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<blockquote data-quote="J Hoy" data-source="post: 1720265" data-attributes="member: 16398"><p>Has anyone considered that some newborns are more severely affected by exposure to pesticides on the foliage and in the surface water that kills their gut bacteria so they can't digest what they eat efficiently? Also, some calves are born with an underbite and can't suckle as well and can't graze efficiently when they begin eating grass. A study on white-tailed deer in South Dakota showed that an insecticide that was supposed to not be harmful to vertebrates caused weak fawns with birth defects, especially underdeveloped facial bones and reproductive malformations. It also caused mortality to some adult females and some of the fawns. Exposure also caused both adult females and fawns to have less vigor and energy. Deer were tested in areas far from where Imidacloprid was applied and they still had dangerously high levels of Imidacloprid in their spleens. Since Imidacloprid appears to be falling on foliage, including grass and alfalfa cut for hay and it is used on grain crops used for livestock feed, how are cattle not being affected similarly. The description of weaker, smaller calves with pot bellies that do not grow normally describes what happened to study animals exposed to pesticides, especially Imidacloprid and even worse effects were found when animals were simultaneously exposed to Imidacloprid and the glyphosate in Glyphosate Based Herbicides, which worked synergistically to be 1000 time more damaging and deadly than DDT was. I think some of you are being very unfair to some of your cows. It isn't their fault that during fetal development their calf gets a big hit of pesticides that come in to your area in certain weather fronts. How damaging the exposure is depends on what is happening with the fetus's stage of development when the exposure happens.</p><p>Around 3 calves per 100 cows have the weakness and inability to get up and suckle symptoms. Everyone of the beef or dairy calves with those symptoms, live or dead, that was able to examine when I was doing studies on ruminants, had underdeveloped upper facial bones resulting in an underbite. By the way, the problems caused by pesticide exposure are epigenetic in nature and have nothing to do with the genes of the parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J Hoy, post: 1720265, member: 16398"] Has anyone considered that some newborns are more severely affected by exposure to pesticides on the foliage and in the surface water that kills their gut bacteria so they can't digest what they eat efficiently? Also, some calves are born with an underbite and can't suckle as well and can't graze efficiently when they begin eating grass. A study on white-tailed deer in South Dakota showed that an insecticide that was supposed to not be harmful to vertebrates caused weak fawns with birth defects, especially underdeveloped facial bones and reproductive malformations. It also caused mortality to some adult females and some of the fawns. Exposure also caused both adult females and fawns to have less vigor and energy. Deer were tested in areas far from where Imidacloprid was applied and they still had dangerously high levels of Imidacloprid in their spleens. Since Imidacloprid appears to be falling on foliage, including grass and alfalfa cut for hay and it is used on grain crops used for livestock feed, how are cattle not being affected similarly. The description of weaker, smaller calves with pot bellies that do not grow normally describes what happened to study animals exposed to pesticides, especially Imidacloprid and even worse effects were found when animals were simultaneously exposed to Imidacloprid and the glyphosate in Glyphosate Based Herbicides, which worked synergistically to be 1000 time more damaging and deadly than DDT was. I think some of you are being very unfair to some of your cows. It isn't their fault that during fetal development their calf gets a big hit of pesticides that come in to your area in certain weather fronts. How damaging the exposure is depends on what is happening with the fetus's stage of development when the exposure happens. Around 3 calves per 100 cows have the weakness and inability to get up and suckle symptoms. Everyone of the beef or dairy calves with those symptoms, live or dead, that was able to examine when I was doing studies on ruminants, had underdeveloped upper facial bones resulting in an underbite. By the way, the problems caused by pesticide exposure are epigenetic in nature and have nothing to do with the genes of the parents. [/QUOTE]
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