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Article #40Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005
From: Peter
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:28
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:28
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:11:20 +0100, Phil Armstrong wrote: > M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> We did have DDT, but green whiners stopped 'em using it. I bet the >> Africans are really thanking them for that. > > This is completely false. DDT is (and always has been) still used for > malaria control where appropriate. > > Or, to put the above another way: Cite please. To but in with a quote from March last year (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3531893.stm): There are at least some eurogreenies who want the use of DDT to be stopped. For instance: "A number of ... African nations including Uganda and Kenya are considering reintroducing DDT. But according to Richard Tren, Executive Director of the pressure group Africa Fighting Malaria, the western donors on which they depend will not help them. " No idea who Africa Fighting Malaria are though. Peter
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