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esticides In Prespective
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lioni insects alone lepiesenl
most si In'hon pei \e.u in the
S 1.0-mn liom funcns diseases
id weeds will uin Mrs finuie
to the sio billion i.mge Dc
■inlion fiom i.its .ind othei 10
ills add .mother So billion
nth of damane Obviousl.v,
thout pesticide ehemie.ils we
mid have costlier and pooiei
alitv foods available \meii
ns almost automaticall.v as
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snnie themselves immune fiom
insect and disease (In-Unction of
c iops The U S is Still iclativelj
well piotectcd against insect and
disease i av.mes when compared
to the iest ol die woild One in
sect species the desei t locust,
can invade 11 million septate
miles, loughly 20 peicent of the
eailh's land aiea. including 65
countnes The August, 1969. Na
tional Geogi aphtc further states
that onlv with the use of insecti
cides in 1967 vvete the locusts
contained and the threat to 15
billion dollats’ worth of crops in
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The Entomological Society of
Amenta tepoils that 75 percent
ol the total land aiea of the U S
has nevei had a pesticide applied
dnectl.v on it Howevei, this
does not mean that wildlife has
a “sale conduct" pass in such
a 1 eas DDT and some Oi’aei pes
tieidcs have been lound in an
tliills thousands ot miles horn
the point of application Migia
toiy species cioss ticaled aieas
and are exposed enioute, then
enter the untreated aieas Some
species enter the food chain
Yet, pesticides aie only one of
many pioblems that wildlife fac
es polluted water, land le
clamation, fiie, vandalism, auto
mobiles, motor boats, and uiban
encroachment all do their share
to distmb the wildlife habitat
DDT Toxicity
A great benefit to mankind
was the discovery that DDT
would conti ol vectois such as
mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, lice and
flies which cause at least 30 ser
ious human diseases -\t least 5
million lives have been saved
and no less that 100 million
cases pieven f ed thiough the use
of DDT loi conti oiling malaua,
typhus, dysenteiy, encephalitis
and many olhei diseases With
all this tieaiinent and exposme
of humans to DDT, not one death
has evei been attnbuted to this
insecticide Theie is no well de
scubed case of fatal, uncompli
cated DDT poisoning, even aftei
suicidal attempts
Protective Measures
Human dedhs attnbuted to
pesticides aie piacticallj non
existent in moitality statistics
Theie aie 137 Po*son Contiol
and ti Batmen ‘ Centeis opeiated
by Pennsylvania Depa’lment ol
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poisoning Two pesticide fatalit
ics weic recorded m Ponnsv’
vama in 1960 when two women
aceidentallv diank what thej as
sumed was a soft dunk, but un
lortunateb was a pesticide brou
eht home in a soft drink nor!''
\n intant. accoiding to a newa
paper lepoil, died tiom dunk ng
weed killer lound in a bottle
when it ciawled about the vaid
in 1969 These tiagic accidents
emphasized the need foi coiitinu
ed stiess of sate use and stoiage
piactices Some conceined poi
sons fdel that many deaths could
be caused by pesticides but diag
nosed otherwise Howevei, laboi
atoiy techniques in medical care
aie moie icfined and moie com
mon than ever befoie, and it
hardly seems likely that pesti
cide poisoning would be ovei
looked for long
Monitoring For Pesticides
Monitoring for organic chem
cal pesticide residue has been in
opeiation by federal scientists
since 1964 Samples are peuodi
colly taken of the following cate
gories in the nationwide suiveil-
Lmce program
1 Consumer foods and animal
feeds
a Ma'-ket basket twelve
lood items horn food sto*-
es in five gcogiaphic le
gions
b Unpiocessed food and
teed
c Meat samples at slaughter
2 Human levels within 3 pop
ulation gioups fiom 15 states in
i elation to exposui e to pesticides
a Blood seium and adipose
tissue
b Post moitem bodv fat
3 Fish, wldlife and estuai es
a Eight species of fish fiom
50 sites
b Five bud species includ
ing live stulings ducks
taken bv hunteis ami eag
les found dead
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c Oystbis, clams and scdi
ments from 24 rivets,
bays, and sounds
4 Water
a Filty collecting stations
at nvei mouths 01 above
tidal water /one
b Fifteen collecting station*
at uppei nvei locations
5 Soil
a High use aiea 5 farms
/aiea 16 stales
b Low use aiea—forest in
sect control sites, 17 states
c Nonuse aieas wildlife
lelugcs and national for
est lands, 13 states
Pesticide tesidue results up to
the piesent have indicated that
theie has been no progressive
buildup of any great magnitude
of any organic pesticide in soil,
sediment, or water in monitored
areas Check of other control
progiams have revealed litle
danger to human health, wildlife,
or fish
The balance of natme is a
phi ase much misunderstood The
term is used to preface the
chaige that man has tampered
with natme Uiat if only he
lived in haimony with it, the
problems associated with our ex
istence would disappeai The
amazing thing about this notion
is not that a natuial mechanism
does exist toi older is ap
paient in existence but that
many people consciously 01 sub
consciously accept that nature
has a {folded man special pievil
eges that aie unchanging But
man is not exempt, if his num
beis mciease some accommoda
tion has to be made The condi
tion on om planet is one of
stiuggle species against spec
ies with dominance among the
species shift■ rig back and forth
also theie a>e shifts within the
species
Man, who is preeminent on
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