Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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"Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> wrote in message 
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>M Holmes wrote:
>> We did have DDT, but green whiners stopped 'em using it. I bet the
>> Africans are really thanking them for that.
>
> Actually, before we used debt to force African farmers to switch from 
> subsistence farming to growing luxury products for the developed world, 
> the existing slash and burn that formed part of their agricultural system 
> did wonders for eliminating mosquito breeding grounds and thus reducing 
> malaria. The malaria epidemic is at least partly our[1] fault.
>
> Of course, killing people with cumulative DDT poisoning would obviously be 
> preferable to watching them die from malaria! :-)
>
> Jon

DDT is in fact very safe to humans. You can eat large quantities without any 
toxic effect.
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