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“If it kills small forms of life, it’ll kill me” is completely, utterly and positively false. The amound of pesticide it takes to kill a dandelion or a grub is entirely different than the amount of the same substance that it would take to harm a human.

Think of water – an absolutely necessary part of life. But *too much* can kill, as that woman in the “hold your wee for a wii” contest found out. *Anything* is poisonous in sufficient quantities… The iron in your multi-vitamin makes an adult healthy, but can *seriously* harm a small child.

The dose makes the poison, Jerry… That is a fact. I’m afraid emotional rants do not contribute to a intellectual dialogue.

Although your silence is interesting – perhaps you cannot prove your ridiculous statements is the most likely answer.

“If it kills small forms of life it will kill me” does not make you sound stupid or uneducated, it makes you sound like a raving lunatic.

Repetition does not make right – although it seems you’ve come to believe your own version of reality even though.

Every single word of the above is utter fabrication.

Why do some anti-pesticide activists feel the need to lie to enforce their arguement? It’s pathetic, dangerous and needs to be exposed for the garbage it is.

Mr. Tvedten; I challenge you to prove your ridiculous, grossly exaggerated claims of acute pesticide poisonings.

You have reinforced my very point – each side on the argument will select science that is supportive of their position. Not that the science is inherently wrong or bad, just that each side of the argument is selective in what research they use to promote their position.

Research from groups like the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and the Ontario College of Family Physicians strike me as more objective or at least, have a bias that leans towards the protection of human health rather than a bias towards securing the sale and manufacture of the product in question.

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth – we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species – already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to “man’s footprint”. But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to “keep up”! Even with all of this expensive pollution – we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.

We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe “knowledge drought” – a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the “right way”. The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.

National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year in the United States – No one is checking chronic contamination.

In order to try to help “stem the tide”, I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated chapter by chapter at my new website at: http://www.stephentvedten.com/ .

This new website at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ has all of my original IPM encyclopedia in its original form and will continue to have more and more free, updated Chapters every week. So far we have electronically updated The Introduction, Chapter 11, 15, 16A, 16B, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32 and the Glossary of Terms. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.

Stephen L. Tvedten
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Marne, Michigan 49435
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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader

What in hades does that mean? Anti-pesticide groups reference supporting research *often financially supported by organic industry* or *often supported by self-feeding parasitical self-proclaimed not for profit* organizations while pro-technology groups are obviously corrupt?

Nonesence.

First link: http://www.beyondpesticides.org
An organic sponsered site: big industry that stands to gain are the Organic Family of Foods, Whole Foods Market, Natural Lawn of America, Nisus Corporation (Borate Technology) amongst others. Anti-pesticide activists have argued for years that *industry* cannot be trusted with regards to scientific fact. Let their own critisism fall on their own industry.

Second link: http://www.ocfp.on.ca
This is not the CFPC – College of Family Physicians of Canada – though it’s acronym looks like it. Anecdotyl incidents do not make a pandemic and there is no co-relation in science with regards to their position. Most of the so-called victims were also subjected to far larger amounts of sugar or caffeine than lawn and garden pesticides. Why isn’t Red Rose or Tim Hortons being blamed for cancer? Both tea and coffee contain myriad natural and synthetic pesticides.

Link #3 – See Link #1 – Again sponsered by big bucks organic industry that wants you to pay three times the price for a bunch of broccoli *and* get “not for profit” tax benefits for it.

Link #4 – See Link #1 & #3

Link #5 – See Link #1,3,4 &5

Link #6 – *falls down in a faint* Wow – has a NFP husband and wife team from Brazil as a partner… and a few people from the USA. I guess I’ll vote for the guy with the biggest swagger.

Link #7 – yawn…. Lotsa numbers to crunch…. 1.6 asthma increase for exposure to soot and wood smoke …. exposed to cockroaches 2-fold higher risk of asthma…. children over 1 year old exposed to pesticides was not associated with increased risk of asthma… *yawns again and hopes the hippie campers aren’t blowing any healthy smoke towards their babies*

Link #8 – same group as link #7…. does this guy have …. uhm… third source information maybe from a government group not a NFP group? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.. *wink wink*

Okay… I’m getting tired of proving nitwits well…. complete nitwits. I’m off to the couch with my pesticide-encouraged malt and hops and barley and I’ll salute those that make my life so darn good.