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Organic pesticides are nasty stuff as well. "In 2010, a study was published detailing the progression of Parkinson's-like symptoms in mice following chronic in
by adrr 9y ago
Organic pesticides are nasty stuff as well.
"In 2010, a study was published detailing the progression of Parkinson's-like symptoms in mice following chronic intragastric ingestion of low doses of rotenone. The concentrations in the central nervous system were below detectable limits, yet still induced PD pathology.[31]
In 2011, a US National Institutes of Health study showed a link between rotenone use and Parkinson's disease in farm workers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone
- alexandercrohde 9y agoRotenone is no longer an organic pesticide. [Even in America. It can only be used as a "fishkill"] source: http://npic.orst.edu/NPRO/# http://npic.orst.edu/NPRO/#
- adrr 9y agoOnly in Europe. Its still approved by the USDA. Source(failed petition to remove it): https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Rotenone%20proposal.pdf https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Rotenone%...
- gowld 9y agoWhat does "organic" mean if a specific substance can become "not organic" without changing?
- oasisbob 9y agoYou have a point. I think "not organic" in this context is shorthand for "not allowed in organic agriculture." Scanning the reg, the USDA's list is titled "Prohibited Natural Substances."
- pluma 9y agoIf you think the term "organic" is silly: in German the word that's used means "biological".
- GW150914 9y agoI hate to repeat myself, but it bears repeating: glyphosate is an herbicide and not a pesticide. It’s significant, because pesticides organic or otherwise are something designed to kill animals, not plants. We’re animals, not plants, so herbicides are generally far less toxic than pesticides to us. While we’re quite different in many ways to insects, we share a lot of metabolic machinery; the same is not true of us and plants.