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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: pesticides
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 09:25:06 EDT
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In article <1039@faline.bellcore.com>, hammond@faline.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond) writes:
[edited talk on pesticides]
> This is an anecdote that suggests (at least in the US) that
> dropping some use of pesticides/weed killers might not be as bad as
> one would think.
> Rich Hammond, Bell Communications Research, bellcore!hammond hammond@bellcore.com

Sure, a couple farmers can forgoe use of pesticides without problems, just
as a couple children can forgo polio and other vacinations without problems.
But for the general population to not use pesticides and/or vacininations
would be suicidial.


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