On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ken Brown wrote: > I suggest that the author of this insulting piece of nonsense go into > any decent library and pick up a book on the 18th & 19th century > agricultural revolution. Or read any standard account of the life of > Louis Pasteur. Inorganic fungicides, pesticides and herbicides go way > back, scientific study of them comes in in the second half of the 19th > century. > > As for whether "so-called modern chlorinated herbicides have been around > since the late 1800s." that sort of depends on how you define them.
Okay, busted. That stuff doesn't really fit the test of "modern". That's what I get for overstating. > Trust me, I'm a botanist :-) (or maybe even a microbiologist these days > if I pull my fingers out & get started on that PhD project) > > Ken Brown
