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Originally posted by james weatherford
A thread about pesticides is now about working shifts.
Thanks.
The legislation is about people avoiding contact with pesticides that probably cause cancer; and doing so on public spaces the County has responsibility for. For example, when children play in a park or walk along a roadside going between home and school.
Well there is much more convincing evidence that eating charred or fried potato products causes cancer. Perhaps she should spend her time trying to pass a bill banning potato chips and french fries on County property, including parks where children are likely to be fed these carcinogens by their parents! As ridiculous as that sounds, it would have a far more positive benefit on health. I'm in favor of a line item in the budget for tin foil so Ms. Willie can make a hat for herself and feel a little better. It must be awful for her to live in such profound fear all the time.
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I'm in favor of a line item in the budget for tin foil so Ms. Willie can make a hat for herself and feel a little better. It must be awful for her to live in such profound fear all the time.
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Roundup was being blamed for the "sudden colony collapse" of honeybees. Turns out the bee colony collapse was the news reporting a slight decline in the bee population as a "collapse".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkb...year-high/
Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
The biggest problems we are instructed to be concerned about are concocted by certain elements of the media getting a lot of enjoyment manipulating large masses of the population. If you can manipulate certain gullible people to ingest a pile of swill, then they will react accordingly. In all this new age fearmongering, it is important to single out the leaders, the organizers, the facilitators, the focalizers, whatever they call themselves today, standing in the background, pulling the strings. Who knows what the motivation is, sometimes money, sometimes just pure sadism.
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I remember watching Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico city employees spraying herbicides on the banks of the Rio Grande, in order to thin foliage and thus expose potential homeless campers there. Complete and utter insanity -- downstream is the New Mexico breadbasket -- irrigated and supplied completely by the Rio. Where do those people keep their brains?
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Where do those people keep their brains?
In a big jar of RoundUp™.
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Originally posted by MattKarma
I remember watching Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico city employees spraying herbicides on the banks of the Rio Grande, in order to thin foliage and thus expose potential homeless campers there. Complete and utter insanity -- downstream is the New Mexico breadbasket -- irrigated and supplied completely by the Rio. Where do those people keep their brains?
Diluted by millions of gallons of water - zero effect.
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Neil Young huh? Another reputable source for scientific information - kind of like your cat anecdote?
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/neil-young-gmo-monsanto
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That made me laugh! Although I can't support spraying pesticides on a river bank, given the current rules, I'll raise you one Brian Cox and one Brian May.
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" Although I can't support spraying pesticides on a river bank..."
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HERBicide. Big difference from PESTicide. I wouldn't support spraying pesticides along a river bank either.
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It's kind of mind-blowing to me that we have all this whinging and moaning about glyphosate and other agricultural chemicals, yet when Department of Health proposes that we begin eliminating cesspools - of which the Big Island has tens of thousands - and those cesspools are contaminating the groundwater supplies that we are almost totally dependent on (for pathogen-free water), they run into a firestorm of resistance. They have chemical data that shows some of the makai wells are pumping mauka p!ss - but not a peep from our good legislators on the island... Willful ignorance and criminal indifference to real public health threats while they squander time and resources pandering to PC Paranoia.
