Autism and Disappearing Bees: A Common Denominator?

"The brain of insects is the intended target of these insecticides.  They disrupt the bees homing behavior and their ability to return to the hive, kind of like “bee autism.”   But insects are different than humans, right?   Human and insect nerve cells share the same basic biologic infrastructure.  Chemicals that interrupt electrical impulses in insect nerves will do the same to humans.  But humans are much bigger than insects and the doses to humans are  miniscule, right?
During critical first trimester development a human is no bigger than an insect so there is every reason to believe that pesticides could wreak havoc with the developing brain of a human embryo.   But human embryos aren’t out in corn fields being sprayed with insecticides, are they?  A recent study showed that every human tested had the world’s best selling pesticide, Roundup, detectable in their urine at concentrations between five and twenty times the level considered safe for drinking water.
The autism epidemic and disappearing bees are real public health emergencies created by allowing our world to be overwhelmed by environmental toxins.  Environmental protection is human protection, especially for the smallest and most vulnerable among us."

Atrazine and the Roots of ALEC's State Data Quality Act

The herbicide atrazine, one of the most heavily used herbicides in the United States has been found in almost 94 percent of U.S. groundwater and can harm human health in multiple ways. ALEC has promoted "model" legislation friendly to Syngenta, atrazine's primary manufacturer, across the country. At least once, this legislation was introduced to ALEC by a lobbyist paid by Syngenta.

The "Data Quality Act"

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More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths | Common Dreams

- Common Dreams staff

A new study published in Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature by a leading bee expert provides damning evidence that a widely used pesticide, even at low levels, is responsible for the recent catastrophic decline in honey bees. Dr. Jeff Pettis of the USDA's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, MD led the study.
Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
The news has brought renewed calls for these pesticides, which only became widely used in the 1990s, to be banned as honey bees are key to human’s survival – pollinating 70 per cent of the crops which produce most of the world’s food.
The pesticide that the study (pdf) looked at was imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides worldwide. It is neonicotinoid insecticide produced by Bayer CropScience.

Just STOP spraying roundup Made my dog sick and deformed and killed kittens

Links listed below, will provide mirror site for information later this evening... I am looking for cohorts, like minded conscious folks, Alliances to fight this madness that has convinced good folks that roundup is safe. I am here to tell you that Roundup and similar products are far from what is considered safe for any all life.

A few months ago, my landlord (he takes the name seriously, days of serfdom, I am obliged and beholding to him)sprayed a tremendous amount of roundup on every outline of three gardens all containing eatables, drive, grounds around trees which keep falling over in high winds ... dead. I have three cats that enjoy the yard, gardens and sunning in the driveway, I received no notification to keep them indoors or that Jeff T. was even going to spray roundup. I don't mean to defame you and I am not, this is just the cold hard facts you need to be aware of. Kittens had at least a week or more before due date, they were still born within 24 hours one lived a few days. Second round of roundup as if fifty gallons on an acre of land wasn't enough, the second weekend of June. I am working in my garden while it is sprayed all around me within 50ft. I get tremendously sick, nausea back aches like a kidney, and I never get back aches, I go to doctor miss two weeks of work till better. In the meantime, my dog is dying, kittens are born again but without tails, with shorter curly tails, ears are backwards, nose is turned like a pigs. WTF  do I do?

Wonder

links to read and learn mirrored here as of 7/01/2011

I googled .... here

Dangers of Roundup Weed Killer for Pets

 pesticide health effects 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/57277946/RoundupandBirthDefectsv5

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