Pesticide Sprays - the
Dangers
by Nicholas Ashford
and Claudia Miller
The Royal
Commission on Environmental pollution says people who live near or
visit fields sprayed with pesticides need greater protection from
exposure. The chairman of the government advisory committee on
pesticide sprays says the evidence presented is inconclusive.
Clusters of cancers, leukemia, neurological problems and other
conditions, Ranging from M.E. to digestive disorders and depressive
illness’s, But particularly the alleged dangers to the fetus in the
womb have been well documented.
Analysis of restricted documents going back 30 years of Hospital
files from West Norfolk England, show clusters of children born with
ear dysfunction, after the use of heavy local crop spraying.
Hospital specialists say there is a link. Tony Blair allows every
person in Britain each year to consume 15 lbs. in weight of
insecticides, chemicals, colorants and preservatives.
The decrease in all wildlife around all spray zones is said to be
connected to the loss of 40 species of birds and 70 types of rare
invertebrates and butterflies, and of course the much loved
dormouse.
Selective data released from animal based studies, such as beagle
dogs smoking 350 cigarettes a day, and rabbits with their eyelids
removed and having shampoos and oven cleaners etc continually
squirted into their eyes are seen as unnecessary, unreliable and
only done continually for the government grant moneys...
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eBay Condemned for
Allowing Ivory Trade
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LONDON -- The elephant, the world's
largest land mammal, is being threatened with global extinction by a
"rampant trade" in ivory on the eBay online auction site, animal
welfare campaigners said on Tuesday.
International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW) said it had conducted a survey in Britain, Australia, China,
Germany, the Netherlands, France, Canada and the United States and
tracked more than 2,200 elephant ivory items listed on eBay
websites.
It found more than 90 percent of the
listings breached even eBay's own wildlife policies..."
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Giant Squid Return to
Southern California Waters
by
Robert Holguin, ABC7.com
May 26,
2007 (KABC-TV) - They live hundreds
of feet below the sea. A formidable predator that can rip its prey
to pieces.
he giant Humboldt squid have returned
to the waters of Southern California, and they're bigger and more
plentiful than ever.
Fishermen are thankful, but biologists
are worried.
"I have nearly a thousand dives with
these animals and I have been either tested or full out attacked
about 80 percent of the time," Scott Cassell said.
Cassell has been studying the Humboldt
squid for the past 13 years.
"These animals are some of the most
mysterious and unknown species in the world," Cassell said...
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Cicadas as Food:
Summer's Low-Fat Snack?
by
John Roach, National Geographic News
High-protein, low-carb dieters take
note: The billions of
cicadas emerging from the ground this month in the midwestern
U.S. are a healthy alternative to that bacon double-cheeseburger
without the bun.
"They're high in protein, low in fat,
no carbs," said Gene Kritsky, a biologist and cicada expert at the
College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, speaking to
National Geographic News during the last major cicada outbreak, in
2004.
"They're quite nutritious, a good set
of vitamins..."
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