Friday, April 15, 2011
#links
#links I am living the life of a gyspy right now. I live in an RV and travel where ever in the USA. When people ask me where I am from I ask how far back do they want me to go. Yesterday I was in Junction City. Today and tomorrow I will be in Marysville KS. Trying to get the pictures I have saved in my mind into fabric is a big challenge for me. It gets easier as I learn more about how to do it. Jackie
Insecticide Dangers
Have you read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson? It is an old book, copyright 1962, but I am just now reading it. Now I am aware of the fact that I added to the human made poisons around and in the earth. DDT was suppose to be the god-sent savior for the world, eliminating the bugs that pestered us, sickened us and ate ‘our’ food. Actually it did but at a greater price than we should be willing to pay. Now there are traces of DDT in the livers and other organs of most animals in the world.
The story most of us know is the bald eagle story. They were nearly gone from the world because the eggs they laid in the spring were not fertile, or the shells were so thin they broke before the eaglet was ready for life. This was caused by the DDT in the adult birds. So we got smart and quit using DDT. Now the birds are coming back to numbers that we can enjoy watching them again.
But how many of us quit using the other poisons that were sold to kill anything we didn’t want around? I know I didn’t. I still used systemic fertilizers on my roses so the bugs wouldn’t eat them. Of course the bugs died but so did the critters that ate the bugs.
And that is where the real tragedy comes into play. Every dead bug on the earth even if it is not eaten is leaving the poison in the dirt. Then it rains the residue is washed away, eventually to the streams and rivers and the ocean. On the way other animals and people drink the water and get DDT in their livers and other organs in the body. When we eat the beast of the field or the fish from the waters we take the compound into our bodies too. So no living creature is safe.
Could this be the cause of some of the diseases that are plaguing us now? There is a steady increase the numbers of Alzheimer patients that is being blamed on just getting old, but maybe, just maybe, it is caused by the poisons that have been put in or near our food. The residue may be building up in our brains.
Attention deficits disorders are increasing. More poisons in the brain? It is a very real possibility. Some parents get results when they remove food additives from the children’s diet. That may be just the over load that the brain can’t tolerate and function.
John Muir said everything in the world is connected to everything else. And the bible says “As ye sows so shall ye reap”.
Can we fix what is broken? Sure hope so.
The story most of us know is the bald eagle story. They were nearly gone from the world because the eggs they laid in the spring were not fertile, or the shells were so thin they broke before the eaglet was ready for life. This was caused by the DDT in the adult birds. So we got smart and quit using DDT. Now the birds are coming back to numbers that we can enjoy watching them again.
But how many of us quit using the other poisons that were sold to kill anything we didn’t want around? I know I didn’t. I still used systemic fertilizers on my roses so the bugs wouldn’t eat them. Of course the bugs died but so did the critters that ate the bugs.
And that is where the real tragedy comes into play. Every dead bug on the earth even if it is not eaten is leaving the poison in the dirt. Then it rains the residue is washed away, eventually to the streams and rivers and the ocean. On the way other animals and people drink the water and get DDT in their livers and other organs in the body. When we eat the beast of the field or the fish from the waters we take the compound into our bodies too. So no living creature is safe.
Could this be the cause of some of the diseases that are plaguing us now? There is a steady increase the numbers of Alzheimer patients that is being blamed on just getting old, but maybe, just maybe, it is caused by the poisons that have been put in or near our food. The residue may be building up in our brains.
Attention deficits disorders are increasing. More poisons in the brain? It is a very real possibility. Some parents get results when they remove food additives from the children’s diet. That may be just the over load that the brain can’t tolerate and function.
John Muir said everything in the world is connected to everything else. And the bible says “As ye sows so shall ye reap”.
Can we fix what is broken? Sure hope so.
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