Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ebright, a Currier House resident concentrating in Biology, said yesterday the essay grew out of "seven years of research in which I have discovered a previously unknown insect growth factor." He added. "This could possibly be used to develop a method of pest control without the harmful effects of DDT...
...Federal Government has a considerable regulatory apparatus to prevent nuclear radiation poisoning. Nothing is being done about dioxin, and it is just as toxic and there is a lot more of it around." So complained Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., the lawyer who got DDT banned...
...between bugs and man, the bugs have lately had the upper hand. Making a comeback from their near defeat after World War II by DDT and other chemical formulations, insects have become immune to many pesticides; their lot has also been made easier by the banning of many bug killers that are harmful to health and environment. As a result, insects are again on the march, spreading disease and inflicting costly damage on crops and forests. But now man is about to unleash a new and Machiavellian weapon against which bugs seemingly have no defense...
After performing post-mortems on the carcasses (which had carefully been preserved for further study), Jones and his colleagues learned that 20 of the birds had excessively high concentrations of dieldrin, a chemical kin of DDT, in their livers and brains. But use of the lethal insecticide is sharply restricted in Britain, as it is in the U.S. and other countries. So how did the owls pick up the poison...
...Mexico, where the technique is still used, poor campesinos in the steamy coastal state of Oaxaca call the exterminators los matagatos (the cat killers). Reason: their cats lick the DDT residue off their paws and die of a disease of the nervous system. So rats multiply, eat more human food and leave the peasants hungrier than ever...