DDT, Roundup and Agent Orange

In college in 1973 I studied in detail about the effects of various pesticides and herbicides on the human body. I also studied about DDT and how it was the cause of the first massive bird die off throughout north America. Then Rachel Carson wrote, "The Silent Spring" which helped get DDT banned but not before many raptors (hawks, kestrels, Eagles and ospreys almost went extinct in North America and various other breeds of birds). It seems that DDT caused the birds eggshells not to form properly after they ingested it either through grains or bugs who ate the grains or mice who ate the grains or rats who ate the grains which caused most birds in North America to die because no babies could survive because the egg shells were too thin and the baby birds died when their mothers sat on the eggs.

However, in many countries DDT was not banned which caused major die offs of birds ongoing in those countries to this day. So, if DDT is allowed in your country and there are little to no birds this is one reason why.

Next it might be important to know that the pesticides and herbicides that replaced DDT were actually much worse for human beings than DDT was. So, DDT was actually the worse thing for wildlife.

However, there is something called Dioxin which has NO SAFE LEVEL FOR ANY HUMAN BEING. This is primarily because it attacks human DNA. Every white piece of paper in your home could not be white unless it had been treated with dioxin including toilet paper. And it used to be in feminine products like Tampons and was the cause of Toxic shock sydrome. Dioxin causes deformities and still births in women. It also causes mole pregnancies and multiple deformities in babies. I was an anti-toxics activist during the early 1980s because I met a few women who had horrific pregnancies which killed their babies after being exposed to Dioxin through 2-4-D.

2-4-D is made from Dioxin and is the primary component in Agent Orange that was sprayed with B-52 Bombers for years over the demilitarized zone between North and South Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War. There are still deformed babies being born in the DMZ now over 40 years later with 2 heads, 4 legs and worse. Luckily, those born worse usually die soon.

The much used spray Roundup that people comfortably spray on their yards every day to get rid of weeds is similar in chemical makeup to Agent Orange. But it has been slightly modified because of the awful reputation that AGent Orange and Dioxin have throughout the world from horrific deformities in life births. Once again there is NO SAFE LEVEL of  dioxon for any human being because of ongoing genetic damage.

Though most pesticides and herbicides are worse than DDT in regard to the neurological damage to human beings I'm not sure about the difference regarding cancers and other health problems in humans. And like I said before the genetic damage from dioxin affects everyone everywhere that live in civilization because all white toilet paper, paper towels, paper you write on, printer paper (if it is white has had to be treated with dioxon in order to be white. So, only brown toilet paper, brown napkins and brown paper towels etc don't have dioxin in them.

Note added September 7th 2015:
Neurotoxins in pesticides and herbicides are what are driving honeybees extinct by the way. Neurotoxins in their present forms cause the bees to "Forget" where their hive is and so they die and so does their hive eventually. This is one of several causes of domesticated bees for honey production dying all over the world.

So, it could be said that neurotoxins may help drive not only honeybees extinct but also the human race eventually when no food grown can be pollinated worldwide.