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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: AIDS question (was: Re: Read the AIDS articles carefully!)
Message-ID: <303f1d1e.46@apollo.uucp>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 17:50:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 21 17:50:02 1986
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In article <1530@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP writes:
> With the exception of insecticides used against species that have the
> immediate potential for severe damage to people and the environment (the
> Karpa beetle and methyl bromide), insecticides approved for use today are
> self-destructing when exposed to the environment.

Absolutely not true.  There are a number of insecticides that are currently
used on crops that do NOT break down.  Some of these were originally thought
to be safe, others are applied regardless of the fact.

I came into this discussion in the middle, but I gather someone was 
proposing using insecticides to wipe out a disease carrying insect.

    o   No application will reach all of the insects.  (In Africa some
        malaria carrying mosquitos breed in the puddles left by cow
        hooves.  Are you going to hit every cow hoof puddle in Africa
        with an insecticide?)
    o   No insectide will kill all of the insects.  A certain
        percentage will survive, and their descendants will be even
        more likely to survive.

                                              -kee



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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.