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<blockquote data-quote="J Hoy" data-source="post: 1831345" data-attributes="member: 16398"><p>Since the wind usually blows from the west or southwest in northern Idaho and western Montana, pesticides in the soil where they are sprayed on fields anywhere upwind of the forests where the elk live, are picked up by the wind and travel in weather fronts for hundreds or even thousands of miles. They are then dropped in the rain and snow on all plants, land and surface water down wind of those fields. For example, in 1999, Idaho potato farmers were spraying millions of pounds of fungicides, especially Chlorothalonil (one of the three top teratogenic pesticides) on their potato fields for potato blight. I caught snow in March (months after the fungicides were last sprayed the previous summer) in glass pans in my front yard and sent the water sample to a laboratory to be tested for Chlorothalonil. Our extension agent told me that no Chlorothalonil was being used in our county at that time. The water sample had measurable amounts of Chlorothalonil and a metabolite in it. That meant that Chlorothalonil and the metabolite (its metabolites were more deadly than the Chlorothalonil itself) were on all the foliage on our land, in our creek, where all the livestock and wildlife drank, and in the air all of us were breathing. Recent similar testing of rain and air samples by researchers have contained concerning levels of glyphosate (Roundup) and imidacloprid. In a recent study, the teratogenic insecticide, imidacloprid was found in tested blood samples from newborn babies, and in breast milk, formula and water they drank. In other words, it doesn't matter where pesticides are sprayed, everything still gets exposed, including human fetuses and newborns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J Hoy, post: 1831345, member: 16398"] Since the wind usually blows from the west or southwest in northern Idaho and western Montana, pesticides in the soil where they are sprayed on fields anywhere upwind of the forests where the elk live, are picked up by the wind and travel in weather fronts for hundreds or even thousands of miles. They are then dropped in the rain and snow on all plants, land and surface water down wind of those fields. For example, in 1999, Idaho potato farmers were spraying millions of pounds of fungicides, especially Chlorothalonil (one of the three top teratogenic pesticides) on their potato fields for potato blight. I caught snow in March (months after the fungicides were last sprayed the previous summer) in glass pans in my front yard and sent the water sample to a laboratory to be tested for Chlorothalonil. Our extension agent told me that no Chlorothalonil was being used in our county at that time. The water sample had measurable amounts of Chlorothalonil and a metabolite in it. That meant that Chlorothalonil and the metabolite (its metabolites were more deadly than the Chlorothalonil itself) were on all the foliage on our land, in our creek, where all the livestock and wildlife drank, and in the air all of us were breathing. Recent similar testing of rain and air samples by researchers have contained concerning levels of glyphosate (Roundup) and imidacloprid. In a recent study, the teratogenic insecticide, imidacloprid was found in tested blood samples from newborn babies, and in breast milk, formula and water they drank. In other words, it doesn't matter where pesticides are sprayed, everything still gets exposed, including human fetuses and newborns. [/QUOTE]
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