DDT type pesticides were cheap and could be produced from the plentiful crude oil supplies. Farmers, corporations, and consumers were excited by this development because large populations of insects could be destroyed with a single spraying. In cities people were spraying DDT everywhere. It temporarily destroyed almost entire bedbug and cockroach populations. If the first sprayings did not work, you could spray again and kill even more bugs. Most of the sprayers did not realize that the bugs had tremendous reproductive capacities and the few bugs that survived would produce millions of baby bugs that were not affected by the poisons. As these new resistant bugs appeared, people sprayed even more and, in my opinion, caused immune system illnesses among many of their children. The immune

system illness symptoms did not appear for years and were not associated with the poisons by the populace or the people who profited by this revolution.

Today many of us are immersed in a poisonous environment. Because the petrochemical toxins are fat-soluble, they permeate all biological membranes, including human skin and the skins of fruits and vegetables. Toxic chemicals saturate our food, the newspapers that we read, the cars that we drive, and the computer chips that drive our office, machinery.

Set up a new computer or television set; in many cases you can smell the toxic solvents evaporating off of this equipment for weeks after you opened the box. Poisons are sprayed everywhere: the vegetables that you, eat, the office where you work, the school where you study, and even in your home. I have a neighbour who asked me whether I ever see roaches in my house, and I answered, 'Yes, on occasion." "'What do you do when you see them?" he asked. "Sometimes I step on them," I replied. I also told him that I don't kill the spiders in my home because they seem to do a good job of controlling most of the unwanted bugs. "Well," he told me proudly, "I haven't seen a bug in my house since I hired exterminators to spray the entire house and yard." I often see him or his wife with large professional-type spraying equipment spraying along the periphery of their home and on their window screens. Incidentally, this neighbour and his wife are in the process of receiving chemotherapy for metastatic cancer.

While many insects have evolved complex mechanisms to break down pesticides and petrochemicals, humans are not as fortunate. Most humans must suffer the long-term health consequences of toxic exposure. I am positive that the exposure to various pesticides and to polychlorinated

biphenyls (PCBs) affect our reproductive capabilities just as they interfere with animal reproduction. These poisons imitate human reproductive hormones and disturb the reproductive cycles.

So it may be obvious to say that we need to look after our immune system by any means necessary.

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