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<blockquote data-quote="J Hoy" data-source="post: 1740710" data-attributes="member: 16398"><p>In a study published in Nature a highly esteemed scientific journal, an insecticide called Imidacloprid which falls on all foliage everywhere in rain and snow, even far from where it is used, was found to cause low energy, mortality in both newborns and adults, and birth defects and failure to thrive in the newborns. The study was done on a grazing animal, white-tailed deer. It would seem likely that the same effects could happen on exposed cattle, sheep, goats or other domestic grazing animals, including equines and camelids. </p><p></p><p>There seems to be quite a lot of deer born with an underdeveloped lower jaw (overbite) in midwestern and eastern states as suggested by the many photos of deer with overbite on the Internet. I have seen quite a few photos posted on the Internet (including Cattletoday) of calves of many breeds with an underbite. Overbite and underbite were just two of the birth defects found by the study on newborn fawns exposed to Imidacloprid during development. (Berheim, E.H., Jenks, J.A., Lundgren, J.G., Michel, E.S., Grove, D., Jensen, W.F., 2019. Effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on physiology and reproductive characteristics of captive female and fawn white-tailed deer. Sci. Rep.9:4534<em>. </em>https:// doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40994-9.)</p><p></p><p>If Imidacloprid is causing the loss of thousands or possibly millions of calves each year, wouldn't it be a good idea for everyone to stop using it. Another study was just published that found multiple Neonicotinoid insecticides, including Imidacloprid in the cerebro-spinal fluid of human children. Nothing to be concerned about there though. Tiny exposures of Neonicotinoids do cause brain damage to birds and bees, but it couldn't do that to children, right? Wrong - it may be doing even worse things to newborn children. This was from an article about what Imidacloprid might be doing to children.</p><p><em>"Birth defects of the brain of human newborns</em> - A study of a population of mothers in California's San Joaquin valley reported a suggestive association between living near agriculture areas that use Imidacloprid and an almost 3-fold elevated risk of having a baby born with anencephaly, lacking parts of the brain and skull (adjusted odds ratio 2.9, 95% confidence interval 1.0, 8.2 based on 73 cases of anencephaly) (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24553680/" target="_blank">Yang et al. 2014</a>)."</p><p></p><p>Saving children may save your calves or vice versa, depending on which ones you value most!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J Hoy, post: 1740710, member: 16398"] In a study published in Nature a highly esteemed scientific journal, an insecticide called Imidacloprid which falls on all foliage everywhere in rain and snow, even far from where it is used, was found to cause low energy, mortality in both newborns and adults, and birth defects and failure to thrive in the newborns. The study was done on a grazing animal, white-tailed deer. It would seem likely that the same effects could happen on exposed cattle, sheep, goats or other domestic grazing animals, including equines and camelids. There seems to be quite a lot of deer born with an underdeveloped lower jaw (overbite) in midwestern and eastern states as suggested by the many photos of deer with overbite on the Internet. I have seen quite a few photos posted on the Internet (including Cattletoday) of calves of many breeds with an underbite. Overbite and underbite were just two of the birth defects found by the study on newborn fawns exposed to Imidacloprid during development. (Berheim, E.H., Jenks, J.A., Lundgren, J.G., Michel, E.S., Grove, D., Jensen, W.F., 2019.[I] [/I]Effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on physiology and reproductive characteristics of captive female and fawn white-tailed deer. Sci. Rep.9:4534[I]. [/I]https:// doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40994-9.) If Imidacloprid is causing the loss of thousands or possibly millions of calves each year, wouldn't it be a good idea for everyone to stop using it. Another study was just published that found multiple Neonicotinoid insecticides, including Imidacloprid in the cerebro-spinal fluid of human children. Nothing to be concerned about there though. Tiny exposures of Neonicotinoids do cause brain damage to birds and bees, but it couldn't do that to children, right? Wrong - it may be doing even worse things to newborn children. This was from an article about what Imidacloprid might be doing to children. [I]"Birth defects of the brain of human newborns[/I] - A study of a population of mothers in California's San Joaquin valley reported a suggestive association between living near agriculture areas that use Imidacloprid and an almost 3-fold elevated risk of having a baby born with anencephaly, lacking parts of the brain and skull (adjusted odds ratio 2.9, 95% confidence interval 1.0, 8.2 based on 73 cases of anencephaly) ([URL='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24553680/']Yang et al. 2014[/URL])." Saving children may save your calves or vice versa, depending on which ones you value most! [/QUOTE]
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