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Yes Eagles! I notice you are in WA too. Eagle are everywhere here. It seems like only yesterday they were so endangered you went decades without seeing one.....now, I saw one drinking from a mud puddle in the road last week. I used to worry about hawks.....there isn't a day goes by those things aren't in the sky. Huge.....
When I was a little child I was told that there used to be Bald Eagles here too but they haven't made quite the comeback in these parts of the East Coast that they seem to have made in WA. It was the DDT that nearly caused them to go extinct. The hawks have come back and are in strong numbers now but the eagles are still nowhere in sight.
Leave it to poison-peddling Monsanto to really destroy the planet. Well, they say they started banning DDT in the US in 1972, but then again, being agricultural, this was once a heavily DDT-sprayed area. They didn't use planes as much as they did out west here, a lot of large spraying-equipped tractors mainly. But just think how many years have passed and what was once a place where eagles thrived is still feeling the effects of a widespread devastating poisoning.
And don't believe the hype that DDT can "save" lives by killing mosquitoes. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are far safer alternatives for mosquito control, they only say that because they have warehouses full of the poison to sell and profits go down everytime someone rightfully says that DDT is a poison. See the following article for proof: "High levels of DDT in breast milk in mothers living in malaria-stricken villages in South Africa" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120903142949.htm
And in case you're not convinced as to how deadly DDT is, not only for the animals, but for us, check this out: "Study: DDT Pesticide Linked to Alzheimer's Disease" at TIME.com: http://healthland.time.com/2014/01/28/study-ddt-pesticide-linked-to-alzheimers-disease/
Remember the film 'North by Northwest' where Cary Grant was being chased by a pesticide sprayer with the intent of murder? Monsanto certainly hasn't forgiven Hitchcock for that one yet!
And there's a great movie with Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Machiko Kyo and Eddie Albert called "The Teahouse of the August Moon" where there's actually a scene talking about gardening and Eddie Albert says he does NOT want DDT because it will destroy the earthworms and thus the soil. In real life, Eddie Albert was an 'organic', natural gardener, long before it was fashionable. And Glenn Ford used to raise chickens in Beverly Hills too, and it wasn't "in" then yet either:
For the truth on DDT, visit: http://www.panna.org/resources/ddt-story
Maybe now we can all band together and get glyphosate (aka RoundUp) banned! And if you're wondering what I mean by that, here's why:
"Glyphosate May Be Worse Than DDT | Hazards of Glyphosate":
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/13/glyphosate-ddt-alzheimers.aspx
And there's plenty more: "Concerns over use of glyphosate-based herbicides and risks associated with exposures: a consensus statement" https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-016-0117-0
TAKE ACTION: Tell Amazon, Home Depot and Walmart: Stop Selling Monsanto’s Roundup!:
https://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=20684