Show What Our Readers Say By Oran F. Curry MORE ON POISON Continued from last week's report on Fallout Can Kill article I will be on my operates on the Uintah Ouray again due to waiting for date of north of on tribal where poison spreading was done to kill sage preparing for re-seeding it was re-parted the following It was reported by Uie State Fish and Game officials that over dead deer were evidently from the poisoned sage I understand this was to the Fort Duchesne and Game department and a meeting was information on which I will have to get before I make an observation on what was done m the Ute Extension Now I'll go on with my quoting from previous report and We've gone poison crazy little Johnnie eating his apple a day to keep the doctor away is probably being Most fruit is sprayed and those poisons won't rub off or wash off Also a mother nursing her pr baby may be poisoning it Anyone having his home debugged is probably poisoning himself and his Poisoning blossomed into business after World War II Thousands of were without jobs Tens of thousands of military planes were available for and we had that wonderful DDT Then we fell heir to the L G patents in and here came first cousin of the deadly German nerve It was the and of the organ's phosphate poisons to be dumped on our and if you'd like to know how deadly it spill a spoonful on your arm ami try to rub it You'll probably die within six Liter came and not nearly so lethal organic whose worse threat is to the men the stuff These poisons do not store in the and they The damage that they might do to us if we are repeat-edly exposed to even la minute is not known Like so much else in the sea of it's a But the threat that we cannot ignore is that of the poison stay put on what w- and accumulate in our About a billion pounds of poison are dumped annually on our land in m I OUT DDT rides strong with an output of about million but the other chlorinated hydrocarbon are Being It Organic are a strong bid and and may soon take the Metallic poisons are fading particularly There are also some vegetable mainly rotenone and is one of the lethal but there is seldom any way to get a big dose of the Rotenone is harm in human beings unless inhaled in huge which only an would are less lethal to human beings than the mildest of tho and about one-thousandth lethal as the German The total value of our poison output is a half billion dollars The industry predicts this will boom to a billion bucks a year by 1957 So obviously we have tremendous pressure being exerted to protect and perpetuate this be |