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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: Thu, 20-Aug-87 14:18:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 14:18:44 1987
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In article <8026@mimsy.UUCP>, rab@mimsy.UUCP (Bob Bruce) writes:
> In article <1003@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
> >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.
> I think this is a very poor analogy.  Insects are indigenous to our
> environment.  They are not something that a crop `catches' from a
> neighboring field.  I have never noticed any difference in insect
> populations between unsprayed field that were adjacent to sprayed
> fields, and unsprayed fields that were not.*

First, if spraying does not produce a difference in the number of pests,
I'd strongly recommend changing your pesticide.  (;->

Technically speaking, the virus is also found in our environment.
The analogy is a bit weak since every year only part of the human 'crop'
is new.  But if you restrict the segment to the newborn children,
the analogy works rather well.  In those environments where there
is little resistance and close proximity, both a virsus and pests
proliferate very rapidly.  Where there is little resistance and
distant proximity, pests proliferate slowly.  Where there is a lot
of resistance and close proximity, pests proliferate slowly.


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