"Leif Erikson" > wrote in message
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rick wrote:
> "RobDar" > wrote in message
> ...
> >a very interesting stance...I cannot say that I am well enough
> >educated on the topic to comment intelligently...but believe
> >me,
> >I am going to look into this!
>
>
> Here's a few sites to start your research..

That's a pretty impressive list! How did you come up with all of
them?
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Just from my various research on the subject. I did just go
through the list to verify links and found several links no
longer work, so I will have to rebuild it.

The numbers are amazing given the fact that nobody is really
researching the total problem. many of these are just results of
specific occurances, and no industry-wide research seems to be
done. But then, there really has been no cry for that research.
The farmers have no incentive to do it, the petro-chemical
industry has no incentive to do it, and the Gob has no real
incentive to do it. The only that should care, vegan/AR loons,
and demand these studies are strangly quite on the issue. Of
course, it would blow their house of cards down and destroy their
simple rule for their simple minds.



I picked one more or less at random,
http://www.panna.org/resources/docum...Cotton.dv.html,
and saw some staggering numbers:

Fish killed by pesticide run-off: In 1995, pesticide-contaminated
runoff from cotton fields killed at least 240,000 fish in
Alabama.
Shortly after farmers had applied pesticides containing
endosulfan and
methyl parathion to cotton fields, heavy rains washed them into
the
water. The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries
stated that
there was no indication that the pesticides were applied in an
illegal
manner.

Livestock: Meat and milk contaminated by pesticide-laden cotton
straw.
In 1994, Australian beef was found to be contaminated with the
cotton
insecticide Helix® (chlorfluazuron), most likely because cattle
had
been fed contaminated cotton straw. In response, several
countries
suspended beef imports from Australia. One year later, farmers
were
alarmed to discover that newborn calves were also contaminated
with
Helix, apparently because it was passed through their mother's
milk. In
a similar case, 23 farms in New South Wales and Queensland were
placed
in quarantine after inspectors discovered high levels of
endosulfan in
beef cattle, possibly due to endosulfan spray drift contaminating
grazing land. Since 1987, Australian beef exporters have lost
millions
of dollars due to concerns about chemical contamination.

Birds: It has been estimated that pesticides unintentionally kill
at
least 67 million birds in the U.S. each year, and it's likely
they
kill many more. Estimates of bird kills from pesticides are
notoriously
low because many birds remain hidden in brush, are carried away
by
scavengers or die away from treated areas where they won't be
counted. In one case, a breeding colony of laughing gulls near
Corpus
Christi, Texas, was devastated when methyl parathion was applied
to
cotton three miles away. More than 100 dead adults were found and
25%
of the colony's chicks were killed.