Have been reading these boards for approximately 3 years, only post minimal when feel have something to offer. I find myself getting upset with those that impune technology, as in GMO foods. Granted there are issues with some GMO plants, but for general use i think they improve the production and availability of food worldwide. If You don't agree, don't plant GMO material, if You choose organic, then good, live with the % loss production to insects and fungii. I am not saying either is right nor wrong, just get so tired of cr**p see on all media, so that those that protest get all coverage. Those that are middle road apparently have no voice in this day and time.
Without technology and risk we would probably not have had Sulfa drugs WWI era, nor Penicillin WWII era. I know of friends and family members that probably had shortened life in SE from dusting Toxaphene on cotton, and Parathion on peanuts in '50's. Knowing these men I think the only thing they would change today would be to use respirators. None were ever confirmed due to pesticide use, but sure played a part. But, w/o these pesticides the SE would have stayed mired in the depression era productivity. These people did not invent the boll weevil, they fought manually for many years until and effective pesticide was available. With today's restrictions. would this have been available,
would cotton even be a crop in the US.
Pretty Sure will get hammered for this post,but could not stay silent. Getting
too old and cantankerous to just sit by.
W.Lamar Parmer, DVM