Speaking of Herbicides, Pesticides and other Kille

I've never been a huge fan of using chemicals to farm with, but I guess at certain times they are necessary.

Always tried to be really careful when around the herbicides, even tried to stay clear away from the darned pesticides, if I could.

But, at around 1968 or thereabouts and up to about 1980, I started noticing a lot of the local farmers were dying of cancer. These guys were dropping like flies and they all were being killed by cancer.

Now, DDT was a big nasty and farmers used it a lot to control pests in the sugar beets and the potatoes, but I've always suspected that the really bad offender was from the fallout of the Nevada atomic testing that was going on back in the late 40s and early 50s.

This area lays downwind from these testing sites and it just seems odd that so many men in their 40s, 50s & 60s would be dropping like that and always from cancer.

I think these poor souls got more than they bargained for, for their labors. While they were out working their guts out in the fields, Uncle Sam was unwittingly poisoning them from the air.

When Mt. St. Helens erupted, eveything in western Nebraska turned white overnight, so stuff does travel with the winds.

Just a theory, anyone else notice this?

Allan

A classmate of mine from high school, was involved in farming most of his life. He used a lot of chemicals over the years as I did myself. About 1980 he developed cancer, doctors thought they beat it several times. It kept reoccuring, until it finally took him down in the mid 90s. Shortly before his death he confided to me, that he always blamed a specific chemical, that he had used and handled only once. I have forgotten the name of the chemical, so I'm not going to try and guess. It was a chemical I had never used. He claimed he knew within hours of using that chemical, he was in deep trouble. This is just the feelings of a very down to earth friend.

I lost a brother to Lou Gehrigs disease, have a cousin with a brain tumor (cant operate), both born in 1954. When these people were in their senior year at high school, my wife was one of their teachers. She tells me that in her years as a teacher, she has never seen a class loose so many members as those born in 1954, at that high school. Was this something they were exposed to in the womb, as infants, in high school lab, etc. Who will ever know for sure? And who really knows what our governments are playing with and when?

Allan;
A lot of other people agree with you on the fallout theory. The map pictured is the estimated radioactive iodine fallout from just one series of tests from April - June 1952 (and there were numbers of other tests).

I grow organic vegetables for a living and love a good pesticide. Two years ago they came out with Spinosad for potato bugs on organic farms. I tried it and the next morning it looked like it rained dead CPB. Its great stuff.

Some of the current research says that pesticides and herbicides are more likely to ruin the unborn. To make it more complicated, it is usually some herbicide, nitrate (nitrite ?), and an insecticide that was the most effective in causing birth defects. Try>Link

Above ground nuclear testing was and is a bad idea. Somebody in the physics department at Georgetown doesn't think that plutonium is 'the worlds most toxic element' i.e Link

Greg

He died last summer at age 102 years 6 months.
That means he quit when he was 81 years old !

Dont know what to say about all that. After a serious auto accident I was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease. I think it was caused by the accident. However,two neuroligists think it was farm chemicals. Probably some of both. I seem to be holding my own and the PD isnt too bad yet.

So how many of the farmers or chemical workers in your area have PD.

steveormary

---.Paul

But the auto accident and a fall onto a concrete floor a few months later were more likely to bring on the PD.

steveormary

But the auto accident and a fall onto a concrete floor a few months later were more likely to bring on the PD.

steveormary

But the auto accident and a fall onto a concrete floor a few months later were more likely to bring on the PD.

steveormary