Re: Speaking of "Toxic Palouse"

["Jeff Griffin" <Jeff.Griffin@mail-gw.fsr.net>]

> Date:          Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:59:39 -0700
> To:            vision2020@moscow.com
> From:          Dave Willard <dwillard@turbonet.com>
> Subject:       Speaking of "Toxic Palouse"

> While not directly (?) related to the incinerator issue, I just read this
> scary article in Science News. It's about effects of pesticide exposure on
> small children. They put it on line at:
> http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/6_6_98/fob1.htm

Quoting from the Science News article:

"Valley farmers apply pesticides 45 times per crop
     cycle, and they grow one or two crops per year. Area families
     also tend to use household bug sprays daily."

> Something to think about while watching the neat aerobatics of the local
> poison spreaders.

Do agricultural practices on the Palouse include the use of the same 
types of "pesticides" used in the Yaqui Valley?

Are these same chemicals applied as often as 45 times per crop cycle? 
 
Do you, or does anyone you know, use "bug sprays" daily?  

Without affirmative answers to these questions, it is inappropriate 
to make broad generalizations about the implications of agricultural 
chemical use on the Palouse based on the results of the referenced 
study.  

> 
> Peace
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

Truth

Jeff



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