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Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, radium, hormone-leaching plastics, certain pharmaceuticals, antibiotic-laced meat. All were known to be harmful and were subject
by sudont 16y ago
Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, radium, hormone-leaching plastics, certain pharmaceuticals, antibiotic-laced meat. All were known to be harmful and were subject to a cover up to promote consumption.
You can debate his example, but his point stands.
- ajkirwin 16y agoI can agree with all of those except 'antibiotic-laced meat'. And some things, like 'certain pharmaceuticals' (whatever they are) and most certainly DDT still are very useful. We can trace our bedbug epidemic to the stoppage of DDT. Nothing else is as effective.
- billswift 16y agoDDT, Agent Orange, "hormone-leaching" plastics are not harmful to people. Antibiotics in meats are only a problem to a small number of allergic people. Of course, if you are really a vegetable or insect, then I could see why you consider the first two to be threats.
- cyrus_ 16y agoHumans rely on vegetables and insects for survival. Overuse of antibiotics can lead to the development of high levels of resistance.
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