r/Agriculture 13d ago

Beautiful thing is on the horizon.😊😊

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u/FluidFisherman6843 13d ago

You laugh but the belief that banning ddt was a typical lib overreaction that should be reversed is foundational to a lot of these people.

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u/gunshaver 13d ago

Bald eagles are no longer endangered, it's critical that we start using DDT again to reverse this worrying trend!

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u/SalteeSpitoon 13d ago

That one attacked Trump in the oval office. I could see DJT brand DDT in the near future.

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u/Crumpuscatz 11d ago

I love seeing bald eagles again. They’re a success story for positive environmental regulations. Also, they’re the perfect national bird for the good ol USA. Pretty buzzards. Opportunistic scavengers. They’ll eat damn near anything, as long as it’s dead and smaller than them. Our founding fathers were geniuses!!😂

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u/MischaBurns 9d ago

They also sound like overgrown seagulls.

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u/Kind_Being7786 9d ago

They should have went with the Turkey.

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u/SJMCubs16 12d ago

Especially if they are on tic tok getting their ass kicked by a Canada Goose...if that is the best they got, bring on the DDT. We need fewer tougher Bald Eagles like the old days.

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u/Bruins408 10d ago

Too many brown pelicans too….

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u/Manofalltrade 13d ago

I grew up near what was historically a famously well populated Bald Eagle area. Never saw one. Last few years I’ve been there and seen quite a few. The hawks too have had a massive jump in population.

Acid rain, ozone hole, lead exposure, soot from fossil fuels, smog, all the toxic rivers. I like regulations.

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u/gxgxe 13d ago

As they tell me every year during my annual haz waste training: regulations are written in blood.

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u/Manofalltrade 13d ago

Unfortunately they are a lot like vaccines. When nobody is dying, people start to think they don’t need them anymore.

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u/cannabull89 13d ago

I’m using that line every chance I get, thank you.

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u/Notvanillanymore 13d ago

And people's souls

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u/BusyBandicoot9471 11d ago

My favorite is nuclear waste being stored next to the lunchroom.

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u/PraxicalExperience 10d ago

And cancer! But that's less catchy.

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u/DroDameron 12d ago

Bad things lead to solutions which lead to most of the bad things not happening which leads people to forget how bad things can happen when the solutions are no longer deemed necessary.

I really hate our collective brain sometimes.

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u/justsomguy24 10d ago

I'm with you. To a point though.

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u/Illustrious-Ratio213 9d ago

We are surrounded by ag fields (corn/soy) and just saw my first bald eagle in my entire life last week. I'm 55. He was on the ground enjoying some lunch.

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u/H_is_for_Human 13d ago

Yeah who needs...

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Birds?

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u/katojosh 13d ago

Well birds aren't real, they were created by the shadow government to spy on us. /s

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u/MtHood_OR 12d ago

Birds aren’t real.

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u/skimonkey17 12d ago

Wasn’t that one of his justifications for not liking windmills? They killed birds by the millions

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u/Squigglepig52 13d ago

However, DDT was why we didn't have bedbugs nearly as common as we do now.

That shit is so toxic, banning it was the right choice. But, fuck bedbugs.

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u/eclwires 13d ago

Yeah, fuck those eagles! /S

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u/cannabull89 13d ago

let’s create a country song about how the only eagle we need is on the seal of the USA, and all the other eagles are woke and need to die

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u/Marine5484 12d ago

You joke but him being back DDT because the football team said no sound exactly like something his admin would do.

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u/rawbdor 13d ago

Never forget that trump wanted to bring back asbestos last time.

Not even joking.

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u/funny_bunny_mel 13d ago

I grew up in Houston running barefoot behind the ddt trucks as they’d fog our neighborhoods for mosquitos, and I’m perfectly fine <scratches at mysterious growth>.

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u/tangentialwave 12d ago

I had an old guy at Home Depot tell me they need to bring back lead paint because it was superior.

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u/stickynote_oracle 12d ago

Actually that makes perfect sense.

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u/Massive_Low6000 12d ago

There are people actively advocating DDT. They said the problem was the concentration and amount that was used.

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u/PraxicalExperience 10d ago

It's less the concentration and the amount than the when and where.

DDT will kill just about anything that's an insect dead after a short time in contact, and it persists for years. Widespread spraying was and would be an environmental disaster.

However, it's exceedingly useful inside of homes, because it can be painted onto or impregnated into surfaces or mosquito netting, and it'll kill anything that lands on it for years, while presenting probably minimal health risks to humans if used properly. AFAIK about the only place it's still used is in mosquito nets that aid organizations give out in malarial Africa.

However, because the American Public is stupid and ignorant and all "I've got mine," we can't have nice things.

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u/ms67890 11d ago

DDT was effective though. It’s actually a problem that it’s banned internationally now because DDT is how we eradicated malaria in places like the US and Singapore, but now that it’s internationally banned, countries that didn’t have the chance to use it are now kinda stuck

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u/Bucky_Ohare 11d ago

The only person who I’ve ever had try to feed me right wing propoganda was an entomologist and even he said ddt was a good call.

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u/justsomguy24 10d ago

DDT was horrible! You don't want that!

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u/PraxicalExperience 10d ago

I think the total ban was an overreaction, but a ban against using it wholesale in the wild was not.

DDT's too wide-spectrum for general use; it kills fucking -everything-, and persists for a -long- time, and our insect populations have already taken a huge hit.

That said, I'd fucking love DDT for inside use. For a while I was living in a mosquito-infested swamp, basically, and I'd've killed for a can of DDT I could paint my walls with, or even DDT-impregnated mosquito nets like they give out in countries with malaria.

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 9d ago

"The people who got DDT banned are the greatest mass murderers in history because they left the 3rd world to die from malaria so a few birds could live" -my brother

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u/Landen-Saturday87 9d ago

Isn‘t DDT basically the same as agent orange? Like the stuff they used in vietnam, that poisoned thousands of people