Suicide by Pesticide

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Subject:     Death by ("Registered") Pesticides-------
 Date:        Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:57:02 -0500
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
          State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
          Integrated Pest Management

Dear Lyndon,  Tom Rachman of The Associated Prss noted on Sunday 1/9/00 that:  "Sri Lanka struggles to stem tide of suicide."  People in this paradise in the tropics kill themselves at an alarming rate.  

Tom wrote that: "One of the reasons deaths from suicide are so frequent here (Sri Lanka) is that the most common method -- drinking insecticides or pesticides -- is highly lethal." (Lyndon, you apparently still believe these same "registered" POISONS are "safe" in our food and water.)  

Tom also wrote:  "Most tragic are the cases of people who take weedkillers, which make the victims briefly ill, then appear to dissipate from their systems.  But once the chemical (POISON) is absorbed, no one survives!  Two or three months later, when many patients are thankful to have survived, their lungs and heart deteriorate, then stop working."  

Well Lyndon, do you have any idea how much of your many "registered" herbicide poisons remain as "residue" (contaminants) in our food and water?  Do you care?

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