A. syriaca & Roundup

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<< Subject: Re: A. syriaca & Roundup
From: gochfeld at EOHSI.RUTGERS.EDU  (Michael Gochfeld)
Date: Mon, Mar 20, 2000 11:32 AM
Message-id: <1000320062719.ZM3574 at Gochfeld>

	The following suggestion (presumably tongue-in-cheek): 

"  I'm still doubtful about Roundup's nontoxicity, 
at least until Monsanto's CEO agrees to drink a couple shots."

may not be so far-fetched.  A famous Rutgers University ag professor 
used to eat a teaspoonful of DDT in front of his class to show how 
harmless it was (on acute exposure).  He died, so the story goes, of a 
bee sting (perhaps that reflects a DDT deficiency). 

In any case, I acute exposure tests in animals (including humans) is not 
likely to be predictive of chronic exposures and/or ecosystem effects. 

M. Gochfeld
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I had read about this fellow  sometime after  Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
became so popular.  I was always curious as to what happened to him.  Now  I'm
curious as to whether the cemetary he's in has to spray for insect damage.