In the United States, cities sprayed entire neighbourhoods from trucks while children ran through the chemical fog playing. Ads told parents to line their children’s bedrooms with DDT-infused wallpaper.
In one promotional film, a man sprayed DDT directly onto his oatmeal and ate it on camera. In colonial Kenya in 1946, British officials sprayed DDT on huts in the Kipsigis tribal reserve to fight malaria. When villagers refused, suspecting poison, the district entomologist sprayed DDT into a bowl of porridge and ate spoonfuls of it in front of them to prove it was safe. The narrator described the locals as “rather backward.”
The scientist behind DDT won the Nobel Prize in 1948. Then in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” revealed it was poisoning the food chain, killing wildlife, and accumulating in human tissue. It was banned in the US in 1972. Recent studies show health effects still appearing in the granddaughters of women exposed during pregnancy.
What’s being sold as safe right now that our grandchildren will look back on the same way?
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