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There's also a very high correlation between PD and insecticide use. Cows eating grass treated with insecticide (sometimes because a farmer on the plot upwind o
by once_inc 4y ago
There's also a very high correlation between PD and insecticide use. Cows eating grass treated with insecticide (sometimes because a farmer on the plot upwind of their meadow uses it) produce milk that contains high concentrations of insecticides. People drinking lots of dairy ingest those insecticides and develop PD.
- code_duck 4y agoMy grandmother retired to a farm where she used a ton of herbicides and insecticides (endless battle agains fire ants) including DDT and who knows what else. She ended up with a Parkinson’s-like condition - supposedly not Parkinson’s, but same symptoms. I’m not sure how they determined that.