Re: healthstudies
Dear Liz, At one stage on the top of our mountain the potato growers would spray each other with DDT and 245T to cool down when they were spraying. The official advice that was given at the time by government agencies and educators was that there was no problem with chemicals. All of them died at an early age with cancer. Reg Kidd who does the Chemical Users Course would be able to start you off on the right path. Reg tells a story of spray drift of herbicide that ran from a cherry orchard at Molong right through to Canobolas [50 km] causing havoc to everything in it's path. Eventually it killed many apple trees on Canobolas. Workcover Authority also could help. Kind regards James. - Original Message - From: Liz Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 6:17 AM Subject: Re: healthstudies This is an area that has intrigued me since I started study. Majority of the alternative farmers we met last year on tours switched due to health reasons. Stories of passing out after using round up, in bed for days due to close proximity of seeds and whatever pesticides were on them. In a way this surprised me, not that people were having health problems, but that the majority had taken ill to finally make a change. Meeting more farmers now who are wanting to do the right thing and live the lifestyle they believe in. Thanks for bringing this up, it's got me thinking I will learn more about the poisons used in this area and try to put together a survey and see what comes up. LL Liz on 3/4/03 9:06 PM, Peter Michael Bacchus at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do know that there are quite a number of farmers who change to an organic / biological system of farming for health reasons and have been to treat a farmer who was being poisened by the roof water that contained agrichemical sprays. The neighbour was a realy generous chap who liked to share the aerosol part of the spray generously with all his down wind neibours. Even the cloths in the wardrobe stunk of it. I don't know of a university study on this subject. Best wishes, Peter. - Original Message - From: Eric Myren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: healthstudies Does anyone know of any health studies done on chemical farmers? If the negative effects of all the toxic sprays were to show up in one segment of the population it would be them. Not to mention the fact that they would also be inhaling all that genetically engineered pollen. I did hear one stat that serious prostate cancer was 50 times higher in chemical farmers
Re: healthstudies
I do know that there are quite a number of farmers who change to an organic / biological system of farming for health reasons and have been to treat a farmer who was being poisened by the roof water that contained agrichemical sprays. The neighbour was a realy generous chap who liked to share the aerosol part of the spray generously with all his down wind neibours. Even the cloths in the wardrobe stunk of it. I don't know of a university study on this subject. Best wishes, Peter. - Original Message - From: Eric Myren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: healthstudies Does anyone know of any health studies done on chemical farmers? If the negative effects of all the toxic sprays were to show up in one segment of the population it would be them. Not to mention the fact that they would also be inhaling all that genetically engineered pollen. I did hear one stat that serious prostate cancer was 50 times higher in chemical farmers
Re: healthstudies
This is an area that has intrigued me since I started study. Majority of the alternative farmers we met last year on tours switched due to health reasons. Stories of passing out after using round up, in bed for days due to close proximity of seeds and whatever pesticides were on them. In a way this surprised me, not that people were having health problems, but that the majority had taken ill to finally make a change. Meeting more farmers now who are wanting to do the right thing and live the lifestyle they believe in. Thanks for bringing this up, it's got me thinking I will learn more about the poisons used in this area and try to put together a survey and see what comes up. LL Liz on 3/4/03 9:06 PM, Peter Michael Bacchus at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do know that there are quite a number of farmers who change to an organic / biological system of farming for health reasons and have been to treat a farmer who was being poisened by the roof water that contained agrichemical sprays. The neighbour was a realy generous chap who liked to share the aerosol part of the spray generously with all his down wind neibours. Even the cloths in the wardrobe stunk of it. I don't know of a university study on this subject. Best wishes, Peter. - Original Message - From: Eric Myren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: healthstudies Does anyone know of any health studies done on chemical farmers? If the negative effects of all the toxic sprays were to show up in one segment of the population it would be them. Not to mention the fact that they would also be inhaling all that genetically engineered pollen. I did hear one stat that serious prostate cancer was 50 times higher in chemical farmers
healthstudies
Does anyone know of any health studies done on chemical farmers? If the negative effects of all the toxic sprays were to show up in one segment of the population it would be them. Not to mention the fact that they would also be inhaling all that genetically engineered pollen. I did hear one stat that serious prostate cancer was 50 times higher in chemical farmers
