Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wages. Therefore, the average farm worker in the grapes was earning $1.65 per hour. Yes, a $.10 increase, BUT also a medical plan (growers never provided a medical plan); ranch committees which would report health and safety violations (remember the UFW was first to ban the use of DDT in its contracts), replace the farm labor contractor with a hiring hall, grievance procedures to make sure the grower complied with the complaints of the workers; plus $.10 per box picked; and, the right, not the privilege, to negotiate their own contracts...
...problem of the affliction has been serious for the past few years, McGuire said. "DDT was one of the best controls, and ever since its use was banned the disease has been rampant," she said. The disease is carried by the elm bark beetle, which DDT kills...
...they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs got filled with stuff, after a couple of blocks...
...average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become dehydrated and broken, killing the dinosaur embryo. Scientists now have evidence that DDT can interfere severely with the production of hormones involved in the making of eggshells, but such chemicals were obviously not around in the dinosaur's day. Erbea suggests that similar hormonal imbalances might have been caused by unusual stress. What stresses were there for dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous France...
Causes are forgotten, but effects, like DDT, accumulate in the social system: Jagger's Luciferian image is now absolute, fixed. He is even credited, in some quarters, with having "destroyed" the rock festival as a form through the Stones' famous appearance at Altamont in 1969, when a Hell's Angel knifed a man in the audience. It is an illusion that rock culture died or went sour because of Altamont. That event was merely a peg for a death announcement, just as Woodstock served to announce a birth that had actually happened long before. Yet the myth...