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It may be barrels of pesticides, but at least it seems they opt for natural pesticide (liquid garlic/peppermint) instead of any toxic (to humans) substances.

• whizzter 4y ago
  Might've been less nice pesticies in the past, but I guess awareness of possible lawsuits from employees has forced their hand.
  • mathgeek 4y ago
    Do you have a source for that conjecture? Was there a specific new outlet that raised the issue previously?
• scarmig 4y ago
  That made me look a bit more into it. As far as I can tell, garlic (in non-detectable to human concentrations) is used, but there are also references to non-specific pesticides and growth regulators, which they'd naturally emphasize over scary sounding chemicals. It seems to be a genuinely impressive and comprehensive (and, from experience, effective) program, but it still likely uses some "toxic" pesticides. I figure if mosquitoes could be controlled by water mixed with garlic, we could be making incredible and scalable progress against e.g. malaria in Africa using that approach. Other methods Disney uses include releasing predators of mosquitoes regularly and sampling mosquito population genetics using CO2 traps to proactively anticipate new problems.
• KennyBlanken 4y ago
  Look at the wording closely: it says "rumored to be." That's corporate-speak for "we're lying." Guarantee if Disney were using natural pesticides, they'd be shouting their lungs out about it, especially in what appears to be a corporate-paid-for blogspam article.