03-03-2010, 03:35 AM
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Location: off the Chesapeake Bay in USA
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bad-news: common weedkiller sex-reverses M-frogs
Common weedkiller turns male frogs into females - Environment- msnbc.com
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The European Union banned atrazine in 2004. The finding may add pressure to the United States to more closely regulate the chemical, used widely in agriculture.
"Approximately 80 million pounds (36,287 tonnes) are applied annually in the United States alone,
and atrazine is the most common pesticide contaminant of ground and surface water," the researchers wrote.
"Atrazine can be transported more than 1,000 km (621 miles) from the point of application via rainfall and, as a result, contaminates otherwise pristine habitats, even in remote areas where it is not used," they added, citing other researchers.
"In fact, more than a half million pounds (227 tonnes) of atrazine are precipitated in rainfall each year in the United States."
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one of my great delights as a child + young-adult was snow-ice-cream -
the first snowfall that was deep enuf for a clean subsurface collection, usually about 6-inches and deeper, we would gather bowls of snow + drizzle them with maple-syrup or honey or berry-preserves.  it was something i looked forward to, every autumn...
now i would be afraid to give that to a young child, as many ag-chems are body-accumulated AND can be carcinogenic in children as they are still growing rapidly... and have the 20 to 40-years of post-exposure to incubate the cancer. 
what a shame... 
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in October it was reviewing the health impacts of atrazine.
Syngenta AG, one of several companies that makes atrazine, has long defended its safety.
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gee... that makes me feel so much better...  i think the EPA is a lobbying firm for US agriculture + industry  which are now nearly indistinguisable, anyway.
what the *%#@! is the diff between the industrial-production of milk + butter, and the industrial production of widgets?
U have input kcals, water, etc, for cattle; comparable raw-materials for widget-making,
production in a cow, or on a manufacturing line
packaging, waste, distribution, shipping, and retail.
Grrrr... 
our Mother is being murdered... one cell at a time. i cannot bear it.
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