{"id":65,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/slow-death-by-rubber-duck-healthy-environment-group-weed-this\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:12:08","slug":"slow-death-by-rubber-duck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/slow-death-by-rubber-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Death by Rubber Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSlow Death by Rubber Duck\u201d, by
Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie
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\n from Chapter Seven: 2,4-D and the Sound of
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\u201cThe patent for 2,4-D was issued in 1945. As one of the\u00a0world first \u201chormone herbicides\u201d.
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The list of known or suspected health effects reads like\u00a0an inventory of the worst possible things that could happen to a human. And I’m\u00a0not even referring to things like the nausea, headaches, vomiting, eye\u00a0irritation, difficulty breathing and lack of coordination that can occur from accidentally spilling 2,4D on your skin. I’m referring to the long-term effects\u00a0of exposure to 2,4-D: non-Hodgkins’s lymphoma ( a form of blood cancer),\u00a0 neurological impairment, asthma, immune system suppression, reproductive\u00a0problems and birth defects.\u00a0
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<\/span>In farming families in North America, for instance, there\u00a0is a higher incidence of miscarriages and birth defects than in the general\u00a0population. Farmers in Ontario, who use pesticides also have lower sperm counts\u00a0and poorer-quality sperm than\u00a0non-farmers.\u00a0
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<\/span>There is a clear link between pesticide exposure and many\u00a0forms of cancer, and this has made doctors concerned. A recent examination by a\u00a0team of doctors and scientists of more than one hundred studies on pesticides\u00a0and cancer concluded, that most studies on non-Hodgkins’s lymphoma and\u00a0leukaemia showed positive associations with pesticide exposure.\u00a0\u00a0Children’s and pregnant women’s exposure to pesticides was positively\u00a0associated with the cancers examined in some studies, as was parents’ exposure\u00a0to pesticides at work. The most consistent associations were found for brain and\u00a0prostate cancer.
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<\/span>After reviewing 124 studies, doctors found the\u00a0consistency of evidence showing that pesticides exposure increases the risk of\u00a0neurologic, reproductive and genotoxic effects. They found strong evidence\u00a0linking pesticide exposure and birth defects, foetal death and altered\u00a0growth.\u00a0
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<\/span>According to the chemical industry, pesticides are safe\u00a0and there is no science to suggest otherwise. According to doctors, hundreds of\u00a0studies link pesticides to neurological problems, cancers, birth defects and\u00a0many other disorders and diseases.
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<\/span>Even tiny and very brief dose of pesticides, far below current safety levels, can damage infant\u00a0brains.
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<\/span>The traditional assumption is that the degree of harm increases with the dose. This means that the more poison you receive, the more\u00a0harm it will do. This is not true for 2,4-D or many other toxins.\u00a0\u00a0Hormone-disrupting chemicals follow a \u201cU-curve\u201d. A very low dose may cause\u00a0significant harm, a moderate dose may cause a lesser degree of harm and a large\u00a0dose again may cause significant harm.
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<\/span>The problem, as I see it, is that the regulators are far\u00a0too close to the industries they regulate. In other words the foxes are guarding\u00a0the hen house. \u201c End of excerpt.
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<\/span>Summary for our community which is currently exposed to\u00a0major private and council\u00a0spraying.\u00a0 Please contact us to find out how you can raise your\u00a0concern to Council, who is currently reviewing their policy on the\u00a0Herbicides\/Pesticides procedures.\u00a0 Now is the time to let our voices of concern be\u00a0heard!
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\u201cSlow Death by Rubber Duck\u201d, by Rick Smith and Bruce LourieExcerpt from Chapter Seven: 2,4-D and the Sound of Science \u201cThe patent for 2,4-D was issued in 1945. As one of the\u00a0world first \u201chormone herbicides\u201d.The list of known or suspected health effects reads like\u00a0an inventory of the worst possible things that could happen to a<\/p>\n

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