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When my mother was a child growing up in El Salvador, they would often go to their mountain home ( a coffee plantation) for holidays and my grandmother would have my mother and siblings have their hair "dipped" in DDT to make sure they would not catch head lice from the children they played with on the plantation... this was the 50's... (yes, very feudal and very rural).
DDT is still being used in Third World countries and foods are exported to the US. Many countries claim not to use DDT, but we know better. Don't we ?
My mother died from metastaic cancer to her lungs from a parotid gland tumor. It was awfully aggressive when found and she lived for 3 years with constant chemos, weight loss and overall wasting.
All of us wonder if the "dip" was an environmental factor... we all know about the soft egg shells birds were laying when affected by DDT and the multiple legs on frogs caused by pesticides...
How can we possible think that al that stuff does not affect humans? Even the "safe" pesticides are toxic. Just yesterday I went to a plant nursery and the "safe" pesticide they had sprayed the day before was enough for the nursery owner to claim we could not go beyond a certain point due to remnant fumes. I was afraid to breathe !
Anyway, all this reminds me of the lies that the cigarette companies gave the masses in order to make a buck. Poison is poison.
Maria
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