On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 08:25 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > WILL be the last of his family. I won't argue the PCB's, but I did spend considerable time in both the Phillipines and Singapore, where DDT is still in use, and chickens are still farmed, birds are still in the trees, and frogs and toads croak from every pond. Egg shells were made marginally thinner, not as grossly as many people thought, and so chickens continue to make chicks, and frogs continue to make frogs where DDT is in use. But in areas like south Africa, where DDT is banned, people are dieing of blood transmitted diseases at an unprecedented rate. Some of the tribes that were so deep in the jungle we didn't know about them disappeared entirely, and now we can treat some branches of the human race the same as the dinosaurs. Maybe some people think it was worth it. I am sure their opinion would be different if they lived in some of the affected areas. Regards, Les H
