Stop Cropdusting Now
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on October 02, 2001 at 10:32:27
from the terrorism-is-here-already dept.
From Environment News Service, Healing Our World: Weekly Comment (full story, including reference links and photos, at the above link)
By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
Biological and Chemical Warfare Are Here Now
How many deaths will it take 'till we know
that too many people have died.
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
-- Bob Dylan
There has been much written in the press the last couple of weeks about the threat from terrorists if they commandeered a crop duster to spread biological warfare agents. Yet few writers have mentioned that these planes are used for this purpose every day, but not by terrorists. Instead, they are used by licensed operators who are spraying deadly chemicals on our lands and on our children.
We don't have to wait for chemical warfare to be waged on U.S. soil by terrorists. Such warfare has been underway for over a century. Every day, billions of pounds of deadly chemicals, many of which were used as chemical warfare agents in World War I and II, are applied as pesticides and herbicides to soil, plants, and people around the country and the world.
death from cropdusters
nice web site ,only one basic problem, there is NO reported deaths caused by cropdusters or the chemicals applied in the histroy of ag aviation.by lin on 2002-02-06 09:42:19