🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9843@imagen.UUCP> isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) writes:
>in article <1990May7.232404.10806@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov>, dave@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) says:
>> There's no such thing as a good pesticide, IMO.
>Then you'd better stop eating.  A lot of plants produce pesticides
>naturally. 

Ok...I stand corrected. I still don't feel right about artificial
chemicals on the food I eat. Sorry.

>I'd recommend you do a little research on the effects of Malation, rather
>than respond on the basis of gut-level fear.

Sure, OK. This is like saying "I recommend you do a little research
into how a truck can destroy a car before you respond on the basis of
gut-level fear and swerve the car to avoid it".

DO I even have a choice in doing this? Say I did research into 
Malathion effects, and I found that it was bad...how could I stop
the spraying? I don't have time to do this research before those
'copters fly overhead.                      

Better yet, let's wait until some deformed babies are born before
we make a final decision. The only way to be sure is experimental
data, right?

>> How much of a small amount of any substance contributes to long-term health
>> problems? How many exposures of this "small amount" are required to produce
>> adverse health effects?
>If you're worried about long-term exposure, you should support the use
>of Malation.  You only have to worry about the Malation for a year or
>two until this outbreak is eradicated.  If we don't eradicate the med fly,
>individual farmers will be using pesticides to control it perpetually.

I sure as hell won't be buying their fruit. 

There's got to be another solution. 
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