I'm posting this for Judith, whose having trouble posting:
Regarding atrazine -so you choose to believe Syngenta, the manufacturer of the chemical, rather than a highly respected university scientist (who has nothing to gain) who has published his work in the most prestigious journals? I don't!! I suppose you believed the tobacco companies also? This is the SAME THING. "Judith S. Weis" <[email protected]> > [email protected] wrote: > >> Exactly how are these stories "sensational." Is there >> anything in them that is not factual? Tyrone Hayes >> work with atrazine and frog development is given >> substantial credence by knowledgeable folks in the field. > > The UC Berkeley story said sensationally: "its [atrazine > herbicide] effect on sexual development in male frogs > could be one of many factors in the global decline of > amphibians" > > Syngenta says: http://tinyurl.com/6fobfnk > "Does atrazine affect frog sexual development? > The facts are clear: atrazine does not. Government bodies > reviewing the science have concluded that atrazine is safe > to use. The EPA and independent researchers around the > world have rejected claims made by Dr. Tyrone Hayes > about atrazine, noting that his data do not support his > conclusions and questioning why he refuses to make > his raw data available for independent scientific review." > > The 1999 Cornell University story said sensationally: > "Pollen from Bt-corn could represent a serious risk to > populations of monarchs and other butterflies". > > But since 1999 Bt corn has been widely adopted by > by American farmers. Worse, Roundup Ready corn > and soybeans also were widely adopted and the resulting > heavy use of Roundup herbicide eliminated most of > the milkweed plants that used to grow within these crops > What was the effect of this one-two punch on monarch > abundance? These butterflies are still spectacularly > abundant in the most intensive corn and soybean regions > of the upper Midwest such as in southern Minnesota: > > Still photo: > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/bia.jpg > Video of the same butterflies: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4e3S2sm13g > > Still photo: > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/danub.jpg > > Still photo: http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/wintf.jpg > Video of the same butterflies: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCnU7PB9to > > The Cal Poly State University story said sensationally: > "Studies since the early 1990s indicate Western U.S. populations > of the monarch butterfly are headed for extinction...under > the direction of biology professor Francis Villablanca, Monarch > Alert helps generate data needed to determine just how experts > can bring about a monarch resurgence." > > But the serious decline of the western USA monarch parallels > serious landscape scale declines in western milkweed abundance > caused by greatly increased herbiciding of roadsides, vacant lots, > crop margin, railway lines, etc. > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/herba.jpg > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/herbd.jpg > in combination with urban sprawl: > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/sprawla.jpg > http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/sprawlb.jpg > > Since Cal Poly does not know how this ongoing intensive weed > control or sprawl can be stopped, there's no conceivable way > Cal Poly could: "generate data needed to determine just how > experts can bring about a monarch resurgence [in milkweed, > hence monarch] abundance." > > Paul Cherubini >
