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  • From: Andrew Bell <acbell@iastate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pesticide Exposure
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:16:32 -0500

At 10:22 AM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
Farmers in my state (Nebraska) have the same clueless attitude towards
chemicals. Years ago a crop duster sprayed the wrong field by mistake,
when a farm wife was in it. She and her husband joked that they got
"free" coverage on their field. Next year she was dead of cancer. I've
also seen farmers in their pickups out in fields while the spray plane
flew right over them, spraying.

This probably doesn't need saying, but I'll say it anyway.

These kind of anecdotal reports tend to frighten people - perhaps unnecessarily. Certainly one should encourage safe practice with pesticides, but to imply that a woman's cancer was necessarily caused by a careless exposure is itself careless.


-- Andrew Bell
acbell@iastate.edu





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