassic Park ‘nature finds a way’.
India is the only country manufacturing DDT i don’t know about Dieldrin or Aldrin but Buzz is still with us and nudging 90
The insidious use of anti-inflammatory drugs has led to a worldwide crash in Vultures and something that is being slowly, very slowly, addressed - of concern is pressure on the EU to allow countries like Spain to use them:C The crooks in Bussels already passed legislation forcing farmers to ‘clean up’ dead animals that succumb to natural causes - how idiotic is that? Griffons around Gibraltar are supplemented at designated feeding stations now - roll on Halloween...
Finally (i hear a collective sigh of relief) - these rich and powerful chemical companies e.g Bayer, BASF etc care for nothing but profits for shareholders same as Monsanto etc and we are all guinea-pigs for this crap whether it was the old-fashioned contact pestcides or the new fangled hormone insecticides etc and i speak as a licensed PA sprayer. I highlight the German ones because their track record from people like IG Farben is not good - Zyklon B was developed as a ‘pesticide’ and that didn’t end well..........for several million people:C
Laurie -
The European populations followed a similiar pattern fortunately the problem was identified. Although the Organochlorines concerned were banned and production in Europe and the US stopped that wasn’t the end of it. Manufacturers merely sold their unusable poisons to ‘3rd World markets’ which led to localised population crashes of species like African Fish Eagle in sub-saharan countries. DDT is still used in small quantities for local malaria control although it has long been acknowledged that continued use merely leads to short-term gains whilst resistant individuals outbreed and survive to pass on their genes...
As Ian Malcom said in Jurassic Park ‘nature finds a way’.
India is the only country manufacturing DDT i don’t know about Dieldrin or Aldrin but Buzz is still with us and nudging 90
The insidious use of anti-inflammatory drugs has led to a worldwide crash in Vultures and something that is being slowly, very slowly, addressed - of concern is pressure on the EU to allow countries like Spain to use them:C The crooks in Bussels already passed legislation forcing farmers to ‘clean up’ dead animals that succumb to natural causes - how idiotic is that? Griffons around Gibraltar are supplemented at designated feeding stations now - roll on Halloween...
Finally (i hear a collective sigh of relief) - these rich and powerful chemical companies e.g Bayer, BASF etc care for nothing but profits for shareholders same as Monsanto etc and we are all guinea-pigs for this crap whether it was the old-fashioned contact pestcides or the new fangled hormone insecticides etc and i speak as a licensed PA sprayer. I highlight the German ones because their track record from people like IG Farben is not good - Zyklon B was developed as a ‘pesticide’ and that didn’t end well..........for several million people:C
Laurie -