Having my ear to the ground, as I now do, (having been forced to turn my attentions from my own work, business and career by the fact that pesticides make me ache all over and become disabled with chemically induced arthritis in the summer (google 'pesticide drift' - and start reading- aso pesticides and disabiltiy is interesting) as well as quite a lot more ... but more baout that later. ... )
I am particularly concerned about fungicides. An outfit in the Northern part of South Africa that deals in seed despatch has had 70% of the staff develope cancer, and in fact, sadly, 40% of the staff have died.
This matter is currently sub-judice.
The point is that pesticides- the generic name for the biologically active substances - herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and plant hormones as well as their carrier substances - will have an effect on human biochemistry and physiology - our bodies.
Where they have no place .
And furthermore, while science can study one pesticide at a time, it cannot study groups of them and their combined effects on cells and bodies- about combination effects, and the pesticide cocktails we live within, because of the incredible effectiveness of mist blowers - it is silent.
coming soon - the law on pesticide usage - made in 1947 - a bit out of date surely? being legal in terms of the letter of that law does not offer rural communities protection from current technology.
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Please check out the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7729112.stm
The problem is not to change the mind of farmers. They don't seem impressed by anything. I never saw such a preconceived, shortsighted and loutish refusal of any evidence or reason. Basically they will never change - at least not where I stay (Barrydale).
The problem is the attitude of people. Out of fear, ignorance or lack of concern, they seem to accept and excuse whatever farmers do. They accept the monstrosity of industrial modern farming like a given fact, a dogma - to oppose it is either betrayal or heresy. Sometimes, they don't even want to know.
This is scary.
I'm reading in "The Gardener" magazine, an old issue of February 2007, that a new draft of the 1947 Pesticide Act 36 to be approved by the parliament was published in the Government Gazette in April 2006.
Do you guys know anything about it?
Poor Barry Duck (Massimo) died of osophogeal cancer, in early 2010, traced back to his exposure to pesticides he came into contact with in Barrydale
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