A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
Our concern is that this is a very unique chemical. It lasts, literally, for eternity, and now it has been determined to be a likely human carcinogen. That ranks it up there with DDT, PCBs and dioxin as a very serious hazard. It needs to be banned.
Have we created a new PCB problem for ourselves ... We have dug this hole for ourselves. It's like DDT we find out it harms birds, and we pull it off the market. With PCBs, we find it causes health problems, and we pull it off the market. We have to learn the lesson.
DDT almost wiped out the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle before the 1960s.
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